—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 10, 1976
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Air your views on government regulations
WASHINGTON - Govern
ment regulation - how much
is too much?
You can help answer this is extending this special
question by citing specific Farm Line to two days and
examples of government doubling the telephone hook
regulation that you approve up to ten WATS lines in
and or disapprove of via the anticipation of an extremely
Agriculture Council of large volume of calls.
America's (ACA) toll-free A unique panel of experts
Hog statistics released
HARRISBURG - There
were 675,000 hogs and pigs on
Pennsylvania farms on June
1,1976, according to the Crop
Reporting Service. This was
an increase of 75,000 or 13 per
cent from a year earlier.
Breeding stock, at 94,000,
was up 12 per cent and
market hogs, at 581,000 were
up 13 per cent.
The Spring (Dec.-May)
1976 pig crop of 525,000 pigs
was eight per cent larger
Farmers appreciated
Speaking before the an
nual meeting of lowa Beef
Processors, Inc., com
mentator Paul Harvey
pointed out, “We’re so
outproduced in most all
other things that we would be
begging for handouts in the
world marketplace, except
that our nation’s most un
derappreciated minority,
our farmers, is keeping us
both fed and financially
The $6 million man
Harold Morowitz has
struck a blow for all us
normal mortals who only
thought our bodies were
worth 98 cents. Well, folks,
we’ve been shortchanged all
these years. Morowitz is a
biochemist at Yale, and for
many years has been
laboring under the delusion
that the popularly-used 98
cent example (value of our
simple raw materials
water, air, lime, iron, etc.)
was valid. With a keen
knowledge of what
chemicals make up our
system, Morowitz resear
“Farm line” (800424-3510)
on July 21 and 22 between
noon and 4 p.m. E.D.T. ACA
than the Spring 1975 crop of
485,000. Although there were
70,000 or 11 per cent more
farrowings, litters were
smaller.
Fall farrowing intentions
at 60,000 sows jf realized,
would be up 22 per cent from
the 49,000 farrowings last
fall.
Nationally, inventory of
hogs and pigs on June 1,1976
is estimated at 52.6 million
head, up nine per cent above
last year but 11 per cent less
secure. We city dudes could
never feed ourselves. You
know there has been some
gardening these last couple
of years, folks trying to
supplement the family
groceries. But do you sup
pose we could feed ourselves
that way? During this
lifetime, the average
American is going to eat 6.2
tons of meat. There ain't
nobody got a backyard in
Chicago that big!”
ched a supply company
catalogue to determine what
these chemicals would cost
on the open market. Acetate
kinase a rare substance
that activates an enzyme is
$8,860 a gram, prolactin
the hormone that stimulates
milk production in the
breasts is $17.5 million a
gram, hemoglobin is $285 a
gram. There are others.
Morowitz calculated what
percentage each chemical
represents in the body,
figured the body’s dry
weight, multiplied and came
up with approximately $6
million!
ACA Farm Line
on the subject headed by
Senator Carl Curtis (R-Neb.)
and other members of
Congress, administration
officials representing
regulatory agencies, and
spokesmen for leading in
dustry and consumer groups
will man the phones. All calls
will be tallied by panelists
than June 1,1974. This is the
second lowest June 1 total
since 1965. The breeding
herd is up 11 per cent from
last year and contmues its
upward trend that started
last December. Because of
the larger pig crop produced
in the six months, the
market hog inventory in
creased nine per cent from a
year earlier.
The December 1975-May
1976 pig crop in the U.S.
totaled 41.4 million, 16 per
cent above last year’s small
pig crop but eight per cent
less than two years ago. This
crop is the second smallest
smce 1937.
Hog producers in the U.S.
intend to farrow 5.8 million
sows during June-November
1976. This is an increase of 17
per cent from the
corresponding period m 1975
and six per cent above the
same six-month period it
1974.
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and later compiled into a
documented report.
Farm Line programs in
the past two months
featuring “Estate Taxes”
and “Problems of Young
Farmers” received a
capacity number of 20 call an
hour per WATS line. During
each session, the telephones
rang continuously from
beginning to end as callers
spoke directly with those
affecting their future in the
decision-making process.
“Agriculture is very
concerned about the growing
role of government
regulatory agencies. This
Farm Line will allow, people
at the local level to express
their opinions and share
their insight with key
decision-makers on this
important issue,” Slug
Hatcher, Chairman of ACA,
said.
“We expect our report on
this program will shed light
on the impact government
regulation is having on
agriculture as viewed by
those directly affected. It
will be made available to
everyone - Federal agencies,
Congress, the media, in
dustry as well as the general
public.”
As a non-profit, non
political, non-legislative
organization, ACA does not
advocate any positions of its
own and operates the Farm
Line strictly to provide a
forum to discuss issues of
major interest in
agriculture.
Calls placed at any other
time beside the specified
hours of operation between
noon and 4 p.m. E.D.T. on
July'2l and 22 will not be
answered.
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