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Duration
00:21:42
Description
Recording Date: 1961-1963
File Identifier:MA012-AV-0041_01
Speaker talking about three goals: providing enough food and fiber, enabling family farms to achieve parity, and expanding programs to utilize surplus. He pledges the cooperation of the Farmers Union with President John F. Kennedy and Secretary Orville Freeman towards agricultural policy and the agricultural plank of the Democratic platform. He talks about eliminating poverty in rural America and a domestic food usage program for the needy. He hopes Kennedy will convene a World Food Conference. He recommends creation of an agricultural economics administration.
Subject Heading
South Dakota Farmers Union
Agriculture -- South Dakota -- Societies, etc.
Agriculture, Cooperative -- South Dakota
Agricultural laws and legislation
Purchasing power parity
Item Type
Sound Recording - Non-Musical
Physical Format
Open reel audiotapes
Language
en
Digital Publisher
South Dakota State University
Rights Statement
Recommended Citation
"Agriculture Policy During the Kennedy Administration" (2020). South Dakota Farmer’s Union Audio Recordings. 46.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_farmers_union_recordings/46