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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 I COMPRESSORS I & MODEL KISA - 8P MODEL KSWGA - 8P *451.20 BOLT SPECIALS GRADE 2 CAP SCREWS FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER CARRIAGE BOLTS, _ MACHINE BOLTS AND 75 Per Lb. LAG BOLTS IN 5 LB. MINIMUM QUANTITY SOME SIZES IN LIMITED QUANTITY BLUE BALL MACHINE WORKS RT. 322 E. <<■ k. v s „ c*. - a r *» M * IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING A NEW BUILDING, NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. MORTON BUILDINGS OFFER YOU WINTER DISCOUNTS ON . . . 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A O AV| % s > WINTER DISCOU WINTER DISCOUNTS NOW IN EFFECT TO FIND OUT. is the food and feed grains 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.” “When I was in Japan in June, the one question that came back to me time and *500.00 U/ * WRITE OR CALL TODAY! • WMaMMiaBMHiMMIMMaitMMiMIOTMIHiHHIHBMiHiHi Send inforna’ion on MORTON BUILDINGS ■ 1 Have your salesman phone me for an appointment I 1 - Garages - Shops Hog Confinement ■ » Machine Sheds *] Cattle Confinement ■ Horse Barns Free Stall Barns & Silo Feed Rooms 1 Gram Storage Livestock Barns J NAME _ j ADDRESS I Telephone No 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 LF. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 24,1977 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 S wwiMlwfliMSiMciiani WARMEST OF j e wish to you and yours I the joy and peace of Christmas THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK OF QUARRYVILLE Two Convenient Southern Lancaster County Locations QUARRYVILLE. PA PENN HILL. PA. I IfnMMCOMff 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.” IMMMHMMMMMaJkMikMMWMaiIMMUMHi 99