LITITZ Farmers don’t have to
worry about the effects of federal
budget cuts on soybean income.
Soybeans are one of the few farm
commodities that have escaped
federally supported programs to
manipulate price or supply.
There never has been a soybean
target price, a federally-financed
soybean reserve or a soybean set
aside program. In fact, federal net
price support outlays for soybeans
have been miniscule when com
pared to other crops.
There has not been a net federal
price support outlay for soybeans
since 1973
Free to function in the free
market, soybeans have become the
nation’s No. 1 cash crop with an
estimated 1980 crop value in excess
of |l5 billion Fueled by an
aggressive promotion effort
funded by soybean growers and
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AGRI EQUIPMENT INC.
2754 Creek Hill Rd
Leota, PA 17540
717-656-4151
I. G. SALES
Rt 113, Box 200
Silverdale, PA
215-257-5135
G. HIRAM
BUCHMAN, INC.
Rte 519-N off Rte 46
P 0 Box 185
Belvidere, NJ 07823
201-475-2185
GEORGE A. COLEMAN BENNETT MACHINE CO.
Rt #2, Box 216 1601 S Dupont Blvd
Elmer, NJ Milford, DE
609-358-8528 302-422-4837
Federal budget cuts shouldn’t hurt soybeans
USDA, worldwide demand for
soybeans has climbed to 55 percent
of U.S. soybean production.
Soybeans and soybean products
are now America’s greatest
agricultural foreign exchange
earners with a combined export
value in excess of $9 billion in 1980.
In recent testimony before the
Senate Agricultural Committee,
American Soybean Association
President Frank Ray of Baker,
Florida said, “the soybean in
dustry in America has evolved
around a free world market. The
basic laws of supply and demand
in the world marketplace have
signaled farmers when to increase
or reduce production and we feel
those laws should be allowed to
continue to work in the future ”
- In his testimony on the 1981
Farm Bill Ray asked
•That Title I of the 1981 Farm
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DEPENDABLE MOTORS ROVENDALE SUPPLY
Honey Brook, PA RD 2, Watsontown, PA 17777
215 273-3131 717-538-5521
215 273-3737
HENRY S LAPP SOLLENBERGER SILOS
ntNKT o. LArr RFD2,Chambersburg, PA
RDI. Cams, Gap, PA 17527 717-264-9588
717-442-8134
HARRY L. TROOP
Rt 1 Cochranville, PA 19330
215-593-6731
ERB& HENRY
EQUIP., INC.
22-26 Henry Avenue
NeW Berlmville, PA
215-367-2169
Bill be designated an international
title and devoted entirely to
policies for expanding world
demand for U.S. agricultural
commodities Ray suggested that a
provision of Title I be the
establishment of a revolving fund
for CCC short-term credits to
assure U.S. agriculture of suf
ficient non-subsidized export
credit to take advantage o' foreign
demand for our commodities
‘•That federal foreign market
development funding be increased
by 1985 so that it will equal 0.2
percent of average annual
agricultural export value during
the proceeding two years.
• That Congress restrict the
president’s authority to enter into
bilateral supply and purchase
agreements for agricultural
commodities with other nations
• That soybeans be recognized
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1. A. SWOPE
Box 121, RDI
Myerstown, PA
717-933-4758
DETWILERSILO
REPAIR
Rt 2, Newville, PA
717-776-7533
and provided for under a separate
title in the farm bill as opposed to
the current bill in which soybeans
are included in an area designated
non-basic agricultural com
modities
Under the soybean title Ray
recommended the following
provisions;
—That the soybean loan rate be
equal to 75 percent of the average
Chicago quoted cash price for No. 1
yellow soybeans for each of the last
five years excluding the high and
low valued years
—That the secretary of
agriculture be prohibited from
••squiring a set-acde n r other
Hog producers set feeder pig show
SHIPPENSBURG - The South
Central Pennsylvania Pork
Producers Association will hold
their Annual Feeder Pig Show and
Sale on Friday, April 10
Approximately 100 top quality
feeder pigs will be offered. These
feeders will be suitable for 4-H and
FFA projects
ZOOK MOLASSES CO.
ONE STOP FOR ANIMAL FEEDING MOLASSES
HONEY BROOK LIOUID & DRIED MOLASSES
HONEY BROOK LIQUID FEEDING CANE MOLASSES
ZOOK MOUSSES CO.
jfiETS* WEST MAIN ST., HONEY BROOK, PA 19344
A** *4 5b ALONG RT. 322 PH: 215-273-3776
dealer inquiries invited
incaster Farming, Saturday. March 28, Pl 5
production adjustment program
for soybeans or any other crop as a
condition for eligibility for the
soybean loan program.
—That the secretary of
agriculture not be given the
authority to offer a target price for
soybeans.
—That the secretary of
agriculture be specifically
prohibited from offering a soybean
reserve program or being able to
make storage payments on
soybeans put under loan.
—That all producers be eligible
to place as many soybeans as they
desire in the loan program.
The show will begin at 3:30 p.m
and the sale at 6 -30 p m. The event
will take place at the Sluppensburg
Fairgrounds, Sluppensburg.
For more information contact
Ken Ketterer, R 2, Newville,
717/423-0250 or Laura Watts,
Cumberland County Extension
Office, Carlisle, 717/249/7220
THE COMPLETE,
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OFFERS MAXIMUM
NUTSHION FOR
HORSES AND
PONIES.
ENER6I CUBES
an ai exctllirt
coat coaMitioier
for show aid
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Remember-ENERGI BLOCK
(contains no salt and is not affected
I by the weather.
Bring your
own 5 gal.
bucket or
drum
containers or
we have
either one in
stock for sale