NFU Calls For
Higher Parity
Ceilings
WASHINGTON, D. C. A
House Subcommittee was urged
by Farmers Union today to
provide more money so price
support levels can be boosted
to already-authorized ceilings
of 90 percent of parity cr more
for all supported commodities.
Farmers would have $4.5 bil
lion more in gross income, the
farm organization said, if Con
gress provided money needed
to make these support levels
operational.
Most ol the major commodi
ties now are supported at lev
els ranging from 66 percent
(rice) to 87 percent (manu
facturing milk) All could be
supported at 90 percent except
wheat, which has an authorized
ceiling of 100 percent of parity.
The request was made by
Tony T. Dechant, NFU presi
dent, in testimony prepared for
the Subcommittee on Agricul
tural Appropriations of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee.
The Subcommittee, headed
by Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-
Miss.), is holding hearings on
the Department of Agiiculture
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Also recommended were a
boost in Farmers Home Ad
ministration Operating and
Farm Purchase Loans to a lev
el of $2 billion annually; res
toration of a $lOO million cut
in ACP cost-sharing; a $6 mil
lion boost in The Great Plains
Conservation Program; and ‘a
$2 million increase in funds
for the Packers and Stockyards
Division.
Dechant told the Subcom
mittee that cost savings result
ing from recent improvements
in the supply-demand balance
in agriculture should be ap
plied to the farm program bud
get in ways that increase both
prices and income.
“Unlike the prophets of
gloom and doom who want to
get government out of agricul
ture,’* he said, “we want to
make the commodity programs
work better work for farm
ers toward the urgent objective
of raising prices and income
to the level of parity ’’
Dechant pointed out that
price support and diverted ac
reage payments to feed grains
producers, which totaled $1 27
billion in 1966, will come to
only $550 million in 1968.
“Producers who made this
cost saving possible,” he said,
“ought to be the beneficiary
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Agricultural Output
Up In Europe & USSR
Agricultural production in
creased in Western Europe,
Eastern Europe, and the Soviet
Union in 1966, with the larg
est increase occurring in the
Soviet Union, according to a
report published this week by
the US. Department ot Agri
culture.
The report, by USDA’s Eco
nomic Research Service, re
views agricultural and related
economic and foreign trade de-
of the savings.”
The Farmers Union state
ment said FHA funds have re
mained almost constant the last
seven years while both demand
and need lor farm operating
credit has doubled.
“Operating funds have re
mained at an arbitrary ceiling
of around $3OO million for the
past four years, either by con
gressional decision or by di
rective ol the Bureau of the
Budget,” Dechant said.
“This is not only unrealistic
... It is ridiculous.”
The FHA increase sought by
Farmers Union would make
possible at least $1 billion for
operating loans and $1 billion
for farm purchase financing by
young farmers and others
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13,1967 —
velopmonts in the countries of
these three regions during
1966, relating these develop
ments to trends of the past
five years.
Total and per capita agri
cultural output in Western Eu
rope continued to rise in 1966,
despite poor weather at key
periods. Trade in agricultural
products by West European
countries continued to increase
rapidly in 1965, as did U S
agricultural exports to West
ern Europe.
Favorable weather moved
East European farm produc
tion to the highest level on
record, some six percent above
1965 and 22 percent above the
1957-59 average In addition to
favorable weather contributing
to the successful crop year,
there were improved inputs,
higher farm prices and incen
tives. and efforts by the gov
ernments to farm output
The Soviet Union’s record
gram harvest of about 140
million tons, led by a bumper
wheat crop of 80 million tons,
was the outstanding feature of
its agricultural performance in
1966 Record output levels were
also achieved for most live
stock products, cotton, and oil
seeds
Cautioning that instability in
grain production remains a
problem in the Goviet Union,
the repoil analyzes the majox’
factors which have accounted
for the rapid recovery of ag
ricultural production in the
USSR in the past three years.
Production ol most livestock
products increased in all three
regions in 1966 Meat produo
tion rose in Western Europe
and the USSR and fell slight
ly from the peak 1965 level
in Eastern Europe.
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other breeds. 200-415 Bulls,
175-210. Heifers. 150-250
HORSES
May 8, 1967
Receipts totaling 432 head
sold steady Riding horses. 135-
350: driving. 125-275. killers,
10-11 cents per lb Mules, sin
gly. 115-155 Pony mares. 3ft
-100. geldings. 15-45
HOGS
May 8, 1967
The 1067 head offered aver
aged S2-S2 50 higher Retail
23-24, heavyweights, 21 50-22.-
50, wholesale (US 1-3). 22-23,
Sows, 14-16 There were no
shoats listed
CALVES
May 8, 1967
A steady to stronger trend
prevailed as 108 head sold.
Choice and Prime, 38 50-43;
Good and Low Choice, 35 50-
38. Standard 32-34 50 Com?-
mon, 24-31 50
• Vintage
(Continued fio.n Page 2)
25 25, Standard to low-Good
22 50-23 75
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Good and Choice 800-1100 lbs.
22-23 75
CQWS Utility and high
yielding Cutter 19 50-21.75;
Cutter 18 60-20 25, Canner and
low Cutter 17 50-19
BULLS Good 23-24.75;
Utility and Commercial 22 25*
24 10, couple 24 85-26 75
CALVES 328 Standard to
Choice vealers $l-2 lower, Cull
and Utility fully steady
VEALERS Choice 39 50*-
43 50, Good 36 50-39 50, Stand
aid 35-37. Utility 33-36, Cull
31-35, 60-85 lbs Cull 28-31
HOGS 307 Banows and
gilts $175-2 50 higher
BARROWS AND GILTS
US 1-2 190-240 lbs 23-23 35. US
1-3 180-240 lbs 22 25-22 85. 2-3
220-250 lbs 21 25-22 25
SHEEP 157 Spring lambs
mostly SI lower
SPRING LAMBS Choice
40-90 lbs 28-32 50 few 33-34;
Good 23-27
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