Bl2—Lancaster Firming, Saturday, January 19,1980
N.J. growers to vote on 1 cent soybean checkoff
TRENTON, N.J. -
Soybean growers m the
Garden State this week
began to receive ballots.to
vote for or against the
proposed state soybean
checkoff.
The ballots were placed in
the mail Monday night since
Tuesday was a state holiday.
Growers will have 60 days,
Harkin has own
ideas
U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
U.S. Representative Tom
Harkin of lowa said
President Carter’s efforts to
protect American farmers
from financial hardship
caused by the Soviet grain
embargo, are “inadequate”.
He has proposed several
administrative and
legislative actions which he
said would result in “more
meaningful and much more
adequate protection” for the
American farmer.
Harkin is a member of the
U.S. House Agriculture
Committee. His comments
and plan were contained in a
letter Harkin sent to the
President Friday.
In the letter Harkin called
on the President to:
Announce a paid acreage
diversion program with
sufficient incentives to
reduce 1980 feed grain
production by 10 to 20 per
cent.
Raise the corn loan rate
for at least 90 days to the
price received by farmers
prior to the embargo an
nouncement
Direct the Farmers Home
Adminstrahon and the Small
Business Administration to
defer loan payments for
farmers who have not sold
or until March 15, to vote on
the proposal.
On Thursday there was
insufficient response to
determine any trend at all,
according to John Repko of
the New Jersey Agriculture
Department’s bureau of
markets.
Under the provisions of the
referendum, one cent per
bushel will be deducted
to protect
farmers
grain until an orderly
marketing plan can be
agreed upon with the far
mer.
Harkin also asked the
President to support
legislation he intends to
introduce when Congress
reconvenes January 22 to:
Extend and expand
authorization for the FmHA
Economic Emergency loan
program due to expire on
May 15,1980.
To encourage the con
struction of more on-farm
storage, reduce the interest
rate on ASCA storage
facility loans from the
current 10.5 percent to five
percent for at least the next
year.
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automatically at the first
point of sale of any soybeans
marketed in New Jersey.
In most cases this will be
when the farmer moves
beans to the null.
The funds, according to
the New Jersey Department
of Agriculture, are to be used
only for market develop
ment, research, and
educational programs for
soybeans.
The referendum was
requested by a newly formed
group, the New Jersey
Chapter of the Mid-Atlantic
Soybean Association.
Approval for the
referendum will be based on
the California plan.
Under that method of
voting, the checkoff
program will begin if it js
approved by 65 percent of
farmers voting who
represent 51 percent of state
soybean production; or, 51
percent of those voting
approve and represent 65
percent of the production of
those voting.
If the growers in the state
respond with a positive vote,
the State Agriculture Board
will appoint members to the
State Soybean Association
advisory board.
The soybean board will
consist of 11 members. Six
are to be soybean producers,
two soybean handlers or
dealers, one soybean
processor, the dean of
Rutgers Cook College of
Agriculture, and the New
Jersey Secretary of
Agriculture.
This advisory board will
have the final say in
allocation of the funds
collected through the
soybean checkoff.
Soybeans are the number
one cash crop and the
number one export crop in
the state.
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The N.J. Ag Department’s
marketing division said it
estimates the checkoff will
collect about $60,000 based
on last year’s production in
the state and a checkoff rate
of a penny per bushel.
The 1979 crop, valued at
$42 million, was planted on
210.000 acres including full
season and double-cropped
soybeans.
New Jersey growers were
reminded that more than
460.000 soybean growers in
22 other states currently are
participating in soybean
checkoff programs.
Maryland was among
states to approve a checkoff
recently.
Maryland will begin its
program on April 1,
collecting one cent per
bushel soybeans produced.
The program there was
approved by a majority of
growers in a referendum
held last year.
New Jersey, like
Maryland, is asking growers
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to contribute a penny per
bushel.
Of the 21 states now
participating in a checkoff
for soybeans, 16 require a
one-half cent contribution,
the-remamder a full cent.-
Farmers who do not wish
to participate in the soybean
checkoff can request m
writing a refund of money
contributed.
Several state farmer
organizations have come out
m favor of the soybean
referendum. CH
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