-Uncasttr Farming, Saturday, November 24,1979 42 Grangers wrap up annual meeting Grange takes stand on farm financial LANCASTER - Before the National Grange closed its 113th annual session here Tuesday, members went on record as opposing any change in Farm Credit lending authority that would permit PCAs to lend money for marketing or processing facilities that would compete with farmers. They asked for farm programs which would provide income levels for farmers which would create a viable agriculture. And they said they would support legislative action to remove the Small Business Administration from the disaster loan program. Li addition, over 3900 people took the Grange’s Seventh Degree on Satur day. It took four conferal sessions, rather than the three planned, to take care of all of the candidates. Pennsylvania alone had 2613 Grangers take the Seventh Degree. By contrast, there were just over 700 Seventh Degrees conferred at last year’s Annual Grange Session m Denver, Colorado. Observers credit the large number of people attending the Lancaster session to the attraction of the rural-farm area where the meeting was held. Grangers also were able to tour several local farm operations. Included on the trips were the Gerald and Linda Kreider laying operation, Quarryville; Bob and Sue Kauffman’s dairy farm, Peach Bottom; the Howard Presnell mushroom operation, near Peach Bottom; and an Anush farm. In their legislative sessions, the Grangers said proposed amendments to the Farm Credit Act of 1972 move the System farther from its intended purpose of financing family farm agriculture They said financing agribusiness enterprise and off-farm related services through Production Credit Associations or Federal Land Banks would decrease the availability of credit to productive agriculture and increase competition to family farms. Grangers said the PCAs and FLBs have been acting as insurance agents for the sale of property and casualty insurance. They said that service was one the System had not demonstrated that farm borrowers need. They resolved to oppose any change in the Farm Credit System structure that would lower the percentage of farmer members m a Co op necessary to retain the co op status, with the exception of member utility cooperatives. They opposed giving the Farm Credit System authority to organize separate corporations within the System unless language is included to prohibit the organization of insurance corporations or action as insurance agents. The resolution would in clude casualty and property insurance. Exception would be made for areas where a public hearing were held and it was shown that no private service provides adequate insurance. They confirmed their stance as supporting the ASCS County Committee system as the proper means of administering the financial phases of new and existing farm programs. They urged all farm programs retain provisions to allow individuals to make production and marketing decisions. Grangers asked for a system of variable payments and other program benefits which would compensate smaller farm operations at a higher rate than larger operations. They supported con tinuation of supply management by the use of set-aside programs, farm held gram reserves, and loan target price concepts. They asked the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 be topics amended to raise the trigger points in *the farmer held gram reserve by about seven percent. They also want the CCC selling price to be raised to 170 percent of the current level of the price support for each commodity. Grangers said the Small Business Administration presently is making emergency disaster loans to farmers without regard to size of loan, size of operation, or the ability of the borrower to receive credit elsewhere. “This kind of ad ministration is contrary to the mission of the SBA as mandated by Congress and places great economic pressure on family farms,” they said. Grangers called for redirection in the managment of the Business and Industrial Loan guarantee program of the Rural Development Act of 1972. That program is ad ministered by the Farmers Home Administration. “At present these loans are supporting vertically integrated enterprises in a manner that places the family farm at an economic disadvantage,” Grangers said. The Grange called for a change to remove this “inconsistency” from the traditional role of PmHA as a provider of credit to economically disadvantaged family farmers. In a related matter, delegates voiced concern over the administration of farm loan programs m certain locations where rural housing programs continue to dominate the efforts of FmHA. In such cases, the Grange called for transferring supervision of farm operating loan programs to theASCS. Next year’s meeting of the National Grange will be held in Cedar Rapids, lowa.—CH Most species closed during deer season HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania’s hunters are reminded by the Game Commission that seasons for nearly all wild birds and wild animals will be closed during the regular firearms seasons for deer and bear, and any possible extension of these seasons. 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