A36—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, January 29,1983
HONOLULU-Ealph Hofstad,
chairman of the National Council
of Fanner Cooperatives, said last
week that U.S. agriculture faces
the dual challenge of correcting
supply-demand unbalances and
strengthening its competitive
position abroad during 1963.
Speaking at the NCFC’s 54th
annual meeting, Hofstad noted
that while workable production
HARRISBURG Total stocks of
com, oats, wheat and barley in
Pennsylvania on Jan. 1, 1983
totaled 129.3 million bushels, up
two percent from a year ago ac
cording to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Stocks on farms at 113.5 million
bushels were up two percent, while
off-farm stocks at 15.8 million
bushels were down one percent
from a year earlier.
Corn stored in all position totaled
107.6 milion bushels, one percent
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Hofstad says ag faces dual challenge in ’B3
constraints provide part of tbe
answer, we must also make mere
widespread use of excess
agricultural supply.
“Government feeding programs
that emphasize high protein
diets,” he declared, “would help
utilize present stocks of feed grains
and firm up prices. ’ ’
The Land O’Lakes president also
stated his concern over falling U.S.
grain stocks up
Pa.
above last year’s level of 106.6
million bushels. Oats held in all
positions amounted to 13.5 million
bushels, seven percent above the
12.7 million bushels on hand a year
earlier. Wheat stocks in all
positions totaled 6.5 million
bushels, up ten percent from last
year’s level of 5.9 million bushels.
Barley in all storage positions, at
1.67 million bushels, increased one
percent from the 1.65 million
bushels stored last year. Soybean
stocks in all positions on Jan. 1
totaled 2.5 million bushels. On
farm rye stocks totaled 82,000
bushels compared with 44,000
bushels stored on farms on Jan 1,
1982.
At the national level, com stocks
in all positions on Jan 1, 1983
totaled a record 8.42 billion
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agricultural exporta-the first in IS
years. He said NCFC’s Blue
Ribbon Trade Committee, after an
assessment of tbe situation, will be
making recommendations on ways
to regain our competitive position
abroad.
Hofstad said needed changes
include: restoration of a sensibly
valued dollar; reduction of foreign
barriers that unfairly hinder U.S.
bushels, 21 percent more than last
year. Oats in all storage positions
totaled 473.6 million bushels, up 30
percent from the same date in 1982.
Wheat stored in all positions
totaled 2.52 billion bushels, 16
percent above the 2.18 billion
bushels stored a year earlier.
Barley stocks in all positions
amounted to 418.7 million bushels,
26 percent above the amount
stored last year.
Soybeans stocks in all national
positions at 1.83 billion bushels was
12 percent above the 1.63 billion
bushels stored a year earlier. Rye
stocks stored in all positions
totaled 10.87 million bushels, up 38
percent from last year. Sorghum
stocks in all positions on Jan. 1
totaled 792.59 million bushels, 15
percent above last year’s stocks.
* GOOD TIL FEBRUARY 10,1983
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exports; insuring that our public
and private sectors are working
together to chart a course for
competing with countries that are
using export subsidies; and
making sure that we never again
revert to an export control policy
that drives business elsewhere.
The cooperative leader also
called for creation of effective
coalitions of agricultural producer
organizations. He added that
establishment of the Farm Credit
Council, a political action body for
cooperative lenders, was the
beginning of just such a coalition.
Hofstad emphasized, as he did in
1962, that the NCFC is well-suited
to bring groups together in ef
fective coalitions. “It bridges all
political parties. It is associated
with ho specific commodity area.
It represents no special interests
other than the interests of fanners
and ranchers in national and in
ternational legislative matters.
And, its reputation for integrity
and credibility is impeccable.”
National Council President Gary
D. Myersalerted his members to
priorities and challenges facing
them during 1963.
Topping the priority list is
NCFC’s Market ' Enhancement
Program, which would-authorize
the Secretary of Agriculture to use
CCC inventory to encourage ad
ditional commercial export sales.
Myers added that NCFC will also
be working with Congress and the
Administration to gain additional
export sales of CCC-owned dairy
stocks. *
The NCFC president said his
organization is prepared to meet
Office of Management and Budget
threats to citrus and tart cherry
marketing orders, as well as a
Small Business Administration
study of marketing order impact
on small growers and processors.
Myers added that NCFC will also
be working for extension of
Federal Trade Commission
prohibitions on marketing orders
and farmer cooperatives; op
position to any Administration
moves against the Farm Credit
System; and participation in the
debate to remove barriers
inhibiting natural gas prices from
coming back to realistic levels.
During the business session,
NCFC delegates elected the
following slate of officers for 1983:
Chairman Roger J. Bacdgaluppi,
president and chief executive
officer, California Almond
Growers Exchange, Sacramento,
CA.; Vice Chairman Ben F.
Morgan, executive vice president
and general manager. Dairymen,
Inc., Louisville, KY.: Vice
Chairman John F. Anderson,
president. Farmland Industries,
Inc., Kansas City, .MO.; and
President Gary D. Myers,
Washington, D.D.
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