Grain inspection, fond stamps, and milk By DIETER KRIEG WASHINGTON, D.C. Grain inspection is a “very real problem, but I’m not sure if it’s being put in the same context by the press,” John Knebel told a gathering of farm editors here this week. The occasion was the annual meeting of the Newspaper Farm Editors of America, a' professional association. Knebel, U.S. Under secretary of Agriculture, informed the group that there had been a wave of indictments 78 so far and there would.be more “within the next ten days.” The -grain inspection problem j is. more ~ com plicated than it appears on the surface, Knebel noted. “It’s awfully tough to show, we mean business and still, keep things going so as to not, lose sales,” the ad ministrator saicL-The Senate was voting on the grain bill that same day.jThe outcome was 52 to 18 hi-favor of a measure proposed by Senators Humphrey and POL-BARiV mktg. Clark. That bill would put much emphasis on federal control, and President Ford has announced he will veto it. He favors a bill which would give local and private concerns more control. Knebel also said that USDA favors the President's stand, noting that the Department wouldliketoseethe “private sector” preserved and cut federal control. . “The basic. philosophy behind that is free enterprise it’s the principle of the thing,” he said. Turning his attention to food stamps, Knebel said he - expects' the issue to stay •within the Department of .Agriculture, rather than be 'moved to HEW, as some - have suggested. “There’s a tremendously powerful lobby out there,” he ex-, plained.- “Little ladies in tennis shoes, church groups, labor, community action programs they’re . all push|ng food stamps.” The .Under-Secretary said the Ford Administration con tinues to be interested in OIJONSKT® orders discussed eliminating malnutrition but there are also., plans in the works to eliminate five million people who are on food stamps. The sentiment is with the Department, and with farm editors, etc., that welfare reform is needed, Knebel said, but convincing Congress, of the. need is another matter. According to USDA, the country does not really need a new food stamps program" if Congress will allow USDA proposals to be im plemented. “I don’t know if Congress ' will like it,” Knebel'quipped. Beef fitting meeting A meeting of the Red Rose Beef and LambirH Club will be held May 5 at 7:00 p.m. at the Jay Rohrer „ farm, Manheim R 7. A beef fitting and showing demonstration will be held for young dub members and their parents. The Rohrer • farm is located between Manheim and Mt. Joy and can be readied by traveling north on Rt. 283 to the first exit WHITE WASHING with DAIRY WHITE -DRIES WHITE -DOES NOT RUB OFF EASILY -NO WET FLOORS -IS COMPATIBLE WITH DISINFECTANT AND FLY SPRAYS -WASHES OFF WINDOWS‘A PIPELINES EASILY. . Also Barn Cleaning Service Available With Compressed Air To have your barn cleaned with air it will clean off dust, cob webs & lot of the old lime. This will keep your barn looking cleaner & whiter longer. We white washed 600 barns last year, so if your barn needs white washing for better service have it done early. High-Pressure Washing In*Dairy Barns. MAYNARD L, BEITZEL Witmer, PA 17585 717-392-7227 If no answer call Willard Beitzel 717-733-6357 We will take on work within 100 mile radius of Lancaster. Barn spraying our business, not a sideline. Spraying Since 1961 Before closing the meeting, Knebel turned briefly to the question of federal milk marketing orders and encouraged the writers to take a look at what would happen if there were no such orders. He does not expect “startling develop ments” in the near future. Knebel said he does not think President Ford would ever again impose trade restrictions. “I believe it would take a catastrophic situation fen* Ford to ever again impose trade restrictions; I wouldn’t say it would never happen, but not again undo* Ford,” he said. past Salunga. Turn right at exit to Esbenshade Road and take second road to right - Rohrer Road then first lane to right. All interested members are urged to attend. Read the Farm Women Calendar. All new STEEL "pole bam” -economical, strong, versatile, attractive. NON E. MYER ' ■ Steel Buildings And Grain Storage 4, Lebanon, PA 17042 hone: (717) 867-4139 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May-1,1976 Brown Swiss auction sets new record A new record average for registered Brown Swiss selling at public auction was set at the St. John In vitational Sale. Held March 6 at St. John’s Dairy, Glen dale, Arizona, 44 head averaged $3544.32. The former high average was $2763 for 50 head sold in the Texas National Imperial Sale in December 1975. At the St. John’s sale 18 cows sold for an average of $4761; 12 bred heifers, $2506; 13 open heifers, $2473 and one bull for $BOOO. The sale, sponsored by Earnest St. John, owner of St. John’s Dairy was managed by Norman E. Magnussen, Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Interest at this sale was high as buyers came from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, In diana, lowa, Missouri, Louisnana, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin. , The high selling cow of the sale became the second highest selling Brown Swiss female ever sold at public Crop stocks reported HARRISBURG Stocks of wheat, corn, barley and oats stored in Pennsylvania on April 1,1976, totaled 57.5 million bushels, down six per cent from a year earlier according to the Crop Reporting Service. Of the total on hand about 50.1 million bushels were stored on farms, leaving 7.3, million bushels in off-farm storages. Wheat stocks totaled 3.2 million bushels, down 40 per cent from 1975. Farm stocks near 1.4 million were down 32 per cent, while off-farm holdings of about 1.9 million bushels were down 44 per cent. Corn stored in Penn sylvania on April 1, 1976 at 45.4 million bushels was one per cent below a year ago. Farm stocks of 40.7 million were below last year’s 41.0, while off-farm holdings of 4.7 million compare -to 4.9 million in 1975. Total barley stocks of near 1.8 million bushels were 26 per cent below 1975. Farm holdings approaching 1.6 million bushels were down 29 per cent, while off-farm Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. auction. Needmor Lyric J, consigned by the Lyric J Syndicate, sold for $16,900. She was purchased by Maynard and Gordon DeMay, Empire Farms, Palmyra, New York. Arbor Rose Stretchy Spicey at $15,000 was the second highest selling animal of the sale, the fourth highest selling Brown Swiss female of all time. Consigned to the sale by Donald Meier, Scappoose, Oregon, this young cow in her first lac tation was purchased by the Spicey Syndicate. Members of the syndicate are: Byron Blackburn, Ava, Missouri; Bert DeGroot, Chandler, Airzona; Joe P. Eves, Sun City; Fd Hall, Glendale, Arizona; Norman F. Magnussen and Marion C. Magnussen, Lake Mills, Wisconsin; Donald Meier, Scappoose, Oregon; St. John’s Dairy, Glendale, Arizona. Four vials of White Cloud Doris Jason semen also sold in the side for $l9OO. down stocks at 248,000 bushels show a one per cent drop. The 7.1 million bushels of oats stored on April 1, 1976 were,, eight per cent below 1975. Farm stocks of 6.5 million were eight per cent lower, addle off-farm stocks at 557,000 showed a four percent drop. Total rye stocks of 70,000 compare to 59,000 bushels on April 1, 1975, addle on-farm soybeans at 205,000 were significantly below the 446,000 of a year ago. Nationally, April 1 stocks of all wheat at 25.5 million metric tons were 42 per cent above a year earlier. Stocks of the four feed grains (corn, oats, barley and sorghum) totaled 86.4 million metric tons, 25 per cent above April 1, 1975 holdings. Increases from a year earlier for in dividual feed grains were 37 per cent for barley, 27 per cent for corn and 17 per cent' for sorghum. Oats declined two per cent. Soybean stocks at 23.4 million metric tons were 31 per cent above April 1,1975. 13
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