Lyng Declares Results Of Wheat Poll ‘lnconclusive’
WASHINGTON - Although
slightly more than half of the
wheat producers who submitted
valid ballots in the recent U.S.
Department of Agriculture wheat
poll favored mandatory production
limits, no such controls will be
advocated by USDA.
“Based on the relatively small
response to the wheat poll, I don’t
think a great deal of significance
can be attached to the results,”
said USDA Secretary Richard
Lyng in a prepared statement. “I
therefore consider the poll to be
inconclusive.”
Lyng’s remarks refer to the fact
that about 78 percent of those
eligible to vote declined to par
ticipate in the poll.
Since the results of the poll are
non-binding on the Secretary of
Agriculture, many producers
viewed the poll as little more than
a formality mandated by the 1985
Farm Bill.
Of the 1,565,517 ballots mailed to
wheat producers, 346,034 were
returned, and of those, 26,626 were
determined to be invalid.
The remaining 20 percent
319,408 were valid. Of those,
171,389 54 percent favored
mandatory production controls;
148,019 46 percent opposed
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The poll contained six questions.
In summary, they were:
• Do you favor mandatory limits
on production that would result in
prices of at least 125 percent of the
national cost of production?
• How do you classify your farm
operation?
• Do you own or rent to others or
are you an operator/producer?
TROY - The 39th Annual
Northeastern Pennsylvania 4-H
District Dairy Show was held on
Aug. 16, at the Troy Fairgrounds
here, with 221 4-H dairy project
animals from Bradford, Columbia,
Potter, Wayne, Sullivan, Luzerne,
Susquehanna, Tioga and Wyoming
Counties competing at this show.
Wayne County 4-H dairy
members competing in this show
include: Mike Hardier, R.D. 1
Honesdale (Cold Springs 4-H Ag
Club), Brown Swiss Senior Calf -
second place; Jay Vail, R.D. 3
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• What is the predominant class
of your wheat?
• How big was your operation in
1986?
• Did you produce a crop of
wheat with an acreage base of at
least 40 acres during at least one of
the 1981-1985 crop years?
The wheat poll ballots were
mailed to wheat producers in 47
states June 25. The closing date
Club), Brown Swiss Summer
Yearling - second place, Jersey
Junior Calf - sixth place, Jersey
Intermediate Yearling - six place,
and Ayrshire Junior 2-year-old -
second place; Dave Jonas, R.D. 1
Pleasant Mount (Cold Springs 4-H
Ag Club), Holstein Junior Calf -
eleventh place, and Master
Showman, Holstein Junior
Yearling - eighth place and Master
Showman; Carrie Rutledge, R.R. 1
Equinunk, (Tri-Gal 4-H Club),
Holstein Junior Calf - tenth place;
Tim Rutledge, R.R. 1 Equinunk,
(Tri-Gal 4-H Club), Holstein Senior
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 30,1986-AI9
was July 14. velopes is a routine practice
Approximately 16,000 ballots designed to ensure ballot security
were rejected at county and guarantee the integrity of the
Agricultural Stabilization and polling process.
Conservation Service offices, Some 10,000 ballots were
rejected at the ASCS Kansas City
because producers failed to follow management office, where all
instructions for placing the ballots ballots were sent for tabulation,
in the proper envelopes or because Th® vast majority of these were
they enclosed more than one ballot disqualified because producers
in the envelopes. The use of en- faded to answer the first question.
Calf - sixth place, and Master
Fitter and Holstein Intermediate
Yearling - ninth place; Melissa
Megivern, Pleasant Mount
(Pleasant Mount Go-Getters 4-H
Club), Holstein Intermediate Calf -
fifth place; Lynn Megivern,
Pleasant Mount (Pleasant Mount
Go-Getters 4-H Club), Holstein
Intermediate Calf - Thirteenth
place; Sharon Rutledge, R.R. 1
Equinunk, (Tri-Gal 4-H Club),
Holstein Senior Calf - eleventh
place; Dave Banicky, R.D. 2
Thompson, (Pleasant Mount Go-
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Summer Yearling - third place
blue ribbon, Holstein Senior 2-
year-old - sixth place, and Holstein
5 years and over cow - second
place; and Karen Dix, R.D. 1
Pleasant Mount, (Pleasant Mount
Go-Getters 4-H Club), Holstein
Senior Yearling - fourth place and
Master Showman, Holstein 3 years
and over - dry cow - fifth place.
All of the blue ribbon winners for
type at this show are now eligible
to be shown at the 31st Annual
Pennsylvania Junior Dairy Show,
on September 22 at the Farm Show
Building, in Harrisburg.
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