—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 12,1978
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Carter signs Ag Credit Bill
WASHINGTON
President Carter has signed
the Agricultural Credit Act
of 1978, doing so in the White
U of D farm and home
field day scheduled
NEWARK, Del. - The
University of Delaware’s
annual Farm and Home
Field Day has been
scheduled for Wednesday,
August 9 this year, at the
University Substation,
located six miles west of
Georgetown on the Laurel-
Georgetown Highway
(Route 9). Activities begin at
9:30 a.m. and include
features of interest to both
the farmer and the
homemaker.
Farmers will have a
chance to tour corn,
soybean, vegetable and
ornamental research and
lemonstration plots as well
os the University’s swine
acility. Researchers and
4-H club meets
VIRGINVILLE - The
Virginvllle dairy and swine
club held its monthly
meeting on July 17, at the
tome of Alton Rohrbach.
The meeting was called to
arder by President Scott
Vliller. Members talked
about the 4-H fair which is on
August 24, and about the
■Cutztown Fair which is
August 14-19.
The winners for the Berks
bounty Juraor Holstein Club
leld day were named. The 8-
'0 year old in fitting was
ienry Seidel who got third,
1-12 year old m fitting was
Todd Miller who placed
econd, 11-12 year old
showing was Todd Miller
vho received second, 13-14
'ear old in snowing was Jan
Adam who got fifth, and 13-
i 4 year old in fitting was
Terry Snyder who also
received fifth.
After the meeting Allen
Rohrbach demonstrated how
■jo show and clip a pig. The
next meeting will be August
21, at 8 p.m. at the home of
iCenny Kershner.
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Farm Development Act included
Fumil
House Rose Garden on
August 4. This legislation,
now law, is to relieve the
credit crunch many farmers
Extension personnel will Tie
on hand to discuss their work
as well as to lead the bus and
wagon tours. They will
acquaint farmers with some
of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station’s and
Cooperative Extension
Service’s innovative efforts
on behalf of improved farm
production in Delaware.
The home economics
program will include a 10:00
a.m. “Back-to-School”
fashion show in the Sub
station meeting room. There
will also be a smocking
demonstration and an
exhibit of clothing that
children can easily manage
by themselves.
A traditional fried chicken
lunch will be available in the
grove at noon. Tickets cost
$2.50. The day’s activities
close with a watermelon
break at 3:30.
are experiencing due to low
farm prices and high
operatmg costs.
Also, Title 4 of the Family
Farm Development Act
(H.R. 10716) was attached to
this bill and is now law. This
title contained an in
novative, FmHA ownership
loan program for small
farmers and farm
production cooperatives, at
low-interest, low-payment
levels.
Representative George ~
Brown, (D-Calif.), sponsor
of the Family Farm
Development Act was elated
over this turn of events.
“Small farmers have been
ignored in recent years.
Their credit needs have gone
unaddressed due to a lack of
interest and recognition of
their contribution to our
agricultural system”,
Brown said. “There are 1.6
million farmers with less
than $20,000 in gross sales.
Until now these farmers
were turned away by private
and public lending in
stitutions alike. They now
have somewhere to go.”
The small farm loan
program will provide -1)
farm ownership loans at low,
5% interest levels; 2) a
system of ballooned
payments whereby atarmer
can pay less principal and
interest at first with the
difference amortized in later
years; 3) funds for farm
production cooperatives and
small farmers, otherwise
unable to obtain credit
through other private and
public sources.
The National Family
Farm Coalition, an
organization of groups and
individuals established to
move the Family Farm
Development Act through
Congress, applauded this
happening. “The future of
our agricultural system and
our rural communities may
be in the hands of our small
farmers,” a spokesperson
for the Coalition said. Brown
agreed strongly. “Costs of
large-scale, energy-intensi
ve fanning will continue to
go up as our soil condition
erodes in the coming decade.
The small family fanner,
who is closer to the land and
his community, represents
an alternative to this highly
mechanized form of farming
which should be scrutinized
closely”, Brown said. '
This small farm loan
program is one of tune titles structure, price support
in the Family Farm systems, conservation
Development Act. This Act practices, marketing
attempts to support the programs, research and
maintenance of a strong education programs. Brown
family farm system of, hopes to move the remaining
agriculture through eight titles of the bill through
amendments of the tax * the Congress next year.