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Show August, 1973' ' Utah Farm Bureau News ICy hm feymidyp ? Developments in National Issues of Interest to Farm Bureau Members FARM BILL STILL PENDING Although the House of Representatives okayed an amendment to ban food stamps for strikers twice in one day, that is still an issue in House-Senaconferences on a compromise farm bill. Other differences of opinion have apparently been resolved in conference. They included the question of an escalator clause to raise target prices as production costs increase, the level of target prices, limitations on payments to any one farmer, and others. Apparently out of the question is a provision to move gradually away from subsidies and into a competitive te market situation, which Farm Bureau has requested. CORRECTION area of California follow the calling of a grape pickers strike by Chavez. With his membership down from 40,000 to 6,500, Chavez is fighting the Teamsters union desperately. Support is still strong fromAFL CIO for Chavez. He has received -- more than $1 million, with another half million coming. However, the AFL-CIhas required the reform of UFW hiring hall practice and its policy of dues prepayment which George Meany calls indefensible. O PREDATOR Page 3 CONTROL: TRAP LIMITS ;loU Eighty million pounds of imported nonfat dry milk have been added to the 1973 import quota into the United States. Authorized by President Nixon, the action became effective in late July to support Phase IV by boosting food supplies in this country. At the same time, the President launches an inquiry into whether the annual import quota of some 1.8 million pounds should be suspended or increased. Nonfat dry milk production has been below normal this year. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz recommended speedy action on the Presidents part when the expected production increase didnt take place during the peak milk production season. The Secretary of the Interior would regulate traps, requiring that they kill the animal immediately or capture the animal without maiming it. This would ban all steel traps now in use. The provision would require humane traps. Farm Bureau favors both the d continued use of steel traps leg-hol- and carefully controlled use of chemical toxicants. MINIMUM WAGE BILL A veto by President Nixon is ex- pected for the minimum wage bill being worked out in House-Senat- e conferences. His objection is the same as Farm Bureaus: the rates are to be boosted too fast, and there is no provision for lower minimums for teenagers. As if livestock men needed any more limitations on the control of whom predator damage, a Senate committee is considering a revision of the predatory animals act of 1973 limiting the type of traps to be used. employ students on a product has remained strong despite lower fluid milk output from the nations dairymen. Imports of nonfat dry milk have been under quota since 1953, when President Eisenhower declared an annual quota of 1,807,000 pounds. work part time, Utahs Representative Gunn McKay has introduced an amendment to make it easier for educational institutions to basis. part-tim- e demand for the Commercial With the original bill not calling for lower minimums for youths, many of I Due to a typesetting error, the July report on orchard reentry time in this department read that In Utah, apple and peach growers using 1973 USE YOUR FARM BUREAU MEMBERSHIP CARD FOR parathion and other organophosphate sprays would not be affected by the ruling. The report should have said they would be affected by the ruling by OSHA on reentry time into orchards after spraying. DISCOUNTS ON ALL MEMBERS SIZE LIST PRICE FARM LABOR SITUATION TENSE Nominations for state distinguished service awards for service to agriculture are due soon, Mrs. Barbara Whitbeck, chairman of the judging committee, has announced. November 5, 1973 is the deadline for county Farm Bureau boards of directors to submit their nominations to the state Farm Bureau office in Salt Lake City. 24 34 24 HR70xl5 34 JR70xl534 GR70xl4 HR70X14 GR70X15 Mark past years. Both a man and a woman are selected each year to receive the award at the annual Utah Farm Bureau convention in Salt Lake City each November. Winners are normally living but retired. All nominations must come through a county Farm Bureau board of directors. But any member may submit names of men and women for consideration. V Tubeless White 700x1342 E78X14 7.35x14 STEEL CQ'p Radial Belted PASSENGER CAR TIRE 42 42 F78x 14 7.75x14 G78x 14 8.25x1442 H78x 1442 14 8.55 14 8.85x14 42 42 x42 H 78x15 8.45x15 42 J 78x158.85x1542 L 78x15 9.15x15 42 J78x F 78x15 7.75 x G 78 X 158.15 Plus federal excise tax Bill Homes and Jack Brown, members of the state Farm Bureau board of directors along with Mrs. Whitbeck, are also members of the distinguished service award committee. 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