Once the proper procedures are carried out. feed prices could be reduced through the sale of feed grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to eligible farmers for eligible livestock. Grazing and haying could be authorized on lands diverted from crops by annual farm programs. Other benefits to our hard hit agricultural producers will result from the natural disaster designation. Mr. Speaker. I call the attention of my colleagues to the fact that distress caused by severe and prolonged drought is not confined solely to the farmers. Farm hands and migrant workers are immediately and adversely affected by reduced employment. Retail merchants see their sales dropping. The tax structures of county and municipal governments are weakened.