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Handles all types of manure, from liquid to box-stall manure. CESZsdI Without fly problems Without losing valuable nutrients Without odors mm FIDELITY ELECTRIC ■- TRUE ALTERNATORS MODERNIZING bring larger beef supplies and more moderate prices.” An Adams County cat tleman, Frank B. Darcey, Jr., told Lancaster Fanning in a Friday morning telephone interview that he personally, as well as numerous organizations of which he is a member, fmd Carter’s decision unfair and ill-conceived. He does acknowledge, however, that the decision to import beef could have been much worse. Darcey figures that the beef industry’s lobbying efforts may have tempered Carter’s final decision somewhat. Nonetheless, the Adams County Hereford breeder views Carter’s decision with doubt. “We’re in the same posi tion as the consumer, and we don’t want the consumer to rebel, as he might because of the rising beef prices,” Darcey began. “Bat with this action we could face a real beef shortage down the road.” Pointing out that there are very few cattle in the nation’s major beef pro ducing areas, he foresees possible shortages in the future and another price spiral this Fall. Carter’s ac tion on Thursday could also discourage many cattlemen, thus putting a damper on ex pansion plans. “There’s been too much meddling by the govern ment,” Darcey observed, adding that the Adams Coun ty Beef Producers Associa tion, of which he is a former president and founder, had lodged a formal complaint on the matter with Con gressman William Goodling. Darcey considers Carter’s beef import plan ill conceived for several reasons. “This just means that there are many more dollars leaving the country, fueling inflation, and adding lo our already imbalanced trade deficit,” the beef producer noted. “It’s downright un fair,” he continued. “The beef industry doesn’t ask for federal money. We don’t like the peaks and valleys in prices any better than the government and consumers, but if they’d just realize that it’s the boycotts and govern ment intervention that cause the peaks and valleys we’d be a lot better off. If they’d m Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 10,1978—25 just let things run their course it would straighten itself out. When you mess with an industry - and the cattle business is an in dustry, the nation’s biggest agricultural industry - it’s just like fooling with Mother Nature,” he said. Darcey noted further that cattlemen did not want prices to skyrocket the way they did. They would have preferred moderate in creases and not the headline making high prices seen in recent weeks. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland commented a week ago during a television interview that any opening on beef imports would have no great effect on cattle prices. He noted that there is a world-wide shortage of beef and there would be “no great influx even if all quotas were removed because there just isn’t that kind of inventory around.” While President Carter was being pressured by his advisors to increase beef im ports, Congress was in fact considering legislation to restrict such trade. The Senate had already passed such a measure. Bergland commented during the TV interview that he would recommend that the bill be vetoed by the President. He at that time did not feel that there would be any change in beef imports. The cattle industry, however, felt something in the wind weeks before Carter made his controver sial announcement. 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He doesn’t ex pect any effect on prices un til late July or early August and predicts that there’ll be no effect at all on the expen sive beef cuts. The Administration sup ports its philosophy because Americans supposedly want more beef than is available. Americans are consuming 125 pounds of beef per per son, said Bergland. “There isn’t enough beef in the world to sustain that rate for the two or three years need ed to rebuild domestic herds,” he said. While the news of increas ed imports is being welcom ed in Australia and New Zealand, where cattlemen have been hurting worse than their American counterparts, U.S. cat tlemen aren’t convinced that the Carter Administration’s plan will help one bit to put domestic beef supplies on a track towards adequate sup plies and reasonable prices. Instead, they feel that this action will just aggravate the situation and lay the groundwork for more severe shortages in months and years to come. 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