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;
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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
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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
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“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,
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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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