Policy Requirements in the Seventies: A Farmer's Viewpoint

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A desire for betterment is basic to humanity. Such longings envision betterment not only for a current generation but more deeply seek for posterity a manner and quality of life that fully rationalizes man as a creature of God. It is in man's moments of silence, his periods of meditation, his time of dreaming that hopes and aspirations and ideals take shape and gain form and substance. And though they be folly to some, history adequately documents that the dreams of one generation become the goals of another and the realities of yet a third. Those of us in agriculture are no different from the rest; we have ideals and goals and hopes and dreams that can be realized or thwarted by federal agricultural policy. As society is not static, neither is agriculture; and if it is to be a full contributor in this dynamic age, renewal must come from debate and argument to produce the melding of ideas essential to progress.