C36—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, March IS, 1980
Beelerendum Butchered
Beef producers locally and
nationally spoke loud and
clear in their opposition to
the Beef Research and In
formation Order.
It was a question of a
minority deciding the issue
for everyone. But of those
who registered to vote and
were eligible to do the
decision making, they were
overwhelmingly against it.
In Pennsylvania, far less
than half of the eligible
producers bothered to
register. With only 8,977
farmers registered, - only 10
percent were in favor of the
order.
Nationally there were only
231,032 ballots cast, again a
minority of the fanners
eligible, but only 35 percent
voted in favor of the order.
That was far from the
50 percent of the voters
required for adoption of the
order. That was even worse
than the 56 percnt of the
voters who favored an order
back in 1977 when the
legislation required two
thirds of the voters to get
adoption.
It was certainly a giant
step backwards in an in
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dustry that provides, by its
own admission, the lowest
percent of the sales for
promotion of any group of
producers selling un
processed products to
consumers. But apparently
that’s the way they want it
because it was mostly those
who were against the order
who bothered to register.
Those who were for it but not
registered didn’t get
counted.
Beef producers as a group
have traditionally been the
most independent of
anything that even hints of
government assistance.
While this program was
planned to be financed and
managed by producers, the
fact that the referendum was
conducted by the USDA and
was to be operated with the
“advice” of USDA may have
been the important factor in
its defeat
Let’s see what the Monday
morning quarterbacks come
up with next month.
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overwhelming in their
response to the USDA
request for comments on the
need for a hearing on the
proposals of the Community
Nutrition Institute to
deregulate powder used to
make reconstituted milk in
Federal Orders.
According to Pat Healy of
the National Milk Producers
Federation in Washington
over 10,000 pieces of mail
had been received by USDA,
with 90 percent of the letters
indicating opposition to
taking even that first step of
opening a hearmg on the
question. He said the
response was unprecedented
in his experience, and the
bureaucrats and
congressmen were certainly
impressed with the dairy
industry’s vigor in op
position to the hearing.
However, no one knows yet
whether the flood of mail is
sufficent to turn the tide and
cancel the hearmg because
the decision has become a
political issue and there
aren’t any precedents to
follow.
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your letter yet and want to
make a contribution to the
effort there is still tune.
Even though the February 29
deadline, set by USDA has
passed, there is still an
opportunity to make an
unpact in the White House
and the Congress so send
your comments there.
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will be done at least before
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