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
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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.
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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
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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.
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