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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The National Grange
Executive Committee,
meeting at Grange
headquarters this week in
Washington, D.C., rescmded
action taken by its delegate
body m 1979 and has with
drawn Grange support of the
Salt II Treaty.
Edward Andersen, Master
of the organization, said
“The conditions that led the
Grange to support Salt II
have changed drastically.
The recent act of aggression
against Agfhamstan by the
Soviet Union cannot be
accepted by freedom lovmg
nations. Therefore, as an
organization that believes
Cattle, dairy cow numbers up slightly in state
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania farmers had
1,900,000 cattle and calves on
hand January 1, 1980 ac
cording to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service.
This is up three percent from
the January 1, 1979 level of
1,840,000.
All cows that have calved
at 887,000 was one percent
more than a year ago. The
Keystone state’s calf crop
for 1979 was 760,000, down
one percent from the 1978
crop.
Milk cow numbers at
712.000 were up 9000 head
from the January 1, 1979
inventory. Beef cows at
175.000 head were two
percent greater than a year
earlier.
Milk cow replacement
heifers (500 pounds and
over) at 266,000 were up 16
percent. Beef cow
replacement heifers at 46,000
were up ten percent. Other
heifers 500 pounds and over
at 51,000 were down 14
percent, while bulls in the
same weight category were
down seven percent at 38,000
head.
Steers 500 pounds and over
were up three percent to
238,000. All calves under 500
pounds numbered 374,000^
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Grange withdraws Salt 11,
Farm Credit Act support
in the right of self
determination for all people
we can no longer support the
ratification of the Salt II
Treaty.”
The Committee also voted
to oppose the Farm Credit
Act Amendment of 1980. The
Grange strongly objects to
provisions in the Act
allowing the Farm Credit
System banks to form
corporations such as casulty
and property insurance
companies within the
System.
The Grange also opposes
changes in the lending
authority of the FCS banks
which would permit
which represents a gam of
three percent from last year.
There were 49,000 cattle
farms in Pennsylvania as of
January 1, 1980; of these
22,000 had milk cows.
At the United States level
all cattle and calves on
January 1, 1980 totaled
11,000,000 head, a fractional
increase from last year’s
level but down five percent
from January 1, 1978. This
breaks the downward trend
of the cattle cycle.
All cows and heifers that
have calved numbered 47.8
Broiler placements climb 5 percent
HARRISBURG -
Placements of broiler chicks
m the commonwealth during
the week ending January 26,
were 2,283,000, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
The placements were four
percent above the
corresponding week a year
earlier and five percent
above the previous week.
Average placements during
the past nine weeks were
four percent above a year
earlier.
Placements in the 21 key
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9, 1900—A19
Production Credit
Associations and Federal
Land Banks to lend funds to
borrowers for the
establishment of marketing
and processing facilities that
would be in competition with
family farmers, ranchers
and their cooperatives.
Jack Slivers, Master of the
73,000 member Washington
State Grange and chairman
of the National Grange
Executive Committee, said,
“Unless the Act is changed
by removing these two
provisions, the National
Grange will oppose the
entire Farm Credit Act
Amendment of 1980.”
million head, practic j the
same as January 1, 1979.
Beef cows at 37.0 million are
virtually unchanged from
last year while milk cows at
10.8 million are down slightly
from a year ago.
Other class inventories on
January 1 and their changes
from last year are as
follows: all heifers 500
pounds and over, 17.2
million, up two percent;
milk replacement heifers,
4.17 million, up six percent;
beef replacement heifers,
5.93 million, up eight per-
poultry producing states
were 78,744,000, two percent
above the previous week and
six percent above the same
week a year earlier.
Average placements during
the past nine weeks were
five percent above a year
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Other action taken by the
Committee included support
of a paid acre diversion
program for the 1980 feed
gram crop, a call for USDA
to make a full commitment
to the production of alcohol
from grain and other
agriculture bio-mass,
support for the President’s
request for boycotting the
1980 summer Olympics in
Moscow and support for the
employee-shipper ownership
approach of the New
Milwaukee Lines as the best
means of achieving an ef
fective and long-term
solution of the Milwaukee
Road reorganization
problem.
cent; other heifers, 7.13
million, down four percent;
steers weighing 500 pounds
and over, 15.9 million, down
three percent; bulls
weighing 500 pounds and
over, 2.49 million, up four
percent. Heifers, steers and
bulls under 500 pounds
totaled 27.5 million, up
slightly from a year ago.
The 1979 calf crop is
estimated at 42.8 million,
down two percent from 1978
and seven percent below
1977.
ago,
Broiler-fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection for the
week ending January 16
totaled 1,990,000, with an
average liveweight of 4.16
pounds.