Farm Bureau favors market oriented
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A future
farm policy that clears the way for
profits in the marketplace and not
unending reliance on government
farm programs has been called for
by the American Farm Bureau
Federation.
Testifying on a 1965 farm bill,
Dean Kleckner, a farmer from
Eudd, lowa who is president of the
lowa Farm Bureau Federation,
told the House Agriculture Com
mittee that the path to market led
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through modifications of farm
legislation that would tie loan rates
to market prices.
“Most important,’’ he said, “is
Farm Bureau’s strong support for
future farm programs that will
contribute to a reduction in the
level of federal spending and
thereby get interest rates down,
exchange rates in line, and exports
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Kleckner, who is a member of
AFBF’s Board of Directors,
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reminded the committee that
domestic farm markets are
growing “little if at all”, and
that growth of U.S. agriculture
depends on expanded export trade.
To that end, he said, U.S. farmers
must have a program that will
allow them to compete favorably
in world markets. And he said
periodic adjustments in U.S. loan
rates are the “best way to get the
attention of foreign competitors,
who often undercut U.S. prices that
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are propped up by high domestic
loans.”
In stressing that loan rates
should be set at “market-clearing
levels,” Kleckner explained it
would best be accomplished by
setting loan rates according to the
recent three-to-five year average
domestic price.
“This recommendation
recognizes the general success of
the price support loan programs
for both cotton and soybeans, and
suggests that this concept be ex
tended to include wheat, feed
grains and rice,” he said.
Kleckner said that “modifying
the present law to emphasize
market-oriented loan rates and
stocks policies <« the key” to the
Soybean research approved
DOVER, Del. The Delaware
Soybean Board has approved
funding for 17 research projects in
the state totalling $64,600 during
1964.
Among the projects approved
was the continuation of a task force
study looking into a wide variety of
factors contributing to soybean
yields on Delaware farms. A total
of 25 farms in the state are par
ticipating in the study as resear
chers analyze varieties, cultural
practices, planting and harvest
dates, water usage, soil types and
other variables.
The Board also approved fun
ding to evaluate the effect of
various cultural practices in
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longer-run policy objective of a
market-oriented agriculture.
Farm Bureau, he said, favors
eliminating the farmer-owned
grain reserve because it has
“become a major obstacle' for
returning wheat and feed grains to
the market system,” instead of
being an orderly marketing tool, as
interided.
“Had the federal farmer-owned
reserve not been such a bandy tool
for propping up market prices in
an attempt to reduce taxpayer
outlays for deficiency payments,”
said Kleckner, “we would never
had accumulated the awesome
wheat and feed grains stocks that
gave need for a PIK program.”
managing the Dectes Stem Borer
on soybeans grown in Delaware.
That insect is becoming an in
creasingly widespread threat to
yields in the state.
The Delaware Soybean Board
consists on nine producer mem
bers elected by Delaware’s
soybean growers and the Delaware
Secretary of Agriculture. Funding
for the programs of education,
research, product and market
development come from a one cent
per bushel check-off of soybeans
raised in Delaware.
The funds are used only for
projects that offer beneficial
results to Delaware’s soybean
growers and industry.
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