Forming, Saturday, Jan. 31. 1976
Butz addresses York meeting
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year to farmers ... that’* been col down to half a billion
dollars now. Poor yean a(o we were (pending a million
doOan a day in storage coats, that’a been cot virtually to the
vantofatng point Four yean ago the beat we could do in net
farm hi tlds oontry in the agribnaioesa waa 17 J
doDan, which tnrlmW (our billion doOan of govern
ment payment*. We Joat finished three yean now in which
net income tea (*«ctw* The best indications are
it’s going to do that again in 1178, without government
payments. It’s been a toro-around in farm policy.
“There’s always one part of agrlcnltare that’s op, and
mtvthrr one down. These are average figures. There are
exceptions.” Bats also Indicated that farm exports have
tripled in tbe last four yean from |7-billkn to SZ2-billioo and
predicted that this year they would be Just a little over $22-
"We’re going to export 100-million toes of grain from
this country ttda year - Including rice and soybeans.”
Agriculture la the comber one earner of foreign exchange in
this coontry, and Is responsible for having pot this country's
tradetelanoe in the black. “And this pots us (agriculture) in
a tremeetoom position of strength in this country, I think, to
do that.
“People argue with me that if we Just didn’t export, food
would be cheaper at home, some people say,” Butz con
tinued. That’s as phoney as a $3 bill We’ve got to export or
cot back oo prodactioo.”
to Butz there is five cents worth of wheat in a
ooe-poond loaf of bread, which represents about one-ninth of
the cost “Eight-ninth of the cost of a loaf of bread is what
somebody ebe pet into it (costs). “Today it costs more to
drive the bread from the bakery to the supermarket shelf
than it cost to pot the wbat in it • Now let’s get our facts
straight... that’s wbat I’m talking about here. Today, the
farmer gets about 42 cents of the consumer’s food dollar.
We’ve been **a«ng that 42-cent rabbit long enough. I’m
getting tired of it I want to start chasing that 58-cent rabbit.
That’s where the pay-dirt is. That’s where the feather
bedding is. That’s where the heavy labor costs are. And most
of tint 58 cents is labor, and I want labor well-paid, but I’d
like to have to work on the job, instead of all these
curtailments we pot into it When George Meany stopped
loading wheat down at the Gulf ports last summer under the
guise of protected the cost of living in America, I shuddered.
“To have George Meany to be tbe protector of the coat ot
living for consumers -It’s like sending the fox oat to guard the
chicken coop. All they want is a bigger rip-off from the
treasury for the longshoremen to get paid for not working,
and they got it, and we write that into the cost, somehow or
other along tbe process, you see.
“American agrlcnltare has gat a record of increased
output per worker and increased efficiency tbe last 20 years
that Is absolutely unequalled by any other major sector of the
economy. It’s a tremendous record. It makes us tbe world’s
most efficient producers. Therefore the world’s best source
of supply for these |22-billion worth of staff we export We’re
always going to be that way because you farmers in this
room haven’t learned yet to punch tbe clock at 40 hours. You
haven’t learned yet to go out to tbe stable and say ‘Look,
Bossic, I’m going to shut you off. I’m going to be gone for
three days.’ But most important of all, you haven’t learned
yet to put two drivers in a tractor cab like that Penn Central
locomotive that goes through this town- if it’s still going. And
because they’ve bad two drivers in the cab, and everything
else they didn’t need, they’re in trouble. But not so our
American farmers. They’re still profit motivated. They’re
working for themselves.
“I think the world’s number one problem in the generation
ahead - the world’s number one challenge - is: Are we going
to be able to increase food production in the world fast
enough to keep pace with this still exploding population. At
some point you’ve got to bring the population under control.
“I’ve seen hungry men on the other side of the Earth, I’ve
seen starving men. No use talking to them about democracy;
no use talking about human freedom or human dignity, or
human liberty. They listen only to the person who has a piece
of bred. That’s a powerful language.
“That’s the language that foe United States is prepared to
speak powerfully and eloquently. We’re just leaning bow to
speak it It’? a new role for 05... we’re awkward in foe way
we use it But we are learning how to speak it -the power is
here, the tool is here, it’s here because this tremendous
American agribusiness complex that I see represented here
in this room this morning. Working for ourselves - our own
capital-our own labor - our families pitching in with them -
trying to make a little money. There’s no system in the world
that has ever beat it No system ever will beat it It’s up to ns
*11.86 price set
The Class I price for milk testing 3.5 percent
February 1976 is $11.86 per bntterfat, plus $2.78.
hundredweight for 3.5 lie Class I price in
percent milk. The price creased each month since
increased 24 cents from January 1975, with foe ex-
January, and is S2JJB above ceptioo of April when there
the February 1975 Class I vras no change from foe
price- previous mounth. During
The February 1976 price is that time; foe price has in
based on a December 1975 creased $2.32 per hun-
Minnesota-Wlsconsin dredweight from $9.54 to its
manufacturing milk price of latest Sv3 of SIIJ6.
$9.06 per hundredweight for
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