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Show aster relief programs, sup. port for export sales efforts inspection of grain andmeat' expansion of farm credit, and others. Goif'i ohould Ioogoei ogrieulfuro roGfricfiono than 25 moves by government govern-ment that have either caused or threatened a financial setback set-back to food producers. Starting with the 1973 price freeze on cattle which put cattlemen in a bind for years, he listed many cases of "needless regulation and restriction." re-striction." "Sweet cherry growers in Utah county lost 20 percent of their crop last year," he recalled, "because of unprecendented raids on migrant mi-grant workers. "There are areas, though, where the government can do a specific job better than other sources of help," he added. These include dis- Needless restrictions on farmers and ranchers have put: them into the financial bind they are in, and looser regulation will help them get out a farm leader told northern nor-thern Utah businessmen today. to-day. In a speech before the Og-den Og-den Rotary Club, Frank O. Nifshiguchi, President of the Utah Farm Bureau Federa- wmnm i i i n i m tion, spelled out ways in which federal government has restricted the nation's food producers in recent years, restrictions it is now trying to impose on farmers, and a series of steps government govern-ment can take to help improve im-prove their income and freedom. free-dom. "Only as a stop -gap measure, mea-sure, we are recommending incentive payments for set-aside set-aside acres to bring production pro-duction in line with consumer demand for grains and grain products," Nishiguchi told his audience. "We realize the danger of the government faking over control of agriculture ag-riculture when their level of payments to farmers and ranchers gets high enough." Nishiguchi listed more |