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Show - Railroads asked to reduce rates ;it Railroads serving the 111 western states will be asked to : 5 make freight rate cuts on feed -miiis shipped from the Mid-' Mid-' west that would save the livestock, live-stock, dairy and poultry feed--g industries in the area Yoi- about $5 million a year, State Comiwssioner of Argiculture George Q. Spencer reported. UR Agreement on the proposals IT to bo made to railroads -as reached at a meeting of f 1 the Western States Feed Stuffs ': Transportation Committeee at 3an Francisco last week. Spencer said the roads will Uv'be asked to reduce the rate on gy soybean meal, a principal in-jrediant in-jrediant of livestock feed, from ie Decatur, Illinois area and jrest by $6-20" a ton, from the present level of $22.20 to $16. they will be asked to cut the rate on corn and milo from the 'Minneopolis-Omaha-K a n-sas n-sas City region and west by $3 a ton, from $16 to $13. The proposals will be filed with the railroads Transcontinental Transcon-tinental Freight Bureau on December De-cember 20. They will be considered con-sidered at a public hearing in Chicago scheduled for January 19. A decision is expected in April. Spencer said the proposals are the result of a "massive effort" by the livestock, dairy and poultry feeding industries of the West. In Utah, as in other states, a state-wide com- ' mittee was organized by feeding feed-ing industry companies and organizations, or-ganizations, with the State Department De-partment of Agriculture and the State Utilities and Transportation Trans-portation Commission as coordinating coor-dinating agencies and developing develop-ing material to support the proposals. "Because the feeding industries indus-tries in the western states must compete with feeders in other areas who enjoy substantially sub-stantially lower rail rates on feed ingredients, particularly the southeast states, our feeders feed-ers must receive relief through rate reductions if they are to survive," Spencer said. The Western States Feed Stuffs Transportation Committee Commit-tee has raised funds to employ two traffic consultants, Fred Tolan of Seattle and Donald Marken of Los Angeles, to prepare the proposals and present pre-sent them to the Transcontinental Transcontin-ental Freight Bureau. |