that it will have permitted the farmers .:l the United States to export nearly a billion bushels of surplus wheat in an orderly man ner while par'ty prices were being maintained on our home markets. "Wheat is eligible for govern ment loans at 90 percent of parity and the subsidy that may be paid by our government ll the international agreement is ex tended will cost the taxpayers less than the loan value. Wheat grow-; ers will, of course, take the loanj if they can't find commercial! markets at parity prices ■ I have been chosen to repre-j sent the Senate Appropriations! Committee n the United Stales Committee which will advise the1 Secretary of Agriculture in con nection with the current wheat council meeting and I shall, there fore. follow' its deliberations close ly My objective will be a plan to preserve the foreign agricul tural trade*whic!i is vital to our Nation as a whole, as well as t > the farmers, but to keep the cost at an absolute minimum "

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