SEGMENT: FARM BUREAU & FAMILY
Charles Shuman>UIS Collection S>UIS Collection S, Segment 17
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- FARM BUREAU
- We had no plan to get rid of government programs once you are in them. Farm Bureau changes attitude. Cannot legislate good prices and income for farmers. Problem was a marketing one. Moved to expand trade in new department of FB. Allan Kline interested in the International Federation of Agricultural Producers. In 1960, FB organized the American Agricultural Marketing Association to develop marketing programs so farmers can negotiate fair prices. Expects government farm programs to slowly disappear. Shuman summarizes last 50 years of Farm Bureau philosophy. He is against government-fixed programs & is pro-marketing in a competitive market. Mentions last convention where time was spent on trade, marketing, and government fiscal policy, but not government programs.
- FAMILY
- Remarried when became President of FB. He had been widowed in 1954 with four teen-aged children. Four years later, met a legal secretary from Chicago (originally a farm girl) and he remarried. Had a son.
