Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, December 24, 1977, Image 99

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    despite farm exports of $24 billion
MILLEN, Ga. - Meeting is going to have a $3O billion
with farmers in this rural trade deficit. We can’t go on
Georgia community on Dec. sustaining deficits of this
15, U.S. Secretary of magnitude forever. It is
Agriculture Bob Bergland urgent that everything be
said, “In spite of the fact done to expand agricultural
that agricultural exports exports.”
were a record $24 billion this The local point of the plan
past year, the United States that the Secretary discussed
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reserve of 30-35 million
metric tons, “to insure that
the United States will be a
dependable supplier of high
quality food at all times.”
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June, the one question that
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time again was about em
bargoes. I assured Japan’s
leaders that the Carter
Administration would not
embargo grain or soybeans
in circumstances short of
war. We have built a multi
billion dollar lifeline of food
sales to countries around the
world. For most countries,
it’s not a matter of con
venience; it’s a matter of life
and death. -If they can’t
count on the United States, if
they can’t depend on us,
they’ll go to another coun
try,” the Secretary said.
“When that happens - and
we all remember a few years
ago - farmers suffer and the
whole economy of the United
States suffers. We won’t
allow that to happen again,”
according to Secretary
Bergland.
The Secretary also
discussed the doubling of
Commodity Credit Cor
poration export credits to
finance the sale of grain and
other commodities from the
United States. “The Pres
ident has authorized
$1.5 billion to help
foreign customers buy
U.S. grains. And just
last month, soybeans and
soybean products were
added as commodities that
can be financed within this
program. This should
strengthen soybean ex
ports,” said Secretary
Bergland.
“We’re also re-examining
our entire credit program to
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determine how we can be
more competitive with
countries like Canada. Our
goal is to do everything that
we can to make U.S. - farm
produced products more
attractive to foreign coun
tries.
“We have also adopted the
philosophy that Public Law
480 should be used as a
developmental tool, not as a
program to get rid of
American gram surpluses.
The right to eat is a basic
human right worldwide, and
it is our intention to use food
aid as a center-piece in
foreign policy. This can
literally be a Food for Peace
program.”
Secretary Bergland also
urged farmers to participate
in the set-aside programs -
20 per cent on wheat acreage
in 1978 and a 10 per cent
conditional set-aside on feed
grains. The set-asides are
important to farmers, ac
Bergland forecasts
higher prices
BATESVILLE, Miss. -
American farmers now have
the tools and the potential
power to increase farm
prices if they use the new
authorities given them in the
Food and Agriculture Act of
1977, Secretary of
Agriculture Bob Bergland
said here last week.
Speakmg at a meeting of
farmers and rural people,
Secretary Bergland pointed
out that “by raising the loan
rate to $2.00, com prices
have risen 40 cents a bushel
within the last six weeks.”
“The combination of this
loan level and an on-the
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cording to the Secretary,
because they will “keep the
United States from
becoming the granary for
the world.
“We have enough feed
grams and wheat on hand to
meet every conceivable
demand. We can’t stand
another 6.3 billion bushel
com crop. It would have
severe price implications for
all farmers. Fence row-to
fence row plantings will only
hurt farmers. Diverting your
least productive land back to
grass or another approved
cover just makes good
sense,” Secretary Bergland
added.
“I urge you to use the loan
program, the reserve
program, and the set-asides
to get some control over your
own destiny, rather than to
leave our economic future to
the vagaries of factors over
which you have no control,”
the Secretary concluded.
farm storage program gives
farmers an effective
bargaining tool for higher
wheat and feed grain
prices,” he said. “The big
commodity markets realized
this and they were forced to
raise the cash and future
market prices in order to get
that grain on the market,
and out of farm storage.
“I suggest that farmers
continue this orderly
withholding action,”
Secretary Bergland em
phasized, “because all signs
now point to a stronger
market for these com
modities.”
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