Know Where the Activities Will Be? .•••*•••••••••••••• ••*••*♦••*ls jj ow cju] those who worry
Read the Farm Women Calendar. : _ . Si
r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SSSSS
| rtf !*• J | * • American fanners are get
rinn ■ ■ ting about the lowest prices,
U llllU' Il> • • • ■♦••••••••••••••••••• • •• and the lowest levels of price
I I - -a i j support from their govern
■ Farmers are shortchanged i x‘sr inaw
I v The new farm bill also
| Editor, Lancaster Farming: hunger overseas don’t get their executives, and high «, n pHnn
5 The letter from Jon Jant- better information and give profits to their stockholders, jj, the principle of the Carter
■ zen published in your July fair consideration to the But here Mr. Jantzen never Admiidstration’s “reserve”
| 16, 1977 issue under the needs for economic justice gives a thought to what the Dro gram which Mr Jantzen
5 heading “Grain Storage Ad- for our own fanners - who farmers are getting-or will nraises for helping protect
■ vocated” is unfortunately they expect to feed the world get under the new farm bill the hungry overseas against
I blind to the needs and in- every time there’s a pinch. for their labor, management shortages of food.
I terests of the farmers who do The fanners’ mission in and investment. The “joker” for farmers in
■ ■ and who alone can produce life is to feed the hungry. The Well, what are farmers this grain reserve plan is
■ ■ the grain, that everyone else pharmaceutical companies’ getting for their work and that it will not protect
| I must have. mission is to manufacture worry and investment and j_ rmers fp om the price
■ i We appreciate and sym- medicine to heal the sick, risk? depressing effect of
■ 5 pathize with Mr. Jantzen’s Both are “good causes”. I’m Right now farm prices are surpluses
I I and the Mennonite Central sure no one ever expects the lower in comparison to u g ‘ ial farmer-held
■ | Committee’s concern for the big drug companies to make prices and costs of things reserv e” plan Mr. Jantzen
■ * m , , ■ hunger problem. I’m sure medicine unless they get farmers have to buy than mpnt i nn c and which has
5 modern farm systems center- ■ feey are completely sincere paid for it so they can pay any time since March 1933 - been Sn all the publicity,
I. | and well meaning. union wages to their right at the bottom of the accoun t for only a few
■ tha compMa Hn* of mfa "Stor-Ag«" grain bins, high-spaad ■ However, it is a pity that workers, attractive high Great Depression. hundred million bushels of
5 diving, conditioning, and handling aquipmant. Saa your mfa ■ those who worry about salaries and big bonuses to Right now average farm f nt ~i “cumins” of grain
| daalar now for full information on tha aquipmantyou naad - taka | - , . prices give the farmer little There will be more than
■ advantaga of h» many yaara axpananca in grain tyatams planning ■ orFfllfl tn hp „„ v,:_ j mere win oc more uuui
■ . • profaasional tarvica avails bla to you at no coat and with no ■ HOgSj gTSlll lO DC or nothing for his labor, and three billion bushels of gram
I obligation. Lat him show you why mfa "Stor-Aga" is the bast I , , far less than the average on hand out of this year’sand
■ aquipmant choica you can maka... for now and for tha futurai m tOI)iC8 Ol jTF UlCCtlllfi businessman as a return on earlier crops when this
I NEW Transport Augers in stock 8” x 55’ long ! * fee farm investment. Many marketing year is over and a
I complete with tires, PTO drive and plastic hopper. I Ag Room, Route 41 about 1 fanners right now don t even new harvest is ready to start
■ ' $1.745.00 _ I ■ ATGLEN, Pa. - Farmers xnUe south of Atglen. Enter recover their out-of- 1973, Another big crop in
■ onf trailer i oad of bins fans floors and co ? cern ® d a] ? out the school at the pocket” cost of production 1978 will make fee burden of
! ■ sS S “.r. gr oonslS S Sig "’ t a ,: d the surplus .utelde tohen
5 September 22 1977 S ? on ?® , . consmenng proceed to fee ag room to fee mg passed oy umgress is bttle “ specia i reserve
| acr mdui «.«// | feeding their corn to hogs or rear. Farmers are invited to just a shade better than what much worse still.
■ THOMAS A. BACHMAN & SONS i hf ef . ca * a ®- . IJ ol ?® rs a ” attend. fee Carter Administration Some of this “surplus”
| inumnu n. unvi ■ planning to build storage and Penn state agricultural recommended - which outside specia i reserve
■ 2501 Faliston Rd. 5 drying facilities to hold grain economist, H. Louis Moore, would give fanners $2.67 a be stored at fee farmer’s
| WiMsr Faliston, Md. 21047 ■ until prices are more will discuss “Grain Outlook” hour for labor - the bare own expense -if and so long
_ - * pi,. 301-557-7529 301-838-7478 5 favorable. and “Hog Outlook”. Dwight minimum as he can get along without
I 8 - 77 * B A meeting has been e. Younkin, Penn State to a poverty-level in- income with which to pay his
■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ Mi Hi scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on swine specialist, will discuss come and only Vh percent bills. But fanners who have
Thursday, September 1 at “What’s Involved in Feeding as a return on their invest- to have ready cash will have
the Octorara High School Vo- H ogs?” mentinland. [Continued onPap 14]
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