Surplus
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with more cattle expected on
the market soon.”
“Pork prices will probably
stay high however as we just
do not have the number of
hogs as we usually expect,”
the agriculture official
noted.
The Secretary told
newsmen that food prices
were decreasing although 51
percent of the product dollar
was still going for processing
and distribution.
“The farmer is still only
getting 41 percent of the
dollar for his goods and I’d
like to see him going for the
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Asked whether or not the
United States should be
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countries. Noting for
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“We must try to help them
develop to the point of being
able to be trading partners.”
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Questioned on the plight of
the dairy fanners in the
northeast area, Secretary
Butz commented that
although dairy had seen
rough times in the past few
months, he hoped for a
brighter future.
“Milk has chronic
problems,” Butz stated.
“The per capita con
sumption of milk has gone
down and it is a matter of
real concern.”
Secretary Butz praised the
National dairy associations
for their promotion attempts
in helping to raise the con
sumption.
“We cannot price milk to
accentuate decline,
however.” Butz noted as he
addressed the audience on
milk pricing and surpluses.
Answering charges that he
was not sympathetic to the
small farmer, the
agricultural official stated
that while his sympathies did
rest with the individual
farmer, be did not see it
necessary or right for those
people to starve, striving to
keep a farm.
“I want to see fanners
make a decent income from
farming and not slowly
starve.”
Along the same lines,
Secretary Butz told the
audience that corporate
farming had not in actuality
been on the rise as it has
been reported but has
receded in the last few
years.
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“Regardless of what you
hear,” he stated, “there has
been little growth in cor
porate farming.”
Asked if the farmers in the
northeast had been forgotten
by the USDA, Butz denied
the allegation saying that
every sector of the country
suffers at one time or
another with the ups and
downs of agriculture.
“Farmers in the northeast
have not been written off,”
he stated.
Stating the ideas that
transportation had put
farmers in the northeast in a
poor position, Butz noted
that the Penn Central
complications had been a'
factor in lower profits.
Replying to the allegation
that the number of farms
were decreasing at an
alarming rate, Secretary
Butz explained that while
farms did decrease at the
rate of 100,000 per year
between 1965 and 1969, only
11,000 farms had been lost
last year which was a
measurable difference.
Extolling the need for
trade, Butz closed his
remarks by pointing out that
marketing of agricultural
products should be carried
out with “vigorous trade and
exports."
Wheat
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Hood cited the wet weather
as being factors which have
delayed the harvest and also
blamed it for the reduced
yields, which some ob
servers claim amounts to
only “two-thirds of a crop.”
If the crop can’t be brought
in soon, Hood indicated, it
may result in diseases and
insect damage will cut yields
even further.
“A month ago the crop
looked beautiful,” the grain
company spokesman said,
adding that in regions south
of here there are some heavy
infestations of scab which
are “cutting yields terribly.”
Asked about potential
damage from grain insects,
Hood noted last year was the
first he had ever seen the
pest in this area, and so far
none have been sighted in
1975 that he knows of. They
still could come, however.
Local millers and grain
dealers acknowledged that
last year’s lack of cover on
the fields may have injured
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 12,1975
young plants, but most of the Journal revealed that
blame for the lower-than- bumper crops are a strong
expected crop is being possibility this year. Com is
placed on the wet spring and expected to break the six
summer experienced in the million bushel barrier for the
Northeast. There have also first time ever, and wheat
been isolated reports of scab production is likely to be
and lodging problems, ac- around 1.62 billion bushels
cording to area observers, up 17 per cent from last year.
Pennfield’s A 1 Landis sees Soybeans are also doing very
the 1975 wheat crop as well, with the second largest
“being down somewhat,” crop in history being likely,
but believes the average if bumper crops of com,
number of bushels harvested wheat, soybeans, barley and
per acre in Lancaster County sorghum do materialize
will still be between 55 and 60 and indications are they will
bushels. He made the then the prices of these
estimate based on the commodities will sag
condition of the wheat which significantly. The average
he described as “still cash prices being forecasted
standing real well.” Total after harvest by the
number of bushels of wheat Milwaukee securities
harvested this year j* brokerage firm of Robert W.
southeast Pennsylvania. »s Baird and Co. are; com -
likely to be above last yjftr’s 2.10; wheat - 3.00; soybeans -
total due to the that 4.00.
considerably monvacreage Wheat in Lancaster
has been planted. County is reportedly
The United States bringing anywhere from 2.60
Department of to 3.17 per bushel,
reports that total wheat
acreage in the <J.S. this year, IVT
at 74.4 millidn acres, is the 11CW
highest since 1953, five per 1
cent above last year, and 26
per cent over that planted
two years ago. Winter wheat pl*pn f-pf]
is up seven per cent over last '-'wICU
year; the 1975 Duram
acreage exceeds last year’s
by 13 per cent, and by more
than 50 per cent if compared
to 1973 statistics
While these reports point
to possibilities of a bumper
crop, sharp drop in prices,
and even a farm recession,
the local grain scene is
nevertheless unanimously
described as being not much
better than fair or average.
One grain dealer judged the
yield per acre to be as low as
38 bushels “two-thirds of a
crop.” He blamed the
situation on present wet
conditions as well as the bare
fields last winter.
This year’s wheat crop
was also listed as having
smaller kernels of grain, but
it wasn’t definitely deter
mined whether this was due
to the variety or poor
development because of
rains. One spokesman noted
the crop was not as advanced
as a year ago, again blaming
excessive amounts of
moisture. “What we need is
some low-humidity weather
to get the wheat in before the
grass covers it,” concluded
another dealer.
A story appearing in last
Monday’s Wall Street
Lancaster Under a
recent reorganization, the
Agway Service Center at
1031 Dillerville Rd., will now
fall tinder a new department
called Motor Transportation
Services, it was announced
this week.
Agway’s four other Ser
vice Centers, in Cortland,
N.Y., Batavia, N.Y., Mid
dletown, N.Y., and West
field, Mass., will also be
included in the new depart
ment. Previously, the
centers were operated by
Waymark, an Agway
department which
manufactures, fabricates,
and services specialized
truck bodies for Agway and
other customers.
Named to head the Agway
Motor Transportation
Services department is
Thomas McClelland, an
economics graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania.
He practices transportation
law before the In
terstate Commerce Com
mission and is currently on
the Syracuse University
graduate staff where he
teaches transportation law.
McClelland said the
Agway Service Centers “will
play an increasingly im
portant role in the overall
maintenance of the Agway
truck fleet,” under the
reorganization.
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