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Adjustments Which a Land Utilization Program May Bring in Beef Production

Iowa State College

Abstract

Without indulging in prophesy let us say that it appears that the trend in agricutural planning and production control programs seem to be toward the more or less permanent retirement of from 15 to 20 per cent or more of the acreage in the cornbelt which was in 1932–33 producing corn, and the putting of these retired acres mainly to the production of pastures and forage crops. It appears that a similar program is to be continued in regard to cotton in the cotton producing areas. It appears also that a large amount of work and effort will be put into the controlling of erosion and improving the production of the land in grass through liming, reseeding and better control of grazing. In order to secure the carrying out of such a program it is expected that there will be a continuation of rentals, benefit payments or subsidies calculated to be large enough to sufficiently encourage the farmer to engage in the program. It appears also that there is to be some change in policy in the handling of Federal grazing lands by the foresters with some reduction in livestock numbers allowed in such areas, while the Taylor Grazing Act will tend to restrict expannsion in livestock numbers to some extent in this range territory.

At least one means of attempting to estimate the results of such a program would be to examine the results of the program so far carried out.