FERTILIZER SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND PRICES Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia, Chairman JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska ROBERT DOLE, Kansas HENRY BELLMON, Oklahoma COTYS M. MOUSER, Chief Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL CREDIT AND RURAL ELECTRIFICATION GEORGE MCGOVERN, South Dakota, Chairman Ahalt, J. Dawson, staff economist, agricultural economics, U.S. Allen, Hon. James B., a U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama_ Bartek, Robert, Ithaca, Nebr... Baumgartner, Ralph V., general manager, Southern Valley Co-op, Baxter, R. R., president, CF Industries, Inc., Chicago, Ill. Boss, Dr. Bruce D., Operations, Federal Energy Office. Brier, Bill, director, energy resources, National Council of Farmers Clark, Hon. Dick, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa. - Dewlen, Warren, chairman of the board, the Fertilizer Institute, and vice president, Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Mo.. Dole, Hon. Robert, a U.S. Senator from the State of Kansas.. Dunlop, Dr. John T., Director, Cost of Living Council__ Fulbright, Hon. J. William, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arkansas- Galvin, James J., vice president, W. R. Grace & Co., New York, N. Y. Gambrell, L. M., vice president and general manager, agricultural department, Allied Chemical Corp., Houston, Tex.- Gosch, Fred, director of agronomy, Felco Laboratories, Land O'Lakes, 83 229 229 32 Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a U.S. Senator from the State of Haskell, Hon. Floyd K., a U.S. Senator from the State of Colorado__ Huddleston, Hon. Walter D., a U.S. Senator from the State of Johnson, R. R., vice president of marketing, Agrico Chemical Co., 34 Morand, William R., executive vice president, Collingwood Grain Nassikas, Hon. John N., Chairman, Federal Power Commission_._ Prendergast, Carl, manager, distribution, Royster Company, Norfolk, Phillips, Alvin B., assistant manager, Office of Agricultural and Watts, George B., president, National Broiler Council. Miscellaneous documents: Public hearings to be held on the U.S. fertilizer supply-demand situ- Domestic and World Fertilizer Outlook: 1974 and 1980, reprint from a Outlook for Fertilizer 1974. The 1974 corn and soybean crops in relation to the 1974 fertilizer situation. What you should know about micronutrients to get more for your fertilizer dollar in 1974_.. Is there a place for liquid fertilizer in your rice operation?-reprint from Rice Farming, March 1972 105 Soil testing-Tissue analysis, keys to profit-reprint from Successful 106 Letter from Allied Chemical Corp., Hopewell, Va., explaining how soil The U.S. Fertilizer Situation and Outlook-A report by a task force 1974___. 109 110 114 Letter to Senator Jesse Helms from George Sloan, Jr., executive vice president, Wilmington Fertilizer Co., Wilmington, N.C. 158 FPC releases report on major interstate natural gas pipeline requirements and curtailments_ 201 SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL CREDIT AND RURAL ELECTRIFICATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 4202, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. George McGovern (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators McGovern, Allen, Humphrey, Huddleston, Aiken, Dole, and Curtis. Also present: Senators Clark and Bellmon. STATEMENT OF HON. GEORGE MCGOVERN, A U.S. SENATOR FROM Senator MCGOVERN. Today's hearing is being held to examine the implications of a projected fertilizer shortage for this current year and the impact that will have on crops for farmers, on the American consumer, and also on our foreign customers. As I indicated in my February 7 announcement concerning these hearings, we hope today to get as complete a picture as possible about the entire situation. We hope, through these witnesses, to identify the true dimensions of reported fertilizer shortages, and to identify what additional steps might be taken to insure maximum production on the one hand and equitable and efficient distribution on the other. Much of next year's United States and world food and fiber supply is going to be determined by how well we maximize our efforts to produce and make available fertilizer supplies. With the Nation's food grain reserves now at near record lows, achieving our 1974 production goal is of the utmost national and international importance. Almost 270 million acres of land will be planted with wheat, feed grains and cotton this year, if all goes according to plan. And that amounts to almost 20 million more acres of land in production this year over last year, or almost 50 million acres more than was in production in 1972. The increase in wheat, corn, and cotton acreage this year over last year alone will require an additional 4 million tons of fertilizer, almost 10 percent more than was utilized last year. So the problem is made more acute by the fact that we are not only confronted with a fertilizer shortage, but we face that at a time when we are going to be calling on our farmers to increase production very substantially. (1) |