Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, January 31, 1976, Image 20
Forming, Saturday, Jan. 31. 1976 Butz addresses York meeting ICnftMi Ha top 19| 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 ■■■■■attention SPECIAL MAES INFLATIONS BUY 10 INFLATIONS—GET 2 FREE 2 TON PULL-N-HOIST $29.95 SALE EXTRA DISCOUNT ON QUANTITY Whips for (raises & livestock *1,75 SUNBEAM CUPPERS AND BLADES COW TRAINERS, NECK CHAINS. COW TAGS CORONA NIDERM COW POX OINTMENT UDDER SUPPORT. 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