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Farm Productivity
Record Lauded
President Nixon recently praised American fanners for providing this country’s people the best food in the world at a lower percentage of family income than is provided for any other country in the world. For this, he said, the Nation owes American agriculture a very great debt.
He cited the fact that the area of the American economy that has had the greatest growth in productivity is American agriculture, and said this had not been adequately reflected in agricultural income.
This report on the President singling out American agriculture for high praise was supplied by James S. Gillespie, Chairman of the Virginia Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) Committee. Gillespie said, “I believe not only farmers but others as well will be particularly interested in these comments by the President. We who help administer farm programs for the U. S. Department of Agriculture have often reminded our urban friends that Americans are the best fed people in the world at the lowest real cost because of the efficiency of American agriculture. It is heartening to have the President state this and other basic facts about agriculture.”
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