USDA Approves Additional EEP Allocation
DES MOINES, lowa U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy
announced an additional 20,000
metric ton allocation under the
Export Enhancement Program
(EEP) of U.S. pork for various
republics of the former Soviet
Union.
The National Pork Producers
Council (NPCC) has been working
closely in recent weeks with pork
industry supporters in the Con
gress and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to secure this addition
al EEP allocation.
"We are extremely pleased that
Secretary Espy has announced the
approval of the additional 20,000
metric ton allocation under the
Export Enhancement Program,”
said NPPC President Glen Keppy,
a pork producer from Davenport,
lowa. “Given the low market hog
prices which producers arc cur
rently experiencing, this EEP allo
cation is especially critical to our
industry.”
The EEP is expected to result in
an increase in value of approxi
mately $ 1.38 per head in the fourth
quarter of 1994. The 20.000 metric
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tons is equal lo 44 million pounds
of pork. It represents more than
220,000 head of live hogs, which is
equivalent to every hog going to
market in lowa and southern Min
nesota for two full days. It takes
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Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE), along
with approximately 60 other mem
bers of Congress, recently wrote to
Secretary Espy requesting the
additional U.S. pork EEP alloca
tion. NPPC representatives met
with Secretary Espy to discuss the
need for an additional EEP alloca
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22-ycar low in market hog prices.
“U.S. pork producers appreciate
the leadership of the members of
Congress who wrote to Secretary
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Espy and called the White House
to press for this additional pork
EEP,” Keppy said. “It will help
level the playing Held for U.S.
pork products against foreign com
petitors who receive export subsi
dies and Ell a need in Russia where
there is an extremely high com
mercial interest in additional EEP
sales.”
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ure an initial EEP allocation of
20,000 metric tons of U.S. pork for
the former Soviet Union. That
allocation was approved in Janu
ary of 1994 and sales were com
pleted last month.
In 1993, Russia was the fourth
largest importer of U.S. pork in
volume and value of sales, accord
ing to USDA. Russia purchased
16,895 metric tons of U.S. pork,
valued at more than $26 million.
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Farm Link Program Holds
Regional Workshop
For Beginning Farmers
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family in Western Pennsylvania
and in turn contribute to the revita
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retiring farmer workshop at the
Armstrong, County extension
office, in Kittanning, on Dec. 9.
According to Farm Link Coor
dinator Marion Bowlan, “The
number of farms in Pennsylvania
has declined by 55 percent since
1960. Half of our farmers have to
work off the farm to make ends
meet and over 65 percent of our
farms gross less than $40,000
annually.” She says these adverse
economic conditions have caused
people to leave the farm sector,
some involuntarily.
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the recent decline in farm numbers
is primarily due to reduced farm
entry. Just as adverse economic
conditions in farming caused peo
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discouraged new people from
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sylvania agriculture depends on
young people being able to enter
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intensive business, many young
people do not have the economic
resources needed to start up a
farm. At the same time, many older
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Pennsylvania Farm Link brings
together experienced farmers near
ing retirement, or other interested
landholders, with beginning far
mers looking to operate their own
farm. Hoping to help beginning
farmers realize their dream of
obtaining their own farm, Bowlan
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nearing retirement and landholders
who would like to leave a living
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on their land.”
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workshop will address farm trans
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