DES MOINES, IA A major
seed company official today urged
Secretary of Agriculture John
Block to sharply reduce 1986 crop
acreage planted by U.S. farfflers.
Carrol Bolen, a vice president of
Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
wrote Secretary Block that the
conference committee’s farm bill,
assuming it is passed by Congress
and signed by the President, offers
several opportunities to help
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Pioneer exec urges acreage reduction
Bolen suggested that 1986 corn
acreage should be reduced by
approximately 15 per cent below
that of 1965. Such a cut would put
U.S. com acreage at 71 to 73
million acres compared to about 83
million planted in 1985.
“While this may sound like an
unusual request from a company
dependent upon sales of seed,”
Bolen said in a letter to Block, “it
stems from two facts which I
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believe you, as a farmer, know as
well as I. The first is that farmers
will plant all their crop acres
unless there is adequate incentive
to idle a portion of them. Evidence
of this is our seed com orders for
1986 planting, which are five per
cent greater than they were a year
ago.
“We also know,” Bolen con
tinued, “that unless 1986 crop
production is held in check, the
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UMBERGER'S OF FONTANA
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HUTTON FARM EQUIPMENT
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NG HERSHEY AND SON
717 665 2271
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N H FLICKER & SONS, INC
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country could well find itself with
serious grain carryover problems
next fall even greater than those
in the fall of 1982.”
Unless com acreage is cut by at
least 15 per cent in 1986, Bolen said,
“our cukomers and those of us in
agribusiness could face
devastating adjustments in 1987."
Achieving a 15 per cent cut in 1986
might require farmers par-
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ticipating in the program to idle 20
per cent of their base com
acreage, Bolen suggested.
Bolen also urged Secretary
Block to announce farm program
details quickly, to use all the
authority given him by the new bill
to expand exports of farm products
and to make maximum use of the
new authority permitting long
term idling of land that would go
into soil-conserving uses.
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