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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
'arm Bureau Tuesday
:aUed for tougher sanctions
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than those already imposed
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Glenn Tussey, a
Glen Rock
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meeting at
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during which the standing
committees were appointed.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland and Robert
Clodius, president of the
National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant
Colleges last Friday signed
an agreement extending
their sponsorship of the
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Bergland said, “We are
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Bureau wants tougher sanctions against USSR
spokesman for the American
Farm Bureau Federation,
said that if the security of the
United States is threatened
sufficiently to require an
embargo on gram, then the
threat is sufficient to justify
4-H meets
Workshop on January 19. It
was reported that the
following projects were
being started: quilling,
crewel, ceramics, tractor
and handyman. For more
information about these
projects call 235-2404. The
Club then began work on it’s
health project.
The ISEC was established
in 1974 as a means of sharing
responsibility for public
supported international
agricultural development
and education efforts. One of
its major goals is to en
courage jomt participation
between the federal
government and par
ticipating universities m
development projects
abroad.
It will also assist colleges
and universities in
strengthening their research
and extension capabilities
relevant to agricultural
development activities
overseas and help
disseminate agricultural
findings and new
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additional measures to
suspend business and
cultural relationships in
order to “send a stronger
signal.”
Tussey, assistant director
of AFBF’s national affairs
division, testified before the
Subcommittee on In
ternational Finance of the
Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing and Urban
Affairs.
“Farm Bureau stresses
that an embargo on gram
and high technology items
and restrictions on fishing
rights appear to be an in
sufficient response to the
threat to our national
technologies to the in
ternational agricultural
community and the general
public.
The new agreement
reaffirms USDA’s and the
participating universities’
commitment to these goals
and also calls for the
development of annual work
plans and budgets for jomt
projects.
Plans also call for more
communciation between
participating groups so that
the ISEC can serve as a
forum for the analysis of
programs with emphasis on
project planning and ef
fective mobilization of
manpower and other
resources.
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security,” Tussey said. “We
therefore call for a
broadening of U.S. actions to
increase the effectiveness of
those already taken to
counter - Soviet ex
pansionism.”
Pointing out that it is
impossible to isolate the
embargoed 17 million metric
tons of gram from the
market system to avoid
hurting farm pnces and
income, Tussey suggested
the quickest way to move the
on labelling regs called for
CHICAGO, n. -
USDA, FTC and FDA will
propose regulations as part
of a nearly two-year-old joint
labeling revision plan
following the public com
ment period which ends
March 20.
According to USDA’s
Carol Foreman, proposed
regulations of interest to
meat products include:
labels to show specific
sources of fat and oils for
foods with more then 10% fat
open date labeling for
perishable and semi
perishable processed
products like bacon,
frankfurters, sliced lun
cheon meats and sausage;
nutrition labeling for meat
products about which
nutrition claims are made or
to which nutrients are added
definitions of the terms
“low cholesterol,” "reduced
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embargoed gram to other
markets would be to restore
or increase funds taken from
the Commodity Credit
Corporation’s export credit
sales program.
“This would help meet
unfilled requests for
financing from a dozen or
more trading partners who
would like CCC funds to
finance more than one billion
dollars worth of U.S. farm
commodities not already
Public comments
cholesterol,”
“cholesterol-free”
and standardized serving
sizes for meat products.
As yet, USDA and FDA do
not have positions on
labeling of imitation and
The
Mid-January broiler
numbers still climbing
HARRISBURG -
Placements of broiler chicks
m the Commonwealth during
the week ending January 19
were 2,176,000, according to
the Crop Reporting Service.
The placements were eight
percent above the previous
week and four percent above
the corresponding week a
year earlier. Average
placements during the past
nine weeks were four per
cent above a year earlier.
Placements m the 21 key
poultry producing states
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covered by lines of credit,”
Tussey said.
He added that CCC
financing of exports is not a
subsidy as such credit is
extended at regular com
mercial rates.
CCC export credit funds
were halved to $BOO million
for fiscal year 1980. Farm
Bureau would like to see
those funds restored to the
full $1.6 billion or,
preferably, increased to $2
billion, Tussey said.
substitute foods, format for
nutrition labeling, and what
information should be
required on nutrition labels.
Foreman expects the two
agencies to take positions on
these issues by June 1.
and
were 77,371,000, one percent
below the previous week but
five percent above the same
week a year ago.
Average placements
during the past nine weeks
were four percent above the
same period in 1979.
Broiler-fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection during the
week ending January 9
totaled 2,038,000, with an
average hveweight of 4.09
pounds.
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