Brunthaver Sees
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Chinese have been stockpiling
some supplies of food for the past
10 or 15 years. They’re saving
some American wheat, but the
bulk of it is being used.”
As to the Russian charge,
Brunthaver disdained the story
as a political gesture by Senator
Walter Huddleston (D-Ky) to
‘‘embarrass the administration.”
The assistant secretary said he
called Huddleston after hearing
of the charge and asked him for
the names of the ships reportedly
seen unloading American grain
at Italian ports.
One of the ships seen unloading
was Scandanavian, not Russian,
and the wheat which was going
onto the dock had been bought in
the U.S., but on the open market.
And the second ship to which
Huddleston referred had em
barked not from the U. S. but
from Brazil.
On another front, economic
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controls, Brunthaver was bluntly
critical of the administration’s
efforts. “Trying to control the
economy was a mistake,” he
commented. Brunthaver said the
attempt to control prices, par
ticularly food costs, had failed,
and that the failure illustrated
the pitfalls of government
meddling in the marketplace.
“The administration stands for
less government involvement in
every sector of the economy, and
that includes agriculture,”
Brunthaver went on to say.
“Since farm programs were first
begun, in 1932, Washington has
poured $B3 billion into
agriculture, trying un
successfully to balance supply
and demand. But now we’re
getting out of agriculture, and we
think everybody will be better
off.”
Brunthaver said that last year,
U. S. Treasury payments to
farmers totalled some $4 billion.
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This year that figure will shrink
to $2 billion and next year, he
said, “We expect zero payments
for farm subsidies.”
Along with farm subsidies, the
administration wants to
eliminate export controls, such
as those which now exist on
soybeans and certain feed grains.
Brunthaver criticized a bill
recently introduced by Senator
Jacob Javits which would curtail
exports.
the intent of Javits’ bill is to
insure that pantries in this
country are filled before any food
is sold overseas. Javits also
hopes that his bill would hold
down prices for consumers.
The net effect of the Javits
bill, though, according to
Brunthaver, would be to lower
payments to farmers, with a
subsequent drop in production,
and a shortage of, market basket
items And even higher food
prices. “You can’t encourage
farmers to increase production
by putting a lid on prices,”
Brunthaver said. “If the
American consumer wants more,
she’ll just have to be willing to
pay more. I am opposed to
government intervention as a
means of insulating the
American consumer against the
growing and legitimate demands
for food from people overseas.”
In his talk, Brunthaver said
that he was very bullish on
American agriculture. His op
timism was based on three major
factors:
The first was population
growth around the world coupled
with a 3-4 percent annual growth
in real per capita income among
all the world’s people. More
people will need more food, and
with more money they’ll be able
to buy more and better food.
Brunthaver predicted
burgeoning demand for pork,
chicken and beef from countries
whose people now get most of
their protein from cereals.
Secondly, Brunthaver said,
many governments, like the
Soviet Union, have enacted
positive programs to feed their
people. “In the past,” he com
mented, “these governments
would see that the people were
fed if food was available. If there
was no food, the government
didn’t worry too much about
people starving. Today, the
threat of political reprisal is
compelling those governments to
insure food supplies for then
people.”
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 15, 1973 —
Solanco Fair
Schedule
Wednesday, September 19
11 a.m. - Judging Dairy Cattle.
7:30 p.m. - Formal Opening of
the Fair.
8 p.m. - Entertainment: Solanco
Sing Out Group; Pa Dutch
Humorist Merritt Freeman.
Thursday, September 20
12:30 p.m. - County-Wide Tractor
Driving Contest; 4-H, FFA
and Open Class.
1 p.m. -- Swine Judging.
6:30 p.m. - Baby Beef Judging.
8 p.m. - Tug of War Contest;
Entertainment.
Friday, September 21
10 a.m. -- Baby Parade.
2 p.m. - Fat Hog and Baby Beef
Sale.
6:30 p.m. - Parade.
Jacobs Brothers
8:15 p.m. -
Entertain.
9 p.m. -- Rural Youth Awards
9:15 p.m. - Jacobs Brothers
Entertain.
Chinese and Russian economies
will prove a boon to American
farmers, in Brunthaver’s
opinion. It will also, he said, keep
this country from developing an
insurmountable balance of
payments deficit.
The main thrust of Brun
thaver’s speech was that demand
for food products, particularly
overseas, would keep farm prices
strong and retail food prices high.
He pointed out, though, that
strong food prices would benefit
fully a third of the. nation’s labor
force, because that is the portion
which derives income from the
sale of products, directly or in
directly, to and from the farm.
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and Robert B. Graybill, Penn
field Corporation, Lancaster,
Penn. - Treasurer.
At the same time the members
elected as new Directors, Ray L.
Martin, Montgomery-Bucks
Farm Bureau Co-op Association,
Souderton; William Tuman,
Honesdale Milling Company,
Inc., Honesdale; and Paul E.
Orner, Columbus Milling Com
pany, Columbus. Re-elected as
Directors were William E.
Angstadt, Reading Bone Fer
tilizer Company, Reading; Paul
E. Homan, Central Soya Com
pany, Inc., Ravenna, Ohio; and
James W. Leeser, Rhoads Mills,
Inc., Selinsgrove.
During the three day meeting
over 300 representatives of
Pennsylvania agribusiness firms
attended meetings and
discussions covering a wide
range of topics. Speakers in
cluded Pennsylvania legislators,
federal officials, educational and
industrial representatives.
Topics covered included state,
national and international
market problems and outlooks,
fuel supplies, an insight into
what’s happening in Washington,
an up-date on Penn State’s
College of Agriculture, plus many
of the problems facing business
today.
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QuanyviUe, September 19-21.
8 p.m. - Chester County Dairy
Feeding meeting, Central
Chester Vo-Tech Cafetorium;
Richard Adams, speaker.
Thursday, September 20
Second Annual PA-MD Guern
sey Sale, Guernsey Sales
Pavilion; 11 a.m., meeting;
6:30 p.m., - Sale.
Saturday, September 22
Harvest Fair, Schaefferstown,
September 22-23.
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