—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 23,1978 120 ASCS grain checks distributed WASHINGTON, D.C. - County offices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) earlier this month began distributing $6Ol million in 1978 wheat and feed grain program payments to eligible wheat and barley producers. The 556,226 drafts represent more than 85 per cent of payments due wheat and barley farmers under the deficiency payment and haying and grazing provisions of the 1978 farm programs. On Dec. 1, Ray Fitzgerald, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agency, estimated wheat producers Dreams of being a reindeer (Continued from Page 112) Santa looked at the little lamb thoughtfully, “You want to be a reindeer?” he asked. “But you’re a great big beautiful lamb. Why do you want to be a reindeer?” “Oh, Santa, it’s no fun being a sheep. I have to follow my mother around every day and we never get to go anywhere. It’s just no fun!” he pouted. “But Marty,” Santa gravely shook his head. “I can’t take you with me. How would your mother and sister feel? They’d cry. And besides your master, Billy, ne would feel terrible, because he has big plans for you.” Santa leaned down closer to the lamb. “But I can tell you a big secret,” he whispered. “In January, you are going to get to travel, and you’re going to be the best sheep, at a great big show called the Pennsylvania Farm Show. There you will be paraded around and shown off, and you will be very proud to be a sheep. Now do you want to miss that and go with me?” “Wellll,” baaed the lamb, "maybe I better stay around here then. Are you sure all this is going to happen?” "Would Santa tell a lie?” the jolly man an swered. “I’ll be thinking of you m January, but now you better go inside where you can get warm and I can start to get to my work." So in to the barn little Marty scampered to nestle close to his mother and dream But this time he didn’t dream about Santa and his rein deer. Now his dreams were filled with purple and blue ribbons and championship placmgs. "" ' ’ 'r, 'iy . v ''' Holy flight For on this night a child is bom and the angels sing. Joy be with you this Christmas. KELLER BROS. TRACTOR CO. 949-6502 Buffalo Springs 949-6502 Route 419 Between Schaefferstown & Cornwall Lebanon County would receive $620 million and barley producers $B3 million. Under the deficiency payment provision, wheat producers will receive $531,518,048 and barley producers $68,568,075. Haying and grazing payment checks- for wheat fanners, totaling $415,574, are in addition to $2O million paid out earlier under this program provision. Eligible wheat and barley producers who have not filed payment application forms should do so as soon as possible through their local county ASCS offices, Fit zgerald said. Disbur sements cannot be made until applications are sub mitted and approved. Deficiency payments are to make up the difference between the government established target price and the higher of either the national average market price during the first five months of the marketing year or the national loan rate. The deficiency payment rate for eligible 1978 wheat is 52 cents a bushel - the dif ference between the $3.40 target price and the $2.83 average market price. The deficiency payment rate for eligible 1978 barley is 35 cents a bushel - -the "dif ference - between the $2.25 target price and the $1.90 average market price. For wheat acreage grazed or hayed under the 1978 wheat program, farmers will receive 52 cents per bushel. Producers who received 50 cents per bushel as an advance payment will receive an additional 2 cents. Program participants under this provision were guaranteed the higher of the 1978 wheat deficiency payment rate or 50 cents. Corn and grain sorghum deficiency payments, if authorized, frill be made in April. The first five months of the marketing year for these grains ends Feb. 28 and the data to compute payment will not be available until the end of March. 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Off CHV 578-81 Relaxed soybean exports favored Si: ;.(>i Ib, Mo. - The American Soybean Association (ASA) has announced its opposition to more stringent controls on export reporting. “More stringent reporting would make the Umted States a less at tractive seller because buyers often prefer to remain anonymous,” Allan Aves, ASA first vice president, said in testimony Thursday, December 14 before the USDA Advisory Committee on Export Sales Reporting. “More stringent reporting would lessen the seller’s willingness to take risks which could result in fewer- sales of soybeans. Reporting cost would balloon and probably create in creased— bureaucratic paperwork. And, the reporting requirements would favor large exporters who could avoid the requirements by selling products through their foreign affiliates.” Aves told the committee that additional government restrictions on exports could hurt the $6.3 billion soybean export market. “Farm exports help curb inflation,” Aves said. “The financial blow to farmers and our economy from the loss of export sales would far outweigh the advantages Hospital patients with an agricultural background seem to be as healthy or slightly healthier than patients with no agricultural history, according to a rural I health study conducted in I Minnesota for OSHA. L P. L. ROHRER & BRO., INC. SMOKETOWN, PA from more stringent export sales reporting. Our balance of trade cannot afford to lose any of that $6.3 billion of soybean exports.” Aves said the soybean association recommends: strengthening of sup ply/demand reports with weekly or twice weekly reports; reducing reporting requirements when more CAtvrtn 9 Ortho FERTILIZERS Helping the WorU Grow Better PH: 717-299-2571 than a year’s supply of soybeans is on hand; in creasing efforts to improve communications between USDA and industry; developing a voluntary program by the grain in dustry of reporting sales by their foreign affiliates; and insuring future reporting requirements not hinder export sales of soybeans. ' - " A '{-a v y P
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