Senate agriculture leader proposes WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Herman E. Talmadge, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced Friday he is considering the m trodution of a seven-point / (.<A<vV , Switch to a Calumet Liquid Manure Spreader Compared to todays and tomorrows-sky-high fertilizer prices, manure is just too valuable to waste A hundred cow dairy herd, for example, can save thousands of dollars every year m fertilizer costs Take full advantage of this liquid gold with a Calumet liquid manure spreader teamed with a 4-shank soil injector Injecting can help retain four times the nitrogen that s usually lost with surface spreading —m addition to reducing odor and run-off problems Calumet spreaders m ' —USED TANKS (1) 2000 GAL. HESSTON... $3BOO (1) Vl5OO CLAY WITH (1) V 2250 CLAY $3OOO 2 SHANK INJECTOR .... $lBOO wagf F. ERNEST SNOOK O \STR' bvJTOR RD 3 - Box 84, Mifflinburg, Pa. 17844 - Phone: 717-966-2736 legislative package in the new Congress to help ease the impact of the Russian gram embargo on U.S. farmers. Talmadge said he is considering legislative action because of his con- " * * , -V Maybe its time you switched fertilizer tanks cern that steps taken by the Carter Administration are “insufficient to protect the American farmer from the adverse effect” of the President’s suspension of gram and other agricultural trade with the Soviet Union. The Talmadge legislation would include extension of price support loan and gram reserve coverage to 1979- crop corn grown outside the feed gram program and authority to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a “set-aside” to reduce 1980 corn plantings. His plan also includes a proposal to allow the sale of government-held com stocks for gasohol produced by new facilities at current price support loan levels, rather than at 50 percent above the loan as the law now requires. “This change m the law would be a great mcentive m getting many new alcohol production facilities quickly built and producing much needed alternative energy supplies,” he said. 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Talmadge said he would decide whether to push for new farm legislation after Tuesday’s session with Bergland. The Georgia Senator commended the Ad ministration for steps an nounced to bolster farm prices in the wake of the Russian gram cutoff. But he made it clear that these actions do not go far enough. Specificially, the Talmadge package in cludes: Amendment of the 1977 farm bill to permit (a) price support loans on 1979-crop com to producers who did not participate in the 1979 program and (b) par ticipation by such producers in the farmer-owned reserve (about 80 percent of the com acreage was planted outside the program in 1979); Amendment of the 1977 A Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2,1980 —Dl3 embargo relief farm bill to permit CCC stocks of com to be sold at the current loan rate ($2.10 per bushel) if used for making gasohol produced by new facilities (under existing law, the minimum resale price is now $3.15 per bushel); Amendment of the 1977 farm bill to permit the making of price support loans on 1979-crop soybeans to producers who id not comply with the normal crop acreage requirement. Under present regulations, 1979 soybean producers were required to reduce their normal plantings by the 10 percent feed grain set-aside m order to qualify for price support on soybeans; Passage of the Ad ministration bill introduced last year by Senator Talmadge authorizing a food Pa. Young Farmers hold convention EPHRATA - The 20th Annual Pennsylvania Young Farmer’s Association State Convention will be held at the Sheraton Inn, Get tysburg, PA., February 6 and?, 1980. This year’s convention theme is “Farmer’s—The Heartbeat of America”. Two tours have been added to this years con vention. Mason-Dixon Farms owned by the Waybnght family and members of the Gettysburg Young Farmers, will be hosts on one tour of 600 milk cows, 2200 acres of hay and crops and produces their own electric power from methane gas. 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For all your hog equipment needs contact: Your Northco ® partner for higher profit Mhmmma' Experience You Can Trust security reserve of wheat (the Administration is now using CCC authority to buy up excess wheat but will need the legislation to ac tually establish the reserve); Amendment of the 1977 farm bill to increase from $50,000 to $lOO,OOO the maximum loan CCC may make to producers for on farm storage facilities; A one-year extension of the economic emergency loan program to farmers who are damaged by economic stresses that was authorized in the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (the program authority expires May 15, 1980. Amendment of the 1977 farm bill to permit the Secretary to proclaim a set aside for the 1980 crop of com and other feed grams. The second tour is the world famous Gettysburg Battlefield Tour. Mr. George Glenn will be your tour guide. Karl Kettering of Radio station WBYO will be guest speaker for the opening banquet, Wednesday, February 6. Educational workshops will be offered on Thursday afternoon, February 7. Ladies programs will be Thursday morning and afternoon. Ag displays in the Golden Spur Room, Public speaking contests, Awards and door prizes will round out the Convention program. THOMAS FARM SYSTEMS, INC. 2025 Horseshoe Road Lancaster, PA 17601 PH: 717-299-1706
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