A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 18,1985
WASHINGTON - Secretary of
Agriculture John R. Block and
Canadian Agriculture Minister
John Wise today agreed on several
agricultural trade and policy
matters at the first meeting since
they arranged last fall to meet on a
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sylvania’s com, oats, wheat and
barley stocks on April 1 totaled 97.7
million bushels, up 73 percent from
1984, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service.
Stocks on farms, at 85.9 million
bushels, were up 80 percent from
last year and off-farm stocks at
11.8 million bushels were up 39
percent.
Pennsylvania com stored in all
positions on April 1 totaled 84.6
million bushels, up 86 percent from
last year’s level of 45.4 million
bushels. Oats held in all positions
ammounted to 8.0 million bushels,
up 24 percent from the 6.5 million
bushels on hand a year earlier.
Wheat stocks in all positions
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Block reviews trade issues with Canadian ag minister
semi-annual basis.
Major items of agreement in
cluded:
• Joint efforts at imorovina
agricultural trade relations by
encouraging the formation of a
U.S.-Canadian horticultural in
dustry advisory group to identify
State grain stocks up 73%
totaled 4.26 million bushels, up 17
percent from last year’s level of
3.63 million bushels.
Pennsylvania barley in all
storage positions, at 886,000
bushels, increased five percent
from a year ago. Soybean stocks on
farms st 2.26 million bushels were
almost three times more than last
year’s total of 766,000 bushels.
U.S. com stocks in all positions
on April 1 totaled 3.96 billion
bushels, 22 percent more than the
1984 level of 3.25 billion bushels.
Oats in all storage positions totaled
256 million bushels, down five
percent from April 1 a year ago.
Barley stored in all positions
totaled 319 million bushels, 19
percent more than the 269 million
bushels on a hand a year ago.
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the problem areas and recommend
ways of reducing trade frictions.
• A commitment to do what is
necessary to improve market
access, and reduce trade distor
tions such as export subsidies.
“Agricultural trade between
All wheat stored in all positions
on April 1 totaled 1.67 billion
bushels, five percent less than the
1.76 billion bushels on hand a year
earlier. Soybeans m all positions
totaled 898 million bushels, up 14
percent from last year.
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of the situation on both sides of the
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noting that the semi-annual
meetings are beneficial for
agriculture in both countries.
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respective domestic farm policy
developments, to address bilateral
trade irritants, and to identify
ways of furthering our mutual
interests in strengthening the
world agricultural trade system,”
Block said.
Other subjects discussed were
the U.S. countervailing duty in
vestigation into Canadian hog and
pork exports to the United States,
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products containing sugar,
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in potatoes and other horticultural
products, health matters in
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