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Show Page A January, 1966 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Weve Got Good Reason to Advertise Food is expensive. It all starts with farmers. Most city folks and right now in the U.S. that is around 166,000,000 people-kn- ow the price of food is high because they have to pay dearly for it. And so many folks just couldnt be wrong. But they are wrong. Dead wrong. Farmers have kept their story classified top secret when instead they should have been shouting and singing the good news. Keeping such good news so secret is just like keeping the winner of the world series secret almost a crime. American farmers are in a world series and they have won beyond doubt. Right now the cost of food is 19 per cent of our disposable income, lower than at any previous time in history, and lower than anywhere else in the world. The cost in England is 30 per cent, in Russia 50 per cent. Move to Russia and you would pay 2.5 times as much for your groceries. Furthermore, the supply is dependable, the quality is excellent, and it has a lot of built-i- n maid service. With all those intangibles the bargain is even more terrific. Wouldnt we feel sorry for ourselves if occasionally the store were out of bread, potatoes, meat, cereal, milk, sugar, eggs and MAIL While the editor was on vacation for two weeks, the mail piled up. Just to give you an idea what we get, we took a picture of the stack, nearly three feet high. It consists of our radio program tape, being mailed back, all sorts of publications from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, publications from farm organizations all over the country and other usual odds and ends. THE DAILY fruit! THERE IS A way to tell the story, and probably just for the asking. Others are doing it. Just look at the usable space on milk cartons, paper sacks, wrapping paper, tape, cake boxes, letterheads, magazine covers, on toys for children, on tin cans, in daily advertisements, and ten thousand other places. Who could do it? It has to begin with an idea. And good ideas grow into sizable forces that could be felt and heard all across the land. Any individual or group has the. signal to take the ball and run. Wheatgrowers. Beef producers. Dairy go-ahe- ad farmers. Cotton pickers. Bread bakers. Just anyone with an inspiration. The grand story is already written. As long as we are well fed and the story is untold, food producers will be feeding an apathetic public. Once the story is told and everyone appreciates the good fortune that food is a bargain in the U.S., the business of fanning will get a lot more encouragement from the public and a lot more appreciation for winning the world series in food production. But most folks dont know that farmers have been winning the world series for a long time. Utah Farmer Grazsmg Fees Sesme ffer Western Public Lcands Obv v I get higher income than wehave been 'getting ' 'interest on : for allof our work, It could suit was ? our investment, all the commodi-enter- ed 'lasttyefeto' require the ties" produced and consumedfit Supreme Court to bring all prop- - home plus the rental value of wr ertytax assessraentsup to foil farm Whatv then is t to be done? f An 30Jof"reasonable faircash value asprovided fcyilaw.JjThe ramendmeut tothe Constitution of Intro-"withSupreme Court dismissed thesult 3 the state of. Utah has ; been nd prejudice" whlchfwe duced lnto theUtahState means it can be into- - lature urhichtwould provide that ;jByy Hew would you like you r real es-- ff taiejtaxesto go up 230 percent? : dweUingS.fp out Legls-understa- ,o.;cureS farm; land rather; than under; the present methodtSuch an ammend- erty are assessed at a higher per- - ' meht has already been passed in a cent of their real wine than others, numberjof states.';- It "contains Value for etty Agricultural reaTestate Iskaid toCfeaturesthat lmve as well as farmers jn that befassessed; atiabout l2, td 13, " people would it;: help to jove rcome percent of actual! market lvalue. scotch developmeid i ofsubdiv-g- et tobelleve,nd youcould the suitwas the con- some clas ses of prop- tentioo that I: Basis for hop-ttafh- ard a lot ' of argument on thefaideS islonsthatcause probmS in rural thfhrm.Lland;isvaAsesisedi too;;; toblc the ?i.S'a:Prgrun;MCbe sold Mgh.lt Cwe.ouiflves standout of that argument in 1964i;solely on Its meritfas a; solution whw,Heagriculiiiu(idiOibus;wasW taken!; One of .the! questions iskedjJfcC approved tatel iud deaU witli the market value oi faLra; land "and 1lldingslWhenthe i wUIbwi? byheipeJoC to the genelekmlfat serving green audits valuetepre tal-- If belts-- and iyiar was done. the farmers of Utah open spaces will have to thatfann land indJMldtriiiriieda&l dotfare. ; RetaWMiItctedlbT Hmt soWbeagttt.,fariirs otm. t djsMngtinarketfe : indicate that nssessments machiwequi arataboutil2StoI3 percent af;:aboutfseve! cash value.TET ANY ONE-- actwal HASCHVENONLYPAHSING; J rTOTHE 3ipROBLElllKNCWS ERttl PAXES ONFARM INCOME KVERAL4TIMESMSGHEAT; ASVrHATV AS AsWHOLtErt. The truth i5,dml;land taatesMUld m, 'ii.'fHo; farmer,; in thefstate could farm under 9f . decision are ahead action of the and later on thq vr present legislature UtahtfftsbU inns couldbe sloM fall Indicated cos of 1964 ,ardi4tononeyjpid.ctt.My?J . goW some 40of locomeTo quote Governor Ramp-te- . Public land grazing fee formula unchanged for 1967. Any change in fees paid by Western ranchers for grazing public lands in 1967 Medicare Open Door For Service One of the funniest descriptions of Medicare is the foloffered without prejulowing, dice or intention of embarrassing A man, feeling the anyone. . . need of medical care, went to the medical building for that purpose, and upon entering the front door found himself confronted with a battery of doors, each marked with the name of an ailment, such as appendicitis, heart, cancer, etc . . . He felt certain his trouble would be diagnosed as "appendicitis, so he entered the door so marked. Upon entering he found himself faced with two more doors, one marked "male and the other Ive heard "female. will come from fluctuating market prices for beef and lamb, not from any change in the Bureau of Land Managements current grazing fee formula, according to Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall. But for the 1968 grazing season, he said, fees will be determined by the outcome of a study of the operating costs of 10,000 range users in the western states now being conducted by the Statistical Reporting Service of the Department of Agriculture. The aim of the study is to compare the operating costs of grazing on various public lands with those on leased private lands. Udall said that the study, which is being conducted in cooperation with the Interior Departments National Advisory Board Council and range user groups, will enable the Department to establish a more Of er. equitable fee schedule in 1968. A sample of survey returns did not provide conclusive information for an adjustment in the fee formula for 1967, but it did indicate that a variable fee structure may be needed in 1968. The results of the study will be available next summer and discussions of the 1968 fee structure with the user advisory-board- s will be held in the fall of 1967. The fee for the 1966 grazing season for 33 cents per animal unit month, based on a formula pegging fees at 150 percent of the average price per pound of beef and lamb paid to growers in the west during the preceding calendar year. The fee formula applies to organized grazing districts in Utah covering nearly 23,268,250 acres, and involving more than 152,455 cattle and horses, and 961,000 sheep and goats. Pesticides Not a Hazard to Health, Govt. Study Reveals course he entered the one marked "male and found A two year study by the Senate himself in another corridor with Government Operations Comtwo doors, one marked "Protmittee found that chemical pestiand the other "Cathestant cides olic. . . . Since he was Protespresent no significant human health hazard now when matched tant, he entered the proper door and found himself facing two more against disease control and food and production. doors, one marked "white Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D., the other "colored. He entered the white and was again faced by two Conn.), who filed the report with the Senate, said "the committee more doors marked "taxpayer and He still found that too little was known of owned equity in his house, so he the possible chronic effects of went through the door marked chemicals on man or other or"taxpayer, again finding himself ganisms, but he added: "The fact that no significant confronted with two doors, human health hazard has been deand . . . "married. "single He had a wife, so he entered the tected to date does not constitute adequate proof that hazards will proper door and was still confronted with two doors, this time not be encountered In the future. one marked "Republican and Conceding that no answer is the other "Democrat. . . . possible now about the hazards of Being an honest man, he did not the future, Ribicoff said "we must try to switch allegaince for pol- proceed to strengthen some existitical purposes and went through ing links in the pesticide managethe one marked "Republican. . . . ment process. He said that directions on pesticides do not assure He fell nine floors to the alley. "non-taxpay- ' 67 safe and proper application; stressed the need for shortlife pesticides; suggested that uniform and improved state laws will be needed in the future, and added "aerial spraying in urban areas should be drastically curtailed. He cautioned that the sampling and analysis of 1 of interstate food shipments by the FDA may not be adequate in the future. The report recommended legis-atio- n to strengthen the pesticide regulatory system and develop a more adequate basis for future national policy In environmental management. The committee concluded that "while some of the more gloomy prophecies that had been made could not be supported by hard scientific fact, it is also true that science could not and still cannot prove that some of these prophecies are untenable. |