—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20,1979
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Dechant says low farm prices are
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down farm prices in the stability for r sugar to a dollar a ”
name of fighting inflation producers,” Dechan* a. and other food pric'-
may be the most inflationary “If national po) ; .ers stratosphere,
course of all, a national farm deprive farmer ,y in- never to '
leader said here Monday. centive to 4, and whether f?
Speaking at the annual thereby los' .nilyfarm stay in
convention of the Penn- *^ ssr system, old be the asse r '
sylvania Fanners Union, 5* i biggr .flationary ~
held at the Penn Harris .**-**• ’ljr bloc’ A alL
Motel, Tony T. Dechant, -* W ' ais because if the
president of the National <■ 3 fv armers of the nat ;
Farmers Union, said that the Js. ' W. jne wayside, the ’
livestock and meat industry W ,essor will be
is “just one example of what __ ' .strialized p
happens when an industry is which will er
left in such a depressed state economic
for so long that there is no A program
incentive for maintaining Tonv T “Th
needed production.” 1 mi’’
“Farming is like any other ■■P r
business in that farm I
operators have to be able to I JuM'
recover their costs of ■ ■
production,” he explained.
“Some people may be /: *
shocked if hamburger prices ~ r,m
reach $2.00 a pound later this Jpr
year, but this result ought to
have been expected when A
producers were left with "
less-than-break-even prices
for three years, and then
exposed to increased meat
imports just when farm
prices began to make a
belated rally.”
The Farmers Union
spokesman maintained that
federal action to support
farm prices at or near full
parity levels “would be the
most productive investment
society could make to assure
stability of supplies and
prices.
“An abundant and stable
supply of food for consumers
cannot be assured in the long
Tony Dechant
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run without economic
stability for farm
producers,” Dechant added.
“If national policymakers
deprive farmers of any in
centive to produce, and
thereby lose our family farm
system, that could be the
biggest inflationary
blockbuster of aIL
“I say this because if the
family farmers of the nation
go by the wayside, the likely
successor will be an in
dustrialized agriculture
which will ensure its own
economic stability by
programmed scarcity.
“The quickest way to let
milk prices go to $3 a gallon.
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sugar to a dollar a pound,
and other food prices into the
stratosphere, is simply
never to worry about
whether family fanners can
stay in business,” Dechant
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giving the President advice
which is both shortsighted
and counter-productive. It
can lead nowhere but to
disaster,” Dechant con
cluded.
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