Northeast ASCS director pledges USDA’s support aYBETOBBMMTOGKI help the situation Is to encourage Staff Correspondent during that same 20 year period, to dri-inn,, «£* CHAMBERSBURG - “Today the fanner has received a profit of ' agriculture is on the downside, but 38 cents out of every dollar, with a wnoiesome 81 Kr-rsvts-"js lS£^ss. toS7 ” ~8i,,1 " 0 ' James McMullen in his opening With this kind of daU before the “ iSISSs statement at last week’s annual Department of Agriculture and the dense VC Franklin County Agricultural Secretary of Agriculture, John We^^ore^ortSite Stabilization and Conservation Block realizes that one thing must Service banquet. be improved - the farmer's in- James McMullen is the director come, said the ASCS director. _ !^^f* 00pUn * i UBtthe,oßS of the Northeast Area ASCS which “And to increase income, we the |W< covers an area of 19 states Grom farmers have to reduce produe- Maine to Minnesota and Maryland tion,” said McMullen. Statistics to Missouri. show that supply of food was up 4V4 McMullen told the group of 200 percent world wide last year which that “we in Washington in the u record-breaking production. Department of Agriculture are However, consumption was only cnvro Mnowa working with you. Many at the up i percent because of the poor OH. vlCCllls SflyS IvlOOl*C Agriculture employee's have been wor ld economic conditions, he * farmers and have gone through the reported. UNIVERSITY PARK —ln the same mud and the same types of .To help in this fight for past U.S. grain exporters experience. production reduction, Secretary scrambled to sell to Russia for two “And with that experience, we at Block has implemented the 1981 basic reasons, says H. Louis Washington can see that the pic- Acreage Reduction Program Moore, Penn State Extension tore doesn’t look good; farmer stated McMullen. agricultural economist. First, product prices went down one “Block didn’t like this alter- potentially a market which would percent last month and at the same native, but It had to be done.” he buy huge quantities of grain. And time the cost of producing the M id. “The Secretary is asking for second, they paid cash, goods went up one percent." a 2MO percent participation in the Their cash came from selling However, said McMullen, there program and so far baa gotten it" gold on the various European gold is a feeling, of optimism in McMullen added that all fanners markets. However, it bss became Washington., "ft Is gotagto get trho participate In the acreage more difficult to obtain enoagh better,” ht predicted. But .he reduction can still iwe this land for cari» by seOing gold, Moore ex added that It will only get bettor If conservation uses sod can get plrina “Ruaria’s grain needs everyooewwts togstfasr. which help through the have lacreeesrl sharply indecent tochakethehttpofthecsaßamar. coaatyASCS offices. ThareisriM years. Half** to hnlsrirtha HcsaM>^iaattroedacate the .aa added laceigive to for- ngiint iriasailrt ia Period and tbSrthri Tsffifaepas^attifr prsflt.’"tbs aaopor rithatrivary beeigihrifar canaMdfcr Isaac' 'Dating MM Me flavririoriiW arisple.hjariod-“ifMsroriao w« be paida aalriari average rir marifcriao «f «rid anstti abeat prsat.ttMreaSgbeaefaed.Thaß tbsjrcwp»