Washington has spoken. Definitively. With apparent utter finality. Little remains of the farm programs from which to create excitement about which direction the policy might go; to stimulate anxiety about how much damage it might do; to raise hopes, or fears, about how the policy might strengthen the hand of this or that group before the relentless pressures of the marketplace. The Farm Program today is like the universe, itself: it exists. That is all that can be said about it. Whatever happens within its framework is, by definition, natural. No criteria are set forth which allow any value judgments.