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Area farmers laud bill's defeat
By TOM DRURY
Stall Writer
The u.s. House defeat of the
Dole-Talmadge "flexible
parity" farm bill was applauded
by several Johnson
County farmers Thursday.
Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Clark,
D-Iowa, introduced a more
modest proposal to raise corn
loan rates and target prices.
Several area farmers said the
Dole bill was a political ploy
that would have done both
farmers and consumers more
hann than good. Critics of the
bill had said it was inflationary
and unrealistic. The bill, passed
Munday by the Senate but
suundly defeated in the House,
would have given farmers
varying rates of support
depending on the amount of
land they chose to set aside.
"That was an interesting
bill," Richard Long of rural
Solon said. " It was pretty farfetched."
President Carter had
promised to veto the bill should
it reach his desk, and many
senators, including Clark, said
the bill had no chance of
passing.
Iowa City farmer Lawrence
Lacina dismissed the bill as
"just a big political move by
Dule. He knew it was going to
get knocked in the head, but
he's campaigning .. . It makes
him look like a pretty good ,guy.
"People are hollering now
about the high cost of living,"
Lacina said. "This would have
given them more room to
H.wkeye
scream."
He said most of the American
Agricultural Movement support
of the bill came from wheat
farmers, who blocked
Washington, D.C., streets for an
hour and a half Thursday. "The
wheat farmers are in dire
trouble, I'll go along with that,"
Lacina said. "They got themselves
in a jam by overproducing.
"
Critics of the Dole bill, and
many Iowa farmers, said the
bill would ha ve gone too far in
raising grain prices. Some said
it would have hurt the United
States in the foreign grain
markel and force livestock
farmers to pay restrictively
high prices for feed grain.
The bill "would have been
unfair to farmer and consumer,"
Jack Rushek of Solon
said. "Sooner or later
somebody's going to have to pay
for it.. . Whal they've come up
with is feasible ."
"What they've come up with"
is the Carter administration's
current 20 per cent crop setaside
program.
Under the Carter plan, farmers
may sign up to set aside
up to 20 per cent of their nonnal
crop acreage (determined from
last season's corn, bean and
other crops) . Fanners may still
plant as much com as they did
last year (but no more), as long
as they set aside a percentage of
the total acreage.
Farmers are then paid a
dollar for each bushel of corn
their set-aside land would have
produced, based on last year's
production . If a farmer's land
yielded 100 bushels an acre last
year, the farmer would receive
$100 per acre of set-aside land.
UI expects 450 parents
for Parents Weekend
The 50th Annual Parents
Weekend, honoring parents of
UI students, starts today and
continues through Sunday, with
450 parents expected to attend,
according to John Gray,
general chairman of the
Parents' Weekend Committee.
"Parents · Weekend is more
than just a chance to honor
parents," Gray said. " It is a
chance for parents to see some
of the activities tha I occur on
campus in the spring, and a
chance for parents and students
to share in these activities."
Dr. George Forrell, professor
of religion, will speak at a
Saturday luncheon where the
Mother of the Year award and
the Susan B. Hancher award
will be presented, Gray said.
Other activities on campus
will include the Tom Jones
concert Friday night at the
Field House, three performances
of My Fair Lady at
Hancher Auditorium. performances
of The Sea at E.C.
Mabie Theatre and a women's
softball tournament Saturday.
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Many Johnson County farmers
have signed up for the
Carter program, according to
Iowa City farmer John Dane, a
Board of Supervisors candidate.
Like other farmers, Dane was
unwilling to express full confidence
in the program. "It's
not the total answer," he said.
But he has signed up for the
progam, and said, "It will show
fnners will participate in a
program if it's attractive
enough."
Clark said his price and loan
rate proposal provides a
smaller support increase than
he and many farmers would
like, but he sees no chance of
passing a larger increase.
The bill would raise the 1978
corn loan rate from $2 to $2.30
per bushel and the corn target
from .30.
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