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4—SECTION 1—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM. Sulphur Springs. Tuxos. Sunday. Juna 7.1911.
Section 4
Kelly J. Boldan, Ag Editor
Woolley reflects on Hopkins County
Casein imports upheld
by new USDA report
ByBOBFICK
Associated Press Writer
, WASHINGTON (AP) -
> Restricting imports of the milk
, protein casein would do little or
- nothing to reduce costs of the
nation’s dairy price support
program, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture reported last
' week.
;vi The long-awaited report, in
preparation for a year, also said
restrictions such as tariffs or
quotas “might affect existing or
' potential trade agreements”
with countries now supplying
casein to the United States.
Either would also add
millions of dollars to consumer
costs for products such as paint,
glue, animal feed, pet food,
coffee whitener and various
•Medical and pharmaceutical
•products, the report said.
William Lesher, the depart-
ment’s economics chief, said it
' may be several weeks before
‘ Agriculture Secretary John
•Block makes any recom-
mendations on casein.
The study runs counter to
claims by some Senate and
house members that casein is
competing directly with non-fat
. milk and skim milk in food uses
.. and that limiting imports would
> increase the market for those
dairy products.
The congressmen argue that
' increase demand would reduce
' The amounts of milk products
the government must buy to
maintain dairy prices at
required support levels. But in
March they were unsuccessful
in winnning support to force a SO
percent quota on casein im-
ports.
“In the future, increase use of
casein in food and feed ap-
plications, where casein
competes more directly with
skim milk and non-fat dry milk,
may mean that imported casein
will have a greater impact on
the United States dairy in-
dustry,” the report said.
“However, the already rapid
development of non-dairy
alternatives to casein may
eliminate much demand for
both casein and skim milk
solids. This would seem to be
particularly likely and may
actually be accelerated if the
price of casein increases or if its
quantity is restricted.
The United State imported
about 152 million pounds of
casein last year, using about 128
million pounds for industrial
and food uses and storing the
rest More than two-thirds of
the imports come from New
Zealand, Ireland and Australia..
No casein has been produced in
this country since the late 1960s,
in part because federal dairy
price support levels made
production uncompetitive.
The International Trade
Commission, in a 1979 study,
found no statistical correlation
between casein imports and the
cost of the federal dairy price
support program during a five-
uear period in the 1970s.
The USDA study said cutting
casein imports in half would
more than double the price of
casein, equaling the price for
the protein equivalent of non-fat
dry milk.
But it said the high price
would reduce demand for
casein products and force some
manufactures to shift to soy-
based proteings or other
ingredients. That would mean
demand for casein would be
only 3 million pounds higher
than the quota.
Making the difference up with
non-fat dry milk would save the
government 89.3 million In price
supports payments, less than
one percent of the cost of this
year’s dairy support program,
the report said, while in-
creasing consumer cost for the
affected products by $115
million.
A 50-percent tariff on casein
would increase the price from
$1.20 a pound to $1.80, still lower
than the price for an equivalent
amount of non-fat dry milk, it
said. That would because some
shift to cheaper, non-dairy
substitutes but do nothing to
increase demand for domestic
dairy equivalents, it said. The
tariff would cost consumers
another $50 million.
By KELLY J. BOLDAN
News-Telegram Staff
Hie decision to leave “the
premier county of the Ex-
tension service in Northeast
Texas” was not an easy (me to
make for Ron Woolley, Hopkins
County Agriculture Extension
Agent.
Word of Woolley’s promotion
to District 6 Extension Agent at
Fort Stockton, effective July 1,
arose last week in Hopkins
County as the official an-
nouncement was made by the
State Extension Agent Uel
Stockard of College Station in
Fort Stockton.
Hie opportunities to become a
district extension agent in the
Texas A4M University Ex-
tension Service are few and one
cannot turn down such a
promotion and expect another
opportunity soon.
But leaving Hopkins County,
which is the number one dairy
producer in the state and
second in number of beef cattle
in Texas, is certainly no easy
task for Woolley and his family,
he says.
“I hate to be leaving Sulphur
Springs and Hopkins County
because I have enjoyed my five
years here,” Woolley said.
“But I look forward to the
challenge of West Texas and
being a district extension agent.
It is one of the filings which I
have been working toward as a
goal.”
Woolley, county extension
agent here since March 1, 1976,
remembers his impression of
the county when he arrived five
years ago. “The most im-
pressive thing was the dynamic
agricultural income in Hopkins
County. It js always nice to
work with a number one in-
dustry, agriculture, and
especially with in the top dairy
and beef county in Texas,”
Woolley said.
There were three basic goals
which Woolley set for his ex-
tension program in Hopkins
County when he arrived: (1)
Increase the enrollment in the
Dairy Herd Improvement
Association, (2) Development
of a forage testing facility in the
Hopkins County and (3)
Coaching a state winning 4-H
dairy judging team. “And we
accomplished all three,” he
said.
Looking back over his five
years in Hopkins County,
Woolley listed the growth in the
DHIA program as one of the
major trends in the local
agriculture industry. Growing
from 25 hods on DHIA testing
to 165, an increase of 660 per-
cent, the Hopkins County DHIA
Chapter was eventually named
the most progressive chapter in
the state of Texas.
But there is still room for
improvement since there are
only 165 hods out of nearly 500
herds in the county — about 33
percent — participating in the
DHIA test program, Woolley
said. “We have only a low
percentage of our herds on test
Some of the other leading dairy
states have over 60 percent of
their herds on test,” he said.
The development of the
forage testing lift and the trend
toward further utilization of the
facility is another important
change, Woolley believes.
“Dairymen and cattlemen are
not only using the lab to find out
when the hay is at the correct
stage of maturity to cut but also
to find out the quality of hay
which they are buying. In fact,
there are some truckers who
will bring in samples from their
loads of hay for analysis before
they even try to sell now,”
Woolley said.
The other major trend is the
shift toward the use of winter
pastures in the county and the
improvement of forages,
Woolley indicated. “Both
dairymen and beef producers
have become more aware of
forages and their quality in the
past few years,” he said.
“Our forage lab, which was
built with the help of private
donations, was the first of its
kind in Texas. And the results
from our lab had as much to do
with improving and monitoring
forage quality as anything else
along with better awareness by
producers,” he said.
The local dairy industry has
remained relatively stable
since Woolley’s arrivd as “the
number of dairies has remained
the same but the herds have
been getting larger,” Woolley
said.
“But the dairymen in the
county are getting younger,
which is a good sign of the
county’s dairy industry
strength in that they can draw
young producers into the in-
dustry.
“I believe that dairymen who
want to stay in business in the
future have to utilize the total
management and assistance
available to remain efficient.
The younger dairymen coming
into the industry really realize
this and are very receptive to
management assistant.”
The beef industry has faced
many challenges during the
past five years and Woolley
says he believes there are even
greater challenges for cat-
tlemen in the future. “The beef
industry really faces a
challenge in the coining years
because it is more affected by
inflation,” Woolley said.
“Cattlemen are finding a
decrease in spendable income
by consumers and the
housewives are looking at
alternative meat and buying
less beef. So it is a real
challenge for cattlemen with
higher production costs and a
decreasing market.
“People in the beef industry
are going to have to be real
production-oriented, cull ef-
fectively and use good herd
sires to maintain a profit.
A major current problem in
both the dairy and beef in-
dustries is lack of promotion for
their respective products,
Woolley contends. “The biggest
oversight is the lack of a unified
product promotion program in
both industries. It has been
proven that with good milk
promotion, for example, that
there is increased demand for
fluid milk,” he said.
In his future position as
district extension agent,
Woolley will be supervisor over
county extension agents in the
western 12 of the 22 counties in
District 6. “I will be directly
involved in transfer of agents,
hiring new extension agents and
working with the different
county commissioners courts,”
Woolley said.
Pecos County, in which Fort
Stockton is located, is a real
livestock county, according to
Woolley, with beef cattle, sheep
and goats accounting for the
largest numbers. Drip
irrigation has a major impact
on the growing of vegetables
and pecans in the county along
with a lot of cotton, he said.
“There are a lot of wide open
spaces out there,” Woolley said.
Pecos County also is the top-
producing oil county in the
nation with over $1 billion
grossed in oil annually; and
Pecos is also the second largest
geographical county in the
United States.
Ron Woolley
A new county agriculture
extension agent should be hired
by the end of July, Woolley said.
First, the position opening will
be announced for all current
extension agents in Texas and
then for persons outside the
extension service. All ap-
plicants will have to meet
certain minimum criteria.
Second, applicants will be
screened and interviewed by
L.M. Vaughan, District 5 Ex-
tension Agent in Overton. Then,
an applicant will be recom-
mended to the Hopkins County
Commissioners Court and
finally, if approved by the
court, Hopkins County will have
a new county extension agent.
High price supports candidate for veto
World Dairy Expo seeks
distinguished dairy people
MADISON, Wis. - World
Dairy Expo is seeking
nominations of outstanding
; people to be cited for their
. contributions to the dairy in-
„ dustry. The individuals selected
.- .will be honored at a dairy
c recognition reception and
banquet Sept. 30 during World
Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.
Three individuals will be
selected. One award is present
-to the Man of the Tear, who
represents the active dairy
fanner; file second, to file
Industry Person of file Year,
cited for his or her excellence in
research, development,
■ education or marketing; and
the third to the National Dairy
Woman.
“ The program is sponsored
annually by Wisconsin Dairies
Cooperative, Mid-America
Dairymen be., Associated Milk
Producers Inc. and Golden
Buernaey Dairy. Awards are
provided by Select Sires.
1980 award-winners were
Lyle Viney of Evansville, Wis.,
Man of the Year; Harold
Kaeser, Ohio State University,
Industry Person of the Year and
Ann Randall, Balsam Lake,
Wis., National Dairy Woman.
Nominations for the 1981
awards must be postmarked by
July 15 and addressed to World
Daily Expo Inc., 1707 S. Park
St., Madison, WI 53713. A short
biography of the nominee with a
history of accomplishments
that quality the individual for
file award should be included.
World Dairy Expo, an in-
ternational trade show for dairy
farmers, features national
dairy cattle shows and judging
contests, a craft forum and an
extensive dairy equipment
presentation by hundreds of
local and national manufac-
turers. Expo is schedule for
Sept. 30-Oct. 4 in Madison.
Computers are
vital to farmers
COLLEGE STATION, Texas
(AP) — Farmers and ranchos
who refuse to learn computer
applications to agricultural
management are in danger of
being left behind, two Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
researchers say.
Researcher Ernie Davis says
be expects that within five
years, about 50 percent of file
cattle sold to Texas feedlots will
be auctioned via computer
systems like one he’s
developed.
In his experimental program,
sellers enter into the computer
information, prices and
descriptions of the stock they
have for sale. Buyers at a
central location bid without
ever actually seeing the
animals.
“It disposes of a lot of un-
necessary transportation and
provides quick information,’’
Davis said.
He said the animals are
healthier if they are not hauled
to market to be sold.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Agriculture Secretary John
Block indicated Friday the
dairy price support program
being pushed by the House
Agriculture Committee would
be a “prime suspect” for a veto
by President Reagan.
At his first news conference
since he returned fnjfn a two-
week European tour, Block said
the Reagan administration
remains concerned about milk
price support levels so high that
the'govemment would continue
to accumulate stocks.
“The dairy sections is a very
important section,” he said. “If
this bill were written in such a
way that we feel the govern-
ment would continue to ac-
cumulate surpluses, it would be
a prime suspect fix- a veto.”
William Lesher, the depart-
ment’s chief economist, said the
House committee plan adopted
Thursday — similar to one
included in its proposal for
overall commodity price
supports next year — will force
continued government ac-
cumulation of dairy products in
excessive amounts.
The House panel’s dairy price
support plan at 75 percent of
parity runs counter to Reagan’s
wishes and the stringent
spending targets approved by
Congress.
The plan would cost nearly
$200 milium more than this
year’s program and $475 million
more than that contemplated by
the 1982 budget targets adopted
last month.
The House dairy plan also
would leave other commodities
with only about two-thirds the
money tentatively earmarked
for them in the overall budget
guidelines.
“It’s obvious this issue is a bit
of chicanery,” said Rep. Dan
Glickman, D-Kan. “Nobody can
think we’re actually going to
save money with supports at 75
percent of parity.”
The administration has
strongly opposed support levels
higher than 70 percent of parity,
and the Republican-controlled
Senate Agriculture Committee
has endorsed a plan effectively
meeting Reagan’s wishes.
Parity is the theoretical price
a commodity must bring to give
producers the same buying
power they had in 1910-14. The
dairy support level is 80 percent
now. If it were continued at that
level next year, dairy sigiports
would need an estimated $1.81
billion instead of the $1.19
billion to be spent this year.
At 75 percent, generally the
same support level the com-
mittee approved last month in
its over-budget farm bill, the
dairy program would consume
almost two-thirds of the money
tentatively allotted for all price
supports in 1982 — $1.37 billion
out of $2.14 billion.
Congressional budget
calculators figure it should take
up only 40 percent.
“We have to bring down dairy
to have money for the other
commodities,” said Glickman,
one of the few committee
members who questioned the
ramifications of the plan.
If the plan were enacted now
and removed from the debate
over the cuts that must be made
to bring the farm bill in line
with the budget, other com-
modities like corn, wheat,
soybeans, rice, cotton and
peanuts would have to scramble
for the $800 million left for next
year. That’s about $450 million
less than even the strict
spending targets envisioned in
the farm bill that farm
organizations have criticized as
already providing too little
support.
Kit Glickman said the dairy
plan would be reconsidered by
the committee later this
summer. That assurance, he
said, came from Rep. Thomas
Foley, D-Wash., the third-
ranking Democrat in the House
and chairman of the
Agriculture subcommittee on
grains.
Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,
who pushed the dairy plan this
week, also acknowledged that
the committee would debate the
issue again before new support
levels take effect this fall. But
he declined to say whether the
support levels would be
lowered, arguing that will be
decided once the tentative
budget targets are finalized late
this summer.
Critics of the higher support
levels claim they are primarily
responsible for the current
dairy surplus that has forced
the government to stockpile
millions of pounds of milk
products. But supporters argue
that dairy farmers already are
losing money and need the 75
percent support to ensure
adequate supplies of fresh milk
and other products.
The government, through a
complicated method of pur-
chases, buys up enough milk to
keep the price to producers at
the set parity level. Support
prices for other commodities
are generally below 60 percent
of parity.
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