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—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 4,1978
Farmers using
HARRISBURG - The Agri
cultural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) Com
mittee says Pennsylvania
farmers are using the
federal price support loan as
a means of holding crops
from market and causing
farm prices to rise.
Com is the crop that
receives the most attention
by farmers in the price
support loan program. The
com price has increased
from a low of about $1.65 per
bushel in late August to the
current $2.25 per bushel
level. The current com loan
rate of $2.19 a bushel has
been'attractive to farmers
who needed cash to pay farm
expenses and who wanted to
hold their crop for better
market prices.
Loans are available at all
county ASCS offices. Loans
do cost the fanner six per
cent interest for the time he
has his crop under loan.
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Loans mature nine months
after the date the farmer
receives his loan. Farmers
may repay loans at an
earlier date, deliver the
commodity to ASCS if the
market price does not equal
the loan price at maturity, or
place the commodity in an
“Extended Loan Grain
Reserve Program.” The
final date for obtaining 1977
loans for com and sorghum
is May 31,1978.
The grain reserve
program is an attempt to
isolate approximately 300
million bushels of wheat and
700 million bushels of feed
grain from the market for up
to three years. Keeping this
grain in a reserve status
should strengthen current
market prices, make grain
available for emergency
needs, and act as a hedge
against inflationary prices in
case of a poor crop year.
The grain reserve
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support
program works this way.
. Farmers voluntarily place
their crop in the price
support program for three
years. The farmer receives
the six per cent interest
price support loan on his
crop plus 25 cents per bushel
per year storage for wheat
and feed grain crops except
oats which has a 19 cent per
bushel storage rate..
Producers may sell the
commodity when market
prices improve to equal 125
per cent of the feed grain
price support rate and in the
. case of wheat, 140 per cent of
the price support rate. ASCS
will require repayment of
the loan when market prices
of feed grains equal 140 per
cent of the current loan
rates. Wheat loan
repayments are required
when market prices equal
175 per cent of the current
loan rate. Penalties will be
assessed if producers want
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PJ 3248 - 48" x 66”
PJ 3240 - 48” x 68”
PJ 3241 - 48" x 72”
PJ 3243 - 54" x 62”
PJ 3244-54” x 64"
PJ 3245 - 54” x 68”
PJ 3246-54" x 72"
PJ 3249-60" x 72”
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RIGID PADDLES
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_ ___ Ph0ne(717)442-8134
Box 175, R.D. 1 (Cains) Gap, PA 17527 ' '
loalii
to repay loans prior to stated
price improvement levels or
the loan maturity.
Final dates for entering
the reserve for 1977 wheat,
barley, and oats is March 31,
1978; 1976 wheat, barley, and
oats was February 28, 1978,
and 1976 corn is April 30,
1978.
Price support loan activity
in Pennsylvania indicates
farmers have placed
5,498,063 bushels of com,
166,674 bushels of wheat,
32,879 bushels of barley,
157,694 bushels of oats, 61,974
bushels of soybeans, and
9,928 hundredweight of
sorghum in the annual loan
program. 4,642 bushels of
wheat and 39,629 bushels of
com hdve been placed in the
grain reserve program
through February 17,1978,
Nationally, producers
have placed 513 minion
bushels of wheat, 927 million
bushels of com, 191 million
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• But don't take our word for it -
Ask a neighbor who owns Jamesway.
- Expo set.for MarfcH
YORK - For the grand
finale of regional kick-off
week, York County 4-H clubs
will publicize their programs
with a display at the York
Mall on March 10 and 11.
The 1978 4-H Expo will
feature demonstrations,
small animals, and sign-up
booths where Extension
staffers and 4-H leaders will
bushels of sorghum, and 210
million bushels of' other
grains produced in' 1977
under price support loan
through February 8,1978.
Price supports are a
marketing tool for farmers
to use in helping to obtain
fair market prices, promote
orderly marketing, and
provide price floors for
commodities. Full details of
the price support programs
are available at county of
fices of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
York Co. 4-H
be on hand with information
on how to become a 4-H
member.
Expo activities will begin
at 6 p.m, Friday evening,
with a fashion show
scheduled, for 8 p.iri. Par
ticipants in 4-H sewing
programs are invited to take
part in the show, which will
be held on the winding
staircase leading to the
mall’s community room.
. Demonstrations of skills
learned though the 4-H
programs will be given
hourly. Both interest and
commodity clubs, as well as
community clubs, will place
exhibits on display.
Roxanne Price, Extension
4-H coordinator, is
organizing the mall display.
have a
nice weekend...
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