C2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 25, 1992
WASHINGTON, D.C.
American farmers are telling the
president that a draft agreement on
agriculture under the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) will do them more harm
than good. The National Farmers
Union has asked President Bush to
reject it
The document in question is
Cattle Feeder’s
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
The Lancaster County Cattle
Feeder’s Day is scheduled for
Tuesday, February 4, at the Farm
and Home Center, Lancaster. The
theme for this year’s event is
“Moving Ahead in The Cattle
Industry.”
Featured speaker this year will
be Martin Jorgenson, South Dako-
ASCS
YORK (York Co.) York
County ASCS Office will admi
nister a crop disaster assistance
program tq compensate eligible
York County producers for crop
losses caused by drought, flood,
and other natural disasters in
either 1990 or 1991.
‘To be eligible, producers with
crop insurance must have had los
ses greater than 35 percent,” said
D. Wayne Kurtz, county executive
director for York ASCS. ‘‘Produc
ers without crop insurance must
have had losses greater than 40
percent.”
Program Applications may be
filed from February 3 through
March 13.
The 1990-1991 crop disaster
program provides cash payments
for production losses on partici
pating program crops of wheat
NFU Urges Bush To Reject GATT Text
one prepared by GATT Director
General Arthur Dunkel. Since
GATT negotiators got bogged
down when the U.S. and European
Community could not agree on
farm trade issues during bilateral
talks, Dunkel developed a draft
agreement that participating coun
tries are now evaluating.
NFU President Leland Swen
ta cattle rancher and chairman of
NCA’s IRM coordinating
committee.
Jorgenson will present topics
addressing IRM integrated resour
ce management and Dakota Lean,
a branded beef product. Gary
Cowman, National Cattlemen’s
Association, will bring area cattle
men up to date regarding national
Announces
Crop Loss Program
and feed grains; nonparticipating
program crops; soybeans, sun
flowers, and tobacco; and all com
mercial nonprogram crops.
Kurtz said producers who
intend to file should begin to
assemble their records now, so
they will be ready when the prog
ram opens. He said that farmers
will receive a special mailing with
specific information on the prog
ram this month.
“If a producer does not receive
the disaster program information
in the mail by February 3, he or
she should call the county ASCS
office,” he said.
The ASCS official said disaster
payments would be computed
according to the 1990 Farm Bill,
and expects to begin issuing pay
ments to farmers by April 16.
Further details of the disaster
payment program may be
son wrote to Bush. Swenson told
the president that his group
believes the Dunkel provisions
will lead to “a decrease in Ameri
can farmers’ net farm income.”
Swenson raised specific objec
tions to the paper including the
formation of a new “Multilateral
Trade Organization” that would
replace GATT and whose powers
Day Set Feb. 4
efforts in beef quality assurance.
Penn State Extension Econom
ist H. Louis Moore will provide
outlook on “What’s Ahead For
Cattle Feeders?”
Addressing the important
health issue of shipping fever will
be University of Maryland’s, Dr.
Bob Dyer, formerly with the
York
obtained from the York County
ASCS Office.
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over signatory nations would
“amount to an infringement on
national sovereignty,”
The farm leader believes the
European Community was given
an unfair advantage in the draft
text which calls for percentage
cuts in the use of export subsidies.
The problem with that, says Swen
son, is that European exports are
Smoketown Animal Hospital.
Anyone interested in cattle
feeding is invited to attend. No
reservations are necessary. Lunch
tickets may be purchased at the
door until 11:30 a.m.
In addition to the formal prog
ram, there will be an opportunity
to inspect commercial exhibits
and visit other cattlemen.
The event will begin at 8:30
a.m. with exhibit visitation and the
program starts promptly at 9:30
a.m.
The meeting, conducted by the
Penn State Cooperative Exten
sion. concludes at 3 p.m. with a
question and answer session.
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subsidized at a higher level than
those of the U.S., and that inequity
would remain in place.
On the sticky question of har
monizing health and safety stan
dards globally so that such stan
dards could not be held up as a
means for limiting imports, the
farm group predicts problems too.
The standards being proposed
“will place the U.S. government in
the predicament of having to
choose between consumer and
environmental protection on the
one hand and American competi
tiveness on the other.”
NFU asked the president to
require an environmental impact
statement and an economic impact
analysis of the agreement before
Congress acts to ratify it. The
environmental analysis is needed,
says NFU, since fanning methods
and conservation-oriented farm
programs may have to change
under the plan.
NFU also raised concerns about
as yet vague “fine print” contained
in the Dunkel test. “The minutia of
the final agreement should be ful
ly understood before the U.S.
binds itself to the Uruguay
Round,” Swenson wrote.
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