The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 09, 1980, Image 5

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 09, 1980, Image 5

Newspaper Page TextTHE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1980 Page 5 nation Farm leaders speak out on grain crisis United Press International In Iowa, where 20 percent of the nation’s corn is grown and politicians now are looking for votes, farm lead ers say the administration must ..quickly implement its offer to buy ; grain or farmers may be hit with a ; large drop in market prices, f Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, gfearing the Soviet grain embargo will ^endanger his state’s entire economy, ' has offered President Carter a three- ; point plan he said could lessen any drop in prices due to a domestic glut. And in Texas, farm leaders say they hope the administration will not put the grain it buys back in the mar ketplace in a fashion that would de press prices. “That grain has to move every day,” said Maurice Van Nostrand Monday. He is market research director of AGRI Industries, Iowa’s largest marketer of export corn. “They have to step in rapidly and do that buy grain. If there’s any in terruption, there’s going to be a con siderable decline in the market. ” The offer to buy the embargoed grain was made in Washington Mon day by Vige President Walter Mon dale. He said the government would offer to buy the contracts held by 22 grain firms, hold it off the market and then sell it when prices strengthen. Officials from the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Farmers Union said the government may have to re verse a fall announcement and call Candidate ivants to make gasohol out of grain ivithheldfrom Russia for a set-aside program, one in which farmers are paid to idle crop land. In Springfield, Ill., Thompson Monday cabled Carter proposing an increase in the amount of loan money made available to farmers, from $2.10 a bushel to $2.50 a bushel. He also urged that all grain farmers be allowed to get federal loans — not just those participating in the set- aside program. Thompson also asked the presi dent and Congress to start outlining next year’s set-aside program so far mers will have an idea of how much grain to plant and “to keep produc tion in line with demand. ” Thompson said if Carter fails to take those steps immediately, “far mers will suffer disastrously. . . and it will spread throughout the entire Illinois economy.” Carroll Chaloupka, head of the Texas Farm Bureau, said it was pre mature to comment until it was clear what will be done with the grain. “I’m concerned if they buy that grain what they’ll do. . . unless they put it in a reserve and have it at a price level so that they can’t dump it and depress the markets for future grain,’’ said Chaloupka. Elbert Harp of Lubbock, Texas, a former vice president of the Grain Sorghum Producers Association, said he too was concerned about “how dedicated the administration would be in holding that grain off the market in order not to affect the mar ket price.” DIETING? 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Temple said grain alcohol is used for 10 percent of the content of gaso hol, and that 10 percent would "just about offset the percentage of oil that Iran was supplying to the U.S. be fore they seized our embassy. The president said that the gov ernment was going to spend be tween $2 billion and $3 billion stock piling the grain. Why not put it to .usein an experimental gasohol refin ery operation? said Temple, who is challenging Railroad Commission Chairman John Poerner in the Democratic primary. Another commission candidate, Jim Hightower, issued a statement through his headquarters in Austin accusing the present three-member commission of bowing to the de mands of utility companies lor higher and higher natural gas prices in Texas. 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