Agricultural Conservation Program funded
at $l9O million despite Carter’s objection
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The House Appropriations
Subcommittee on
Agriculture, under the
chairmanship of Jamie
Whitten (D-Miss.), recently
Handed the Carter Ad
ministration two major
setbacks. In spite of the fact
that Jimmy Carter is the
first farmer in over a cen
tury to sit in the Oval Office,
he and his OMB had followed
the tactics of previous ad
ministrations in trying to
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drastically curtail the
Agricultural Conservation
Program. And they had only
proposed $9O million for the
1979 ACP. The Whitten
Committee restored the ACP
to the level of recent years -
$l9O million.
In another major upset to
the Carter Administration,
the Committee indicated
that the Clean Water Act’s
cost-sharing Program
should be administered by
ASCS, not the Soil Con
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servation Service. While the
USDA had asked for $2OO
million for this cost-sharing
program and $2.8 million for
the SCS to begin planning the
new program, the White
House recommended to the
Congress that the full $2OO
million be eliminated - and
then left the $2.8 million for
SCS to set up the preliminary
administrative organization.
Whitten’s Committee not
only reversed the ad
ministrative procedures so
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that ASCS would handle the
cost-sharing, but eliminated
the $2.8 million for SCS. The
Committee provided $25
million for a beginning of
this cost-sharing effort to
clean up our Nation’s
waterways through ASCS
Committees and $4 million
for SCS technical services.
Furthermore, the Com
mittee directed the Carter
Administration to come up
with a new program in 90
days.
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“It is a little hard to un
derstand Bow the Carter
Administration, in view of
Jimmy Carter’s campaign
against bureaucracy and
increased federal spending,
Penna, Beef
Council asks for
voluntary check-off
HARRISBURG - The
Pennsylvania Beef Council,
Inc. is asking members of
the Pennsylvania Cat
tlemen’s Association and
other veal and beef
producers in the state to
support a voluntary check
off so that funds will be
available for beef
promotional and educational
programs.
The group feels that they
don’t need a national
referendum or state
legislation. They are trying
to do it themselves by asking
for contributions of 25 cents
for each animal sold to be
sent in by the cattle producer
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pletely duplicative cost
sharing program at the
county level,” says the
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to the council treasurer. No
check-off at the market is
required and no complicated
“value added” deduction
method.
These funds are necessary
to improve Pennsylvania’s
beef industry and provide
better markets for cattle and
calves in the state.
Cattlemen have been
asked to send 25 cents for
each head of cattle - calves,
feeders, finished cattle,
culls, vealers and registered
cattle sold to Robert R.
Coleman, treasurer, Pa.
Beef Council, Inc., 4605
North Road, Harrisburg, Pa.
17109.
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