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Show May, 1966 UTAH FARM BUREAU Page 5 NEWS World Need Not Starve Housewarming Held At Hew Smoot House "Socialism and hunger are twin brothers," Charles serts, "and In January of this year, A.V. Smoots home burned to the ground. In less than a week, footings for the home were completed. Family, friends and neighbors cheerfully went to work in the cold to get the house finished. The houses in that part of Corinne aren't too close together and to many city people it would look a little lonely. new A. V. The idea of moving to Brigham was squashed in a hurry. City "Move to Brigham? With friends and family like we've got, why should we want to live anywhere but here?" In late April, a housewarming was held with friends and family Smoot's now home at Corinne. coming from great distances to wish the Smoots much happiness in their new home. And a special look of accomplishment shone on of those good folks the faces who drove nails and laid bricks. B. Shuman asgovernment manage- with its ment of the economy inevitable bureaucratic red tape and mlsallocatlon of resources is one of the principal causes of low agricultural productivity in many of the underdeveloped nations of the world." India, Russia, and other food deficit nations have a tremendous potential for increased food production, he said, if it were stimulated by the incentives of market prices that reflect consumer than nees rather political management. production in "Agricultural increased India has only three 10 in the last years while percent U.S. production gains have been almost that much in one year," Shuman said. U.S. farmers cannot feed the even with their great agricultural productivity, he caut world, ioned, but American producers could dramatically expand needed of doproduction if the one-thi- rd were mestic farm production freed from costly and restrictive controls and subsidies supby the Administration. ported "It would be the height of folly to attempt to even partially supply world food needs simply by superimposing a food for freedom program on current domestic price support and adjustment programs as advocated by the Administration," he said. "Why cling to a program geared to another day that produces burdensome surpluses, costs billions of dollars and makes farmers dependent on government for a reduced Income? "This is our golden opportunity to strengthen the market system, & respond to a humanitarian need, if we can dislodge the bureaucratic who are reluctant to bunglers control of farmers. relinquish FARMERS AND RANCHERS . . . CONVERT NON PRODUCTIVE LAND TO BIG PROFITS WITH AN Olsen, UFB Executive Secretary,- left, and A. V. Smoot look at lightweight pipeline milker in Smoot's modem milking parlor. Twelve cows can be milked simultaneously, moving through at a rate of 100 per hour. V. Allen 'TXTcxm RANCH KAMP SMALL INVESTMENT... - 20-3- 0 families. building decigned to auure adequte facilities for of and labor minimum a small cook. For investment a you There are no cabins to blld, no beds to moke ond no meals to should be dble to odd substantially to your cash income. Your RKOA locotion will be publicized through directories distributed nationally at travel shows, camping equipmentmanufacturers, allavailable lists of camper names and in response to requests from national advertising. RKOA offers you on economical ed pre-bui- lt EASY OPERATION . . . Appealing factors which interest the urban camping family include fishing, hiking, rock hunting, photography, historic points, hunting, nature study, or just everyday farm or ranch life. Each RKOA affiliate will have a standard building housing hot shower and toilet facilities, laundry machines and limited grocery and sundry items. A screened portion of the structure serves os an evening recreation area ond for inclement weather. A minimum of 4.00 per night per family and I per hour per riding horse will be standard at RKOA's. coin-operat- For more information write to : : - Ranch Kamps of America, Inc. : Box 361, Billings, Montana : Name . . . : I Ado r ess City L COW BARN at the Smoot dairy in Corinne. Slab in center permits feed wagon to be driven through the bam. The East section has its own corral as does the West side. Another feature is individual stalls. A 25 feed reduction was noted as a result of the new barn. THE NEW . . State --- --- Market System (continued from page 2) Further extension of food aid by the United States should be conditioned upon the willingness of the to replace nations recipient government management of agrl- - culture with a market price system. Also, we should insist that they encourage private capital investment by permitting incentives, by checking inflation, and by removing other Obstacles to pro- The dumping of CCC stocks in order to hold down market prices to farmers Is part and parcel of the compensatory payment apStocks are dumped to proach. force compliance with the governgress. Such a program would make ment programs and also to prevent it possible gradually to replace increases In consumer prices. food aid with increased local proThis not only depresses the prices duction or commercial purchases of the commodities dumped but financed by increases in. their own indirectly distorts the prices reexports of those things they can ceived by poultry, dairy, and liveproduce relatively most effistock producers. It also accustoms ciently. Our Marketing Food for consumers to artificially low marFreedom program is designed to ket prices, to the detriment of all achieve these goals. farmers. No friend of the farmer Changes In our domestic farm could support the governments use also are needed. of its stocks to depress market programs Members of this Committee are prices and thereby force farmers familiar with Farm Bureau policy to depend on direct payments from on the Food and Agriculture Act the Treasury for their net incomes. of 1965. We vigorously opposed In many cases today the check the its enactment. We are opposed farmer receives directly from the to compensatory payments. If government is more than his we pursue this route it inevitably realized net farm income. will lead to limitations on payments The President's proposal for the and thus lower the net incomes of establishment of food and fiber efficient producers. The USDA reserves would perpetuate the currently is estimating that direct government's ability to depress payments to farmers from the market prices. Due to the proTreasury will amount to about ductive capacity of American agriThis Is culture, the variety of products $3.4 billion in 1966. approximately 24 percent of the we produce, the geographical disrealized net farm income ($14 persion of our important producing billion) of all U.S. farmers for '65. (continued on page 6) |