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Show Page 4 AFBF Opposes A FRIEND IN Federal Crop Insurance Fnr NEED...? Compulsory Cotton Check-O- ff WASHINGTON, The president, Utah, Salt Lake Counties D.C., Feb. vice-preside- nt, All-ri- sk Federal Crop Insurance will be available to farmers in Salt Lake and Utah counties, for the 1966 crop year, according to Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman. Sugar beets and irrigated spring wheat and barley will be eligible 9 and leaders of the nation's largest general farm organization today asked Congress to reject proposed legislation to establish a government - directed cotton research and promotion program financed by a largely compulsory cotton-sta- te check-o- ff of farmers' for insurance. Federal Crop Insurance investment protection on sugar beets money. Charles B. Shuman of Sullivan, also will be available in Box Elder and Cache counties. All-ri- sk insurance on barley and wheat is already available in Cache county, and on wheat in Box Elder county. Crop production expenses on more than 25,000 acres in these counties was protected by Federal Crop Insurance in 1965. This new insurance service for Utah sugar beet growers provides protection of their crop production costs against all risk, Including excessive moisture, freeze, heat, hail, wind, insects and plant dis- Illinois, and Walter L. Randolph of Montgomery, Alabama, president and of the American Farm Bureau Federation, asked a House Agriculture Committee hearing to reject H.R. vice-presid- ent 12-3- 22. The Farm Bureau's national officers were accompanied at the hearing by J. D. Hays, Montgomery, February, 1966 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation; Allan Grant, Berkeley, president, California Farm Bureau Federation; .Lewis Munn, Oklahoma City, president, Oklahoma Farm Bureau; C. H. DeVaney, Waco, president, Tex- ease," Secretary Freeman said. Federal Crop Inusrance guarantees a basic harvest, pegged at the value of approximate production costs, and pays the difference between actual harvest and the guarantee when the crop is damaged or destroyed. During 1965, Federal Crop Insurance protected 25 varieties of crops in 15 million acres. Production guarantees for sugar beet growers will be based on past years' annual yields on each sugar farm. The guarantees, which increase according to the production expense and the growth and development of the crop, are divided into growing stages. If, for any unavoidable reason, the production of commercially recoverable sugar is short of the guarantee, an indemnity will be paid. Growers will be offered dollar choices per hundredweight they wish to be paid for each hundredweight they may be short of their guarantee. as Farm Bureau; and H. H. Huddleston, Lamont, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federvice-preside- nt, ation. This bill, if enacted, would make the program largely com- pulsory, rather than voluntary,'' said Mr. Shuman. The fundamental questions raised by this legislation are not new," he continued. There are many advantages to truly voluntary programs. The voluntary approach provides a splendid opportunity for producers who are investing money in promotion to continuously the value received for the money invested. It encourages producers to feel a sense of responsibility tor their program, to take an interst in it and to see that they get their moneys worth. re-appr- alse . I realize that those who want to find an easy way to raise big money often prefer the compulsory approach. Similar arguments can be made and are made in behalf of compulsory unionism. There is a much closer parallel in the rationale on which this legislation is based and the arguments made in favor of the reey peal of section 14(b) of the Act than many of the supporters of this legislation probably would want to concede." Taft-Hartl- The Farm Bureau president recalled that in 1957 there was a drive on to get a legislated checkoff program for livestock to raise funds to promote red meat. and we were You were told told that there absolutely had to be check-o- ff legislation, and that the whole promotion program for red meat would be lost if leg- islation weren't passed, imme- diately,' he said. As a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the National Livestock and Meat Board, I know something of what has happened in the interim period. Progress continues to be made in perfecting a comprehensive, voluntary, and promotion program. The voluntary approach promotes cooperation between farmers and between the producers and handlers of a commodity. The compulsory approach provided in this bill will promote controversy and dissension. Many cotton producers will want to know why no provision has been made for other cotton interest groups to bear a part of the load. The proposed referendum almost certainly would be preceded by a bitter and divisive campaign which would create lasting scars at a time when the cotton industry needs to unite to solve its problems. MEET DAVID CATCHPOLE, KEITH WALDRON AND RAY OGDEN. David, standing. Is a computer operator. Keith, seated, is a computer programmer and Ray is the manager of the data proces-- . sing section. These are three of the employees who help make our- company one of the most - efficient in the business. Thousands of records, stored electronically, are momentarily available for prompt processing of claims, accurate billings and dividends. Part of your Farm Bureau Team. ntal 1TAH Ilf ABM DUBEAU HMttmce 629 East 4th Death Salt Lake City, Utah UOUS 07FICG: 239-066- 0 ww:v::::x:::w':wXw.:X'WX:Xv:vavXw |