Bedell, Daschle draft new credit bill
WASHINGTON - U.S. Reps.
Berkley Bedell of lowa and Tom
Daschle of South Dakota have
introduced ' legislation to
strengthen farm income through
the market and to help farmers
restructure their debts. *-
The legislation is a combination,
with some modifications, of
Bedell’s marketing certificate
amendment that was approved
last year by the House Agriculture
Committee and Daschle’s debt
restructing bill that was approved
by Congress but vetoed by the
President.
“We’ve just begun to fight,”
Bedell said. “The economic con
dition in our districts is continuing
to deteriorate. Legislation is
needed to stop the slide. ’ ’
The BedeU-Daschle legislation
would enable fanners to obtain
higher income from the market
instead of government programs.
The bill helps to set the domestic
price for corn and wheat by
limiting domestic sales of grain to
producers who choose to par
ticipate in set-asides. Farmers
who did not participate would sell
their grain for export at the world
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bill keeps the United States
competitive in the world market by
offering bonuses to encourage
more export sales.
“Our farmers don’t want to be
dependent on the government for
their income. They want a fair
price from the market,” Bedell
said. “If we’ve learned anything
under Gramm-Rudman it is that
government spending on
agriculture is going to be reduced.
The government is no longer a
reliable place to turn for income
support.
“We can design farm programs
to strengthen farm income through
the market. That’s what the
BedeU-Daschle legislation does.
It’s far less expensive to the tax
payers to subsidize exports and
give farmers a decent price up
front.”
The debt package, using
guarantees and more flexible
accounting rules, would encourage
lenders to write off a portion of a
farmer’s debt so that he could pay
back the rest and get on his feet.
By helping to prevent bankrupt
cies, the package benefits all
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farmers by stabilizing land values.
“This bill is important not just
for some farmers who are in
trouble,” Bedell said. “It’s im
portant to all farmers because it
would strengthen income and stop
the decline in land values. It’s
important to our towns and cities
because it would improve the
economic climate and set the
Midwest back on the road- to
prosperity.
“It’s a bill of hope for everyone
who depends on agriculture, in one
way or another, for their living,”
Bedell said.
Joining Bedell and Daschle as
cosponsors are Reps. Lane Evans
of Illinois, Dan Glickman of
Kansas, Harold Volkmer of
Missouri, Byron Dorgan of North
Dakota, Tim Penny and Gerry
Sikorski of Minnesota, Pat
Williams of Montana, Bill
Alexander of Arkansas, and Glen
English, Mike Synar, Dave Mc-
Curdy, Wes Watkins and Ed Jones
of Oklahoma.
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have changed to make a new ap
proach to farm policy more at
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that will free them from depen
dence on government subsidies,
and the congressmen say they
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lot less money and do a better job
Budget cuts tvould hurt
NEWARK, DE - Four major
programs and over 20 Cooperative
Extension Service positions in
Delaware will face elimination if
President Reagan’s budget cuts
become effective October 1, 1986.
The president’s executive budget
would mean a 59 percent cut
nationwide for the extension
system, according to Richard E.
Fowler, director of Delaware
Cooperative Extension. He said
Delaware’s funding cut would
actually be 64 percent because of
cuts in specifically funded
programs.
“All segments of extension in
Delaware would be affected,” he
said, “but hardest hit would be
pest management programs,
expanded food and nutrition
education (EFNEP), farm safety,
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Delaware extension
of saving family farmers because
it will use the market instead of the
federal treasury to strengthen
farm income.
4-H, and home economics
programs.”
The actual funding from the
federal government for the 1966
fiscal year is $1.3 million, about 50
percent of Delaware’s total ex
tension budget. The state, through
the University of Delaware ap
propriation, provides $l.l million,
42 percent, and county govern
ments support local offices with
$30,000.
“A reduction of this magnitude
would require drastic personnel
reductions,” Fowler said. “We
would have to adjust allocations to
all programs.”
Nationally, $2OO million in
budget cuts would mean the loss of
more than 10,000 positions in U.S.
counties and land-grant in
stitutions, according to Fowler.
“The president’s cut would
drastically alter the structure of
extension as the nation knows it,”
he said.
Under the federal mandate that
established the Cooperative Ex
tension Service in the land-grant
colleges of agriculture, funding is
shared by the federal, state, and
county governments.
“Eliminating 64 percent of the
federal commitment would erode
the partnership that has made it
possible for extension to thrive in
the state and nation, to grow from
an organization serving
predominantly farmers to a
system that reaches more than
200,000 Delawareans annually.
Extension provides research
based knowledge to farmers,
consumers, youth, and just about
every segment of the population,”
Fowler said.
Facilities at the University of
Delaware and Delaware State
College enable extension staff in
the three counties to deliver
educational programs to all
Delawareans. Approximately half
of the University of Delaware’s
extension funds and all those of
Delaware State College are
provided by the federal govern
ment.
Milker school set
NEWARK, DE - The 1986
Delaware/Maryland milker school
will be held Monday, March 17,
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the
Pencader Grange Hall in Glasgow,
Del. The event is being sponsored
by the Maryland and Delaware
Cooperative Extension Services,
agribusiness firms and
cooperatives. Pencader Grange is
located on Route 896 south of the
intersection with U.S. highway 40.
Two mastitis and milking
machine experts will present the
program Dr. J. Woody Pankey,
a dairy researcher at the
University of Vermont and Dr.
Robert B. Corbet, a veterinarian
from El Paso, Texas, who
specailizes in mastitis problems.
Topics to be covered during the
one-day school include: a mastitis
prevention and control program;
hygiene in a control program; how
infections occur; and mastitis
therapy. There will also be time for
a question and answer session.
The $5 registration fee includes
lunch, which will be served by
grange members. Registration
starts at 9 a.m.; the program will
begin at 9:30. For further in
formation contact Dr. George F.W.
Haenlein, extension dairy
specialist, University of Delaware
(302-451-2523).