Clwsapeake Bay
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conservation districts in a six
county area of the lower
Susquehanna basin. About half the
money is available to farmers for
instituting Best Management
Practices aimed at preventing
erosion and water pollution. Such
practices include the construction
of manure storage facilities, no-till
systems, terraces and buffer strips
along waterways.
Seif pointed out that Penn
sylvania’s role in the cleanup ef
fort is crucial, since the
Susquenhanna River delivers one
half of the Bay’s freshwater
supply.
Deßenedictis said that since
farmers began submitting ap
plications in June response to the
program has been heartening.
I’ve been honestly surprised at
the reaction of the farming com
munity,” Deßenedictis com
mented. ‘‘They’re the biggest
supporters of the program."
Deßenedictis said that the in
crease in funding will mean more
educational, technical and
financial assistance to farmers,
particularly in Lancaster and York
Counties. Lancaster County alone
received 40 percent of the initial
1 1984-85) $1 million allocated for
BMP’s.
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noted that 34 farms have signed up
for this first allocation. “I have
several that have already begun
work,” he said. Gregory noted that
the funding limit for each farm is
$30,000.
According to an EPA statement,
the latest allocation would be
channeled into four areas;
1. $1.2 million, together with a
matching state allocation, will be
used for instituting BMP’s.
2. $239,300 will fund monitoring
efforts by the Susquehanna River
Basin Commission, as well as the
planning necessary to target key
areas for soil erosion and nutrient
control.
3. $435,000 will support
agricultural education and
demonstration programs.
4. $304,500 will be used to expand
USDA’s field staff in an effort to
assist more farmers in planning
and implementing BMP’s.
Wednesday’s session at the
County Park capped a two-day
Citizens Advisory Committee
meeting that began with a business
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at Lancaster’s Treadway Resort
on Tuesday.
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rice export prices and all cotton
prices to competitive levels.
Target price income protection
would operate alongside
whichever loan system was used;
and any reduction below the basic
initial loan rates would be offset by
increased target price deficiency
payments.
Target prices for grains, cotton
and rice, which protect farmers’
income with direct payments when
market prices are below the target
rate, would be frozen at current
levels through 1987 to prevent any
reductions in returns to farmers.
For 1988, 1989 and 1990, the bill
includes formulas which would
permit declines of no more than 5
percent a year in target prices, but
no cut could actually be put into
effect unless the Secretary of
Agriculture first certified that
farm costs for the crop involved
Flanigan, members gamed insight
into the difficulty and costs in
volved in controlling runoff.
We’re dealing with long-term
problems,” said Flanigan, in
dicating that her group will not
allow the Bay’s problems to
become a ‘here today, gone
tomorrow" political issue
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"good yields and fast
- drydown"
had declined by 5 percent from the
previous year.
When commodity surpluses are
above designated levels, producers
who want price supports would be
required to comply with acreage
control programs including a 30
percent reduction for 1986 wheat, a
20 percent cut for 1986 feed grains,
and cuts of up to 25 percent for
cotton and rice (although
producers who have to plant 1986
wheat and feed grain crops before
official program announcements
are made would get diversion
payments for 10 percent of the
cutback). For 1987 through 1990
crops, if wheat and feed grain
supplies are above designated
levels, the Secretary would have to
require at least a 20 percent
acreage cut for wheat and a 10
percent cut for feed grains. If these
reductions are not enough to cope
with the surplus problem, the
Secretary would have authority to
require additional diversion-with
or without payments for the extra
wheat and feed gram acres but
with payments in kind required for
cotton and rice diversions of more
than 25 percent. To make those
programs work more effectively,
the bill includes a permanent new
system for establishing acreage
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- PAYMENT LIMITS in the bill
include continuation of the present
$50,000 annual per producer ceiling
for program payments. Exempt
from the ceiling would be; (11-
target price payments required to
offset discretionary support loan
cuts below the basic formula levels
for any year; (2)- any cuts below
the old 55-cent loan floor for cotton,
and (3)- any land diversion pat
ments under an in-kind program
for cotton and rice. The bill also
includes a $250,000 per producer
limit on non-recourse support
loans for wheat, feed
grams, soybeans, tobacco and
peanuts. A separate $250,000 limit
is provided for non-recourse loans
on honey. (In both non-recourse
loan limitations, producers could
obtain loans in excess of the
ceilings but the amounts above the
ceiling would be on a recourse
basis which does not permit for
feiture or commodities to the
government I
The bill authorizes a payment-in
kind bonus export promotion
program designed to make
American commodities fully
competitive in world markets
where they have been undersold by
other exporters in recent years In
the export credit area, the bill
requires the Secretary of
Agriculture to make available not
less than $5 billion in short-term
export credit guarantees m fiscal
1986 and authorizes him ad
ditionally to use $325 million ’in
Commodity Credit Corp. funds for
direct export credits in connection
bases and yields, and further
permits multi-year acreage-idling
agreements to quality farmers for
support programs. Also, the bill
includes discretionary authority
for export certificates to help
promote sales of grains.
- FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS
AND LIVESTOCK. The bill links
future government supports to
changes in market demand and
dairy farm production costs. The
bill moves toward reducing sur
pluses and government costs by
providing a farmer-funded surplus
reduction program for use when
heavy overproduction is predicted.
Farmers under this program could
scale back their production or,
alternatively, take entire herds out
of production. The cost of the
diversion program, plus the cost of
government purchases of surplus
milk above 5 billion pounds an
nually, would be financed by
farmer assessments. (To protect
livestock producers in case of
heavy dairy cow sales into the
meat market because of a milk
diversion program, the bill
provides for additional govern
ment purchases of 250 million
pounds of red meat annually for
domestic donation and includes
new authority for farmer-funded
beef and pork promotion. In a
related area, the bill requires that
imported meats, livestock and
poultry comply with American
standards and residue
regulations.)
-FOR SOYBEANS, the bill
extends the market
oriented price support system.
This sets each year’s support at 75
percent of the average of market
prices for three of the past five
years, with a floor of $5.02 a bushel.
The bill continues provisions of
existing law permitting the
Secretary to go below the initial
rate (by up to 10 percent and not
below $4.50) in any year following
a season in which market prices
failed to rise past 105 percent of the
loan level. In addition, a provision
applying only to the 1986 crop
allows the Secretary to reduce the
final support to no more than 5
percent below the formula
produced level if he determines
that the initial rate was too high to
be competitive on world markets.
No target price or acreage control
mechanisms are provided.
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