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THE BATTALION
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NFU proposes farm bill that ensures market pria
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By Eric Ambroso
THE BATTALION
September’s economic
drought caused the Texas
Farmers Union (TFU) to reiter
ate the need for a safety net to
offset severe price fluctuations
in farm products.
United States Dairy
Association’s (USDA) National
Agricultural Statistics Service
reported that in September, farm
prices took the largest one-
month decline in 91 years. The
9.5 percent drop reflects down
turns in prices for milk, soy
beans, hogs, corn, broilers, cat
tle and lettuce.
“We need to be concerned
when the markets are as low as
they are today,” said John
Fouston, state executive director
for the Farm Service Agency.
“Farmers and ranchers feed us.
All people need to be concerned
when the agriculture industry is
in trouble.”
Wes Sims, TFU president,
said the unprotected dives in the
market hurt farmers, ranchers
and the rural communities that
depend on them. Sims said that
a safety net provision would
protect farmers from low prices.
“This safety net is a vital part
of the farm bill that must be
completed this year,” Sims said.
“It is a critical time for this
grassroots effort since the House
Agricultural Committee has
already sent an undesirable farm
bill to Congress.”
Sims said that the TFU hopes
to convince members from the
House and Senate to adopt a
farm bill that provides a reason
able safety net for producers
rather than continuing the failed
“freedom to farm” policies.
The current farm bill was
enacted in 1996 when total U.S.
net farm income peaked at near
ly $55 billion, with only 13 per
cent, or $7.3 billion coming
from government payments.
By 1999, downward pres
sure on commodity prices
resulted in the net farm income
dropping to $43.4 billion with
nearly one half, or $20.6 bil
lion, of this amount coming
from government programs and
emergency assistance.
The farm bill proposed by the
National Farm Union (NFU)
strengthens market prices and
enables producers to gain more
income from the market by
increasing loan rate levels and
establishing a limited farmer-
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cyclical plan that equalizes^
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them upward.
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“Agriculture prices
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and the terrorist attacks
had a big impact on the]■${ Thursday,
market," Fouston said. Jourt discussed
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The NFU farm bill also
addresses market concentration,
the environment, energy
resources and renewable fuels.
Sims said the NFU’s legisla
tive initiative provides a strong
safety net based on a counter-
that would 2uaranteea:Nto the commi
on a product that
equal the costs of protsj
tion,” Fouston said.
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net would not guaranteeii
producers make a profit,I
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Gore adds another job to his resumi
WASHINGTON (AP) — A1 Gore has
accepted the job of vice chairman of a Los
Angeles-based financial services holding
company. The former vice president will
help the Firm find investments overseas as
well as private-equity investments in
biotechnology and information technology.
Gore will add the new job at
Metropolitan West Financial to his other
duties as college professor, guest speaker
and writing a book with his wife Tipper
about the American family.
That crowded resume does not address
the biggest pending question about the for
mer vice president and 20(X) Democratic
presidential nominee — his political future.
“He hasn't made any decisions about
campaigns in his future and that’s still true
today,” Gore spokeswoman Kiki McLean
said Monday. Gore has formed a political
action committee and has made trips to Iowa
and New Hampshire to talk with old friends
and political allies this fall.
Gore will not be moving to Los Angeles,
but will travel between New York. Los
Angeles, his teaching jobs in Tennessee and
his home in the Virginia suburbs of
Washington.
He will continue to serve as a research
professor focusing on family-centered com
munity building at the University of
California-Los Angeles, and will continue to
teach classes on the subject at Middle
Tennessee State University and Fisk
University, both in his home statt
Tennessee.
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would discuss what he would be paid it
new job with the company.
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