Farm policy (Continued from Page 04) shocks to our agricultural com plex, policies will have to be flexible enough to deal with the full range of supply-demand im balances that could confront us in the years ahead. Past experience with the shortcomings of long-term policies geared to short-term problems should alert us to the importance of greater flexibility. Flexibility needed Equally important, policymakers have to recognize that farm policy cannot move agriculture very far from the market mainstream without touching off -self-correcting pressures. Agriculture has simply grown to be too large a sector of the economy and too closely in tegrated with the rest of the economy for policymakers to move commodity prices and producer incomes contrary to market forces - without substantial costs. Farm policy can and must work to stabilize the sector from short lived market extremes. But the costs of policies that move against market fundamentals for any serious length of time have to be carefully weighed against the J—- HANDY CLASSIFIED AD /°>Jg ORDER BLANK IMPORTANT: Be sure toinclude name, address, and word count PLEASE WRITE CLEARLY Please publish my starting with the lem MAIL TO: LANCASTER FARMING P.O. Box 366, Lltitz, PA 17543 NOTE; Please do not use this form for Mail Box Market Ads, see instructions in Section B with Mailbox Markets. 13-12.60 17-$3.40 I 21-$4.20 25-$5.00 29-$5.80 33^6.60 37-$7.40 intended benefits of such policies. The costs are measured not only in terms of government payments to agriculture, but also in terms of farm sector efficiency and com petitiveness. Similarly, if farm policy is required to serve several in compatible goals, it may end up not serving any of those goals effectively. If the goal, for example, is to promote efficiency and competitiveness of our farm sector, it cannot at the same time guarantee viability to farms that are not viable. This is not to say that social goals related to the alleviation of rural poverty need be subordinated to economic goals of efficiency and competitiveness. It is to say that income support programs may need to be handled separately from farm programs. The policy options faced by lawmakers are often expressed as ,two opposing extremes: large scale management of the farm sector by government, with the sector insulated from the marketplace; and an open marketplace, with farmers responding to market signals, unprotected by government programs. In reality, the debate we face ahead is likely to be one of which direction we want to move toward, rather than which extreme we (Number of Words) 14-$2.80 18-$3.60 22-$4.40 26-$5.20 30-$6.00 34-s6.Btf 38-$7.60 ■ ■ mmmmmmm ..... word ad issue. Classify under DEADLINE: 9 A.M. THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK'S PUBLICATION RATES: 20 c Per Word, $2.40 Minimum Charge For ads running 3 or more consecutive times with no change deduct ,20 percent discount. (See rate chart at beginning of classified section for an example of dis count.) 15-$3.00 19-$3.80 I 23-$4.60 27-$5.40 31-$6.20 35-$7.00 39-$7.80 adopt. Whatever the policy choices, they will entail costs, and in no case do fanners escape a major share of the adjustment burden. That’s true with current programs just as it’s true for new programs. However, we have to recognize the risks inherent in continuing with farm programs and policies that were designed for a stable world one where farmers were much more insulated both from the world market for their products and the rest of the economy here at home. COM* ON You euvs MOVE ovsa/ NEED MORE ROOM? 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