economist in the usda, decided to present congress and this is something the white house was behind, a program that would have guaranteed farmers high prices in return for actually reducing output. p -- basically to make the new deal worked as it was supposed to work farmers never really reduced. the kennedy administration and the u.s. liberal usda said if you really reduce your output, we will guarantee you really high prices. they wanted to present farmers with a clear choice. they believe that requiring farmers to accept market prices even though the result would be very efficient, it is going to leave them vulnerable to an appropriations process that could not be trusted to deliver welfare payments. given sort of the unique economic qualities of the agricultural sector, individual farmers had no leverage, and the broader market, and consumer demand, and the elasticity, meant they will always be vertebral. there wasn't these liberal economists, there was no magic point where supply and demand would intersect and the agricultural economy was going to be stable. they just wanted to put a floor under this. to keep it from happening and to keep midsized farmers and business. they r