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Show Page 4 FB Utah Farm Bureau News March 1975 names four Utahns to national committees Four members of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation have been named to national advisory committees, according to Elmo Hamilton, UFBF pre- join UFBF The Utahns and their American Farm Bureau Federation committee assignments are: Jay Child, Clinton, sugar; Jack Madsen, Gunnison, sheep; Jim Matsumori,. Sandy, vegetables and potatoes; and Gay Pettingill, Willard, deciduous fruit and berries. Child raises 100 acres of sugar beets area surrounded by suburban homes. Pettingill's location in the Willard-Perr- y area of South Box Elder county lends itself to his production of watermelons, cantelopes, and other tomatoes crops as squash, well as orchard fruit. He farms 155 acres. Its an honor for a state of Utahs Farm Bureau membership to place four farmers or ranchers on national committees, Hamilton commented. This is a tribute to the quality of Utah fruit-growi- re ng ng Insurance companies to meet March 1 9 ' Utah Farm Bureaus affiliates, the Country Mutual Life insurance company and Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company, will hold their annual meetings in Salt Lake City Wednesday, March 19. All shareholders are invited. Both meetings will take place at the Ramada Inn, 1000 South Main Street. CML will meet at 10:00 a.m. and UFBIC will meet at 2:00 p.m. Annual reports on company finances and acti- Elmo Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, has urged the United States government to (offsetting) countervailing impose duties on cheese being imported under subsidy to protect U.S. dairymen against unfair competition. Hamilton called for this action based on reports that European cheese will soon hit the American market bearing subsidies of 14 to 27 cents per pound. This would price them below the cost of production, he said. Such subsidies would violate the Tarriff Act of 1930 and constitute unfair competition to dairymen in Utah and the rest of the country, Hamilton pointed out. Farm Bureau supports the expan- subsidy violates the principle of fair competition which we support. In view of agricultures tremendous contribution to the U.S. balance of trade, he added, we feel that countervailing or offsetting duties are a better approach than import quotas to reduce unfair competition. Setting quotas might cause retaliation by our overseas customers and hamper agricultures ability to help pay for our oil imports. Hamilton explained that subsidized cheese imports adversely affect U.S. dairymen directly, and that they also reduce markets for our livestock and poultry producers. Even consumers lose in the long run, he said, because these imports drive some of our farmers out of business, eventually tightening the food supply and raising prices. Farm Bureau policy has opposed farm subsidies since 1948, Hamilton declared. We want to end government payments to our food producers, and were against other countries subsidizing their farmers exports to the U.S. sion of international trade that benefits both the buying and selling countries, he pointed out. We supported Congressional action in 1974 to broaden the Trade Act and give our administration additional authority needed to reduce trade barriers in negotiations with other countries. But the payment of any export photos-ai- gh . im- prove conditions in agriculture. If you dont join, youte withholding support front a major effort to presene free enterprise within the sphere in which you spend your life. Youll also lose out on tire, seed corn and other discounts, publications, the reward sign program, the automatic accidental death policy, and many other benefits. idea-swappi- ng Are you about to miss out on these advantages because you havent paid your 1975 dues? if so, pay them now! And if youve already paid, why not encourage a neighbor to join Farm vities w'ill be given. Subsidized cheese imports call for offsetting duties: Hamilton See-throu- . Thats Farm Bureau's motive: to farm in Davis county. on his 400-acr-e Other crops are beans, peas, alfalfa and corn. He is a director for the Utah Canning Crops association and past vice president of UFBF. Madsen runs 2000 sheep in Sanpete county and has served in the past on sheep committees. A partner in a vegetable in Salt Lake enterprise county. Matsumori has a long history ot service to agriculture and Farm Bureau. His practices of double- - and boost the output of his acreage in an triple-croppi- . 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