.S. Beef Supply Expected to Rise 33.3 pet. by 1980
2 Nation’s beef supply in 1980
ajected at 29 billion pounds,
ly one-third more than in
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needs by the decade’s end, the
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(USDA) reported today
USDA’s Economic Research
Service, enlisting the opinions of
295 experts from the livestock
raising industry, outlined beef
production trends and influences
on prospects through 1980 in its
report
Key to the increase in the beef
Bill to Exempt Silos From
If business and industry can get
a special tax break on
machinery, tools and storage
areas, why not agriculture too
That’s the question being asked
by State Reps. Kent Shelhamer,
D-Columbia; Lester K Fryer, D-
Berks, Paul Yahner, D-
Cambria, and Joseph Zeller, D-
Lehigh
And the answer may he in
legislation proposed by the four
that calls for the exemption of
farm silos from property taxes in
65 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties
with only Philadelphia and
Allegheny counties excluded.
“All we are asking is the same
treatment for agriculture as
business and industry now gets in
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supply will be more beef cows for
additional feeder calves Bet
ween 1950 and 1970 beef cow
numbers went from 16 million to
37 million to help double beef
production
The experts forecast the beef
cow herd at 46 million in 1980
Nearly three-fourths of the ex-
Pennsylvania,” the four main
tain “Under the present
property tax structure,
machinery, tools, appliances,
and storage areas for industrial
equipment are exempted from
the property tax We feel the
same exemption should be ex
tended to silos and other struc
tures used by farmers for
processing and storing animal
feed ”
“Under such an exemption,”
notes Rep Shelhamer, “a farmer
with a $20,000 silo, for example,
could save as much as $2OO a year
in property taxes, contingent on
the rate of assessment that
prevails in his county ”
The proposal, which has been
referred to the House Agriculture
Committee, has the full support
of the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association
USDA Holts DES
Certification Prog.
WASHINGTON - The US
Department of Agriculutre
(USDA) announced the
discontinuance of its certification
program covering livestock fed
diethylstilbestrol (DES) After
Jan 13, 1973, it will no longer be
necessary to certify that cattle or
sheep have been withdrawn from
feed containing DES at least 7
days before slaughter
This action is being taken
because the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) of the
Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare banned
the use of DES in feed as of Jan
1
USDA’s Ammal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) will continue its ex
tensive monitoring program for
DES As in the past, any finding
of DES residues will be turned
over to FDA, which has legal
lunsdiction over feed additive
usage
During the 1972 DES survey,
APHIS found 104 of 5,116 random
samples of sheep and steer livers
positive for DES, a 2 0 percent
rate
pansion is expected to come in
the Southeast, Northern Plains,
and Corn Belt Industry people
felt that $3O per 100 pounds for
Choice steer calves (450-500
pounds) would maintain a
relatively stable beef cow in
ventory A $35 price would
stimulate it This latter price
level was held most likely by the
experts
Other factors that will increase
beet production- more forage
with greater utihtztion, higher
calving rates and lower death
losses, heavier cull cow weights
Combining indications about
domestic beef production with
those of imports and exports led
to the forecast of 29 billion pounds
of beef in 1980 providing a per
capita consumption of 126 7
pounds, against 114 pounds in
1970.
A copy of “Cattle Raising in the
United States,” AER 235, is
available free on postcard
(please include zipcode) or
telephone (447-7255) request from
the Office of Information, U S
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D C 20250