NFO gets credit assurance; AHA, Neb. - The NFO session of the organization’s Jours got thousands of national convention here on iers Home Ad- December9th. ration borrowers a Staley pointed out that on trance that they won’t Tuesday evening he an >ld out this winter, nounced that the lent Oren Lee Staley organization would set up a d out in the closing nationwide network of 5-man sai Commonwealth National wants to lend $B4 million by the end of this year. Our loan officers will stand on their heads to say yes to you. Commonwealth National Bank A Happy to help you PRE-INVENTORY SALE 10% OFF ALL ITEMS PURCHASED & PAID FOR IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER ON ALL INVENTORY IN STOCK WHEELING PREPAINTED CHANNELDRAIN STEEL ROOFING & SIDING, SUPRATHANE BUILDING INSULATION Onduline BERHOLTZER ROOFING ★ IF YOUR ROOF IS FLAT FOR METAL- “GUARANTEED FOR 25 YEARS” RD #2 EAST EARL, PA. 17519 Phone -717-354-7561 RT. 322 & FETTERVIUE ROAD agrees with striking farmers county committees to help farmers facing credit close outs and that on the next evening Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland announced that he had in structed the FHA, with $l5 billion in loans outstanding, that no one is to be closed out this winter. “I’d rather lose on a few loans that to start closing out capable farm managers who can’t meet their payments because of circumstances beyond their control,” Bergland told the NFO delegates. NFO proposes to im plement its nationwide credit committee system by January and to work in Washington for large ad- ditional loan authorizations for the FHA, at reasonable interest rates, by main taining county by county lists of worthy farmers who are in financial' straits to show congressmen and senators. The NFO wound up its three day convention with election of its national board of directors. President Staley apd other officers, who have four year terms, were not up for re-election. On its closing day, the convention delegates passed a resolution giving the NFO’s blessing to the principles and objectives of the American Agriculture farm strike movement, and to individual participation, & SIDING Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 17,1977 but explained that it cannot legally join as an organization. It authorized its board of directors to call commodity “holding ac tions” - the NFO parallel of a strike - as appropriate, and Ag. slide sets offered WASHINGTON OP - consumer prices; spending; usdSoSceSL* tood ™fff Service is offering for sale consumption; consumer So? sUdS denicSig credit - income 311(1 in d AmS force status; Food and iar£nft.,re foreign Nutrition Programs: 20 agriculture and foreign Ud f $6.05. Food trade. The slides are self- - t stamDS . explanatory and are the assistance, tooa staß “Pf> same as the charts reprodaced in the UJ7 £££”£■;* ££!"g sUdcs lor Ss ' 6o ' VS - trade ’ Charts, cost per set is *». WO rld situation; Commodity Slide subsets, which Trends: 101 slides for $25.25. correspond to the seven Livestock; dairy, poultry; sections in the 1977 Hand- commodity stocks; wheat; book, are also available: The r i ce; f ee d grains; grain Farm: 30 slides for $10.50. -transportation; fats and oils, Farm income, inputs; fibers; vegetables; fruit; output; assests and finan- tropical products; tobacco, ces; Natural Resources: 23 i n addition, any of the 157 slides for $6.95. Land use; slides may be published cropland, water; other individually at 35 cents each, resources; environment; The slides are cardboard Population and Rural mounted for use in any Deve l, . ment: 17 slides for standard projector. Order $5.9i Population, work from Photography Division, force; income; develop- Office of Communication, ment. u.S. Department of The Consumer: 50 slides Agriculture, Washington, for $15.05. General economy; D.C.20250. \ , DISTRIBUTORS FOR \\) SCHLESSMAIM'S SEED CORIM (80,000 Kernel Units) PREMIUM SINGLE CROSSES SX 700 - NEW TOP YiELDER Compare with your top yielder. Order Your Spring Seeds NOW ALFALFAS - CLOVERS - OATS TIMOTHY — GRASSES AGRI SOIL CONDITIONER CHEMICALS ORDER NOW FOR BEST PRICES • WEX • LASSO • DYFONATE • FURADAN • ATRAZINE • OTHERS BALER TWINE WHOLESALE & RETAIL BOYD’S SEED CENTER 306 lona Rd., Lebanon. Pa 17042 Phone 717-272-8943 directed continued building of nationwide blocks of major farm commodities to be held on farm until con tracts are obtained for them at cost of production plus a reasonable profit. With 30 per cent of commodities in such blocks, NFO believes fanners can price their products. 95
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