Grangers outline targets for new farm
CEDAR RAPIDS, la. -
National Grange delegates
meeting in lowa last week at
their annual convention
outlined specific recom
mendations in changes they
feel are needed in a new
farm program
The farm leaders said the
Secretary of Agriculture
should have the authority to
make additional com
modities eligible for loans,
purchases, target prices,
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and reserve programs. A
system should be established
within farm programs to
adjust price supports, loans
and target prices in
relationship to any rapid
increase in the cost of
production.
They said they feel the
benefits of farm programs
should be directed to far
mers most m need of
economic assistance and
would prefer to lessen ex-
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pensive federal farm
programs and rely more on
the market place for farm
income.
During the next few
months, the Grange will be
encouraging new legislation
which would place increased
emphasis on agricultural
exports to Third World
Countries through a
revolving export credit
program, market
development, and more
access to foreign markets.
They question the value of
bilateral trade agreements.
A new farm program
should allow flexibility to
meet the needs of mixed
livestock and gram farmers
and provide an exemption
from production control
programs to small fanners.
The Grange suppports the
farmer-held reserve
program, on-farm storage
facility loan program, set
asides, paid diversions and a
modified normal crop
acreage requirement
Since demand for dairy
products has been on a
decline and imitation
products are becoming a
threat to the dairy industry,
the Grange supports the
referendum concept for
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dairy farmers to raise funds
for advertising research and
promotion and the new “real
seal” program. The Grange
opposes any changes in the
regulation of reconstituted
milk
The original purpose of the
Farmers Home Ad
ministration was to assist
farmers with financial
problems Today, according
to delegates attending the
Grange Convention, this
service has extended itself to
include not only farm and
rural housing financing, but
also non-rural housing,
municipal loans and
recreational loans
Grange delegates are
urging the return of FmHA
to its original purpose of
making low interest loans to
eligible farmers and
assisting young farmers who
want to enter farming The
Grange is also asking that
the agency be adequately
staffed with personnel who
have farm experience and
agricultural training, and
that all other business be
transferred to another
agency within USDA.
In other action, the Grange
expressed oppositm to any
action that would modify the
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Capper-Volstead Act and in
any way, jeopardize the
farmers’ right to organize
and maintain cooperatives
for the purpose of processing
and marketing their
products.
They further opposed a
check-list approach in
monitoring co-ops for undue
price enhancement or any
attempt to develop broad
definitions or parallels with
non-agncultural situations
which would ignore the
reality and individuality of
various markets
The National Grange
adopted resolutions calling
for unport quotas on dairy
products to provide.
economic stability for both
producers and processors.
The Grange also said
unported dairy products
should be subjected to the
same rigid sanitation
standards imposed for all
U S dairy products.
The Grange endorsed
quota systems to control
amounts of sugar, casern,
and mushrooms that are
being imported.
With an unstable world
food picture and a growing
number of impoverished
people, the National Grange
passed resolutions in support
of an International Food
Reserve Program.
The Grange is calling for
support of all nations m
establishing a formal in
ternational food reserve,
nationally held, to insure
projected world food needs
The Grange said all nations
should contribute support for
research and education
which would help food deficit
areas meet the needs of their
people. The program should
include ways to stimulate
food production and mcrease
capabilities of those areas to
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policy
import, store and efficiently
distribute the food.
The program should also
encourage international
cooperation and multilateral
solutions to problems af
fecting food production and
distribution, so that
producers will be assured of
adequate returns and stable
markets.
Modern agriculture is
greatly benefited by proper
use of chemicals. Grangers
said. They challenged the
Environmental Protection
Agency m its efforts to
prevent the use of specific
chemicals based on evidence
obtained from feeding ex
cessive doses of chemicals to
animals.
The Grange opposes the
withdrawal of chemicals
because of evidence secured
by these methods.
Grange delegates,
representing 470,000
members from 37 states, are
calling for reasonable
testing procedures which
would be m line with prac
tical consumption expected
from human use of the
product
They have also asked that
EPA base line its decisions
on facts backed by adequate
research governing crop
production chemicals and
prepare economic impact
statements taking into
consideration economic
hardships placed on far
mers.
they endorsed a national
defense policy of peace
through strength. The farm
leaders expressed opposition
to any arms control
agreement which would in
any way jeopardize the
security of the U.S. or any of
its allies, or lock the U.S. into
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