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Show The Summit County Bee Coalville. UT 84017 Friday. May 1. 1987 Beebes REDMAN VAN & STORAGE CO. hjr C. Booth WaUentine Serving Weiotch and Sammlt Coantles Livestock producers and consumers would be the big losers if the much touted Hsrkin farm bill were adopted by Congress. But there would be plenty of other losers to go around, including every rural community hi the county and three out of ten people in America 'whose jobs depend on the agricultural , industry. The Harkin Bill is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin joined by a handful of other lawmakers. The bill is basically a system of strict quotas, limiting how much each farmer can produce and fencing prices of that reduced production dramatically upward. Harkin says his bill would reduce farm subsidies while increasing farm prices. Texas A & M University's Agirculture and Food Policy Center (AFPC) Government costs disagrees. for the program crops increase about three percent compared to the 1985 farm bill. Despite absence of support payments on and Long Distance Moving Packing Material Availble Local Park aty Sales P.O. Box 680580 -- Park Located Office 1351 Koams Blvd. aty, Utah 84068 69-M- z at thePaper Casa (D-Iow- a), TO SERVE YOUR NEEDS MORE CONVENIENTLY... MOUNTAIN VALLEY SERVICE IS REMODELING over will help us provide low-fa- t, delicious fast foods! WATCH FOR SPECIAL COUPONS Come in now for GAS DISCOUNT COUPON worth $8.00 when complete. A new-ag- e 220 South Main Kamas the domestic proportion of production, government costs increase," an AFPC report says. So taxpayers would pay twice for Harkin's idea; once in higher market subsidies and again in dramatically higher food prices 783-435- 9 at the supermarket But livestock producers would SPRING CLEAN UP-- To assist Summit County property owners with Spring clean up and trash removal, the Summit County Road Crew will collect trash and debris not suitable for regular garbage trucks. Old vehicles will NOT be hauled away in this clean up. Collection will begin May 4, 1987, at 8:00 a.m. All trash to be collected should be placed off the edge roadway where weekly trash is placed for pickup. Those who use dumpsters on a weekly basis may deposit debris at dumpster locations. Please have everything to be collected in place no later than 8:00 a.m. on Monday, May 4th. Once a truck goes through a subdivision or area it will not return. Collection may take several days, depending on the iniountoyrarticigantsTrashjwill twice annually. That's more than the number of cows slaughtered yearly under the current dairy suffer most The AFPC says, the impact of the Harkin bill on the price of feed is direct. Harkin raises the price of corn by 110 percent An increase in the price of feed reduces profits from csttle feeding. As a result cattle feeders are willing to pay less for feeder cattle. The price of feeder cattle, therefore, declines. Beef supplies increase in the short run, which depresses beef prices even further." In the long run, however, higher feed prices means higher meat prices albeit after a substantial period of adjust- buyout The AFPC says a ten percent increase in the supply of beef results in a 22 percent redudion in the price of beef. If two million additional cull cows are sl- aughtered over a 12 month period, it would reduce the price of beef 12 percent. Over a period, two million additional cull cows slaughtered would reduce beef cattle prices by 23 percent while over the three months the price reduction would be nearly 50 percent Despite provisions in the Harkin bill for export subsidies, the higher price supports in the bill would substantially reduce exports. And those export subsidies would almost surely touch off an international trade war that would make U.S. farmers and ranchers the losers. But laborers would lose, too. Each SI billion in form exports accounts for 50,000 jobs. And every export subsidy would be met with a counter-subsidby our competitors, thus driving up the costs of the Harkin bill. The Texas study says rural six-mon- th ment." Hatkin proponents point to the last sentence in the proceeding analysis and say stockmen would eventually recover from their losses. But some short-ter- m ranchers, remembering the con- sumer meat boycotts of the wonder if consumers would tolerate high prices for red meats, or if they would make a further shift to eating poultry and fish. Higher prices may never come if another factor pointed to by the AFPC study develops. Thats the farmer-feedprovision in Harkin' bill. It allows farm program participants who set aside acres under s quota to produce feed on them for their own livestock. Farmer-feeder- s could increase their share of total marketings to the detriment of the remainder of the industry,'' the study says. Some stockmen believe that Harkin plan dairy quota could be the coup de grace for livestock producers. Harkins bill calls for two million cows to be da ughtered, cutting milk production to 120 million pounds mid-1970'- s, y er towns would benefit initially from the increased cash income to farmers, but would be hurt by the loss of suppliers, small dairy producers and higher consumer Agribusiness firms prices. which supply inputs such as seed, fertilizer, feel, etc., will likely be hurt by the additional sharp declines in planted acres. Many (processing facilities) would be forced out of business, the study says. So the Utah cattle producer, largest segment of our state's agricultural industry, would be hurt badly by the Harkin supply control program now before Congress. But Utah wheat apparently dont want it, the federal wheat poll, In either. 72 percent of Utah's wheat growers voted against the rigid controls and quotas such as would be imposed by the Haridn pro-duce- rs plan. The biggest argument of all against the Harkin plan, sane formers and ranchers say, is the loss of control of their own forming enterprise. Rigid quotas would be strictly enforced with severe penalties and governmen- permits to sell t-issued products. Entry by new formers would be nearly impossible. The most efficient fanners would lose the advantages they now enjoy. A small handful of Utah farmers may reap benefits from the higher cash income mi grain, and perhaps higher dairy prices. But the AFPC study fays the vast majority will experience lower beef, pork and cull dairy cow prices. But all. of this discussion may be academic. Some observers say urban congressmen will not allow a government supply control scheme to drive up food prices for their constituents. And Representative Kika de la Garza powerful chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, says he will oppose the Harkin plan. 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