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
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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-
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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.
Talmadge outlined his
legislative package m detail
in a letter to Agriculture
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advance of Bergland’s
scheduled appearance
before Talmadge’s
Agriculture Committee at a
special meeting on the
opening day of the new
Congress next Tuesday.
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
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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
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and?, 1980.
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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.
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