Show FARM PEOPLE AND PRICE SUPPORTS am what do typical farm people think about price supports do they want high supports flexible supports UP or no supports at all the michigan farmer published in east lans lansing ing i I 1 decided to obtain an answer it engaged an independent agency to make personal calls on farm families in 16 michigan counties heres what the agency reported jle L jk only per cent of the men and per cent of the women favored high supports percent and percent of the women were for flexible supports percent of the men and percent of the women were against supports of any kind 58 percent of the men and ancL per cent of the women had no opinion this certainly indicates that agricultures agri cultures attitude toward supports is changing theres good reason why that should be so for one thing its axiomatic that when government subsidizes any enterprise in any matter it does more and more bossing and the recipients of the subsides enjoy less and less independence and its certainly obvious that we can cant it forever use tax money to purchase incredible sur pluses that strain the nations storage facilities to the bursting point in this connection beef producers are presenting us with a fine example today the supply of beet bee is huge but producers arent asking us for any supports ar any governmental financial aid instead they are carrying on an intensive nationwide nation wide marketing campaign in cooperation with other interested agencies designed to show the housewife that beef is is a good buy and to encourage her to use more of it in other words they want their production to go into the homes of consumers not into storage that is the only sound solution to any such farm problem |