A34-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, October 19,1985 ST LOUIS The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is extremely disappointed and frustrated over the guidelines and regulations that the U.S Depart ment of Agriculture has framed in attempting to implement and operate the Export Enhancement Program,” says George Anselm, NCGA vice president for govern ment relations from Taylorville, Illinois. "The Export Enhancement Program-commonly called the Export PIK Program-has two billion dollars of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) owned Export PIK plan criticized WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Berkley Bedell, D-lowa, said that the aim of the export bonus program should be to increase grain sales, and he criticized the Agriculture Department for not using the program to sell more gram to the Soviet Union, or to improve our competitive position against Brazil and Argentina. “The question is are we going to compete,” said Bedell, who is chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research and Foreign Agriculture that was holding its second day of hearings to in vestigate the Export Enhancement Program, also known as Export PIK (Payment-In-Kind). “Witnesses have told my sub committee that we are an tagonizing our bigger customers because we won’t give them the same special prices we are of fering some customers. The Department has also decided that we’re not going to use the program to compete with Argentina and Brazil, two of our biggest com petitors ” Testifying before the sub committee today was Under Secretary Daniel Amstutz of the Agriculture Department and Deputy Assistant Secretary Denis Lamb of the State Department. “I was very dissatisfied with Mr. INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE We are overstocked and can save you $BO to $1 55 HOMELITE 1 SUPER 2 2 SUPER 2 2 VI SUPER 2 2 ISO 1 SUPER EZ 2 330 1 XLR 1 360 1 410 16 or 20" 16 or 20" PARTNER 16" 250 16 270 16" 325 18" 340 SUPPLY LIMITED STOP IN OR CALL TODAY PHONE ap ORDERS SV ACCEPTED I soo 1 550 2 555 1 565 LIMEVILLE SALES A SERVICE N W. Hors* Rl. 340 ■< 3<o . «l. M 7 LIkm.IIU Rd. Mt. V.nw. M. /! \ 6op *l. JO Will* H««. // » **.' V * y/ 94 \i 442-9304 ,7 to \ HOT MSPONSitLC Eftß —*7 U If/ \ TVMfiBAMITAI IMMC * ' Corn growers upset with export plan commodities to use over the next three years This could increase U.S agricultural exports by meeting foreign competitiveness and countering unfair in ternational trade practices," says Anselm But restrictive criteria for the program may prevent it from dealing adequately with the enormous and growing inventory of agricultural commodities According to USDA, the criteria for the program are. • sale must result in ditionahty to the world • sale must be positive to the U.S. economy Amstutz’s answers to the sub committee’s questions,” Bedell said. “There are serious problems with the program. As it’s designed now, it’s simply not working. USDA’s targeted approach is doing us more harm than good.” UGREAT /IFT OR )AD USE MJR ISTMAS AWAY LAN SALE REG. $145 $245 160 260 180 205 240 320 28 0 360 280 300 3 1 0 390 340 46S 460 615 330 360' 400 440 • sale must be commercial • overall program must be budget neutral • sale must coincide with overall international trade policy of the U S and supportive of the strategy in anticipation of the upcoming multilateral rouncl of international trade negotiations • sale may be part of a commercial credit package to a particular country • and the same must have U S. Government interagency clearance ad- 'We are even stronger m our conviction that the restrictive criteria" for the Export Enhan cement Program may not only doom any possibility of success with the program; rather, the program itself may well jeopar dize various U.S. grain export opportunities to other markets. Wheat is the only bonus com modity which has been included in the program. 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The Soviet Union, under the bilateral U.S.-USSR long term grain agreement, is obligated to purchase a minimum of 147 million bushels of wheat and 157 million bushels of com each year. The terms of the agreement specify U.S. wheat and corn will be offered to the Soviet Union at prevailing and competitive international price levels. The export price at which U.S. wheat is offered under the restrictive USDA Export Enhancement Program has not been extended to the Soviet Union This may have been a factor in the Soviet Union buying almost 630 million bushels of corn and refusing to purchase the additional 40 million bushels of wheat during the October 1, 1984 to September 30, 1985 period, since corn has not been offered in the USDA Export Enhancement Program. NCGA has, and continues to support and advocate the goal of more broad-based, ongoing and sustainable export enhancement initiatives," says Anselm. We have serious reservations about the restrictive and narrow criteria established by USDA officials in development and attempting to implement the USDA Export Enhancement Program. 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