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In his remarks, President Nixon referred to the new Commission on Productivity, with a membership of top leaders representing American industry, labor, the academic community, and agriculture, saying that “a very significant point was made, not only in the first meeting, but in the second and third. On every occasion, it was this: That that area of the American economy that has had the greatest growth in productivity and that has the highest productivity per man hour, any way you want to rate it, is American agriculture.” Upon hearing this fact, the President said he checked further and found that “we are the best fed people, but at the lowest cost, the lowest percentage of our income, of any country in the world. And for that, we are most prateful.” This fact, he said, “means that the Nation owes American agriculture a very great debt, which perhaps has not been adaquately reflected in agricultural income.” Mr. Nixon continued, “I am not happy about the fact that agric'uftiirii) ’'come has hot been at the rate* that it should have been over the past ew years. I think the farmer deserves a fair share of the Nation’s increasing wealth and its increasing productivity, due to the fact that American agriculture is so productive.”
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