Farming. Saturday. December 15.1973 l: Farmers Food (Continued From Page U) grain derivative. Each person in the U.S. consumes about one too of gram (five times as much as in emerging nations). About 150 pounds of tins is consumed directly as bread, pastry, and breakfast cereal. The rest is converted into meat, milk, and eggs No country seems to have reached a level erf affluence where its per capita gram requirements have stopped rising Surpluses are gone No one cared how high die per capita consumption erf grain was while the L\s bad huge stocks of surplus gram. Just ova - a decade ago our surplus of the four feed grains (corn. oats, barley, and sorghum) m government hands totaled 75 million tons — equivalent to about 3,000 loads for «=3nps of 25.000 ton capacity. It was not surprising that many people thought we could feed the world. Bj the early 1950'5. bowerer. it became evident that -we cook! not FOR OOftfi PROFITS! 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(Current growth is about two percent or 80 million per year, l In addition, most nations are trying to achieve self-sufficiency in food production. U.S. policy m the 1960's charged from massive grain shipments to one of exporting technical help to aid emerging nations to develop their agriculture. Ibis led to "the Green Revolution'' —making two blades os gras grow where one grew before, Tbe application of science and technology to agriculture has produced dramatic results in many countries, particularly in Aria During the 1960’s world agricultural production in creased about three percent per year. This exceeded the two percent per year population growth but did not match tbe increase in the demand for food because more people want their protein in tbe form of animal r -~e'i=r C-anams Company "i 373 AVAILABLE AT Ephrata Pa. 717-733-2218 Elizabethtown Pa 717-357-1525 and Fretful Consumers products rather than grain products Why we export grains Tbe sale of about 19 million metric tons of gram to Russia triggered tbe big price rise in grains. High priced gram led to higher prices for many foods Americans eat. Consumers, irritated by higher food prices, question why the U.S. sold the gram to Russia and other nations and why we continue to make export commitments for the coming crop year. Tbe dollar is one reason we export. During the decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s the U S was considered a ' have-everythmg” nation. We spent beyond our means by floating dollar lOU’s all over the world Eventually other nations who held these dollars told us they weren’t worth as much in relation to other currencies. The dollar has been devalued twice and our balance of payments deficits have soared since tbe first quarter of 1971. For the July 1972-June 1973 fiscal year the U.S. balance of trade deficit was 53-5 billion. This means that our imports exceeded exports by 53.5 billion. To support our present standard of living this country imports growing amounts of oil. copper, iron ore, aluminum, and other raw material-; not available in needed amounts m the U. S American consumers have also chosen to increase their purchases of foreign-made automobiles, television sets, radios, motor cycles. and clothing—all which compete directly with American products. U S imports in the non agricultural sector exceeded exports fay S 9 billion in the past fiscal year Despite some recent improvement, our accumulated HI. 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Thus, the sharp rise in domestic prices in the past year was not passed on fully to buyers outside the U. S. The volume of agrilcutural exports was up about one-third in fiscal 72-73 but the grains showed sharply higher increases Wheat exports, for example, increased 97 percent in volume and 133 percent in value. Total agricultural exports from the U. S. rose to a record $12.9 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973—up more than 60 percent from the previous year. The agricultural trade surplus was $5.6 billion in the year. ★ Hoffman's Horse & Cattle Powders ★ Aureomycin Sulmet 700 Crumbles ★ Baymix Wormer Crumbles ★ Shell Horse Wormer ★ Flameless Gas Pig Brooders ★ Custom Canvass Work New For Sweetlix Horse Block AARON S. GROFF & SON Farm & Dairj Store RD !. F.phrata. Pa. 17542 (Hinkletown) Phone:ss4-0744 Store Hours 7 \ M. to 9 P.M. Closed Tues. & Sat. at 5;'.50 P.M. SALES & SERVICE 1054 S. State St. Ephrata, Pa. Ph. 717-733-2283 Without an agressive export program for agriculture products the nation’s balance of payments problem would have become unbearable and the U s would have had to devalue n s currency even more or take drastic steps to curb imports Record crops—high prices High prices during the past year have not been due to p oor crops in the U.S. The 1972 corn harvest at 5.5 billion bushels was second only to the 1971 crop The 1972 winter wheat harvest at nearly 1.2 billion bushels set a new record. The soybean harvest at 1.2 billion bushels was 9 per cent above the record set the previous year. The 1973 harvests are going to break the previous record The winter wheat crop at about 13 billion bushels was a new record and 9 percent above last year’s (Continued On Page 137 Now $ 4,000.00 $ 1,350.00 $ 8,000.00 $ 1,775.00 $ 1,600.00 $19,500.00 Was $ 4,20000 $ 1,575.00 $ 8,350.00 $ 1,950.00 $ 1,750.00 $33,000.00 Was $ 2,300.00 $ 375.00 $ 425 00 $ 35000 $ 125 00 $ 45000 $ 275 00 $ 675 00 Now S 2.100.00 $ 285.00 S 350.00 S 250.00 75.00 S 375.00 S 225.00 $ 600.00 USED SCOUT 1966 I.H. Scout 4x4 Now 300*00 Was $l4OOOO