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Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina
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Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Robert J. Goode warns that passage of the current farm bill would bring economic death to the cotton south by restricting diverted land use to only family-consumed foodstuffs, hindering livestock and dairy expansion.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 28. (UP) - Passage of the present farm bill in congress will mean "economic death for the cotton south," Alabama's commissioner of agriculture Robert J. Goode predicted last night.
Goode pointed out that the danger lay in a provision in both the senate and house bills which would prevent the farmer from using land diverted from cotton and other items covered by the measure, except for foodstuffs the family would consume.
The provision, he said, would "prevent the use of acres diverted from cotton to the production of food, feed and forage necessary for the expansion of the livestock and dairy industry. It would seriously hamper the diversified program for agriculture."
Goode cited as an example a farmer with a 10-acre corn base. The acreage would be reduced to seven, he said, and the farmer could not use the extra three for pasturage, food or feed unless the family consumed the entire amount raised on the three-acre tract.
"If he invited his neighbor or his preacher and fed them any products raised on this surplus three acres," he continued, "he would actually be violating the law and be subject to penalty."
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Montgomery, Ala.
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Dec. 28.
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predicted economic death for the cotton south due to farm bill provision restricting land use.
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Alabama's commissioner of agriculture Robert J. Goode predicted that passage of the present farm bill in congress would mean economic death for the cotton south, citing a provision preventing use of diverted land except for family-consumed foodstuffs, which would hamper livestock, dairy, and diversified agriculture programs. Example given of a farmer's 10-acre corn base reduced to seven, with surplus three acres unusable for sharing.