Kuhfuss “imperative' that the government give farmers concrete assurance prior to planting time that em bargoes will not be applied during the ensuing year.” Kuhfuss made these com ments in a statement prepared for presentation at a Joint hearing before the American farmer! cannot be expected to maintain full production in the absence of free access to the world market, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation said in Washington last week. Federation President William J. Kuhfuss said it is >••••••••••••••••••••••••< Etead for High Yields of Quality Hay 5. i »*/**■ This high yielding Hoffman Formula caught on right from the beginning, and is now at the top of the list in popularity. It’s a scientific alfalfa/timothy formulation that helps progressive grassland farmers reach new high levels of high-quality forage on good, fertile, well-drained soil. All alfalfas are newer, improved types most ex clusive with Hoffman. The strong points of the different strains combine to give you broad disease protection in vigorous, long-lived stands. Timothy strains have been selected for feafiness and yieldability. This is only one of 14 outstanding hay, grass silage and pasture formulas from Hoffman. See your Hoffman Seed Man for details. A. H. Hoffman Seeds, Inc. LANDISVILLE (Lancaster Co.), PA. 17538 Pennsylvania’s No. 1 Farm Seed Specialist LANCASTER COUNTY: C.B. HOOBER & SON Intercourse, PA (768-8231) COPE & WEAVER CO. New Providence, PA (786-7351) GLENN E. HURST East Earl. PA (215-445-6865) JAMES GARBER Mount Joy, PA (717-653-5750) CHESTER COUNTY: NEVIN MYER & SON Chester Springs, PA (215-827-7481) ZOOK'S FARM STORE Honey Brook, PA (215-273-9730) LEBANON COUNTY: HOWARD B. WEISS Myerstown, PA (949-3152) LARRY HIESTAND Lebanon, PA (273-7394) FRANKLIN COUNTY: DON MARTIN EQUIP. CO. Chambersburg, PA (717-263-3505) BERKS COUNTY: EUGENE HELLER Robesoma Pa (215 693 3207) EARLEBLING Bethel Pa (934 2690) ~ MAH UFACTURER OF QUALITY CONCRETE STAVE SILOS, "WET-CAST” - ''LOCK-RIB” - "CORRUGATED" - "VIBRATED" 2436 CREEK HILL ROAD Lancaster, pa 17061 Warns Against UNCASTER SILO CO., INC. House Agriculture Com mlttee’s subcommittees on livestock and grains and cotton. Kuhfuss, an Illinois beef producer, was accompanied at the hearing by J. Merrill Anderson, president of the lowa Farm Bureau Federation and a member of 2008 HORSESHOE ROAD Grain Sale Embargoes uic AFBF Board of Direc tors, and Carroll Chaloupka, president of the Texas Farm Bureau. Kuhfuss has recently called on President Ford and Secretary of Agriculture Butz to terminate “im mediately” all monitoring activities and prior approval requirements relative to foreign grain sales. In his statement to the House subcommittees, Kuh fuss said farmers must not be forced to compete with the Commodity Credit Corporation for markets. “With grain supplies relatively tight and market prices well above the current loan rates, this is a good time Eshleman Getting Good Response to Questionnaire Congressman Edwin Eshleman has been getting a “thunderous response” to his annual questionnaire to constituents, according to T. W. Bucher from the congressman’s Lancaster office. Bucher said that Eshleman’s Washington office has received about 4500 filled-out question naires, many of them coming in with comments attached. He said the forms, carried in area newspapers, have been coming in “rapidly”. Results should be tabulated and released to the public in about a month, Bucher said. The questionnaire in cluded 14 questions posed to constituents of the 16th Congressional District. They dealt with gas rationing, economic programs, abortion, national health insurance, Social Security benefits and system, national highway speed DAUPHIN COUNTY: LEO LANDIS Millersburg, PA (692-4647) YORK COUNTY: KENNETH LSPAHR Thomasville, PA (225-1064) FISHER BROS. Red Lion, PA (244-2178) MIFFLIN COUNTY: NORMAN YODER Belleville, PA (717-935-2994) BUCKS COUNTY: LG. AG SALES Silverdale (215-257-5135) COLUMBIA COUNTY RAY PFLEEGOR Bloomsburg, PA (717 784-9314) MARYLAND: ENFIELD EQUIP, INC Whitford, MD (301 452-5252) W. ROGER ROOP Union Bridge. MD (301-775 7356) ' KENNETH ENGLAND Rising Sun, MD (301-658 4629) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 1,1975 to take action to protect feed grain and wheat producers against a recurrence of the problems they so often have encountered under past government loan programs,” he said. “To assure private control of wheat and feed grain supplies, and to prevent the accumulation of stocks in government hands in the future, we recommend that CCC loans for these com modities be shifted to -a recourse basis, with the interest rate based on the cost of money to the government.” He said recourse loans would discourage producers from turning grain over to the government, as the limits, revenue sharing programs, nuclear power plants, and aid to South Vietnam. Viewpoints I have heard something said about allegiance to the South I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I woe any allegiance Henry Clay (1848) RED ROSE FEED & FARM SUPPLY Division of Carnation We also stock a Complete Selection of Garden Tools, Fertilizer and Insecticides. For the Lawn, Old English Grass Mixtures and Turf Foods Check our low prices before you purchase your requirements 27 N. CHURCH ST. QUARRYVILLE, PA 786-7361 t . ; i , Red Rose ANIMAL FEEDS borrower would be liable for an additional amount in cases where the market value of the grain turned over to the government is less than the full amount of the loan. He recommended that recourse loans be initiated on a trial basis this year by giving producers of these crops the alternative of obtaining either nonrecourse loans at the already an* nounced rates or recourse loans at substantially higher levels. The Federation president said that the escalation clause of the 1973 Farm Act should be made effective for the 1975 cotton crop and the CCC loan rate should be set high enough to facilate or derly marketing. Kuhfuss said livestock producers currently are in a difficult situation “due to a number of factors including the effects of government efforts to control prices, a long-continued buildup in cattle numbers, and higher feed prices brought on by adverse weather.” He op posed the establishment of production quotas or target prices for soybeans and emphasized that the ob jective of the Farm Bureau, is to create conditions that will enable agriculture to operate under the market price system. MEMO HAY, STRAW and EAR CORN SALE EVERY MONDAY AT 11A.M. EVERY WEDNESDAY 12:00 NOON NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Phone 717-354-4341 Lloyd H Kreider Auct TTENTION RIMERS and IE GARDENERS. We now hove a COMPUTE SELECTION of Vegetable irden & flower eds on Display Seed potatoes will arrive at a later date. BUCK, PA 284-4464 , A ’ » V* > ” # 29 •L , « S >
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