Working with Farmers to Achieve Maximum Production

Abstract

EACH of five differently functioning groups of agricultural and governmental agencies is vitally interested in working with farmers to achieve maximum production in agriculture. These five groups of agencies include governmental war agencies, research agencies, educational agencies, action agencies and pressure groups. Each of these groups considers increased agricultural production to be one of its functions and a major part of its contribution to the war effort. Would not past experience and recent confusion of responsibilities indicate that each group might make a greater contribution through a unified cooperative program to maximize production? Cooperative effort succeeds best where there is a clear definition of responsibility for each party involved. Nine steps have been outlined in a program in which the major responsibility of each group is indicated. These suggested steps may seem theoretical, idealistic or unattainable because of the large amount of cooperation, coordination and planning required. However, it is the thesis of this paper that the degree of success in maximizing agricultural production will be determined by the amount of such cooperation, coordination and planning as is accomplished on a national, state and county level. On the other hand, some may say that each of these steps is already being carried out-and to a certain degree this is true but in a very piece-meal, quite unrelated and in some cases in a very conflicting