PlS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2,1980 National board recommends ag transportation policy WASHINGTON, D.C. - A rural transportation task force Wednesday proposed major changes in the “rules of the road” for railroads and ag truckers doing business in the United States. The Rural Transportation Advisory Task Force, a jomt team co-chaired by Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland and Tran sportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, recommends: Incentives to encourage states to increase truckload limits to 80,000 pounds and length limits to 65 feet on interstate and other major highways, along with m Sheep, lambs on feed up 3 percent WASHINGTON, D.C. - On January 1, 1980 an estimated 1.62 million sheep and lambs were on feed for the slaughter market m 24 States, three percent more than a year earlier but virtually the same as the January 1,1978 level. The seven major feeding States had 993 thousand sheep and lambs on feed January 1, two percent less than a year earlier. Of this total, 368 thousand were placed on feed before November 1 and 425 thousand placed on feed during November and December. Feeders in the seven major States marketed 465 thousand sheep and lambs during November and December 1979. Marketings for the two months were 20 percent below the like period in 1978. Of the total number on feed January 1, 1980, in the seven States 5 percent weighed less than 70 pounds; CUSTOM BUILT HIOH PRESSURE WASHER Portable or Stationary Detergents or Soap Fluid Injection Available WE MANUFACTURE • Custom Built Hog, Cattle Gates and Head Gates to Your Specifications • Coal Fired Bucket A Day Stoves lgMS|l Machine Work ft. ■DgC Welding & Farm Supplies Hardware p ' ★ Suburban Wood & Coal Stoves ★ New & Used Structural Pipe ★ NOW We Can Repair Worn Shafts With a Special Powdered Steel Build Up Torch D.S. MACHINE SHOP 3816 E NEWPORT RD RDI GORDONVILLE PA17529 1 Mile East of Intercourse on Rt 772 Write or Try and Call 717-768-8569 (Outside Phone) Dealer Inquires Invited centives to states trying to resolve varying state regulations. Regulatory reforms to permit railroads and shippers to enter into negotiated or regulated contracts. Use of long-term loans to finance rail rehabilitation on hues serving ports. Immediate acquisition by railroads of a demon stration, free-running fleet of 500 fifty-foot, wide-door, general-purpose boxcars and 500 covered hopper cars to augment the railroads’ individually-owned car fleets. 11 percent weighed 70-79 pounds; 23 percent weighed 80-89 pounds; 33 percent weighed 90-99 pounds; 28 percent weighed 100 pounds and over. Continuation of federal financial assistance for railroad branchline rehabilitation projects. That the Interstate Commerce Commission, Department of Tran sportation, and Department of Agriculture momtor the effectiveness of the task force’s recommendations and write a report to Congress each year. That the federal govern ment take more respon sibility for interstates and other major highways, thereby releasing more state funds for the maintenance i "'V N v , ' 'M, Poultry products this good are as scarce as Hen's teeth . Shenandoah has been making a full line of poultry equipment for more than 50 years Like galvanized hover gas brooders the brooders that feature more complete combustion, minimal maintenance, and 100'b safety shutoff Or the Shenandoah pollution-controlled round incinerator r designed for efficient, economical gas or oil tiring It features aluminized jacket and refractory lining with ceramic grates and upgrading of non-major highways. That the secretary of agriculture be given authority to develop and regulate standard contracts of haul for trucking fresh fruits and vegetables. Loading and unloading responsibilities would be imposed on shippers and receivers. In the area of waterway service impediments, the task force recommends replacement of Locks and Dam 26 on the upper Mississippi River with two locks. v S„ * V >< S -V’ ■> <ss % *V. * ' » s ' r 1 AGRI- cattle . HOG - POULTRY EQUIPMENT R.D. 4 EPHRATA, PA. 17522 PHONE 717-354-4271 “The recommendations are part of the final rejiort by the task force, which deliberated ten months to establish the policy,” said P.R. Smith, assistant secretary of agriculture for marketing and tran sportation. Smith said the report defines agriculture’s transportation needs and suggests solutions to problems, based on public hearings the task force conducted during 1979. Discussions focused on railcar shortages, rail branchline abandonments, •s *K Sfor long life For brooders and \ alves, nests and vvaterers, see your nearby She nandoah dealer Whatever your poultr\ needs. S. he can more than fill the bill Agri-Equip., Inc. OFFERS COMPLETE • SALES • INSTALLATION • SERVICE EQUIPMENT,.NO. iilL... r p% ' ■I Shenandoah several highway and waterway bottlenecks, and problems between shippers and carriers. “The task force set forth guidelines for an adequate railroad transportation system, including changes in federal regulation of railroads,” Smith said. Congress formed the task force, he said, in response to agriculture’s special transportation needs. Members were from agricultural and tran sportation organizations as well as from the academic community. ? €)
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