*36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22,1984
NE farm
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Farm
organization representatives from
New York, Pennsylvania, and New
England have agreed to take back
to their members a “Discussion
Draft” listing policies and
programs the Committee believes
should be considered for inclusion
in the upcoming 1985 Farm Bill.
During four meetings over some
five months, the Farm Bill
Committee, chaired by Clyde E.
Rutherford, a dairy leader from
Otego, N.Y. has sifted through
many proposals aimed at
stabilizing the agricultural
economy through the soon to be
written Farm Bill.
In the end, according to
Rutherford, there was general
agreement on five concepts
“although each organization
clearly has the right to support or
bill unit drafts policies
not support what is finally
developed in the form of specific
programs or legislation.”
The Committee believes that the
1985 Farm Bill should include; 1) a
national agricultural policy that
recognizes the need for programs
and policies that will maintain the
variety and abundance of
production that has made America
strong; 2) a continuation of the
Dairy Price Stabilization
Program, with provisions for a
new formula for adjusting the
support price to reflect the costs
and efficiences of today’s dairy
industry; 3) an economic adjuster
that, with limits, will move the
support price up and down in
response to the relationship of
supply and demand (as reflected in
the rate of CCC purchases of
surplus dairy products); 4) an
extension of the present National
Dairy Promotion Program, but
only after a referendum of
producers; 5) establishment of a
standby program for dealing with
a potential surplus problem before
it reaches crisis proportions. This
could include one or more of such
things as a diversion program, a
heifer control program; a
production control system (base
excess, quotas, etc.) or a cull cow
program.
Organizations represented on
the Farm Bill Committee are:
Agri-Mark, Agway, Allied
Federated Cooperative, Dairylea,
Eastern Milk Producers, Inter-
State Milk Producers Cooperative,
Lehigh Valley Farmers, National
Farmers Organization, New York
Farm Bureau, New York State
GREAT 1 DAY
DRAFT HORSE
CONFERENCE
Sponsored by the
PA Draft Horse & Mule Assoc.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 29,1984
At the John & Susan Cole farm. Penn
woods Percherons, Center Hall, PA.
Located 3 miles west of Center Hall on
Rt. 192.
AM PROGRAM -
Presentation on conformation of the 3 major
breeds. Halter showing and soundness by
James Gallagher, Professor of Animal
Science, Penn State University and Scott
McAllister, DVM, Center Equine Practice.
PM PROGRAM -
Workshops on black smithing, hitching the cart
horse, field work and multiple hitches. 6 PM
Annual meeting of the PA Draft Horse and
Mule Association.
Registration Fee $lO
Chicken Barbeque $5
Square Dance and Hay Rides
Total $l5 Per Person
Checks Payable to the Association.
Send to; Lewis Biddle
R.DJI, Box 242
Boalsburg, PA 16827
Bl4-466-6215
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