Agriculture and Trade
Record grain output and the
likelihood of four new members
joining the Economic Community
(EC) highlighted Western
Europe’s total farm output in
creased a sharp seven per cent
over 1970 largely because of a
record 133-million-ton grain crop.
Red meat output also advanced
while milk production was
constant.
Despite the high level of farm
production, Western Europe
contmed as an important market
for U.S. farmers, taking 40 per
cent of our record $7.8 billion
farm exports in 1970-71. Top U.S.
exports were oilseeds, protein
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Poultry Association
Plans Annual Tour
The Lancaster County Poultry
Association is planning its annual
tour of poultry research facilities
in the State College area May 23.
The group will leave by bus
from the Farm and Home Center
promptly at 6:30 a.m.
A tour of the Benner Fish
Hatchery near State College is
the first stop on the agenda. The
hatchery has a population of
approximately 650,000 trout,
including the newly developed
palomino.
The group is scheduled to
arrive at the Penn State Poultry
Farm at 10:45 a.m. Here, the
women will have the option of
seeing the Food Science area or
Poultry Research facilities. The
men will observe Dr. Glenn
Bressler’s Poultry House
Management research area,
including the handling of poultry
waste and the new research using
plastic floors.
At 11:30 a.m. Dr. Robert
Gentry will review Poultry
Disease research activities and
conduct a tour through the
laboratory.
At 12:15 the group will leave the
Penn State Campus for lunch at
Pine Grove Mills. Reservations
must be made prior to the day of
the tour for the luncheon.
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meals, wheat, tobacco, animal
fats and oils, and fruits and
vegetables.
Recent cahnges in the U.S.
dollar value may favor some U.S.
farm exports, says the report.
Also on the financial scene.,
currency realignments in
Western Europe disrupted the
Lyng Comments
Price Controls on
Acting Secretary of
Agriculture Richard Lyng said it
was “impossible to devise price
controls on raw agricultural
products without risking chaotic
disruptions” in food production
Testifying before a two-day
Price Commission hearing on
food prices, Lyng said food prices
fluctuate as supplies build up or
grow short and that “most of the
time, because of our productive
capacity, supplies are plentiful
and farm prices are, if anything,
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At 2 p.m. the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
Random Sample Pullet house will
be dedicated, followed by in
spection of the new facilities at
2:45.
Total cost for the tour is $lO per
person. Reservations are to be
made by May 12 to: Jay W. Irwin,
associate county agent, 1383
Arcadia Road, Lancaster, 17601.
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EC’s efforts to maintain common
prices and created four distinct
price zones.
EC membership for the United
Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and
Norway, negotiated last year, is
scheduled to become effective in
January 1973, according to the
report.
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Food
too low ”
Lyng told the Commission that
the productivity of farmers has
made “agriculture a major force
in combatting inflation ” He
pointed out that broiler
production increased eight-dold
in the last 20 years and the price
is about half what it was then.
“The price is too low today, and
producers are not making a fair
return, but they would all agree
they don’t need anything like the
same price they received 20
years ago,” Lyng said
Pointing to the fact that the
wholesale prices of many farm
foods had dropped compared
with the week before the wage
price freeze went into effect,
Lyng said that retail prices had
not necessarily followed suit.
“Retail pnces often lag behind
wholesale price changes,” Lyng
said. “Sometimes we think they
lag too much so . . Such lags are
difficult for consumers and
farmers to understand or ac
cept.”
For example, he said, during
March “wholesale prices of beef
dropped but retail prices con
tinued to rise.”
Additional Grants
For Labor Housing
The farm labor housing
program received an additional
$2,963,430 in grant funds,
Secretary of Agriculture Butz
announced.
This means that the program
funded by the Administration far
exceeds the commitments of any
previous year.
Some $6.7 million m grants is
now available, along with $lO
million in loan money, to build
housing for migrant farm
workers
This year Farmers Home
Administration has made an
intensive effort to contact those
with an interest in labor housing
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A list of priority projects has
been assembled, and the new
grants will permit real progress
toward meeting the need, Butz
said
It is estimated that in this fiscal
year 40 loans and nine grants for
$l4 2 million will provide 1,290
living units, a majority of which
will be for family living
Farmers Home Administration
has operated a farm labor
housing program since 1962
Through June 30,1971, the agency
had made 172 loans for $l7 7
million and 33 grants totalling
$l4 5 million This has provided
housing for 4,700 families and
3,456 individual workers
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