This stoppage dried up a main source of capital for the beginning farmer. and for the family farmer who has a nowornever opportunity to buy some adjoining land and thereby improve the adequacy of his farnng operation. With growing food demands. this is not a year to overlook or to downgrade the farmers problems. among the most pressing of which is the need for adequate farm credit. Neither is it a year for reopening the rural credit gap which helped drive thousands of farm families off the land. and millions of refugees from rural distress areas into poverty ghettos in American cities. Both the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Farm Credit have been working on this credit problem. We would hope that authorities in the executive branch who exercise power over the farm credit situation will look further into this matter and ascertain why the pressure is still on in the field of farm creditand take proper action to alleviate the shortage.
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