Can we stop this trend?

Dear Editor:

In the last 50 years, low prices to farmers and high profits for the food corporations have driven 6 million of the most efficient food growers; the most thorough caretakers of the land; and the most dependable taxpayers; from their farms!

Can we stop this trend? Can we get Congress to work out a profit-sharing plan with these corporation people that will bring to the smaller farmer his missing income? — at least enough return from his/her work to pay the costs of growing the grain and milking the cows for the domestic needs of our nation?

We do not need foreign imports in foodstuffs; we can raise an abundance of food over and above our needs. Nor do we want the export market to set prices; since it sits consistently at less than

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