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           United States General Accounting Office
                   Washington, D.C. 20548

                                   FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                   Expected at 9:30 a.m. EDT
                                   Tuesday, may 6, 1980
  112251

                        Statement of
                        Elmer E. Staats
          Comptroller General of the United States
                         before the
        Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
                      and Related Agencies
              Senate Committee on Appropriations
              -on
            /,aerd Aeeotm-tng off--cne reviews of
            epartm~ent of Agriculture and related
                    agencies' activitiesl


     We are here today at your invitation to provide

information on the results of some of our reviews during

the past year relating to food production and marketing,

food assistance, farm and rural credit, farmland, and certain

administrative matters. I will simply try to highlight the

major issues involved. The appendix to my statement provides

additional information for the record.

FCOD PRODUCTION

     In the food production area, our reviews covered the

wheat and feed grain set-aside programs, the sugar and rice

programs, and the dairy program. The set-aside programs for

crop year 1978 were less effective than they might have been

because producers who did not comply fully with program

requirements were allowed to remain in the programs. Also,

many producers' normal crop acreages, from which set-aside

percentages are computed, were incorrect, questionable, or

not properly supported. In most of the cases, the acreages

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