Show Federal Aids to Agriculture re Aired at S 5 Utah fittest Me Farmers of southern Utah m met t recently with officials of the Federal Housing Adminis and the States State's cal Action Panel to air some 30 proposals of the federal gov government for keeping small farmers from moving train irom the rural areas P Participants strongly ed some of the proposals stamped approval to some seine of them and tossed out their own suggestions THE GROUP was live of most small smail farmers in utah They opposed any govern ment programs that would give them something for nothing but support programs which would help the farmer to help heip him self They importance of 01 government programs which would would create incentive for the farmer wanting to achieve and passed a resolution to request additional federal funds for reo re- rehabilitation habilitation of range lands with livestock use nonuse periods in in- in instead stead of grazing ONE STOCKMAN lashed out at the and charged The government dont don't want the farmers to make per cent of parity Parity was defined as a fair price for farm products which would enable farmers to make a need need- needed ed profit Farmers also asked for an ar board in relation to livestock cuts on the ranges in in- in instead stead of the cuts being forced upon pon them by federal agencies THEY CRITICIZED the gOY gov- government for playing politics with with agriculture but asked for increased cost sharing pro pro- programs grams Another area in which farm farm- farmers ers were highly critical was in ina ina a proposal that the government buy and sell farms Farmers were strongly opposed to the government getting into the thereal thereal real estate business Most of the 30 programs would carry some direct fin fin- financial ancial benefit to the farmers These were broken into major categories Adding an enterprise would include loans fo such pr as small beef na sheep enter building of fish ponds planting of marketable pro pro- products products ducts on woodlands and nd grow grow- growing ing of vegetables UNDER THE THE category of buy improve or enlarge the farm loans would be avail avail- available able and assistance given to water development The gov government would buy and resell farms give aid to young farm ers in renting more land help helpin helpIn in building of storage facilities and n e expanding sharing cost ri g pro grams grams Many proposals ls were Intro Intro Intro- Introduced under the title of tires tion and training These in in- in eluded in manage management ment employ meat ment in forestry and others THE FINAL category was entitled Aid Coops and con con- consisted of proposals to expand op co-op services loans for med sized lum-sized coops ops co-ops training of leaders to help small farmers a national contract analysis and forestry co ops Costs of the programs reach staggering figures and most farmers seemed to feel that the federal government government should begin to try to live within a bal balanced budget Just help us with a free market pleaded one st stockman This would help us a lot more than the 30 pro pro- proposals proposals DI DIRECT R financial al ce was proposed sunder the broadening of social social security increasing jobs to farmers on public projects direct govern govern meat ment purchase f products reo re- refinancing financing of debts and nega nega- nega live income tax structure Douglas T Simpson chair man of the Action Panel and of the federal Housing Adminis said r recommendations of the group should be forward forward- forwarded ed to Washington Secretary Freeman will study proposals from this group and and others othera and these will be used s d to d determine t future farm programs he said This method of f asking the farmer his opinion j la the best way ay to get get at t the h pro pro- problem blem blem I |