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Show Farmers Should Get Fertilizer Slocks How To Avoid Problems to the Secretary through our regular channels," Chairman Hortin said. 'This Department uses this information to determine deter-mine what special action may be necessary. On the basis of these weekly reports, the Department has determined that transportation crunches" could occur in a numer of places unless farmers farm-ers move now to fill their fertilizer fer-tilizer needs, the ASCS official said. 'One reason for this is that local dealers cannot replenish re-plenish their fertilizer stocks until they've moved out supplies on hand. Therefore, even though fertilizer companies may have sufficient backup stocks elsewhere, else-where, they cannot move them into the county until local space is available." Farmers in Summit County should get their fertilizer stocks now whether they need the material immediately or not, says Paul Hortin, Chairman Chair-man of the Summit County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (AS C) Committee. Our information indicates that in general, fertilizer supplies are adequate to meet farm needs however, there may be some difficulty in distribution of available supplies." Chairman Hortin explains that ASCS offices, as members of their local US DA State and County Emergency Boards, have been monitoring the fuel and fertilizer situation across the country. As a result, the ASCS office is closely tuned in on both the local situation and the overall national picture this year. 'Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz is depending on ASCS to monitor the local fuel and fertilizer situations, and we are making weekly reports back |