U4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28,1978
Emergency food bill approved
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The Senate Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry last week approved
iegislation authorizing the
expenditure of up to $5OO
million for the purchase of
Sheep show entered.
WEST SPRINGFIELD,
Mass. - Both Barbara Lynn
and Margaret E. Herr, Nix
Besser Farm, Narvon; and
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Brubaker and Sarah Lynn
Brubaker, Blue Acre
Bampshires, Lancaster,
nave each entered a total of
:en sheep each in com
petition at the 1978 Eastern
States Exposition Sheep
Show at the Big E, West
Springfield, Mass.
Margaret Herr has en
tered two polled Dorset
needing sheep in junior and
>pen competitions, and
Barbara Herr has entered
two market lambs in com
wtition, and also six polled
Dorsets in the junior and
>pen shows.
Mr. and Mrs. Brubaker
NEBA open house set
TUNKHANNOCK -
Saturday, September 9, bam
and laboratory, doors will be
open for inspection at
NEBA-Sire Power
headquarters, here. Open
House ‘7B will start at 10:30
a.m. with facility tours and
collection and laboratory
demonstrations.
Open House is to be
“family day” this year.
NEBA and Sire Power
members may purchase
tickets from their technician
or direct herd salesman for a
token fee fo $2.00 per im
mediate family. Tickets will
only be sold in advance by
NEBA-Sire Power per
sonnel.
“Bull sessions” featuring
a parade of Sire Power’s
newly proven bulls will
highlight the afternoon
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U.S. agricultural com
modities to meet urgent
humanitarian needs abroad.
At its wrap-up meeting for
this session, the Committee
approved the International
Emergency Food Fund bill
have entered seven Hamp
shires in competition and
Sarah Lynn, three.
Sarah Lynn will also
compete in the “BigE” Lead
Line contest in which young
women model wool clothes
and parade with their sheep
shown at halter.
The' Eastern States Ex
position Sheep Show will also
include market lamb
judging, shearing contests,
fleece judging, a Dorset
decorator costume class and
handmade wool articles.
Besides agricultural and
livestock competitions, the
Big E will also feature many
free shows for the entire
family, crafts, food, midway
rides, and exciting exhibits.
The Big E runs Sept. 13 to
24.
program. Kiddie rides,
clowns, and live en
tertainment should keep the
whole family involved in
activities. For lunch a beef
bar-b-que will be served by
Triton Fire Company.
.MANAGE to
proven!
ranch
p^^^adante
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as a substitute for various
House and Senate proposals
to establish a grain reserve
stockpile to meet in
ternational food emergen
cies.
As approved by the
Committee, the bill would
create the special $5OO
million fund for open-market
purchases of wheat, corn,
rice, peanuts or any other
U.S. agricultural com
modities for international
distribution in food
emergencies.
The substitute bill was
offered by Senator Bob Dole
of Kansas, ranking
Republican on the Com
mittee. The Carter Ad
ministration supports an
emergency wheat reserve.
Under the bill as ap
proved, the secretary of
agriculture could purchase
commodities for distribution
in any foreign country
suffering a major disaster or
to assist developing coun
tries to meet food needs
when limited supplies in this
country curtail assistance
under the P.L. 480 “Food for
Peace” program. The bill
specifies that purchases
must be made in such a
manner as not to disrupt the
orderly marketing of farm
commodities in this country.
The International Food bill
became a vehicle in Com
mittee and for an effort by
Senator Richard Stone of
Florida to create storage
space to handle this year’s
sugar crop.
The Committee adopted an
amendment by Stone that
would accellerate the
maturity date on 1977 sugar
price-support loans to
August 31, or the effective
date of the International
Food bill, whichever would
be earlier. The amendment
would also require the
movement of this sugar out
of the producing areas to
make way for the new crop.
Stone said this action is
needed to “avert a
disaster,” caused by huge
surplus supplies of domestic
and imported sugar. He said
the storage problem is
particularly acute in the
canesugar areas of Florida
and Texas.
The International Food bill
was one of several measures
approved at last week’s
meeting. Chairman Herman
E. Talmadge of Georgia said
this would likely be the final
regular meeting at this
sessioii of Congress. The
Committee’s calendar of
legislative business for the
year has been cleared.
Other legislation approved
last week would:
Provide for an assessment
of the status of aquaculture
in the United States and for
the development of a
national plan to encourage
and support aquaculture,
including federal grants and
a federally-insured $lOO
million loan program.
Aquaculture is the
cultivation of fish and other
aquatic organisms living in
fresh and salt water. The
assessment of aquaculture
would be conducted by- the
Office of Science and
Technology Policy in
cooperation with the
Agriculture, Commerce and
Interior Departments and
other Federal land state
agencies.
Amend the Perishable
Agricultural Commodities
w ■
Act by authorizing an in
crease in the maximum
annual license fee for fruit
and vegetable handlers
covered by the Act from $lOO
to $3OO. An additional fee of
$5O per business unit over a
base of 20 branch units up to
an aggregate maximum of
$lOOO. The bill also would
increase iLe exemption of
retailers and frozen food
brokers required to be
licensed under the Act to
those doing more than
$200,000 volume of business
annually. At present,' the
exemption applies to those
doing $lOO,OOO volume of
business annually.