D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22,1983
Farm Bureau calls for new najt’l dairy price
DALLAS, T* Farmers at the
American Farm Bureau
Federation annual meeting in
Dallas which ended last Thursday
have called for a national dairy
price support program that will
bring supplies down to demand
levels.
To achieve such a program, they
said the price support level should
be adjusted according to the net
amount of dairy products pur
chased by the federal government.
This would mean the support price
would drop if the government
bought more than in the previous
year.
This decision on the con
troversial dairy is«ue came on a
vote of farmer-delegates who
make policy for the organization.
Delegates from the Pennsylvania
Fanners’ Association were Keith
Eckel, PFA president, D. Eugene
Dayman, vice president and
Christian Wolff, board director.
The delegates also voiced their
opposition to the controversial 50-
cent assessment that was to take
effect Dec. 1, but is barred by court
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In addition, the Farm Bureau
members said milk should be
marketed on a protein basis as well
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they urged the Food and Drug
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minimum standards for milk using
California’s current standards.
While the margin of the vote on
the dairy policy was clear-cut, how
it was arrived at was not.
Numerous plans were rejected,
including ones that would have
established a three-tier price
system, a “voluntary paid
diversion program” aimed at
cutting government purchases to
one-third of the 1962 level, and a
base-and-quota system to ‘ ’provide
constraints on production.”
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“market-oriented” agriculture
voting delegates also formally
endorsed the payment-in-kind or
“crop swap,” program'President
Reagan announced to them earlier
in the week.
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Delegates said the program
must be viewed as a “short-term”
solution needed to bring supplies in
line with demand. It must be
implemented, they said, in con
junction with an “effective
voluntary acreage reduction
program” for the 1963 and 1984
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crops.
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ranchers asserted that PIK be
“structured in a manner that will
enhance orderly marketing” and
that it be coupled with an incentive
program for foreign purchasers of
U. S. commodities. While the
Reagan plan basically meets the
Farm Bureau’s criteria, it does not
currently contain an export
provision.
On foreign trade, the delegates
took a strong stand against em
bargoes. The threat of embargoes
or other restrictions that adversely
affects markets is an inap
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plementation of foreign policy.
On the issue of agricultural
credit, the delegates said they
opposed any changes in the Farm
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Delano, in a poet-convention news
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outcome of the four-day meeting
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The farm leader said that overall
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