D22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21,1981
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
WYSOX “We will not buy into
the philosophy of Gloom and Doom
because of inflation", Robert
Reich, general manager of the
Northeastern Farm Credit Ser
vice, told a crowd of nearly 125
farmers and guests at the annual
meeting of the Northeastern Farm
Credit Service held last week in
Wysox Presbyterian Church
Reich, the mam speaker at the
third and final annual meeting of
the Northeastern district,
predicted that the interest rates
will peak about June and then
decline for the rest of the year
“These are not impossible days
if we will work together,” he en
couraged the crowd
Paul Suns of Wysox, president of
the board of directors for the
Northeastern Federal Land Bank
Association, acted as master of
ceremonies introducing Roy
Greenley, Chester Hale, Richard
Moyer, and Lee Shaffer, directors.
Congressmen introduce bill to assure fuel for farmers
WASHINGTON, DC -
Congressman Berkley Bedell (D
-lowa) and Tom Tauke (R-Iowa)
have introduced legislation
designed to provide American
agriculture with priority allocations
of fuel m the event of a severe
energy shortage
The Bedell-Tauke bill would
require the President to establish
an “agriculture allocation con
tingency plan ” The plan would
ensure that all phases of
agricultural production, including
food processing and tran
sportation, would be given priority
allocations of diesel fuel and
gasoline.
The two lowa Congressmen, in a
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office staff were also recognized
Bankers, lawyers, realtors,
extension agents and many other
local people associated with farm
business were introduced
The election of new directors
was conducted by Russell Jones
Chester Hale and Roy Greenley
were reelected to the Production
Credit Association Board, and
Paul Sims, and Richard Kneble,
were chosen for the Federal Land
Bank Association Board
Bruce Bresee of Ulster
presented a travelogue of slides
and song depicting the farming
joint statement, said tnat
legislation is necessary because of
President Reagan’s recent
decision lifting controls on crude
oil and petroleum products and the
expiration of Presidential
authority to set fuel allocation
priorities for certain sectors of the
economy, including agriculture, on
September 30
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dition to the elimination of state
set-aside programs for diesel fuel
later this month, will leave no
contingency plan in place. They
stated that the farm community
would be “virtually hopeless”
should a severe energy shortage
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practices of the Highlands and
Islands of Scotland
Crofters in the islands own only
their own buildings and rent
perhaps 20 acres from the
government for hay and grain
crops, Bresee explained, and their
sheep and cattle graze on land
owned by the state
Other farmers with more land of
their own on the mainland of
Scotland have more sophisticated
farming practices
Pig farming in addition to sheep
and cattle is a large industry
Dairy products are plentiful
everywhere, but ice cream is
scarce and, being made of
imitation ingredients, is not very
tasty, Bresee noted
The Northeastern Production
Credit Association and the Federal
Land Bank Association are
member supported cooperatives
and part of the nationwide Farm
Credit System whose service is to
loan money to agricultural
business
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“All should agree that during
periods of energy shortage, special
provisions must be made to ensure
that farmers get the fuel they need
for production purposes,” said
Bedell, a member of the House
Committee on Agriculture
“These fuel supplies are
essential,” Bedell continued, “not
only to farm income but to
fulfilling domestic and world
demand for American farm
products, since even a temporary
disruption of petroleum supplies
could result in serious decline in
food production.”
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Paul Sims, left, president of the board of the Northeastern
Federal Land Bank Association, poses with Lynn Chubbuck,
manager of the Farm Credit office in Wysox, and Bruce
Bresee, right, who entertained with a travelogue of Scotland
at the annual dinner meeting of the Northeastern Farm
Credit Association held in Wysox.
farming operations will not be
interrupted because of low energy
supplies,” said Tauke, a member
of the House Energy and Com
merce Committee.
“The measure establishes a
rational plan that would alleviate
some of the critical problems we
faced just two years ago when a
severe shortage of diesel fuel left
many tractors standing idle in the
fields,” Tauke stated
During the energy shortage of
1979, Tauke introduced similar
legislation as an amendment to the
Gas Rationing Authorization and
Conservation Bill Bedell backed
that amendment which won House
approval on a 229 to 191 vote
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However, a House-Senate Con
ference Committee later removed
the Tauke amendment from the
final version of the conservation
bill.
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