B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 8,1980
HARRISBURG - “The
resounding defeat of the
Beeferendum by cattle
owners in Pennsylvania and
the Nation indicates that
Farmers Union policy
reflects the thinking of real
farmers and ranchers across
America," said Penn
sylvania Farmers Union
Director Leonard Zemaitis.
In the wake of a 60 to 40
percent defeat nationally.
Straw poll
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farmer and the small
businessman.
Haabstad, who has had ex
perience in the small
business world with his
chemical and paper pro
ducts companies, said he felt
that farmers and small
businessmen were over
regulated, with too many
decisions being made for
them rather than by them.
Concerning the recent
gram embargoes,
said if farm products are us
ed as political tools he feels it
will be necessary to spread
the cost across to all citizens.
He said he felt it was unfair
to have fanners assume all
of the responsibility and cost
for the use of food as a
political weapon to influence
world decisions. This equall
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PFU takes credit
for Beeferendum defeat
and a crushing 90 percent to
10 percent margin in Penn
sylvania, Zemaitis said it is
clear cattle producers reject
beef promotion and favor
keepting money in their
pockets-not in the hands of
an unelected beef board.
The Beef Referendum would
have been a mandatory
assessment scheme on the
production of beef, paid by
producers, to fund a $l5O
mg out of responsibility and
cost he said could be done
through increased financial
support for fanners through
government programs.
Haabstad said he was
aware of the problem of
handling farm and small
business estates through
personal experiences, and he
said that in Delaware County
they have a lower taxing
plan if the farmland remains
in agriculture for a
minimum ten-year period.
He said he realizes there are
a number of proposed pro
grams for dealing with the
inheritance problem and
preserving farmland and he
recognizes the need to sup
port them in order to “save
an important aspect of our
American heritage”.
million national program of
advertisement, promotion,
and research. As written, it
violated at least five criteria
for such plans spelled out in
National Farmers Union
policy. For this reason, the
Farmers Union stood alone
among national farm
organizations m opposition.
Among those in favor were
the National Cattlemen’s
Association, the American
Farm Bureau Federation
and the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association. The
Pennsylvania Grange
remained neutral.
The Pennsylvania Far
mers Union was the only
organization in the Com
monwealth providing in
formation and urging a
“No” vote. It now is clear
that 90 percent of the cattle
owners voting agreed with
that position.
Results of the vote in
Pennsylvania were 6855
against, to 789 for. Every
county in the Com
monwealth soundly voted to
defeat the measure.
Zemaitis said, “National
Cattlemen’s groups, and
other pushing the referen
dum simply missed the drift
of our cattle producer
sentiment. A similar
program was defeated in
1977, when it required a two
thirds vote for passage; the
1980 proposal required only
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could not be accomplished.”
Pennsylvania Farmers
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prodocuers was a real
“grassroots” effort, with
members m most counties
distributing flyers and
talking to their fellow far
mers. Both the policy
position and the effort to
defeat the order illustrate
that with the information at
hand, cattle producers will
make correct decisions for
themselves.
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