0000041223 00000 n He's the kind of man I love to work with Coming back on Air Force One from campaigning in Illinois, I was having dinner with the President, just the two of us, and he said, I appreciate what you're doing for me. I said, Look, I'm not doing this for you I'm doing this for America. In 1932, at the Federal Farm Boards urging, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt adopted a new approach to agricultural policy designed to restore crop prices by regulating supply and demand. 0000056225 00000 n 0000071573 00000 n 0000070881 00000 n Earl Lauer Butz was born near Albion, Indiana, on July 3, 1909. Moreover, the department paid hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies on the sales, enabling the companies to make additional profits and to keep the price to the Russians unrealistically low. Today Earl Butz would be 113 years old. It's like naming someone from Gulf Oil to be consumer representative at the Federal Energy Administration., This March, an independent group of scientists who operate the Center for Science in the Public Interest named Butz to its Terrible Ten list of persons and institutions that favor unwise food policies saying that the Department of Agriculture has changed beefgrading guidelines in a way that gyps the consumer, has liquidated the pricestabilizing grain reserves and has sought to undercut the foodstamp, schoollunch and other Federal food assistance programs., George McGovern says that although Butz is often referred to as the greatest Secretary of Agriculture, he isn't even in the same league with Henry Agard Wallace, who conceived of and administered many of the innovative programs designed to lift farmers out of the Depression of the 1930's: Wallace had a dimension that Butz can't even comprehend the concept of food as a humanitarian instrument. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Butz as Secretary of Agriculture, a position in which he continued to serve after Nixon resigned in 1974 as the result of the Watergate scandal. 0000068573 00000 n 0000042400 00000 n 0000058450 00000 n New York: Harper & Row, 1979. While controversial, President Richard Nixons 1973 farm bill lessened acute hunger and malnutrition. Though many experts say he's whistling in the dark, he is predicting that bumper crops will be absorbed. In Iowa, bin-busting harvests gave rise to an explosion of massive concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). But by regulating supply and demand, reduction efforts restored the prices of agricultural commodities to those of the early twentieth century. Known as one of the greenest commercial buildings in the world, since it opened its doors on Earth Day in 2013 the Bullitt Center has been setting a new standard for sustainable design. Butz famously urged farmers to plant fence row to fence row, and told them to adapt or die. 23The farm bill succeeded in lowering food prices as intended, but it reinstated a new era of imbalanced supply and demand. 8 Due to government assistance, American farmers experienced continued success during and immediately following World War I. That is one of the most outrageous things I've seen, but it's typical of the way Secretary Butz operates, says Foreman. How does corn get in your hair King corn? Terms of Use | Privacy Policy. 1999-2023 Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. 0000012251 00000 n From February 1993. Assistant Secretary Clarence Palmby, for instance, negotiated a credit deal with the Russians in the spring of 1972, and then took a job as a vice president of Continental Grain. There was some question whether or not Butz realized that the Soviets were buying up one quarter of the entire U.S. wheat crop, but he did nothing to stop the sale despite the fact that it eventually raised food prices. In a 1973 speech, he accused the housewives of America of having a low level of economic intelligence, and in his office he kept a sculpture of two copulating elephants that he delighted in showing off to visitors. Butzs great policy change had given rise to the deepest rural crisis since the Depression. It defined settlement patterns, characterized Americas role in the global market, and navigated the country in and out of economic turmoil. [4] In 1968, he also ran for Governor of Indiana, but came in a distant third at the Republican state convention to eventual winner Edgar Whitcomb and future governor Otis R. Bowen. As their desperation grew, farmers failed to practice sustainable farming methods, which exasperated the Dust Bowl. 0000056400 00000 n BJW -WYFW(.V*(T[)&(?`".\xc;; Earl Butz, who served as Secretary of Agriculture under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, is widely regarded as a pioneer in modern American corn policy because he emphasized selling . Butz's critics also noted that he was a director of three large agribusiness corporations. Butz encouraged farm production and promoted exports of surpluses. [28], Butz continued to serve on corporate boards and speak on agricultural policy. I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes. Earl Butz. [2] He attended a one-room country school through eighth grade and graduated from high school in a class of seven. 0000046066 00000 n A publication of Hillsdale College Over 6,200,000 Readers Recent Posts He plunged a pitchfork into New Deal agricultural policies that sought to protect farmers from the big agribusiness companies whose interests he openly pushed. You're working for yourselves, because you're trying to make a little money and save some of it. The 12,500 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation to whom he addressed those remarks recently in Indianapolis roared their approval. You haven't learned to punch the clock at 40 hours or put two farmers in the tractor tab like the locomotive that goes through town. <]>> Reader support helps sustain our work. " Earl Butz 2. The move worked dramatically. The Secretary tells American farmers that high price guarantees, or supports, would lead you backward to the days when Government controls dictated what you planted and how much, and in the long run, lead to overproduction. 0000066617 00000 n 0000047891 00000 n Blustering, boisterous, and often vulgar, Butz lorded over the U.S. farm scene at a key period. 0000029778 00000 n And the best way to become a Senator is to get on TV and demagogue the food issue.. 0000061181 00000 n [3], The Associated Press sent the uncensored quotation over the wire, but the Columbia Journalism Review identified only two city newspapersthe Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio) and the Madison Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)that published the remark unchanged. It was obvious, however, that policy decisions in this area were being made at the State Department. 0000056620 00000 n 0000053931 00000 n 0000022228 00000 n In 1973, Nixon's agricultural secretary, Earl Butz, oversaw a change in the philosophy of the U.S. farm program. 0000041732 00000 n 0000059437 00000 n University of Washington researcher Adam Drewnowski found that one dollar purchased 1,200 calories of cookies, but only 250 calories of carrots. HTPn0Stv4$>Pv@k'@zGq3(:nfd"qlPUByCzv#Ru {!:|A3hrM[6J)V>w7W]Z |H >dO o?j In 1976, just weeks before a tight presidential election, he left the USDA in disgrace after making a stunningly crude racist remark. 93-86, also known as the 1973 U.S. Farm Bill) was the 4-year farm bill that adopted target prices and deficiency payments as a tool that would support farm income but reduce forfeitures to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) of surplus stocks. [citation needed], For example, he abolished a program that paid corn farmers to not plant all their land. citation-type="booksimple" While most agricultural policy is distinguished by financial assistance to farmers, it has undergone dramatic changes due to shifting demographics, the rise and fall of slavery, international grain trade, and war. Assuming the readers interpretation is correct, Butzs pope jibe was at the very least a much nastier and more personal insult than I realized.]. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member. By that time, farms were cranking out much more than the market could bear, and prices fell accordingly. But if the two stay in balance, if the production is matched by just the right amount of foreign sales and there is enough left over for the domestic market, then farmers will get a good income, consumers won't pay inflated prices and the nation gets some help on its balance of payments problems. Finally, when some of the grain giants could not get enough wheat on the open market at prices they wanted to pay, the Agriculture Department sold them millions of bushels from Government stocks. 0000049217 00000 n [4] In his time heading the USDA, Butz drastically changed federal agricultural policy and re-engineered many New Deal-era farm support programs. Dr. Butz graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. For Butz and his agribusiness cronies, the program amounted to socialism an intolerable check on farmers ability to plant and harvest as much as possible. Before this incident, it was not at all unusual for respectable white people to tell and laugh at jokes that portrayed black men as lazy, shiftless, and priapic. Some world food organizations are concerned, not only because of American fuzziness at Rome but also because of the tendency of the United States to sign longterm supply agreements with people who pay cash for grain. Earl Butz, 2006. Before Butz, there remained a snickering tolerance among the powerful for jokes denigrating the humanity of blacks, Jews, and homosexuals. [citation needed]. 0000007619 00000 n His policies encouraged farmers to plant as much corn and other commodities as they could, o View the full answer Transcribed image text: Briefly explain the relationship of Earl Butz's food policy from 1973 to the meat that we eat today. 0000071060 00000 n 0000054680 00000 n Author: Earl L. Butz The American Food Machine and Private Entrepreneurship Earl L. Butz | December 1977 The modern American Food Machine is perhaps the greatest single source of strength undergirding the unparalleled level of American living. Jesse Jackson learned the latter lesson in 1984 when a black reporter for the Washington Post passed along to another reporter the news that hed heard Jackson refer to Jews in private as Hymie, and refer to New York City as Hymietown.. 2. 0000066173 00000 n So do other prosperous farmers and the agribusiness complex of corporate fruit and vegetable raisers, food processors and distributors. 0000057693 00000 n You could no longer assume your fellow whites would protect you for telling a joke insulting to blacks, and you could no longer assume your fellow blacks would protect you for telling a joke insulting to Jews. Reading Eagle . 0000044805 00000 n 0000040653 00000 n Although not featured prominently in history books, American land and agricultural policy laid the groundwork for the countrys geographic, political, and economic development. 5In 1832, under Chief Justice John Marshall, the Supreme Court promoted tribal sovereignty, which recognized Native American tribes as domestic dependent nations. The court asserted in Worcester v. Georgia, Indian Nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original and natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil. 6The Marshall Courts opinions were overlooked in nearly all forms of territorial expansion (most notably by the Jackson Administrations Trail of Tears), including future land policy such as Lincolns Homestead Act of 1862 that continued to promote the growth of agriculture. He took his first federal post, as assistant agriculture secretary under President Dwight Eisenhower, serving 1954 to 1957. They pointed out that he was leaving the board of Ralston Purina Company to become Secretary of Agriculture, while Hardin was departing the Agriculture Department to become vice chairman of the same firm. Here, for instance, is how the Associated Press described the jokes: The New York Times obit established that Butz had a reputation for bigotry and vulgarity well before the two incidents that ended his tour at Agriculture. Instagram, Follow us on 0000047333 00000 n 0000041388 00000 n That was true in the Soviet Union, as well. 0000029849 00000 n 0000029355 00000 n 0000046621 00000 n Subsidized foods became less expensive, yet were higher in energy than unsubsidized crops such as fruits and vegetables, so Americans were financially inclined to purchase them. The man was a creep. We need to reject the "go big or go . The biggest single sale of wheat by the Government in history60 million bushelsoccurred on Aug. 31, 1972, to Continental Grain Company, one of the firms deal. Marshall Martin discusses policy with Earl Butz. 0000047529 00000 n Donate today tohelp keep Grists site and newsletters free. In 1948, Butz became vice president of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and three years later was named to the same post at the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. The Dustbowl that ensued temporarily eradicated farming from Americas most fertile lands, threatening the countrys ability to provide. 0000045340 00000 n 0000057015 00000 n 0000042749 00000 n 0000065934 00000 n Heather H. (October 23, 1973). Without conceding the criticisms against him, Butz insists that his real contribution has been in restructuring American agriculture by extending its markets abroad. He wanted all this done without fanfare but lost control when Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns predicted the sales would drive American food prices higher. (The habit of stuffing the USDA with industry cronies has proven hard to break. 0000064816 00000 n I fear he may be right. He received a bachelor of science degree in agriculture in 1932, and then a doctorate in agricultural economics in 1937. We hit your inbox once a month and never abuse your personal information. The obituaries for Earl Butz who went to his reward Feb. 2 at the enviable age of 98all note that he will be remembered less for his accomplishments as Agriculture secretary under Presidents. After some indecision, Dean used the line in Rolling Stone, attributing it to an unnamed Cabinet officer. 0000005075 00000 n [3], Butz was an alumnus of Purdue University, where he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. American President: James Monroe: The American Franchise. The University of Virginia. He was married to Mary Emma Powell. 0000049770 00000 n A Cullman, Ala., contract grower whose attempt to organize poultry farmers was crushed by the processors (with some assistance, he charges, from the Agriculture Department) refers to his neighbors as the last slaves in America. Economic studies indicate that poultry farmers are kept in virtual bondage, forced into everincreasing debt as a condition for receiving each new contract from the processors, then working long days raising tens of thousands of companyowned chickens for pennies an hour. " He no playa the game, he no maka the rules. trailer 2President Abraham Lincoln promoted expansion when he passed the Homestead Act in 1862. 0000072106 00000 n His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs. [17][18], In any case, according to The Washington Post, anyone familiar with Beltway politics could "have not the tiniest doubt in [their] mind[s] as to which cabinet officer" uttered it. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 0000048246 00000 n There are those who regard him as the leader of the Great American Farm Revolution, those who regard him as Gerald Ford's greatest political asset, and there are political experts who can't decide whether Jimmy Carter is being smart or being dumb when he says he would dump Butz if he were elected President. Rather than use federal policy as a check on farm output, Butz saw it as a lever to maximize output. 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Providing a grand example of how his vision might work, Butz engineered a massive grain sale to the Soviets in 1972. endstream endobj 36 0 obj<> endobj 37 0 obj<> endobj 38 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 71 0 R] endobj 39 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 70 0 R] endobj 40 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 69 0 R] endobj 41 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 68 0 R] endobj 42 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 67 0 R] endobj 43 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 6 66 0 R] endobj 44 0 obj[/Indexed 45 0 R 5 65 0 R] endobj 45 0 obj[/ICCBased 61 0 R] endobj 46 0 obj<> endobj 47 0 obj<> endobj 48 0 obj<> endobj 49 0 obj<> endobj 50 0 obj<> endobj 51 0 obj<> endobj 52 0 obj<> endobj 53 0 obj<>stream Nixons Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz favored increased agricultural exports, and allowed the grain trading companies to continue to receive subsidies on the price and transportation of the Russian grain stocks to seaports. Secretary of Agriculture. 0000065488 00000 n Myth: Earl Butz was a pivotal figure. He died still holding an emeritus position at Purdue. The successes and failures of each installation of land and agricultural policy emphasize the understated influence each wave of policy has extended over American welfare. 0000049389 00000 n 0000060947 00000 n But Butz did forcefully equate the interests of agribusiness with the national interest. But the ag policies of the day encouraged restraint. After the Great Depression which featured the stunning confluence of huge grain surpluses, widespread hunger, and a tide of farm failures the Roosevelt Administration put in place mechanisms to help farmers manage supply.. "[11] A spokesman for Cardinal Cooke of the New York archdiocese demanded an apology, and the White House[11] requested that he apologize. 0000061409 00000 n 0000044615 00000 n " Earl Butz 3. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member. Written by Bill Ganzel, the Ganzel Group. 0000048080 00000 n 0000017516 00000 n 0000054470 00000 n US Presidential Cabinet Member. [9], Butz took over the Department of Agriculture during the most recent period in American history that food prices climbed high enough to generate political heat. He was a bigot and, even then, at 66, not a young man. If lie doesn't get it, he'll have a firstclass farm issue on his hands because we'll have enough of a surplus to remind farmers that he's been against higher Government price supports. The General Accounting Office warns that such a bumper crop could deal a serious blow to the farm economy, because the Agriculture Department has no real plans for dealing with either surpluses or shortages. Top 10 Earl Butz Quotes (2023 Update) - Quotefancy Top 10 Earl Butz Quotes (2023 Update) 1. Many were dismayed the government paid farmers not to plant and even destroy crops while much of the country struggled to purchase food and waited in line at soup kitchens. It was during this time that she first came into contact with drugs. Overplowing land and failing to let it lay fallow resulted in exposed topsoil, which combined with drought caused severe dust storms resulting in one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history. Earl Butz While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater. 0000016830 00000 n The Agriculture Department's cozy relationship with the halfdozen big grain exporters is in some ways the most troubling aspect of Butz's reign. 0000059674 00000 n Earl Butz and the U.S. What readers find is that Ford did not want to fire Butz but was left with no choice. 0000051487 00000 n Butz said: "I'll tell you what the coloreds want. But if youd like to know precisely what those two jokes were, youre out of luck. 0000000016 00000 n 0000056005 00000 n The companies were allowed to defer payment for many months at no interest, and the Government stored the grain for them at no charge. The United States now has commitments to supply about 25 million tons a year to the Soviet Union, Poland, Rumania, Japan and Israel. The obituaries for Earl Butzwho went to his reward Feb. 2 at the enviable age of 98all note that he will be remembered less for his accomplishments as Agriculture secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford than for the two off-color jokes that got him fired. According to this reader, Butz was not commenting onPope Paulsmoresweeping opposition to artificial contraception, which rendered his narrower opposition with regard to food shortages a foregone conclusion. Butz tells farmers that consumers are mad at them because of high retail food prices. You are the most productive part of America! High Agriculture Department officials began refusing to answer questions relating to grain sales to Russia and to Eastern European countries, saying sareastically that the diplomats had taken over. All but 30 days of the term were suspended. As part of our commitment to sustainability, in 2021 Grist moved its office headquarters to the Bullitt Center in Seattles vibrant Capitol Hill neighborhood. 0000069937 00000 n 0000068205 00000 n 0000009419 00000 n It's true that if we suddenly stopped exports, food prices would fall, he says, but with falling prices paid to farmers, production the next year would be cut back. HV6}W\]l]E6 T@>m3D;6d6}X"9s/~=[*W/2*" ss(vKr>WuPaX@Y6%PWAyR +u] ?`]_E(,a(i 0000066397 00000 n 0000064563 00000 n It reduces the need to rely on other countries for corn production. support in the Midwest. 0000060185 00000 n 0000041553 00000 n The overall goal was to stop prices from falling too low (hurting farmers) or jumping too high (squeezing consumers). Understanding why and how agricultural policy has changed over time contextualizes the shift from farming communities to factory farms, environmental crises, Americas role in international grain trade, and how food travels from farm to table. He was the uncle of NFL defensive tackle Dave Butz, an All-American at Purdue University and All-Pro with the St. Louis Cardinals (1973-74) and Washington Redskins (1975-88). 0000063118 00000 n how much corn is grown with this fertilizer? He was featured in the documentary King Corn, recognized as the person who started the rise of corn production, large commercial farms, and the abundance of corn in American diets. In 1948, Butz became vice president of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and three years later was named to the same post at the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.In 1954, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.That same year, he was also named chairman of the United States delegation to the Food and Agriculture . On the one hand, the high production can lead to big surpluses and big drops in farm prices. [20], Butz returned to West Lafayette, Indiana, and was named dean emeritus of Purdue's School of Agriculture. 1999-2023 Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. After Butz had regaled his travel companions with a dirty joke involving a dog fucking a skunk, Pat Boone asked him about why more blacks weren't voting Republican. in Agriculture in 1932 with a major in animal husbandry. 0000055062 00000 n These policies did a great job of keeping American agriculture profitable but were very expensive for the nation as a whole. Rather, this reader says, Butz was making a coarse and simpleminded joke about the popes own celibacy. QB&qGN(>[:#u*@uE(RMkc'-b!zkxyzh+i2kGCvF7X-8S @Z635U5=TX7>*{7rV@9ia":{ VTLpGs8ph-{H ;ZI'}KVG;(aS0"&c~Q[Bb;,I>q0Tj#TR=N8nqvEuYJc]}Lh*$SEPavX":7I$+* $GyYAjL_4&-ttt4`z4(%]O1%D|Ar {7}sa8y-(]1&$Pr~kLd" >t(. . The Agriculture Department is estimating that grain production will roach 255 million tons, 13 million more than last year's. After the 1973 farm bill, Americans spent a lower percentage of their income on food than ever before, purchasing more calories for less money, a trend that adversely impacted the nations diet. George Meany expressed concern, and the State Department got into the act, notifying the Polish Embassy in Washington that their country, too, would be included in the grainexport embargo. 0000053719 00000 n On June 19, he was sentenced to five years in prison. accessLinx is a boutique multimedia production company that communicates your business's messgae with clarity and impact. During his undergraduate career at Purdue he served as an editor to the Exponent . Follow us on 20In response to the unanticipated prices, Nixon declared a war on hunger, and promised the American people, I not only accept the responsibility for ending hunger and malnutrition, I claim the responsibility. 21. Five years later, he pled guilty to tax evasion and served a short stint in jail. x|kQO$c*M3Sj The artificial prices implemented by the government masked the problems of overproduction that threatened food prices and the agricultural system as a whole. 0000055617 00000 n 0000068371 00000 n 0000051702 00000 n In King Corn, Butz argued that the corn subsidy had dramatically reduced the cost of food for all Americans by improving the efficiency of farming techniques. The act granted settlers one hundred and sixty acres of land, which they would own outright on the condition of improvement after five years of homesteading, or could purchase at a low cost after six months. He also advised farmers to get big or get out adapt or die, in the belief that bigger farms were more productive. It was 50 years ago that Butz, as a teenage boy, guided a horsedrawn plow over the fields of northern Indiana. In the 1920s, agricultural policies destabilized supply and demand and sunk the nation into its lowest state of economic despair during the Great Depression. Earl L. Butz, Self: King Corn. 0000069545 00000 n Feb. 3, 2008 12 AM PT. 0000058679 00000 n 0000071753 00000 n He is known for King Corn (2007), News 15 Nightbeat (1985) and Independent Lens (1999). Earl Butz No, I try not to be a negative thinker. Actress: Swedish Lessons in Love. 0000013599 00000 n Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, Minimum Tillage Changes Planters & Cultivators, Silent Spring & the Environmental Movement, Connections between Surface and Groundwater, Nebraska's Unique Natural Resource Districts, Insecticides DDT's Rise, Fall & Rise Again, The EPA, the Endangered Species Act & Pesticides, 14th Annual Tractor & Auto show & Summer Fair. Earl L. Butz, the outspoken U.S. Agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke, died Saturday morning. 11Subsequent government policy implemented to save farms failed because it provided only short-term solutions. 0000008903 00000 n One of his aides calls him an encyclopedia of funny stories, many of which, naturally, have to do with farmers; such as: I saw this farmer, and I asked him, What's your hobby? He said, Farming. I said, What would you do if you inherited a million dollars? He said, I'd keep on farming as long as the money lasted. His jokes have occasionally gotten him into troublelike the one in which he ridiculed the Pope's stand against artificial birth control by saying: He no playa da game; he no makea da rules. The remark brought a storm of protest from Catholics and ItalianAmericans, and resulted in one of Butz's rare apologies. From there, he went on to study agricultural economics, and eventually used his knowledge, along with his knack for political maneuvering and his quick wit, to forge a career that, in leading to his current post in the President's Cabinet, included serving in positions as Assistant Agriculture Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration, dean of agriculture at Purdue University and muchsoughtafter public speaker. 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