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Show Page 8 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS February, 1970 Grazing Fee Moratorium Is Matched by Forest Service BLM Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior, Clifford M. Hardin and Walter J. Hickel, announced January 28th that grazing fees on the National Forests in the The 1 1 western states, South Dakota and Nebraska, and on public lands administered by the Department of Interior will be the same in 1970 as they were in 1969. The Secretaries said that further consideration of grazing fee levels will follow presentation of the re- the Interior announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the grazing fee issue. Comments have been of the Public Land Law Review received and reviewed and a final port Commission to the President and publication will soon be made. The the Congress. This report is due on Department of Agriculture also will June 30, 1970. publish an amendment to its reguThe action announced today will lation. not affect in itial fee adjustment steps Meanwhile in Washington, Utah's already taken, but will permit the Congressional delegation expresgovernment to take a common ap- sed pleasure with the action. Senproach to future steps on the graz- ator Moss took the opportunity to r)r a new cabinet level De-eing fee matter. of Natural Resources and Last month the Department of nt Agriculture In Action By M. L. Woell, AFBF An announcement that the United States has now joined a number of other countries in pulling away from the controversial International Wheat Agreement, has brought to mind warnings by farm leaders that the treaty was an bad deal for U.S. farmers. The Agreement called for gain ' exporting nations of the free world to accept an agreed-upo- n world" price for wheat and to offer their surplus to world markets in this level. U.S. farm leaders' protested that this higher pegged price would prevent Americas more competitive farmers from benefiting from their greater production at lower costs. Just prior to ratification of the agreement by Congress over farmer-protest, American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman testified: if the U.S. attempts to maintain minimum export prices for wheat over world market levels, there is danger of losing competitive advantages and restricting our volume of exports. This is especially true if other exporting countries do not comply with the minimum price as scrupulously as does the United States. Since then, as the farm leader feared, France, Australia, Canada and other freeworld countries party to the agreement have dropped prices to undersell the United States, which until recently continued to abide by the treaty. Nonmember Soviet Russia and other export countries of the Soviet-bloproceeded to compound the issue by also selling their surplus wheat well below levels set by the agreeall-arou- nd Environment. He said the delay between the announcement of the grazing fee increase suspension by the B.L.M and this latest announcement by the U.S. Forest Service, is due to the confusing resulting from having lands administered by. two separate departments. "It results in a lack of coordination between the two departments, which is another example of why we need a new cabinet level department," the Senator said. "He's Mentioned In This Issue' Protect your home from FIRE the easy, low-co- st way with Utah Farm Bureau Insurance. , oo Farm Bureau rates are Utah rate for home insurance. BELOW the standard c, ment Under these conditions it soon became painfully obvious that the U.S. grain trade was largely shut out of world markets and that a substantial surplus was building at home. 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