| Show f washington NEWS LETTER I 1 1 iby hy congressman GRANGER y POST WAR agriculture wartime trends of the agricultural economy and problems lt will face when it reconverts to peace have peen summarized in a biennial report of the bureau of arl ari cultural economics acs ics the report points out that technological no progress makes it probable that a few years after the war fewer farmers will be producing more food and fiber than the 1944 record quantity which was one third above prewar levels mechanization fis credited with having aided farmers to produce three fourths more per worker last year than in world war I 1 other of the report indicate that farmers can market the volume of goods they are likely to pro duce and do it at a general average of prices close to parity but only if 1 the nation maintains substantially full employment at adequate wages and expands its international trade air and frozen foods are likely to bring significant changes in the marketing of perishables the report t adds that policies for land settlement tl and especially tor for the disposal of surplus military lands suitable for agriculture should be devised so that veterans and others will have a maximum of opportunity without creating a new class of distressed farmer or a surplus farm population AUSTRALIA JILT HIT BY SEVERE DROUTH alias ability to continue supplying sufficient foodstuffs during 1945 to meet its own needs as well as a large part of the food consumed by the american forces in the southwest pacific and some exports to the united kingdom has suffered no serious impairment to date depete the continuation in some parts of that country of one of the severest droutha in its history the department of agriculture reported |
