A32-UMMt«r Farming, Saturday, February 22, IMS
WASHINGTON - North
Carolina Senator Jesse Helms,
Chairman of the Senate Committee
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry, today said President
Reagan’s budget for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture for
fiscal year 1987 is a realistic ap
proach to meeting the govern
ment’s responsibility to
agriculture while moving toward a
balanced budget.
“This budget, which will reduce
outlays for the Department of
Agriculture by 18 percent in the
next year, faces up to the harsh
realities and hard choices imposed
on a Congress that has insisted on
borrowing against the future for
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A Public Sale of farmq
equipment and grain bin
was held February 15 by
Alvin H. and Edna
Martin, 100 Gnunbine
Rd., Myerstown,
Lebanon, Pa.
Some prices were:
Oliver 770 tractor |l6OO,
Ford 800 tractor $2175,
snow plow blade for
Ford $225, J.D. 224 T
baler $1260, N.I. 5 bar
rake $425, hay wagon
$460, J.D. elevator $220,
Ford 3 pt. mower $225,2
bottom Ford plow $235,
Ford 2 row com planter
$l9O, gravity bin wagon
$575, bin $llO, straw $65
for 50 bale lots and Stor-
More 6200 bu. grain bin
and dryer $5750.
The auctioneers were
Melvin Sensenig and
Lamar Sensenig.
The Troxelvillc
Auction Gallery held a
sale on February 15, 4
miles from Beaver
Springs, Pa.
Some prices were:
54” oak round table
w/claw feet $BOO, 3 pc.
pink marble bedroom
suite $1050,6 oak chairs
0100 each, 2 piece
drysink $975, 12 pane 2
pc. corner cupboard
$lOOO, child’s chocolate
set $l5O, brass bed $2OO,
oak bed $275, china
closets $6OO & $335, oak
& brass door post office
$4OO, pie safes $375 to
$450 and set of 12 place
settings $340.
Sales Manager was
Joe Herman and auc
tioneers were C.P.
Jacobs, Jr. & Roy
Martin.
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Reagan’s ag budget is ‘realistic,’ Helms says
too long,” said Senator Helms.
Included in the reductions is an
estimated $4.2 billion drop in the
net cost of operations of the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
which administers commodity
price and income supports and
commercial export programs.
Senator Helms noted, however,
that this cost saving will be
achieved without changes in the
farm programs as determined by
the 1985 farm bill and will require
no further action by the Congress.
The reduction of $4.2 billion is due
principally to lower loan rates
authorized by the farm bill, and
advanced deficiency payments for
the 1986 crop.
“The President’s proposal, while
it certainly won’t please everyone,
is an honest and responsible ap
proach to reducing the spiraling
costs of the Federal agriculture
programs,” said Helms. “These
selective cuts, applied to less
compelling functions of the
Department of Agriculture, are far
more desirable than the alter
natives - indiscriminate, across
the-board, automatic cuts under
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings or
higher taxes. The President’s
budget pares agriculture
programs with a surgeon’s knife,
saving it from the meat-ax ap
proach of the Gramm-Rudman
reductions. In short, there are no
easy or instant solutions, and it is
put-up-or-shut-up time if we are
serious about reducing the
awesome federal deficits that now
threaten the stability of America. ”
According to the Administration,
the proposed budget for fiscal year
1987 will reduce net outlays for the
Department of Agriculture to $44.6
billion from $54.2 billion, a cut of
$9.6 billion.
Additional major reductions
under the budget would be
achieved by termination of the
Farmers Home Administration’s
rural housing program, cuts in
lending levels and interest-rate
subsidies by the Rural Elec
trification Administration, a
phase-out of premium subsidies by
the Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation, and ending school
lunch subsidies to children from
families with greater than $20,000
annual incomes.
At the same time, the budget
provides for an increase to im
plement the new Acreage Con
servation Reserve mandated in the
farm bill. Additional funding is
also provided for the Agricultural
Research Service and farm
operating loans of the Farmers
Home Administration.
The budget also proposes a 60-
percent reduction in Federal
funding to the Cooperative Ex
tension Service. “This compares to
an earlier proposal to end all
Federal funding for the
Cooperative Extension Service,”
noted Senator Helms.
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"Undoubtedly, many political
voices will condemn the
President’s proposals. But these
voices are silent when it comes to
workable alternatives,” Helms
said. “The days of wish-list
budgeting are over. If the
requirements of Gramm-Rudman-
Hollings are to be met, Congress
and the President must prioritize
Federal spending. This agriculture
budget proposal reflects realistic
priorities.”
“The burden of proof lies with
those who would criticize this
budget. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
assures that spending reductions
will be made. If there are those
who disagree with the reductions
the President has proposed, they
must be willing to develop their
alternative plan for the budget
reductions that are now required
by law. Political rhetoric is far
easier come by than responsible
and honest judgements. The
trouble is that political rhetoric
won’t solve the problems. ”
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