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USDA praised
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also organizational director
for the Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Union. According to
him, USDA programs of the
past few years worked out
only because some other
areas of the world suffered
disasters which in turn
opened up markets for U.S.
farmers. He also believes
that if a bumper com crop
had been raised all over the
country this year (such as is
being harvested in
southeastern Pennsylvania)
the price of com would drop
to less than $2 per bushel. “It
could happen,” the Lan
caster Countian warned,
“what I’m asking is “why
should a blessing be a cur
se?” He claims that
American farmers have the
capacity to produce
abundantly, but aren’t
adequately rewarded for
their effort.
“Farmers’ parity prices
should be set at 90 per cent,”
the NFU spokesman con
tinued, “so that he wouldn’t
be forced to sell Jus crops.”
Longenecker believes
strongly in grain reserves
and insists that the
mechanics of it could be set
up in such a way so that the
program would work out
well for farmers as well as
consumers. “Grain reserves
are like money in the bank,”
he suggested. Pointing out
that “any farm program has
to benefit the consumer as
well as the farmer if it’s
going to be truly
legislative,” Longenecker
says that the present -
‘freedom to produce’ is
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simultaneously also
‘freedom to go broke.”
As for the cost of initiating
USDA policies which would
embrace the NFU’s ideas,
Longenecker asks: “What’s
bigger - a decent farm policy
or welfare payments?” He
did not elaborate whether or
not such a farm program
would eliminate or lessen
welfare rolls.
Longenecker is also op
posed to check-off programs
which many farmers have
voted in favor of during the
last few years. His reasoning
is that if beef is pushed, for
example, then “you’re not
eating pork or lamb.” He
does not want anyone to be
slighted as the result of
promotional efforts by
another.
“These boom or bust
policies we’ve had lately
aren’t helping the consumer
or the farmer,
Longenecker claimed. His
answer is a reserves
program and parity prices
that start at 90 per cent.
Also, he wants farm imports
and exports to be, triggered
accordingly so that neither
trade route would cause
significant price changes.
With imports, for example,
he suggests disallowing most
of them until the price of the
U.S. product readies 110 per
cent of parity.
Leland Stanford is ready to
'toss USDA right out of
Washington and replace it
with a system which would
put fanners on the same
footing as big labor unions.
Unhappy with former USDA
Secretary Butz and his
programs, Stanford says
he’d like to have someone
like - APL-CIO president
George Meany at the top of
American agriculture. A
firmly dedicated member of
the National Farmers’
Organization, Stanford is
strongly critical of USDA
because of the grain em
bargo and meat price freeze.
“I’m glad we’re finally rid of
Butz,” he remarked in a
telephone interview.
Stanford has a 45-cow
dairy herd and 90 acres near
Dillsburg in York County.
Married and the father of
five children, he maintains
that he finds it difficult to
make the'kind of living he
believes to be justifiable and
that he should be able to
afford a hired man.
Stanford alleges that
USDA policies have shown a
“callous disregard” for the
average individual and that
the Department has made it
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tough for farmers' to iget
loans. He also charges that
laborers are better off than
farmers and that this
situation won’t change until
fanners get organized.
The York Countian favors
a program of grain reserves
and insists that fanners
should not have to pay for it.
“It’s for the whole country,”
he explained, “why should
we farmers pay for all of it
it isn’t just a few people who
support the defense
system.” He believes that
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support prices would go a
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