• Farm development act introduced T^faZSbeSSu.; Martin LIMESTONE Appiy lime on frozen ground Lime can be applied almost anytime, however winter months are ideal, because the ground is firm and the freezing and thawing action helps to disseminate the lime in the soil MARTIN LIMESTONE, INC. Blue Ball Pa 354 4125 Gap, Pa 442 4148 BOOT-NICK +1,107M and FINE TYPE 29H2719 Rippchen BOOT-NICK, EX-91 USDA, 64D., PD Recently ABS received a letter written by Jeff Kircher, herdsman at Broadlands Farm, North Prairie, Wisconsin. Jeff is very much impressed with BOOT-NICK daughters at Broadlands. Here are some excerpts: Rippchen BOOT-NICK continues to impress us everytime one of his freshens. We recently completed a classification of our herd: our two year-olds never classified so high. The classifier was very impressed with the BOOT-NICK daughters. We have over 20 BOOT-NICK daughters; 6 are milking. We also pur chased three more racks of BOOT-NICK. 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Bangor, PA Ephrata, PA Gap, PA Harleysville, PA Holtwood, PA Landisvdle, PA Port Murray, NJ Reading, PA Richland, PA Shippensburg, PA Thomasville, PA Whitehouse Station, NJ West Grove, PA RBS Rpt. 73% 17.772 M + 1.107 M 9-77 48H + $9l Sire: Paclamar Bootmaker EX-94 GM ABS Sire 29H1881 + 1.243 M +0.40 type Dam: St. Croixco Lad Nina EX-93 2E 6y 4m 2x 348 d 24,770 M 4.2% 10338 F ly 11m 2x 305 d 14.297 M 3.6% 4868 F ly 11m 2x 305 d 14.590 M 4.2% 6098 F (Predicted) 15.119 M 5068 F Eric Hemsohn Oarvm Yoder Lynn Gardner David Churchill Paul Herr James Charles Robert Kayhart Robert Greider Paul Martin Jerry Baboms Ira Boyer Robert Colburn Maurice Stump (D-Cal.) and Richard Nolan (D-Minn.) on Thursday introduced a multi-faceted bill intended to redirect major portions of U.S. farm policy toward new help for the nation’s 2.7 million family farmers. Speaking at a Capitol Hill news conference, the two lawmakers said the bill is the result of a year’s effort by more than 20 organizations, including Rural America, Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives, Consumer Federation of America, Public Resource Center, The Friends Committee, Congress Watch, Rodale, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the National Center for Appropriate Technology working with Brown and Nolan. The legislation seeks to strengthen the * economic position of family farmers and encourage young far mers to get into the busmess aAa 3.5% -.09% 621345 6148 F + 268 F 215-588-4704 717-733-0966 717-656-6509 215-584-9348 717-284-4592 717-898-8694 201-689-2605 215-378-1212 717-866-4228 717-532-3711 717-225-3758 201-534-4483 215-869-9187 through provisions affecting farm prices, conservation, taxes, alnd values, loans, marketing, research and education. Brown cited figures which he says show that “family farmers are literally up against the wall. Cost of production is skyrocketing while the bottom is dropping out of farm prices. Com petition for land, rising land values and lack of credit is making it all but impossible for young farmers to get started. The Family Farm Development Act has mne titles - each one dealing with separate but connected, portion of the problem. They are; 1. a) 90 per cent of parity for all major commodities m exchange for establishing conservation programs on the farm and obtaining a marketing certificate for a sale. b) A gram export board within the Commodity Credit Corporation to be the agent for all export sales, selling at as close to 100 per cent of parity as possible on the world market. c) Marketing certificates shall be allocated to regulate production. Only those producers engaged in agriculture production shall receive a certificate valued not in excess of $500,000. No agriculture commodities shall be bought, sold, or traded unless accompanied by marketing certificates. d) Grain reserves to help build up our reserves the Secretary of Agriculture shall authorize storage payments of 25 cents a bushel for wheat and com. DBS rnore feWtiroe- Oeutz does it . „«ed and machined ooled diesels '"S'” gaskets'. need no nead (S AY DOVU) pri no head ga^ ets . h e fa c...3.oe U ua r e :: -- wonh ese »w'v em ?T a d“uac<o« come see preas^on-maoe tor v° ur su\\ a^a' 1 at surpt' \ow P nCI DEUTZ Tractor; Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1978 2. Tax-loss farming will be discouraged by amending the tax structure so the cash accounting will be beneficial only for farmers with less than 15,000-30,000 dollars of farm income. 3. Grants for preserving family farms will be given to local and county govern ments or community organizations to buy farm land and combine or divide it for re-sale to new farmers to sizes no greater than 640 acres. This encourages increase of family farmers in rural areas which will help the economy of the rural area. 4. Farm ownership and operating loans include: a) 5 per cent interest FmHA loans on a graduating pay scale to ease up on the first years of production, b) operative loans at 3 per cent interest, and c) authority for FmHA to give loans for installing appropriate technology on farms. 5. Farm Marketing programs. This title en courages increased direct marketing from farmer to consumer through 75-25 per cent matching grants to states or non-profit organizations; redirects USDA attention to helping small farmers with technical and managerial assistance in getting or setting up cooperatives, and other forms of direct marketing assistance. 6. The USDA is reorganized to establish a Family Farm Development Service which will coor dinate and oversee programs to help our small and moderate-sized family farms, including dispersing STAUFFER DIESEL, INC. 312 W. Main St. New Holland, Pa. Ph. 717-354-4181 research and demonstration grants. 7. Competitive grants for research in developing ways to reduce costs of farming, increase soil fertility, study factors inhibiting family farm survival, and ways to improve rural live-style and economy will be distributed This research shall include the development of energy efficient, appropriate farm techniques and technologies that are low-m-cost, and environmentally protective; and ways to improve nutrient levels of soil; 3. Education, Training and Demonstration Programs - a variety of new programs to broaden the thrust of education and demon stration to assist small farmers improve their farm operations, teach new far mers improved methods of small and moderate sized farming which are energy efficient, low-m-cost, and environmentally protective. Instruction to these farmers will include the prac ticalities of bookkeeping, machinery-repair, car pentry, soil, water mam tenace and crops, suitable to various types of farms. a) Training Centers will be established in each state to handle this instruction and to simultaneously demon strate new farm technology practices. b) biological and in tegrated pest management is to be taught nationwide. 9. All retail stores must display signs under all good products sold which indicate the amount received by fanners for the food used to produce that product. 103
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