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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2,1978
Farm Bureau director says Congress responds to farmers
DES MOINES, lowa -
While Congress often creates
problems for agriculture, it
still responds better to the
needs of farmers and ran
chers than does any other
branch of the federal
government, John C. Datt
said here Thursday.
Datt, director of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation's Washington,
D.C. office, said that during
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he was looking only at other
cooperatives, explaining: "I didn’t
like the record of private dealers ...
they just drop you when there’s too
much milk on the market.”
It is comments such as these which
provide evidence that farmers are no
longer taking their marnet for
granted.
Surely, all of a farmer's in
vestments and labors are in vain if he
has no’ place to sell his products.
Dairylea members want to make
marketing a true part of farming.
They are looking at marketing as a
real investment. They’re banking on
and bargaining for security. There is
a lesson in that for other dairymen,
and perhaps it can serve as an
example too.
Nobody at Dairylea can fully
guarantee that the recently enacted
capitalization program will solve all of
the cooperative’s problems. But
there’s little disagreement that the
plan is on the right track. The
management and membership of the
cooperative are to be commended for
the effort. It was a big undertaking,
involving-worrisome decisions. We
hope the final outcome will match the
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the past year, the House and
Senate, have passed
numerous pieces of
legislation helpful to
agriculture.
“On the other hand,” he
added, “the administrative
agencies of government
have continued to impose
unnecessary regulations on
agriculture, and the ad
ministration has acted to
keep farm prices from
rising.”
attitude
expectations of a Snyder County
member who said: “It may make us
the Cadillac of the dairy business,
but I hope all farmers have a good
market.”
In extending best wishes to
Dairylea, which as had its share of
problems and astronomical debts, I
wish the entire dairy industry a
smoother road in marketing.
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative, Lehigh Valley
Cooperative Farmers, Inter-State
Milk Producers, and Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers have
also made some monumental
decisions during the past year in
hopes of offering better marketing
situations to their dairy farmer
members. They deserve our best
wishes.
And even though we singled out
dairy cooperatives for this editorial,
other marketing organizations and
cooperatives might also be included
in the final analysis. In, my opinion,
the farmer-producer is wise to make
investments for marketing security -
whether it’s milk, eggs, vegetables,
or wool.
I’m happy to know the idea is
catching on.
GEHMAN FEED MILL, INC.
Denver, PA
C.E. SADDER & SONS
East Earl, PA
HURST BROS. MILL
East Earl, PA
Datt spoke at a public
policy conference held in
connection with the annual'
meeting of the lowa Farm
Bureau Federation here.
Datt said that Congress in
1978 adpoted a tax bill,which
will be particularly helpful
to farmers. He noted that the
new legislation enacted,this
year reduces the capital
gains tax, makes permanent
the 10 per cent investment
credit, and defers until 1980
JOHN B. KURTZ
Ephrata, PA
GRUBB SUPPLY CO.
Elizabethtown, PA
ALBRIGHT’S FEED MILL
Kempton, PA
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the carryover basis
provisions of estate tax law.
“Congress revised and
improved the farm pesticide
law, enacted a new farm
export expansion law, and
improved farm credit
legislation,” he said.
The Farm Bureau
spokesman said Congress
“made a good record in 1978 “The administration, too,
because farm families did a , has been less than helpful,”
good job of letting their Datt continued. He cited
representatives and President Carter’s veto .of a
senators know what they beef import quota bill and
needed.” the administration’s in-
He contrasted.the record
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of Congress with that of the
federal regulatory agencies,
which he said, “continue to
meddle in the affairs of
production agriculture by
imposing unreasonable
restrictions on the use of
agricultural chemicals and
drags.”
sistence on legislation
which, he said, “will not
solve our energy problems.”
Datt predicted that far
mers will continue to fare
well in the new Congress
which will “convene in
January. He dted crop in
surance legislation,- a farm
marketing and bargaining
bill, and a bill to remove
existing or threatened
restrictions on the of
natural resources as among
the more important pieces of
legislation'to go before the
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