This new Calumet lagoon pump elim
inates the high cost of docks and ramps.
Delivers up to 4,500 gallons of crust
busting agitation per minute. Completely
portable. Hydraulic controls. 20” or 25”
impeller.
Your complete liquid manure equipment dealer
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Calumet and Nesseth Distributor
Penna., New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia
R.D. 3 Mifflinburg, Pa. 17844
Phone 717-966-2736 Day or Night
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Bergland cites rural poverty
WASHINGTON, D.C.-
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland recently told
delegates to the Conference
on Rural America here that
despite recent population
growth in rural areas, “rural
people still have the highest
percentage levels of poverty,
the poorest housing, the
most inadequate medical
care, and the least access to
public transportation.”
He said the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture and the
Administration were
determined “to develop a
new national strategy for
meeting these problems
through a comprehensive
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Were you completely satisfied with the performance of your sprayer this past season? If not, now would
be a good time to remedy the problem as you are preparing your sprayer for winter storage.
Let us repair or overhaul your sprayer from now until Feb. 15th and we will allow a 10% discount on
labor for all work performed in our shop and paid immediately following completion of work.
In addition we will allow a 10% discount on Myers, Solo, Spraying Systems, Hypro, and Mechanical
Transplanter parts that are installed in our shop and paid immediately following completion of work
If your sprayer is beyond economical repair now would be the time to order a new one We are offering
higher trade-in allowances and/or special cash discounts on most equipment purchased and settlement made
a by January 1, 1978 This coupled with your 10% investment credit makes a good deal even better j
and coordinated rural
development program.”
The secretary said that
elements of this program
were:.,
- Reorganization of
USDA’s Rural Development
Service so that it works more
closely with programs of the
Farmers Home Ad
ministration (FmHA),
which has budgeted
programs for , rural
development;
- A 20 per cent increase in
fiscal 1978 program budget
for the Farmers Home
Administration - to $8.2
billion;
- Redirection of FmHA
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 17,1977
insured lending to families of
low and moderate incomes;
- An FmHA rent sup
plement program that will
provide subsidies for 20,000
rental units with renters
navinc 25 per cent of their
income as rent with the
government making up the
difference.
Bergland said that,
“Despite the fact that the
FmHA budget is up 2500 per
cent over 1961, we have
never as a nation had a
real rural America policy or
Injunction
FRESNO, Calif. - Farm
Bureau has won the first
round in its fight against the
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
over proposed acreage
limitation regulations on
land irrigated from USSR
projects.
A preliminary injunction
restricting Secretary of
Interior Cecil B. Andrus and
R. Keith Higginson, com
missioner of USER, from
continuing rulemaking
proceedings was granted in
district court by Judge M.D.
Crocker.
strategy since the enactment
of the Homestead Act more
than 100 years ago.
“We have had some
earnest and sincere at
tempts to understand rural
America’s problems. But it
has been a piecemeal effort -
with no unified and com
prehensive national policy or
even a complete un
derstanding of the
magnitude of the problem.
“We intend to use our
administrative authorities to
the fullest in developing such
a strategy.”
issued
The American Farm
Bureau and California Farm
Bureau Federations had
filed suit against Andrus and
Higginson in an effort to
delay their proposed
rulemaking under a 75-year
old law restricting one
person to owning no more
than 160 acres in USBR
projects.
In the injunction, Judge
Crocker ordered the
defendants to prepare and
publicly circulate an
adequate environmental
impact statement. The judge
ordered the defendants to
allow interested parties a
reasonable opportunity to
comment both on the impact
statement and the proposed
regulations.
Andrus and Higginson also
were ordered to reconsider
the proposed regulations and
make appropriate revisions
as indicated by the impact
statement and comments.
Farm Bureau contended in
the suit that Andrus and
Higginson were violating the
law by not filing an en
vironmental impact
statement before publishing
the proposed regulations in
the Federal Register last
August.
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