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Problem Of The
Dairyman
By Ezra Taft Benson
Secretary of Agriculture
One of agriculture's biggest problems is also one of the easiest to solve.
The solution lies not with government or its officials but" with niillions of Americans who can and should drink an extra glass or two of milk each week and eat a few additional pieces of butter.
At present the dairy industry is confronted with population and marketing problems that stem from increasing output, declining exports and a reduction in per capita consumption. It is important to see that these troubles are not perpetuated.
The government now has more than 1,320,000,000 pounds of dairy products in storage. These surpluses were acquired by supporting dairy prices at 90 percent of parity. They are products that should have gone to consumers but instead went into
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