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Show Wed HE HERALD, Provo, Utah Page 37 Trouble Sign: Demos Say Carter Too Farmer’s Low Slow on NewPolicies Doliar Share n the gro¢ today of a Utah ‘ommenting $126.97 e U.S. Department of Elmo W h lamilton, Riverton farmer and head of the Utah Farm E au Federation, said the fact that the exper of processing and marketing farm a month s up the biggest cost in food products prices “holds nomist, Howard Hjort, coe an: labor costs amount to nearly spent on farm-produced S$ share is only about This is the first timein histor Hjort ors share was higher thanthe{ mer’s. thal eve since 1973, retail food increases 0,000 do, 31 said, that He added AMERICAN FARMERS have been urged to been park their equipmentalong highways toalert the due to increased marketing costs and higher prices public to their demands for 100 percent parity for agricultural products produced and con for imported foods Iton explained that the switch in the dollar has an important meaning just a result of inflation, which is ‘aused by government over-spending, dollars paid to farmers and to labor would increase together. But while the farmer is paying more for his supplies and equipment, heisn't receiving proportionately more. said the Utahfarmleader. “‘In the caseof wheat, the produceris getting less thanhalf of what hedid 3 or 4 years ago, while higher input costs make that wheat a lot moreexpensiveto produce sumed in the U.S, Here LeRoy Addison, Cim Donna Bird Farmers Organize Strike National Association of Extension Home Economists in Boston recently. NA B is a national organization whosegoals areto insure prices in the years to come Carter Sees No Loss the “Farmers Strike will refuse to gr produceor pay taxes un less agriculture prices reach 100 per cent of We won't buy or sell any farm product, won't Home Economists from have an Boston fromSept. 19 to farmer, Sept. 23. The Reaching taxes, theme New our polling results in. dicate I havelost support in the farmbelt,” Carter told membersof the Newspaper Farm Editors of America at a White House briefing Friday. But. he conceded farmers are‘‘disturbed’” becausebig overall crops nationally have depressed prices while farmers in somelocalities had yields cut sharply by drought I know from ex- perience that farmers tend to blame the presi- dent when they have a short crop or when prices are low,” said Carter, a former Georgia peanut farmer When I wasn’t in of fice. I used to cuss the president and the secretary of agriculture pe people came Joucher sald trike Farm Receipts in Idaho Show Continued Decline BOISE (UPI Cash receipts to Idaho farmers buy during 1976 declined one percent from 1975 and were Ravenna area said Monday 13 percent below 1974, according to a recent report issue Economic Research Service of the U.S Department of Agriculture taxes and won't 50 states attended the anything,’ meeting at the Sheraton cher, a George Bou We will pay federal but not state and President Cartersa S entry in a recent major Horizons’ and objectives local taxes, during the Analyze Opportunities strike he doesn’t think he ha fair at Cologne, West Boucher and hundreds lost political support Germany, he said he Develop Potential’ and of other farmers from amongfarmershit by low didn’t know and scrawled Design the Future focus on personal imprices in recent months himself a memoto check provement as a profes- Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas paraded their but he believes the farm it with Agriculture sional cars, trucks andtra tor: bill he has signed will Secretary Bob Bergland I don't think anyof Wayne, Neb, i had d large or small... we a $5,000 loan f entagerate of 18 said PEOPLES| 1s) THRIFT Savings-Loans Peoples helping people since 1924 to peg government supports would price at a level that assure farmers 1 Faemecs Ph. 785-2031 Koenee : Crop cash re ts, led by potatoes, on the other hand, rose five percent from 1 The administration also will favor expanding agricultural research Carter said, noting that the new farm bill €, auto, furniture, equipment. provedproperty Paul Darby. an assis: tant to Bergland, asked eight percent du 1976 total net farm income in the state iropped 26 percent from the previous Primarily because of the decline in marketings of cattle and calves. receipts from sales of livestock and livestock products declined eight percent in 1976. a profit The report also indicated productionexpenses rose year Provo, Utah 950 N. University Ave 75-2300: Offices alsoin Sali Lake and Ogden in Mine dea how parade in south-central Nebraska says far Over 1,000 Extension pay any local or state In Farmer’s Support he might havesuffered from RAVENNA, Net UPI) An organizer of the professionalismofits parity by Dec. 13 membership help repair any damage money you need... won't keep you 1 HOME EQUITY LOAN SPECIALISTS Donna Bird attended National Meeting of of business and cause short food supplies and high ment did not O'Donnel | committeeman Boston Mee: FOr 100 Percent ofParity in the short run, but the tough economic times that havefallen on farmers coul! drive many of them out (UPI) row it for any purpose. Call us for the Alle Attends the truck driver hauling thefood, and the wholesale and retail clerk are getting higher wages and spending less for their own food Hamilton continued The consumer may greet this as good news “home equity” for only $126.97 a month at Peoples First Thrift®, and you can bor ni Al the sametime, the processing plant worker, WASHINGTON You can borrow $5,000 on your maron, Kans., a m ajor or anizer of the farmers strike stands behin ne of the plackards gna quarter-mile stretch. Their theme is “Don’t Bite the Handthat Feeds You (UPI Telephoto) 475 N. STATE, LINDON, UTAH Prices effective 10/5-10/12 Hershey Instant COCOA a... 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