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HARRISBURG - Members of
the Pennsylvania Fanners Union
will join Fanners Union members
from ten other states in
Washington, D.C. on March 25 and
26.
This massive two-day lobbying
effort will focus on the 1985 farm
bill through the lens of Farmers
Union policy.
Key points include:
• TTiis farm bill should be a long
term law, rather than only 4 years.
• The wide discretionary
authorities provided to the
Secretary of Agriculture should be
drastically limited.
* Minimum price support
protection must be established at
cost of production levels.
* Reserve programs must insure
an adequate supply to meet
domestic needs and export com
mitments.
• The role of the Commodity
Credit Corporation should be
expanded to include negotiation of
long-term agreements with im
porting nations.
* Congress should establish the
base programs for commodities
and the discretionary authority of
the Secretary should extend only to
the necessary ranges to allow
effective adjustment of supply
management programs to meet
domestic and international
demand.
* Deficiency payments should be
made to producers in an amount
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State Farmers Union joins
two-day lobbying effort
representing the difference bet
ween the full parity price and the
average market price. Payments
should be made on a de-escalating
scale, so as to direct the most
financial aid to family farmers.
* Realistic limitations on
payments must be enacted to
provide effective production and
preference to the family farmer
and the family-farm system of
agriculture.
* Cross compliance should be
required for producers to be
eligible for benefits of any single
commodity program whenever
supplies of one commodity are out
Northumberland no-till meeting
SUNBURY - The Nor- Chemical Corporation; Vernon
thumberland County Conservation Brose, Northumberland County
District will hold its second annual agent; Norman Conrad, Union
no-till conference March 29th at County agent; and George
the Fanners Best Restaurant, Phillips, Northumberland County
East Lewisburg. The workshop is farm planner,
being co-sponsored by the District, Topics include aspects of no-till
Cooperative Extension Service, planting, no-till equipment, weed
and the Soil Conservation Service, and insect control, no-till plot
The session runs from 10:00 a.m. demonstrations, as well as other
to 3:30 p.m. and will cover a topics. Highlighting the conference
variety of no-till topics will be a panel discussion featuring
Guest speakers will include Lynn several of Northumberland
Hoffman, superintendent, Penn County’s most experienced no-till
State Rock Spring Agronomy farmers.
Farm; Dr. W. Thomas Lamm, As 3 registration fee for the
extension agronomy specialist workshop includes lunch. Tickets
from Penn State: John Spitzer, may be purchased by sending a
Pennsylvania state agronomist for check to the Northumberland
the USDA Soil Conservation Countgy Conservation District, R.
Service; Mike Fleming, Velsicol D. #2 Box 347-1, Sunbury, PA 17801.
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of balance with other commodity
supplies.
* Mandatory supply
management programs adopted
through producer referenda should
systematically replace current
programs which permit a minority
of producers to frustrate the
supply adjustments made by the
majority.
• Non-farm corporations or alien
owners should not be eligible to
receive farm program benefits.
Anyone interested in going along
to the lobbying trip should call the
state farmers union office, 1-800-
932-4629, for more details.
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