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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981
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Senate farm hearings open
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Agriculture Committee has
opened hearings on farm and food
policies for the next four years
with the 14-month-old Soviet
grain embargo hanging over its
proceedings.
“We no longer have Mr. (Jim
my) Carter’s embargo, ” American
Agriculture Movement Chairman
Marvin Meek told the committee
Monday. “This is now President
Reagan’s embargo.”
Meek said as long as there is a
chance embargos or other disrup
tions will hamper free trade, farm
prices should be indexed to rise
along with farmers’ production
costs.
Several farm groups have said
that if the embargo remains in
place, farmers must be compen
sated by higher price support loan
rates in the new four-year farm
bill.
Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa,
told Meek he believes Reagan will
carry out his campaign pledge to
lift the embargo, but the timing
will be affected by Soviet actions
in Poland and elsewhere.
Carter imposed the embargo
last year after the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan.
“President Reagan has assured
me personally he has not changed
his mind,” Jepsen said.
Agriculture Secretary John
Block canceled an appearance be
fore the committee scheduled for
today. He will appear March 25.
He also canceled a scheduled
appearance before the House
Agriculture Committee on
Wednesday, its opening day of
hearings.
Block has indicated he will sup
port eliminating deficiency pay
ments made to farmers of major
crops when prices fall below target
levels because farmers do not re
pay that money.
Block is attempting the difficult
task of convincing the administra
tion to go along with what he calls
“modest increases” in price sup
port loan rates. That money is re
paid to the U.S. Treasury.
In his opening remarks, Senate
Agriculture Chairman Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., promised a “mar
ket-oriented agriculture that
emphasizes the private sector”
and “fiscal responsibility” in farm
and food policies.
Helms made no mention of spe
cifics of a farm bill. The only bill
before the committee so far is a
proposal by Sen. John Melcher,
D-Mont., to raise the price sup
port loan rates to 75 percent of
parity, a level that is unlikely to be
enacted.
“We can’t have a cheap food
policy in this country when far
mer’s costs of production are not
met in the marketplace,” Mel
cher said.
Leaders of the National Far
mers Organization and the Na
tional Grange were the first to tes
tify in the lengthy effort to fashion
a farm bill, which is expected to
stretch into May.
Ellen Haas, spokeswoman for
the Community Nutrition Insti
tute, an advocacy group, testified
in opposition to administration
proposals to cut spending for food
stamps, which also will be in
cluded in the bill.
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