WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina ED JONES, Tennessee GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California TOM HARKIN, Iowa GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma CHARLES WHITLEY, North Carolina RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois LANE EVANS, Illinois ROBERT LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia JAMES R. OLIN, Virginia TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Minnesota EDWARD R. MADIGAN, Illinois, ARLAN STANGELAND, Minnesota SID MORRISON, Washington GENE CHAPPIE, California CONTENTS Page Cline, Lloyd, vice president, National Cotton Council. Fredrickson, Carl T., Senior Deputy Governor, Farm Credit Administration..... Kuiken, Jack R., chairman, Agriculture-Rural America Committee, Independ- ent Bankers Association and president, First National Bank, Dekalb, Ill .. Naylor, Frank W., Jr., Under Secretary, Small Community and Rural Devel- opment, U.S. Department of Agriculture.... Sacia, Paul R., assistant director of legislative services, National Farmers Andersen, Edward, master, National Grange, letter of March 11, 1983. Block, John R., Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, letter of August 254 Dailey, Douglas, farmer, Madison County Jail, London, Ohio, letter of Febru- ary 14, 1983, to Hon. Chalmers P. Wylie, a Representative in Congress from Daschle, Hon. Tom, a Representative in Congress from the State of South 263 deGot, Stephen P., vice president, Merban Americas Corp., letter of March 1, 207 Frazier, Charles L., National Farmers Organization, prepared statement Hallberg, David E., president/chief executive officer, Renewable Fuels Associ- Jones, Hon. Ed, a Representative in Congress from the State of Tennessee, letter of June 25, 1982, to John R. Block, Secretary, U.S. Department of MFA Inc., Columbia, Mo., prepared statement. 213 Mullenholz, John, legislative director, National Farm and Power Equipment 215 Myers, Gary D., president, the Fertilizer Institute, letter of March 9, 1983, to 218 219 222 (III) Severens, Eugene, and Marty Strange, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, Page 224 The Decline of Black Farming in America, a report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February 1982, submitted by Hon. Tom Daschle, a Representative in Congress from the State of South Dakota... 264 Willer, W. D., Agricultural Bankers Division, American Bankers Association, letter of February 23, 1983. 240 Williams, Lee A., president, Belridge Capital Corp., letter of February 28, 1983. 248 Wylie, Hon. Chalmers P., a Representative in Congress from the State of 201 INFORMAL HEARING, Kansas CITY, MO., FEBRUARY 18, 1983 Coleman, Hon. E. Thomas, a Representative in Congress from the State of 278 Duncan, Marvin R., vice president and economist, Federal Reserve Bank of 321 Foster, John O., Missouri State director, Farmers Home Administration, U.S. 328 Graf, Ed, National Farmers Organization, prepared statement..... 332 Miller, Keith, American National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., statement of.. 315 334 O'Day, John, director, public affairs, Farm Credit Banks of St. Louis, prepared statement...... 338 Reesman, Dale, statement of 291 Ridgeway, Luann, attorney, Gulf & Great Plains Legal Foundation of America, prepared statement 346 |