A Workable Farm Policy
Born and reared on a farm in Idaho, EZRA TAFT BENSON is a farmers’ Secretaryof Agriculture who has shown unlimited courage in urging farm policy back toward more self-reliance and less subsidy. He attended Utah State Agricultural College and Brigham Young University, earned a degree in agricultural economics at Iowa State College. and did further graduate work at the University of California. For many years he carried on successful farming operations, and served as a county agricultural agent and specialist in service marketing. In 1939 he was appointed executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Coöperatives.