16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 20,1868 • WHEAT TROUBLE (Continued from Page 1} more wheat thrown back onto the domestic market. This would depress U. S. wheat prices.” A more immediate market depressant, the Federation presi dent said, is he export tax im posed by Secretary Freeman to raise U. S. export prices above 9hc domestic price. This tax is paid by the exporter. The Secre tary has authority to do this un der the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965. WITH AN anticipated record U. S. wheat crop, plus Increased world supplies, exporters are ex pected to bid less for wheat on the domestic market. *Tn effect we now have a double tax on wheat,” Shumar said. “In addition to the new ex port tax, we also have the certifi cate provisions of the presen* whtat law which, in effect, im pose a tax on the processing of wheat for domestic consumption “I don’t know where you could find a beter example of the failure of government con trol and management programs than in wheat. “In wheat we have a docu mented record of costly mistakes by a government administrator In 1967, Secretary Freeman called for increased wheat pro duction to feed a hungry world. It turned out that he guessed wrong on world supply and de mand so he called for a 13 per cent decrease in 1968 production and got a nine percent decrease in acreage ut a substantial in ciease in bushels produced. “THE WHEAT situation re veals two great errors in govern ment supply-management pro grams. One is the idea that you can get adjustments in produc tion through acreage controls Secondly, it has been proved once again that a government administrator, regardless of his qualifications is not capable of deciding future faim pioduction needs. Secretary Freeman has admitted that no one could have foreseen or anticipated the change in world supplies when • WHEAT VALUE (Continued from Page 1) and the 1968-crop national aver age loan rate of $125 per bushel The 1967 value was $136 per bushel. Wheat marketing certificates are authorized by the 2-price provisions of the Food and Agri culture Act of 1965, guarantee ing participating farmeis 100 percent of wheat parity price for their share of the wheat used for domestic food This substan tially bolsteis faim income for wheat while pei nutting suppoit of market puces through loans at levels more competitive in world trade channels Fred G Seldomndge. Chair man, Agncultui al Stabilization and Conseivation County Com mittee, said this week that cer tificate payments to farmers pai ticipating in the 1968 wheat pio gram will begin about July 15th from the ASCS county office The payments will be based on the pi ejected production of 40 percent of the faim’s planted acreage within the 1968 wheat acreage allotment About 19 per cent of the county’s wheat allot ment is on participating farms Nationally, ceitificate pay ments to approximaely 837,000 participating farmers will total about $730 million for the 1968 wheat crop About 85 percent of the national allotment is on participating farms When le lated to the production on the 49 2 million acres of allotment on paiticipating farms, the $730 million in certificate payments represents additional income at a national average of 55 cents on each bushel produced by par ticipants The total average re turn per bushel will depend on puces farmers receive in the market from their 1968 wheat he made hit dcclilon to increase 1967 production by boosting wheat acreage allotments by 32 percent. “With this record of failure, not only in wheat, but in most of the other controlled crops, Farm Bureau it opposed to any extension of the Food and Agri culture Act of 1965. 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