The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 21, 1985 Page: 9 of 14
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Total crop production this year
may be up about 2 percent from 1984,
although the planted acreage is down
slightlythe report said Wheat, soy-
bean and cotton plantings wre down,
but feed grain plantings increased.
Other factors noted in the report
included the financial plight of cattle
producers and a continued cutback
By DON KENDALL
AP Faras Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Con-
gress returns next month from its
summer recess, lawmakers will
have to do some serious thinking
about streamlining the new farm bill
to fit into budget requirements.
Just before quitting for their
August break, the House and Senate
Agriculture committees approved
programs that Reagan administra-
tian officials said would cost Ml
billion to $60 billion in the next three
years, far in excess of the $3 billion
budget limit
Agriculture Secretary John R.
Block says the administration is
determined to hold down farm pro-
gram costs and will put pressure on
Congress to do some trimming, in-
cluding lower supports for key com-
modi ties
In a telephone interview Tuesday
with farm broadcasters. Block
reiterated the administration's goal
tor market-oriented farm programs,
lower price supports and a phase-
down of direct subsidies.
"The only way to save enough real
money, to put it inside the budget
straitjacket. to to systematically
lower the target prices of the crops, "
Block said. "You cannot freeze them
for two years or three years or four
years and meet budget objectives I
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The siege of the Alamo during Texas'
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“And < urs is just as good as a J< hn l eere" He w many times have
you heard that? When one manufacturer is so clearly the leader,
that’s the ultimate claim any competitor can make. But when you
put all claims aside, there’s nothing like a John Deere tractor with
Caster Action mechanical front-wheel drive and 15-speed Power
Shift transmission. No combine can match the productive effi-
ciency of a Titan 11. And the superior seed soil environment cre-
ated by Max-Emerge " planters is literally legendary. But so is the
dealer supp rt that’s pn vided with everything in The L ng Green
Line. Dont take our word for it. Ask anyone. Were happy to be
judged by what were known for.
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No matter what anyone says,
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Satellite auction sale
expands cattle market
AMARILLO, Texas - Cattle just over the auctianeer,» said Tom-
buyers nationwide can now view and pkina.
bid ” same cattle at the same "The same tape la played
toe without leaving the privacy of umulaneously at several other loca-
ieir home. office, or any where tions elsewhere, where potential
quipped with a satellite livestock buyers can also bid. These bids are
auction sale. the Amarillo Uveatock called in to Amarillo, where they are
video Auction will telecast its Aug measured against others in the video
a auction sale coast to coast via the auction network. The cattle go to the
SAToM IV communications highest bidder, whether it comes
satellite from the arena or another sale loca-
tion 1,500 miles away." The bidding
The auction will originate from the to just like any cattle sale and no
Amarillo Livestock Auction Co. sale mally 3000-3500 cattle per hour are
arena where an auctioneer will ac- sold
cept bids telephoned in from buyers Besides Amarillo, the sale to held
across this country in Okalhoma City and lake Placid.
Fla.. where large meeting rooms are
Jack Tompkins, video auction used to accommodate the video
manager, said the satellite auction systems, telephone lines to the auc-
sale will provide the cattie seller tion arena and the buyers. The auc-
with a virtually unlimited market for tion also has been held in Garden C-
acreage reduction program each modifies can compete at lower prices wasdefeated, 24-17.
year, which would price us out of the on the world market Higher sup- "If we can't sell our wheat today
world market porta. Block argues stifles U.S. ex- for SB (per bushel), wh.h I can t
The target prices are used to com- port business on my farm, what makes us think
pute federal "deficiescy payments" Rep. Charles W Stenholm, that we can set the price at 85.03 a
to farmers for certain crops, in- D-Texas, who joined Block in the in- bushel and sell any more wheat than
eluding wheat, feed grains, rice and terview, said he agreed that target we’re selling today ... or as much as
cotton, when market prices fall prices should be phased down. we’re selling?" Stenholm asked
below target levels. "To do this, we're going to have to "We've got to have supply manage-
Block wants the lowering of target have, from the farmer's standpoint, ment, but not in the way that is being
prices to begin next year, while some effective supply management," he suggested" by that plan
in Congress want that to begin in said.
1967. Others want them to be frozen But that does not mean mandatory
at current levels for two to four acreage controls as some have ad-
then view the cattle Aug 29 on Buyers and sellers know ---
SATo m ’ Channezshetween1 everything on the contract before the COLLEGE STATION - Dr. Willis
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We normally conduct the sale The Aug. 9 sale will feature
from the Amarillo Livestock Auction several thousand calves and year-
Co arena, where a tape of each lot of mgs The average lot will include 3B
cattle to viewed on a 10-foot screen to 400 cattle
will drop sharply
WASHINGTON (AP) — The in herd inventories. Hog production
Agriculture Department still expects costs have been the lowest since ear-
net farm income to be down sharply ly IM because of relatively low
this year, although it might be slight- prices for feed and some other in-
ly more than previously indicated puts.
A brief outlook report said Monday "Nevertheless, low hog paces kept
that IM net farm income could be in producers' returns below breakeven
the range of 822 billion to $25 billion, during the first half of IM." the
down from an estimated $ 4 billion report said.
in IM when paces were up and Another reason for the current
government payments were at a outlook to the large global supply of
ty, Kan., and Jackson, Miss . tiro
other key cattle locations
beyond our regular video locations," have access to the video auction,”
said Tompkins Now, anyone who said Tompkins That’s the main
has access to a television hooked to reason we put together the satellite
an operable satellite dish can tune in sale."
our action and ted." Many cattle buyers like to make
Buyers must register with the their tranactions in private. The
ArnanUo Video Auction three works satellite sale will help to accom-
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Price supports for the major crops an emphasis on paying target pace
are carried out through loans, with benefits to the mid-sized family
the rate, in effect, serving as a farmers who gross $40,000 to $250, 000
market floor price. If farmers obtain a year in sales. Those have been the
price support loans, they have the op- hardest hit financially.
tion of repaying the loans later if the Stenholm led the opposition last
market prices improve. If prices month to a plan in the House
don’t improve, farmers can let the Agriculture Committee that would
government assume ownership of have called for a referendum among
the crop, thus canceling the debt crop producers If approved by
The administration says the loan growers, mandatory acreage con-
rate needs to be reduced so trols and much higher pace supports
American wheat and other com- would go into effect. The measure
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Curtis, Jeri. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 21, 1985, newspaper, August 21, 1985; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430278/m1/9/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.