Bedell, Daschle plot house action on farm
SIOUX CITY, IA - Improved
farm income and affordable
emergency credit will be primary
objectives in legislation which will
be before the House Agriculture
Committee when Congress
reconvenes in January, according
to lowa Congressman Berkley
Bedell and South Sakota
Congressman Tom Daschle
Daschle and Bedell, two senior
members of the House Agriculture
Committee and leaders in the 1985
farm income and emergency
credit battles, outlined their “1986
Emergency Farm Income and
Credit Package” at joint ap
pearances in Sioux Falls and Sioux
City Tuesday.
“Despite passage of the 1985
Farm Bill, it is almost assured that
Congress will take up farm
legislation again when it recon
venes. We believe any attempt to
address the problems in
agriculture would be useless
without provisions to maintain
farm income and relieve the in
debtedness,” the two said.
Bedell said the farm income
package is patterned after his
amendment to the 1985 Farm Bill,
a proposal which evolved into the
major 1985 Farm Bill battle on the
House floor. Under Bedell’s
income, emergency credit
voluntary set-aside program,
producers would be given the
opportunity through a referendum
to vote on a program offering
higher prices ($4.50/bushel for
wheat and $3.25 for feed grains).
If 60 percent of fanners elect to
establish the voluntary program,
USDA would be required to offer
higher farm income to producers
who voluntarily agree to par
ticipate. Particpants would sell
their grain on the domestic market
for a higher price through
marketing certificates. Producers
choosing not to participate in the
program could plant as much as
they want, but they would have to
sell their grain at world market
prices.
Daschle, author of the 1985
emergency farm credit legislation
later vetoed by President Reagan,
cited the need for emergency
legislation to restructure out
standing indebtedness held by
farmers and ranchers and provide
for a reduced interest rate. The
Daschle-Bedell program uses the
frame-work of the FmHA
guaranteed loan program to create
a working partnership between
state and federal governmental
agencies and local lending in
stitutions.
Under the Daschle-Bedell
proposal, FmHA would provide an
immediate 90 percent loan
guarantee to lenders agreeing to
restructure and refinance existing
agricultural debt. The FmHA
guarantee would apply to the
amount of debt written off by the
lending institution in formulating
the restructuring package. In this
restructuring package, lenders
would be permitted to amortize
this debt cancellation over 15
years, instead of the current
requirement that debt cancellation
be immediately charged against
SCRANTON Dr. Alan Mac-
Nab, Extension vegetable disease
specialist from Penn State
University, will be one of the
speakers on the program at the
Northeast Regional Vegetable
Growers meeting on Wednesday,
February 5, starting at 9:30 a.m. in
the Milwaukee Methodist Church.
Other speakers on the program
include Dr. Robert Tetrault,
Extension entomologist from Penn
State and Tom Jurchak,
Lackawanna County Extension
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Daschle said he estimates his
credit package could result in an
average reduction of 10 percent to
25 percent in debt loan for a
typically debt troubled family
farm, and an effective reduction in
their existing interest rate.
“Those two procedures provide
the most attractive combination of
improved farm income and af
fordable emergency credit, and at
the same time provide for im
mediate cost savings for finan
cially pressed farmers and ran
chers throughout the Midwest,”
Bedell and Daschle said.
coordinator for the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, will
provide training for growers who
need recertification or permits for
applying restricted use pesticides.
Other program topics include
vegetable disease identification;
varieties for 1986; plant spacing
and fertilization.
Lunch will be served at the
church but no reservations are
needed. For further information
call the Lackawanna County
Cooperative Extension at 9634761.
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* Sally & S.R. Slaymaker, 11, of
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* Samuel & Merriam McCurdy
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* Robert H. McDougall of RD 3,
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* Harland & Virginia Mead of
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in 1885 by his grandfather William
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* Francis, Helen & Michael
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original purchase in 1856 by
Francis’ great-grandfather
Patrick Redding.
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original purchase in 1876 by las
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Letitia Schmitt of RD 2, Hawley,
original purchase in 1852 by her
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Kenton & Phyllis Hershner of RD
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in 1864 by her great-great
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