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Show GROUP SELECTED FOR FARM STUDY Will Map Postwar Agricultural Plans A committee to study adjustments adjust-ments that will be most desirable desir-able in Utah's postwar agricultural agricul-tural period has been formulated under direction -ftf the Utah Experiment Ex-periment station and Extension service, Dr. W. P. Thomas, professor pro-fessor of agricultural economics at Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, and chairman of the committee, com-mittee, reported today. The U. S. department of agriculture agri-culture and department of interior inte-rior are cooperating to promote the study. At their first meeting, committee com-mittee members recognized that an expansion of agriculture production, pro-duction, an increase in consumer demand and increase in agriculture agricul-ture prices have taken place during the war period and when peacetime programs get underway, under-way, there will be an adjustment adjust-ment in prices and production. "The adjustments will vary with the commodity or enterprise," enter-prise," Dr. Thomas said. "During the war period we have developed devel-oped new demands for certain commodities and in the postwar period production of these items may be expended while production produc-tion of others may be curtailed, All these factors will have bearing bear-ing on the problem." Ha predicted that farmers will have keen competition from other oth-er national areas as well as from foreign countries and declared de-clared ''the success that Utah farmers will have in meeting this competition will depend on efficiency in producing and marketing mar-keting agricultural products." Major objective of the program pro-gram is to study the change situation and plan efficiently to develop a program of ' adjustment in postwar agriculture for Utah when both adjustments in agricultural agri-cultural prices and products become be-come necessary, he said. During the war period, the committee com-mittee has made detailed studies of increased food production to meet consumer demands. Each year they have analyzed the things Utah could produce the following year. The report for 1945, submitted to the food ad. ministration in July, will be used in setting up goals or the production program for this state in 1945. The study is one of a series of ' studies which will be used by the Utah Agricultural Postwar Planning committee in working out a postwar program in agriculture agri-culture for the entire state. The state committee is headed by Dr. R. H. Walker, director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment station and Dr. Thomas is secretary. secre-tary. At the meeting assignments were made to the various subcommittees; sub-committees; each subcommittee . will make a report to the entire committee November 15. The report re-port on postwar adjustments In agriculture will be sent to Washington, D. C., December 1. Members of the committee are: Study of livestock, D. A. Broad-ment, Broad-ment, Alma Esplin, L. A. Stod-dart, Stod-dart, George R. Henderson, George B. Caine, Byron Alder; Crops committee, George Blanch, R. J. Evans, A. F. Bracke, W. D. Thorne, D. S. Jennings, and L. H. Pollard; E. B. Hurd and Everett C. Paxton, bureau of agricultural economics; Harold J. Burbank, U. S. Grazing service; Kirtland Starr and Fay A. Wagner, Wag-ner, Soil Conservation service; George W. Craddock, U. 9. Forest For-est service; H. Loran Blood, bureau bu-reau of plant industry, and E. C. Shaffer, agriculture adjustment administration. |