Team Sees
An egg marketing study team
report which indicated industry
might need to seek standby
legislation to stabilize prices and
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Need for
production was released recently
by Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz.
Other key provisions of the
’tU March 1, 1973
Paddle and Ruiyiei;,,,
Laws To Stabilize Egg
report recommended:
that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) and the egg
industry support legislation to
authorize the collection and
expenditure of checkoff funds
that would be used to determine
and publish base price
quotations, support cash trading
mechanisms, establish com
mittees to aid in price deter
minations and develop new data
series.
a unit be established within
USDA to provide advice,
guidance and help to family-sized
egg laying operations.
Jurisdiction for regulating egg
trading practices should be
transferred from the Federal
Trade Commission to USDA’s
Packers and Stockyards Ad
ministration.
In considering the possibility of
legislation to stabilize egg price
and output, the team report
emphasized that it would be on a
standby basis and that alter
native programs need indepth
study to help decide what ap
proach to select.
The egg marketing study team
was set up early this year with
the purpose of trying new con
cepts to get more creative and
innovative approaches to solving
egg industry problems. Since
then, team members have
conferred with State and Federal
officials and all segments of the
industry—producers, packers
and distributors.
In releasing the report today at
a conference of industry leaders,
team members and USDA of
ficials, Secretary Butz pointed
out that while consumers have
benefited from high quality and
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R D 1 DENVER, PA 17517
PHONE (215) 267-2132
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 7,1972
low prices relative to many other
foods, the producers have suf
fered from cyclical fluctuations
and a prolonged period of low
prices.
Other major recommendations
included:
improvement in the job of
informing the public on the in
dustry accomplishments and
problems and of working with
other Federal agencies whose
programs affect the egg industry.
working with the Internal
Revenue Service to jointly
develop guidelines for gradually
moving the egg industry toward
full accrual accounting
support by industry and
USDA of the principle of the
proposed national checkoff
legislation for egg promotion,
advertising and product
development and increased
emphasis by government
agencies on all programs that
would increase or stabilize the
demand for eggs.
revision of data series to
reflect changes in industry
characteristics and needs and
better industry support of the
need for accurate input data and
changes in reallocating resources
available for data programs.
Other selected recom
mendations touched upon grades
and standards, rates on feed
ingredients, rail line aban
donment, feed additives,
pollution abatement, production
and marketing costs, producer
bargaining, coordinating Federal
lending programs, and futures
trading.
Single copies of a summary of
the “Egg Marketing Study; A
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