Show Farmers Gain farmers stand to benefit the actions announced by the President to combat to spur the competitiveness of and to improve our foreign trade and monetary Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin will benefit by the actions taken to fight The cost-price squeeze is the number one problem facing American we strongly welcome the actions the steps announced to spur investment in equipment and to reduce taxes are designed to bolster our own domestic economy and make These will provide stronger markets for our own the action taken to impose a temporary surcharge on imports and the withdrawal of gold support from the dollar are comparable to what other countries have done in similar balance-of-payments as anyone concerned with agriculture the use of variable levies by some countries to protect agricultural systems constitutes permanent border protection which should be of far greater concern to the world than temporary HOPE that as our friends abroad digest this series of actions they will recognize that the President is saying that all of us need to find better solutions to our trade and international monetary American agriculture could make a much stronger contribution than it already has to our balance-of-payments problem if other countries of the world would admit more of our farm |