(Continued from Page Al) effect, topped eight billion pounds. That figure, however, was a distinct improvement over the previous year’s 16 billion pounds, and even looks good compared to this year’s anticipated 10 billion pound total. Block attacked the NMPF proposal as being a “major step backward,” in that it also devises a complicated formula to link dairy support prices to cost-of production increases. The Reagan Administration believes that market forces are the only means to drive the excess capacity and resources out of the dairy industry. It hopes to end the price support program in relatively quick order, by dropping support prices enough that market forces will bring supply and demand into better balance. The Adminstration has been supported by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which is also urging a more market-oriented approach to all of the price support programs, including dairy. The Farm Bureau advocates a relatively simple approach that ties support prices to the level of government purchases, with limits on support reductions to avoid abrupt dislocations in the industry. Congress, meanwhile, seems to be following an independent path, apparently listening to the many experts inside and outside the government who have urged caution in cutting the support prices too rapidly. Both House and Senate com mittees traditionally are im pressed when an industry manages to rally around a single proposal, #i| Hoven't You Done Wf VAN DALE Unlor Long Enough You've got troubles enough without putting up with equipment that won’t perform Especially feeding equipment that you use every day in the year The answer- Trade now for a VAN DALE Save your motor, cable, winch, tripod. 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Vesicular stomatitis is a tran sitory disease thought to be spread by biting flies or mosquitoes and is usually detected only during summer months. “All livestock owners should report any vesicular condition to their veterinarians,” Glosser said. “Symptoms include blisters on the mouth, tongue, teats, feet and occasionally on other exposed skin areas.” LANCASTER SILO CO. • Reversible • Fits most barn deaners • Heavy duty forged links • 5/16 inch flat links • High impact pin swedging I differentials are seen as a con cession to Dairymen, Inc., which had resisted a diversion program. Dairymen, which had requested increases in Gass I differentials in the Southeast, had to truck milk into that region in order to fulfill its contracts, during the recently ended paid diversion program. The co-op, the country’s third In rare instances, humans can be affected by the virus. However, the disease in humans is limited to flu- hke symptoms of the respiratory tract. The last large outbreak of 2008 Horseshoe Rd. Lancaster, PA. 17601 717/299-3721 largest, represented the interests of producers in areas like the Northeast and Southeast, where “We’re on the verge of making supply and demand are in closer progress,” he joked. When asked if balance. Most of the program cost he thought the Senate could increases, it is felt, result from respond to titles and proposals unrestrained production in other approved by the House committee, areas of the country. he added, “We’re having enough The Senate, meanwhile, is difficulty working with our own plodding along on its own course, proposals.” with hoof-and-mouth disease vesicular stomatitis occured in 1983 when animals on more than 600 premises in eight western states were affected by the posed. But the price support loan rate would equal only 50 percent of parity and would be available only to those producers planting within their acreage allotment, he said. There would be no domestic or export certificate program, and no land diversion. According to ASCS, the last wheat referendum was held in 1963, with farmers rejecting marketing quotas at that tune. “I don’t think a referendum will occur,” predicted Weber, adding that Congress seems ready to take some “meaningful action” on the farm bill. But regardless of what “meaningful action” is taken, the outlook for wheat farmers can only be described as bleak, says Weber, noting that the burgeoning wheat supply is a result of overproduction and a flagging export market. “We’re expecting 1985-86 exports to be 1.2 billion bushels, down from a hivh of i R billion in 1981-82,” he MAGNA-Matic 360® Ring Drive Silo Unloader, / Features: • Positive drive in loose and frozen material • Smoother operation in tough conditions ■ ■■ ' ■■ ■ ■ Mixer/Feeder Agitator/F i I ler Pump (Continued from Page Al) *~~~ '•'•'tW? -Tit" • Quicker changeovers and increased silo capacity • Steadier delivery of silage with less winch adjustment with no end in sight, according to a Senate Ag Committee spokesman. disease. During this outbreak it became apparent that movement of exported cattle spread the disease from state to state. Wheat says. Carry-overs are expected to reach an all-time record of 1.6 billion bushels by next June, Weber says. Extension agricultural economist Louis Moore concurs. “I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” he says, adding that Argentina, Brazil and Canada are still encouraging growers to ex pand their production. “No one except the U.S. has even talked about making a concerted effort to cut production.” Randy Weber predicts that regulations hammered out in Farm Bill ‘B5 will include lower loan rates and “a move toward a more market-oriented type of agriculture.” The new regulations will probably contain a “strong export section” and provide for acreage adjustment authority. And a conservation program will no doubt be included, in order to take 20 to 30 million acres of lower quality cropland out of production, he said. Ml **
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