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Farm policy battles mark new farmers' champions emerge
The 80th Congress economy drive hurt farmers and consumers while agriculture leaders claim a moral victory. New farm champions like Aiken, Young, Bushfeld, Dworshak, and Thye rise as pressure grows for independence in farm credit and opposition to farm cooperative taxation. Farmers reportedly withhold wheat awaiting higher prices as lobbyists push to end policy restraints. a 1948 shift could echo 1920s government policy.
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Russell
Georgia
Hill
Alabama
Flanagan
Virginia
Cooley
North Carolina
Reed
Kansas
Aiken
Vermont
Young
North Dakota
Bushfeld
South Dakota
Dworshak
Idaho
Thye
Minnesota