Mr. WAMPLER. This chart shows what has been happening with respect to the Department of Agriculture's budget over the past 7 years. Take special note of the trends which have been developing and how the USDA's main functions are no longer agriculture functions, but are instead welfare functions. To me the most shocking revelation is the fact that the Agriculture Department's own budget people now refer to the Department's traditional activities, such as agricultural research, conservation programs, meat and poultry inspection, and related functions, as "other"! Unbelievable! I have asked the Department of Agriculture to give me the specific expenditures for research which are not shown for the period in this chart, but are carried as OTHERS. I ask that chart No. 2 be inserted into the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, chart No. 2 will be inserted in the record. [Chart No. 2 follows:] Mr. WAMPLER. In this second chart we see that in fiscal year 1969, total obligations for all USDA research amounted to $267 million advancing to $433 million in fiscal year 1975. During the same period USDA obligations for research at universities and State agricultural research experiment stations only modestly advanced from $62 million in fiscal year 1969 to $108 million in fiscal year 1975. In considering these figures it is important to note that total agricultural research constitutes only slightly more than 3 percent of the total agriculture budget. I ask that chart No. 3 be inserted into the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection chart No. 3 will be inserted into the record. [Chart No. 3 follows:] |