No. I think we still see that farm income is—I started to say the lowest—among the lowest in the Nation per capita...

Agricultural exports are a vital component of the U.S. trade balance.

Sugars are being imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective the price support operations being conducted by the Department of Agriculture.

America is the world's champion producer of food.

Our country has been greatly blessed in natural resources, through a combination of temperate weather and fertile land.

Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has announced that farm exports will reach our $10 billion goal during this fiscal year--a goal once scoffed at by our opponents.

We sought an expanding agriculture rather than a shrinking agriculture, a voluntary farm program rather than compulsory controls, a market oriented agriculture rather than a government-dominated agriculture.

You said you wanted an aggressive, articulate spokesman for agriculture in the White House, and Mr. President, you have got him.

I said nobody could be a popular Secretary of Agriculture.

I AM TODAY signing H.R. 17923, the Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1971, even though it adds $342.5 million in budget authority and a similar amount in budget outlays to the amounts I requested for fiscal year 1971.

I want to say, too, though, that when I did appoint him, I wanted a man who would speak for the farmers and for American agriculture to the White House rather than the other way around.

The United States will continue to exert every effort to assure that these negotiations yield extensive reductions in restraints on trade in all classes of goods, including agricultural products.

Idaho's potatoes are wonderful, but Idaho can produce greater treasures for America in the lives and in the minds of Idaho's sons and daughters

We never want to go back to the farm-led and farm-fed depression days.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby call on the people of the Nation to observe the week beginning July 21, 1963, as National Farm Safety Week; and I urge all farm families, and all persons and organizations allied with agriculture, to engage in a purposeful, united effort to reduce further the number of farm, home, and highway accidents.

Anyone who does not realize that this is one of the great problems which is going to face us as citizens, anyone who does not realize that today we are only using 50 percent of the capacity of our steel mills, today in the last 5 or 10 years the farmers of Illinois and the farmers of the United States, their income has dropped 30 percent.

When the farmer can’t buy cars, the autoworker loses his job, and steel mills go down to 50 percent of capacity, as they are today.

I say it’s time we stopped the downward spiral where it began - on the farm.