Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006

r decline of farm prices. This decline, which has been going on for almost 2 years, has occur

ties at 90 percent of parity. The Secretary of Agriculture and his associates will, of course, execute

egislation will expi

l parity of income for American farmers. But we must seek this goal in ways that minimize governmental interference in the farmers' affairs,

--upon the purchasing power of American consumers. It depends also upon the opportunity to ship abroad large surpluses of particular commodities, and therefore upon sound economic relationships between the United States and

ory Commission, as I know it will by appropriate committees of the Congress. A nonpartisan group of res

y and administrative in nature. New policies and new programs must await t