Association Believes Wool Act Must Continue For Sheep Producers To Survive (Continued tram Pago At) menu to growers in 1992 were some of the highest in history allowing many sheep producers to continue in business and provide a reliable, quality product to U.S. consumers. There is no net cost to taxpayers to continue the<program, since the money is collected from tariffs, according to ASI. In 1991, accord ing to ASI, tariffs collected more than $4Ol million, bringing the lifetime earnings of this program to $7.4 billion. Total payments in 1991 woe just more than $172 million. The income “stablizes entire rural communities," according to an ASI incentive program facts- AO**** T. A. DOEBLER & SON SEPTEMBER 5 COME and SEE! • Your favorite XP hybrids in production. Get a first look at the new line-up for 1994... hybrids like 49XP, 62XP and 82XP. • Doebler’s eastern corn acres - 70 separate hybrid crossing fields totaling 2200 acres plus. • New Hy-Clearance hydrostatic field sprayer with the latest electronics. Has a cab and 40’ spray boom. • New tassel puller using little wheels to remove the tassels mechanically. Height adjusts automatically using an electric eye. • The new 50,000 bu. controlled storage warehouse for seed corn and alfalfa is all complete and operating. Both temperature and humidity are controlled allowing seed corn to be stored longer with out loss of germination or vigor. ♦ August 9,1993 It's been dry here especially in July and to date in August. Irrigation has helped to make fields look very good. Plots are excellent and we are looking forward to a super set of Field Pays. Please come. ★ TOURS WILL BE GIVEN BY DOEBLER FAMILY MEMBERS AND DISTRICT SALES REPRESENTATIVES. hect. More than 350,000 Ameri cans in small communities exist on income generated by die sheep industry. The sheep industry con tributes about $2 billion to the nation’s gross national product. The problem producers see is that instead of 70 percent of the tot al tariffs being funnelled to die incentive program, only about 30 percent are. The rest goes directly to the U.S. treasury, which many producers believe is unfair. If the Wool Act were killed, according to ASI, the result would be lowered income to farmers and ranchers, reduced supplies of wool, increased prices to consum ers, and lessened incentive for quality improvement in the wool 2 Miles West of Jersey Shore, PA, Clinton Co. Exit From Rt. 220 at Pine Creek Interchange, 1000’ South of Intersection of Rt. 220 & Rt. 44 Sunday 10:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. CHOOSE THE DAY THAT SUITS YOU BEST Know your source of supply. It is more important with seed corn than with any other seed most farmers purchase! DOEBLER'S Hybrids ,« r - » FIELD Pine Creek Seed Farms 3 Separate Field Days For 1993 Main Office 717-753-3210 industry. Many other related businesses, such as the textile industry, would also suffer, in addition to feed companies and farm-related businesses that depend on the wool producer. According to Vogel, a regis tered Columbia Sheep producer, a great deal of the state’s sheep pro ducers approximately 60 per cent are in the western part of the state. The picture is the same nationwide but where th& graz ing costs are inexpensive in Pen nsylvania, costs are a great deal higher out West, because of costs to producers as established by the Bureau of Land Management. And if the attempts to kill the Act are successful, the nation’s ANNUAL SEPTEMBER 11-12 Uocwttr ftrrnlofl, -Saptaniby 4 r 1993423 wool producers may be forced completely out of business. State producers could suffer, along with associated businesses, with another negative blow to the nation’s troubled economy. ’ ’There is a great deal of activity nationwide among all areas having anything to do with the wool industry to lobby for support in the Senate for the Wool Act," said Janet Mawhinney, a Dorset breed er who serves as legislative spokesperson for the state wool growers. “We believe that each of our senators from Pennsylvania will vote to support the Wool Act if it is brought up for a vote when the body returns to session on Sept 7. ’ ’ In a letter to Lancaster Farm - HYBRID CORN DAYS Sat. & Sun. ing, Mawhinney wrote that U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Bryn Mawr) “wrote a very positive let ter to the conference committee supporting the continuation of the act. The staff of Senator Specter's office have assured me on more than one occasion that he supports the Wool Act” Mawhinney wrote that the asso ciation needs “calls, letters, faxes to each of their offices requesting their vote to support the Act in whatever form in may be brought up on the Senate floor.” Mawhin ney urges sheep producers to con tact Sen. Aden Specter a (202) 224-4254 or Sen. Harris Wofford at (202) 224-6324. T. A. Doebler
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