Wolff Says
HARRISBURG Agriculture
Secretary Boyd E. Wolff today said
Gov. Robert P. Casey’s proposed
state budget “offers rural Penn
sylvania and agriculture a long
awaited opportunity to achieve
meaningful economic growth.”
Case proposes a $39.3 million
general fund budget for the
Department of Agriculture, a
nearly seven percent increase that
includes a new $3 million ap
propriation “targeted for
Feed Grain Program Aimed
LEESPORT - Since feed grain
carryover stocks are expected to
remain large at the end of the
season, Donald E. Lutz, of the
Berks County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service, says farmers may want to
study the benefits of the 1967 Feed
Grain Acreage Reduction
Program to their farming
operation. The signup period is
open now through March 30.
In an effort to reduce planted
acreage, production, and total
supplies to a level more in line with
demand, the feed grain program
contains a 20 percent acreage
reduction requirement and an
optional 15 percent paid land
diversion. Farmers may request 40
percent of their projected 1967
deficiency payments and SO per
cent of their diversion payment at
signup, according to Mr. Lutz.
“One-half of the advance
deficiency and diversion payments
will be issued in cash and the
remainder will be paid in generic
commodity certificates,” Mr. Lutz
said.
USDA estimates that per bushel
deficiency payment rates will be
$1.21 for com, $1.14 for sorghum,
$l.ll for barley and $.55 for oats.
Diversion payment rates are:
com, $2; sorghum, $1.90; barley,
$1.60; and oats, $.BO.
Farmers who participate in the
1987 Feed Grain Program will be
eligible for the same target price
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Casey Budget Offers Rural Economic Growth
economic expansion,” Wolff noted.
“The governor clearly has set
his sights on accomplishing an
economic turn around in rural
Pennsylvania and stimulating
growth for our Commonwealth’s
leading industry,” Wolff said.
“With cooperation from industry
leaders, the Department will help
him realize those critical goals.”
Casey noted agriculture’s im
portant role in achieving the
protection as in 1966 $3.03 per
bushel for com, $2.88 for sorghum;
$2.60 for barley and $1.60 for oats.
They are also eligible for price
support loans at $1.82 per bushel
for com, $1.74 for sorghum, $1.49
for barley, $.94 for oats and $1.55
per bushel for rye.
Mr. Lutz said feed grain
program participants will be
eligible to earn deficiency
payments on the acres planted
within the permitted acreage, the
«mmp as in 1906. Producers who
plant at least 50 percent of the
permitted acreage to a program
crop and devote the remaining
economic revitalization objectives
of his administration in remarks
accompanying presentation of his
$10.2 billion state General Fund
budget to a joint session of the
General Assembly.
Saying he recognized that “the
agricultural community must be a
full partner in Pennsylvania’s
economic development,” Casey
requested $3 million “for new
initiatives to support the expansion
of our aeriniltural industry. ..”
At Reducing Crop Acreage
permitted acreage to a conserving
use will be eligible to receive
deficiency payments on 92 percent
of the permitted acreage.
“Production of alternate crops on
acreage conservation reserve land
will not be permitted,” said Mr.
Lutz, “and grazing will be per
mitted after May 31, 1967.”
To be eligible to participate in
the program for one crop on the
farm, the ASCS official said
producers will be required to plant
within the crop acreage base for
each other program crop on the
farm, except for oats (ask at the
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Casey also requested $5 million
for the Penn State Agriculture
Extension Service, a vital com
ponent of state-supported services
provided rural Pennsylvania.
“We’re pleased that the
governor has provided us
significant funding to undertake
initiatives critical to agriculture’s
future and that he has allowed
flexibility in use of the funds to
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Wolff announced that planning
already is underway by the
Department to implement an
economic recovery plan for
agriculture and that “options for
the best use of the funds” would be
discussed with agricultural
leaders statewide. “We want a
workable plan that will yield
positive results as quickly as
possible.”
Other elements of the Depart
ment’s proposed budget that will
impact favorably on
agribusinesses, product
development and sales include
$2.75 million for Pennsylvania
fairs; $1 million to the Farm
Products Show Fund; $210,000 for
livestock, open and junior dairy
and 4-H shows; and $360,000 for
agricultural promotions.
Other budget appropriations
include $1 million, agricultural
research; $150,000, brucellosis
vaccination program; $300,000,
rabies research; $378,000,
livestock and poultry diagnostic
work; $350,000, field investigations
and poultry surveillance program;
$115,000, Johne’s disease research;
and $350,000, animal indemnities.
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