~. MICHIGAN"FARM NEWS THE ACTION PUBLICATION OF THE MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU VOL. 52 NO.3 MAKE IT HAPPEN MARCH 1, 1973 -.. ..,...... ~ Iddd -... ( ( I , ~ ( I ( ( ( () , I '- I) ( ) J "" \ '- ,) I / - Land Use' Several land use bills will preserve open space, etc. has testifiedin Washington on with Rep. Mastin lastyear and to achieve legislationto assess undoubtedly be introduced in Copies of the billare not yet federal land use legislation. He helped organize the public agricultural land on its use" the Legislature. One already available. pointed ou.tat that time that hea rings that, w.ere held rather than potential value. introduced is H.B. 4188, by Rep. Mastin (D-Southfield) Michigan faces the "'Ioss of throughout the state. These Sen. Ballenger (R-Lansing) Rep. Smith (R-Ann Arbor) and is a Iso expected to introduce ever-increasing segments of hearings were heavily at- also re-introduced similar others. This would create a another land use billsimilartc her agriculturalindustry." He tended by farmers, with legislationon assessment of five-member land use com- legislation he introduced a said that this results from specific examples of the farmland in the Senate. mission in the Department of year ago. Rep. Mastin willalso taxation policieswhich assess problems which".have affected This type of legislation is Natural Resources to work introduce legislation to en- the land on its potential use, them. Rep. Mastin used some complex, even though it is with local governments in courage preservation of good rather than its agricultural of these examples in his gaining more support. The developing land management agriculturalland by using a tax use, and also zoning decisions Washington testimony. major problem is to pass programs. It would develop a incentive, probably with tax which allow development of Others spea king at the legislationthat will meet the state land bank for land roll-backfeatures. Rep. Mastin the best farm land. hearings also supported in stiff req uirements of the contracts that a re designed to isa metropolitan legislatorand . Farm Bureau worked closely principle Farm Bureau's effort Michigan Constitution. National Notes IN THIS ISSUE Capitol Report Page 3 Page 4 Workmen's Compo Page 6 Discussion Topic Page 10 PAGE 2 MICHIGA~ FARM NEWS MARCH 1, 1973 EDITORIAL ..... PRESIDENT'S COLUMN .•... Regional Victory Celebration Dates Know I Most of the county Farm Bureau's in the following regions are Environment participating in Regional Victory Celebrations to recognize and The award those members who actively participated in the 1973 membership campaign. The cost of these celebrations are Issue financed by contributions from the participating county Farm Bureaus, Farm Bureau Insurance, Farm Bureau Services, Farmers Petroleum Cooperative, Michigan Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Association, and the Michigan Farm Bureau. -l t , • , !~. Upublic concern for the environment con- Last November the voters of Michigan failed tinues to be a powerful and growing force. This Saginaw Valley Region, March 2,7 :00 p.m., Lutheran School, to approve a constitutiona I amendment to limit mounting concern poses serious implications Junction of 1-75 and M-84, Dinner - Auction. property tax. to agriculture. The future of agriculture is Thumb Region, March 9, 11: 30 a.m., Sanilac County Farm A few days later, the voting delegates at dependent on air, water and land as natu~al Bureau, Sandusky, Lunch - Bogus Bucks Auction. Michigan Farm Bureau's annual meeting ex- tools of production. Agriculture has an im- Northeast R'egion,March 10,8:00 p.m.,Gaylord High School, pressed the need for meaningful and lasting portant responsibility to improve the quality of. - Gaylora, Rolls and Coffee - Auction. tax reform through the legislative process. In our environment." , West Central, March 10, 12:00 noon, Osceola Inn, Reed City, the belief that there should be equity of Lunch"'-:'" Awa"rds-presentation. taxation, the delegates recommended these This is the opening paragraph of the West Region, March 17, 12:00 noon, Adrian's Rammona approaches to a balanced tax structure. Michigan Farm Bureau policy on environment Terrace Inc., Comstock Park, Lunch - Awards presentation. II _ New sources of revenue for local units of adopted at the organization's 53rd annual Northwest region, March 17, 12:00 noon, Holiday Inn, government in order to relieve property taxes.. meeting held in Grand Rapids last November. Traverse City, Dinner - Awards presentation. II _ Improved assessment and equalization Central Region, March 20, 11 :00 a.m., Country House, procedures. Throughout history, agriculture has ex- Okemos, Dinner - Bogus Buck Auction. " - Permit assessment and taxation of new pressed a deep interest in the environment. Southwest Region, March 20, 7: 00 p.m., Di-Juanco's, Decatur property for school purposes the first year it is Farmers were the first group to plan and Exit at 1-94 North, Dinner - Silent Auction. built. conduct land conservation practices. By the Upper Peninsula Region, March 31, 12:00 noon, Chatham II _ New methods of financing school system.s, very nature of their business, farmers have Town Hall, Potluck Lunch - Bogus Buck Auction. with strict limitations on property taxes for worked at. stopping soil erosk n and water educationai purposes. \,' ., . runoff in order to protect the investment they - Use of the income tax as the major source NOTES - II _ have in land. They have also worked at im- of funds to finance schools. proving the soil in order to produce more II _ Assessment of agricultural land as farm- abundant crops on the same acreage year after A special session on "Who Will Control U.S.Agriculture" will land as long as it is so used instead of other year. be held on Thursday morning of Farmers' Week, March 22 at possible potentia I vaIue.• the Michigan State University Kellogg Center. II _ Prevention of inequities arising from With the increased interest in the en- Agriculture in the year 2010: Government Controlled special assessments on property that receives vkonment, new laws and regulations are being Family-Sized Farms? or 300 conglomerates producing the food no benefit from the project." enacted. Today, existing federal laws provide and fiber for the nation? These are the potential extremes that Our state legislators now have the task of that state laws relating towater and air quality, will be covered during the special program. formulating n method of financing our schools solid waste disposal and environmental quality, , * * * * * in a manner which meets the Supreme Court's including noise and radioactive materials, must Michigan land use conflictswill be aired Wednesday morning, ruling regarding the present inequities of the be consistent with federal laws and must March 21, during the Farmers' Week at -Michigan State present system for financing schools. Most of provide for adequate enforcement. University. the senators and representatives, I'm con- Launching the special session will be Dr. L.L. Boger, dean of vinced, want to do what is right rather than Fears of complete federal domination in this MSU's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and a what is politically expedient. field are being expressed. Laws and member of the Governor's Commission on Land Use. IILand There is little question that major reforms regulations could be imposed on the entire Use" was the matter of concern most often heard by Dr. Boger must be made in financing education. But, country which would not take local conditions and his assistant deans when they toured Michigan in a series statewide educational opportunity cannot be into consideration. Rules set up for large cities of UListening Post" meetings in December. achieved unless the method of finance is of our nation cannot fit rural situations. By the Following Boger will be Senator William Ballenger, sponsor of restructured to achieve equity. Property taxes same token, rules set up for rural areas may Michigan Senate Bill 130 on Land Use, and Representative for this purpose are obsolete and do not have not fit urban or metropolitan areas. Phillip Mastin, sponsor of House Bill 6256 on Land Use..After the capability to expand to meet increasing Presently, some groups are seeking a their presentations, they will field questions from the audience. needs,nor are they a good measure of ability to umiddle ground" on this issue. A position * * * * * pay. Educational finance reform can and must where we can improve our environment and The Teamsters Union announced an agreement with 170 be achieved without eroding the fundamental use it at the same time. California-Arizona growers. In an AP story from Burlingame, right of the local community to determine California, a joint Teamsters-growers announcement called the educational goals within broad general Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz, newly- re-negotiated contract "the best" agreement ever achieved in lI guidelines provided by law. appointed counsellor for natural resources to the industry." It bans strikes until the expiration of the con- There are going to be some vital decisions the President, is optimistic about our en- tract but contains a union shop provision requiring mem- made con9~rning taxatiol) in this session of the vironmenta I destiny. bership within ten days of employment. United Farm Workers legislature whether we like it or not. Already union called it a IIsweetheart" contract. several bills have been proposed and each Speaking before a group of environmental * * * * * sponsor has cogent reasons why his particular writers in Washington, D.C., Secretary Butz bill should be given consideration. said that we can solve our problems without giving up our high standard of living, just as In Memoriam . Plain common sense insists that all tax- _ ...art Owen, president of the Lapeer County Farm Bureau, payers should be concerned with attempting to we've solved our problems in the past. We can hold back the ballooning growth and rising continue to live well, and grow, preserving our died suddenly on January 11 when he suffered an aneurysm at his home near Lapeer. costs of government. It is the taxpayer who quality of life and an environment at the same foots the bill. That is why everyone of us should time. He spoke out against the zero growth The farm leader was serving his third year as county Farm Bureau president. He was among the MFB delegates who at- become knowledgable about proposed concept, stating, uNo business, no nation, gets financial legislation. To do otherwise shows a anywhere just by treading water." tended the AFBF annual meeting in Los Angeles last December. lack of desire to clearly understand the issues. Butz called for help in putting the nation's ~. We must learn to look behind the com- environmental concerns into workable per- MICHIGAN .FARM NEWS plicated and remote-sounding facts and figures spective. -n.& ACTION p'uaLlCATION OP -n.& MICHIGAN ,.,.RM BUR.AU which seem to hang a web of obscurity around The MICHIGAN FARM NEWS is DIRECTORS: District 1, Arthur tax reform measures. We in agriculture want Continued research is necessary if we are to published monthly, on the first d~y, Bailey, Schoolcraft; District 2, Dean higher net farm income, not higher taxes. We, solve the problem. Farm Bureau recommends bv the Michijtan Farm Bureau, at Its publication office at 109 N. Lafayette PridJ:eon, Montgomery, R-1; District 3, Andrew Jackson, Howell, R-1; Dis- like all other consumers, desire reason in federal research to develop solutions to the Street, Greenville, Michigan. trict 4, Elton R. Smith, Caledonia, R-1; governmental budgets and expenditure of our Editorial and general offices at 7373 District 5, David Morris, Grand Ledge, serious salinity problems of our nation's major West Saginaw Highway, Lansinl1;, R-3; District 6, Jack Laurie, Cass City, tax dollars. river systems before standards or numerical ~fichigan 48904. Post Office Box 960. R-3: District 7, Kenneth Bull, Bailey, . All kinds of discussion and debate 'are and Telephone, Lansing 485-8121, Exten- R-l~ District 8, Harvey Leuenberger, limits are established by federal action. Also, sion 228. Subscription price, SOt per Saninaw. R-6; District 9, Donald will be taking place about taxation. One way or year .... studies should preceed any federal or state Established January 13, 1923. Sec- Nus:tent. Frankfort, R-1; District 10, another, the arguments, pro and con, will have proposals to establish environmental ond Class Postage paid at GreenviUe, Michigan. Richard Wieland, Ellsworth, R-1; Dis- trict 11, Franklin Schwiderson, Dafter. a bea~ing on agriculture. Our future, as far- corridors. EDITORIAL: Editor. Carl P. Kent- DmECTORS AT LARGE: Walter mers, is bound to be affected by the outcome of ner; Frahm. Frankenmuth; James L. Sayre, Every Farm Bureau member should study OFFICERS: Michillan Farm Bu- Belleville: lJavld Diel1\. Dan~ville. efforts to curb inflation and to avoid higher the issue, get the facts and assist citizens, reau; President. Elton R. Smith, Cale- WOMEN OF FARM BUREAU: Mrs. taxes. other organizations and public officials in donia, R-1; Vice President, Pridszeon. Montgomery, Dean R-I; Adminis- Richard Wieland, Ellsworth, R-1. FARM BUREAU YOUNG FARM- We cannot afford to stick our heads in the understanding the interrelationship of a tTative Director, Robert Braden, Lan- sing. ERS: William H. Spike, Owosso. sand, we must try to inject plain common sense productive agriculture and decisions involving into our spending poticies. We can do this only POSTMAS.TER: In using form 3579, mail to: Michigan Farm News, controls and regulations relating to the en- 7373 West Saginaw Highway, Lansing, Michigan .-890.- when we have a thorough knowleage of the vironment. Second cia .. postage paid at G,..nvill., Michigan issues at hand. -Carl P.Kentner Elton R. Smith MARCH 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 3 Farm Bureau has been development of land use not anticipated this year, as working with state officials to programs from the Executive was the case in 1970. The assure that this portion of the Branch. Several other smaller lottery is expected to bring in program of property tax relief agencies were also trans- 'some $60 million. Tickets are would apply to farms. As is the ferred. Also included in the now selling at the rate of 5 case in many tax programs, order was the changing of the million per week making farms are difficult to consider Water Resources,Air Pollution Michigan's lottery the most for many reasons. The and Boundary Commissions to successful in the nation. Since program would apply to the IIType II" commissions, November, the state'$ share farm "homestead" and other meaning that these com- has accumulated to $15 unoccupied real property. The missions lose their in- million, with another $13.5 intention is to include the dependence and become million being given out in entire farm under operation, advisory in nature, with all prizes. Federal revenue even if some of the property is decisions being made by the sharing will provide an ad- GOVERNOR'SSCHOOL to that level. This requirement not contagious. In the case of Natural Resources Com- ditional $112 million in in- FINANCE AND TAX would be phased in over a unoccupied farm land used for mission. come. However, the dropping RELIEF PROPOSALS period of time. For example, for agriculture with the owner Farm Bureau testimony of some federal projects may In his special message on a district presently levying as living elsewhere, it would be strongly pointed out that in require the state to fund some education, Governor Milliken low as 12 mms the state would possible for that owner to recent years " ... agriculture of these projects. pointed out that school finance pay two-thirds of the dif- qualify, provided the gross has been subjected to many There are, in reality, two and other- educational issues ference up to 18 mills for the receipts from the farming environmental regulations and budgets. One is known as the are a top priority concern this 1973-74 year, one-third of the operation exceed. the restrictions, many of which are general fund, and will be $2.6 household income of the non- extremely costly .,. it is no billion. This is the portion of year. He said that this has difference the following year resident owner .. Th is wonder farmers are concerned the budget that the been brought about by (1) the and nothing after that. In that provision would permit those with where the authority and Legislature can control. The vote last November on period of time the district who have retired from the power for such regulations tota I budget, however, in- Proposal C, (2) the December would be expected to bring its. Supreme Court rul ing on millage .uP to the required farm and moved into town to resides." cluding special funds and qualify. It would, in most cases, The testimony also pointed federal revenue, will be $5.02 school funding and (3) the level. impending closings in Detro,t With the 38 mill guarantee; prevent those who make their out that the DNR has billion. This includes revenues Iiving at other work and merely traditionally had as its primary that a re ear-marked for and other areas with similar every district would have the own a farm for speculation responsibility management of specific purposes, such as deficit problems. He said that same income as a district with the voters, .in rejecting $38,000 of valuation behind purposes from qualifying fish, wildlife and areas of state- eduCation, highways, etc., and Proposal C, indicated they each pupil. In general, districts unless the gross from the farm owned land. Members of that cannot be otherwise spent by were unwilling to. accept a levying more than 22 mills exceeds their regular commission, therefore, have the Legislature. Because of major change in the method of would be able to cut their household income. This is a been chosen for " ... their this, it is possible that the collecting and distributing millages, while districts levying unique QrQyision. interest, dedication and ex- Governor's state tax relief can monies for educalion. He said less than 18 mills would, after As an example of how the pertise in that field." Because be achieved. program might work, assume of the reorganization, that As in previous years, more that he .accepted the voters' a phase in period, be required decision and would take a to raise their local property tax that a family with a household commission will find itself than 80% of state ex- different approach to school millage. income of $7,000 has a confronted with major penditures will be in three financing. It is generally believed that property tax of $1,000. The decisions in the areas of land areas: education, social His. over-all proposal has this proposal meets the property tax limit is 4% .of the use, drainage, water and air services and mental health. been introduced in the Senate requirements of the State $7,000, or $280. The excess pollution regulations, .boun- Expenditures for K-12 school by Senator Bursley and others Supreme Court decision burden of property tax would dary issues, etc. all of which aid will be increased $110 as S.B.110. It can be described requiring equity in distribution then be $720 ($1,000 minus are extremely complicated million, for a total of over $1.2 as uyield-equalizing" and is of the property tax for school $280). The rebate would be areas of concern and perhaps billion. Seventy-two million in based on the idea that if two finance. The courts in Michigan 60% of this figure, or$432.The beyond the ability of the 'additional monies will be school districts exert equal have not ruled property taxes rebate, however, is limited to commission to undertake as an added to social welfare costs, millage effort they should unconstitutional; only that $400. In addition, the family additional burden. Com- bringing it to a total of over receive equal aid,or one mill of property taxes have been would have a reduction of their missioners do contribute their $1.28 billion. This includes the tax effort should produce the levied and distributed in an state income tax of $78. This, time. federal share. It is expected same dollars per pupil. as unconstitutiona I manner. added to the $400 ,property Farm Bureau said that the that $35 million can be saved nearly as possible in every It is necessary to consider tax rebate, makes a' total tax down-grading of the present by weeding out up to 12,500 cut of $478. If they live in a commissions to IIType II" ineligible welfare recipients. school district in the state. He the Governor's school finance said that presently some poor proposal together with his tax school district now levying commissions could result in Mental health expenditures valuation districts level doub:e relief program. Governor more than 22 mills, it should, the loss of services of highly will total $264.8 million. the amount of millage to Milliken has stated that it is under the new school aid qualified and dedicated people The breakdown of total state proposal, be possible for that now serving, inasmuch as they expenditures ($5.02 billion) is achieve the same dollars per possible to cut state taxes district to reduce its school would have little or no $1.86 billion for all education, pupil as wealthier districts. As $370 million in the next two property taxes. However, if decision-making authority. $1.53 billion for all social an example of yield-equalizing, years. $140 million of that they live in a district levying The Farm Bureau position development and income presently a school district with amount would be cut in the less than 18 mills, it is likely pointed to the fact that the assistance, $703 million for $5,000 per pupil valuation next yearand t he rest the that school property taxes DNR would have the transportation, $252 m;;lion receives $5 per pupil for each following year. He proposes would be raised, at least after responsibility for developing a for health programs and all mill of tax. Under the that the income tax exemption a phase-in period. If the family land use program and said other programs over $671 Governor's proposal, the state be increased from $1,200 to qualifies as senior citizens, that such an important func- million. would allocate an additional $1,700 for each dependent. eligible veterans or blind, the tion II ••• must have the ex- The tota I revenue for the $33 per pupil, to bring each This is the equivalent of a rate tax relief would be greater, pertise and involvement of all state of Michigan is broken mill to a total of $38. In con- reduction of approximately using the first formula in- departments and citizen down in this manner: 24.8%, trast, a district with a one-half of one percentage dicated above. groups in the development of a income taxes; 24.4%, federal valuation of $30,000 per pupil point. A family of four with an workable program. grants; 21.3%, sales and use ,would collect $30 per mill and income of $7,000 would have FARM BUREAUVOICES The testimony agreed with taxes; 10.5%, motor vehicle :the state would add $8 to its state income tax reduced CONCERNON the ..recommendation to taxes; 9.7%, other taxes and Ibring it up to $38 per pupil per from $86 to $8, a cut of $78. Another part of the tax relief REORGANIZATION enlarge the Natural Resources 9.3%, other revenue (fees, 'mill. In this manner, if both Farm Bureau testified at a Commission from five to seven licenses, etc.). idistricts levied 22 mills, they program is known as lIexcess hearing held by the Senate members in order to permit The income breakdown for each would have $836 per burden property tax relief." State Affairs Committee the appointment of those the general fund budget is pupil in combined state and The program replaces the regarding Governor Milliken's knowledgeable in the ex- considera bly different per- local revenue. Or, if each levied present senior citizens, eligible Executive Order 1973-2 which panded areas of responsibility, centage-wise. However, it is 20 mills, the amount would veterans and blind homestead increases the authority of the but pointed out that there was the total spending that is of total $760 per pupil. In other exemptions with a property tax Department of Natural no guara ntee that such a most importance. words, the pgogram would relief based on income. In Resources by transferring recommendation will be Within the budget there are guarantee $38 per pupil per these cases, any property tax mill up to 22 mills to each in excess of 3-1/2% of their several agencies from other carried out by the Legislature. numerous relatively small district for the year 1973-74. household income would be State departments. The reorganization goes into expenditures that have been The following year the amount returned to the property Transfers to the Department effect in mid-March, unless it is supported by Farm Bureau would be $39 per pupil per owner; this would be limited of Natural Resources include rejected by majority vote of policies, such as the necessar~ mill, up to 25 mills and in the to $500. For other individuals, inter-county drainage and both Houses of the funding of agricultural third year the guarantee would 60% of the total property tax watershed development, from Legislature. resea rch and extension be $40 per pupil on unlimited in excess of 4% of their total the Department of GOVERNOR'SBUDGET programs at Michigan State millage. household income would be Agriculture; several agencies MESSAGE University, including monies Districts presently levying rebated. The limit in this case from the Department of Public Governor Milliken's budget for planning a new Plant-Soil 18 or more mills would be would be $400. Provision Hea Ith, including the Air has been described as "rosy" Sciences Building at MSU,4-H, guaranteed that there would would also be made for those Pollution Commission and because it projects a 12-1/2% FFA,a new research project on be no reduction in their individuals who rent; 17% of sewage and solid waste increase in expected revenues calfhood mortality, con- present "state and local their rental payments would ma nagement; the State due to the economic boom that tinuation of other agricultural revenue. Districts levying less be treated the same as Boundary Commission from is being enjoyed in Michigan." experi ment work, migrant than 18 mills would be property taxes for the purpose the Department of Treasury Revenue from income taxes is housing cost sharing and other reguired to raise their millage of calculating a tax rebate. and responsi bi Iity for up sharply. Major strikes are budget ite ms. PAGE 4 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MARCH 1, 1973 . National Marketing Bill Introduced National drainage, tiling, limi~g and proposed rules was limited to other practices which Increase 15 days, but was later ex- Congressman Gerald Ford He represents the 2nd Legis'ative Notes production. Farm ~ureau does tended at Farm Bureau (R-Grand Rapids) has in- District, which includes By Albert A. Almy support cost-shanng for en- request for an additional 30 troduced H.R. 2834, known as portions of Monroe, during soil and water con- days, expiring January 20. The 93rd Congress is now the National Agricultural Washtenaw and Wayne servation practices and During that time, EPA received well underway. Hundreds of Marketing and Bargaining Act Counties. 'pollut ion abatement str~c- a large number of comments bills have been introduced, of 1973. The bill would provide . tures which are not production protesting the application of committee sessions are being a lega I foundation for oriented. the rules to agriculture. held to consider bills and both producers to build their own H.R. 2107 provides no op- EPA then invited the House' and Senate have effective marketing and portunity for a constructive representatives of numerous acted upon some bills. bargaining programs. It would review and revision of REAP agriculturally - related organi- Controversy continues in establish a mutual obligation practices, but would forc: the zations to meetings for a the Execut ive-Legislat ive of handlers and qualified expenditure of appropnated discussion of the proposed confrontation over the producer associations to funds. For these reasons Farm rules. Considerable progress President's impoundment of negotiate in good faith Bureau opposed H.R. 2107. has been made in modification appropriations voted by regarding agricultural Senate action on H.R. 2107 and clarification of the Congress. Bills have been products. Congressman Ford or a companion bill is expected proposed rules as published introduced to reinstate several was elected to Congress in soon. If approved by the on Decem ber 5. of the programs terminated by 1948 and has served con- Senate a Presidential veto is Publication of the proposed the President. It is expected tinuously since that time. Since expected. A two-thirds rules as modified is expected that many of the bills will be 1965, he has served as yetoed by the President if majority vote of Congress about March 1. EPA will Minority Leader of the House would then be required to probably allow 30 days for passed by Congress. This may. of Representatives. He override the veto. comment on the new proposed REP. ESCH result in attempts by Congress represents the 5th District, rules and then take another 15 to override the vetoes, thus which includes all of Ionia Congressman Ruppe has Disaster Loans to 30 days to review the adding fuel to the controversy. County and portions of Kent, served as a member of On December 27, the comments before publishing In the first of a series of Montca 1m, Barry, CI inton, Congress since his initial the final rules. Sta'te of the Union reports to Secretary of Agriculture an- Eaton Counties. election in 1966. He is a nounced that emergency It is expected that the Congress, President Nixon. member of the Merchant disaster loans to farmers permit program will focus referred to the impoundment Marine and Fisheries Com- through the Farmers Home primarily on confined animal of funds by stating, IIBecause mittee and the Interior and Administration had been feeding operations of 1,000 our resources are not infinite, 'Insular Affairs Committee. He animal units or equivalent size. we also face a critical choice in terminated. Reasons given for represents the 11th District, the action were the provisions 1973 between holding the line which includes all of the Upper which excused the first $5,000 Grain Transportation in government spending and Peninsula and several of the disaster loans from The Senate Agriculture adopting expensive programs counties in the northern Lower repayment and the one per- Com'mittee has held hearings which will surely force up taxes Peninsula. cent interest rate charged on on the present critical and refuel inflation." the balance of the loans. situation related to grain Rural Environmental This action poses serious transportation and rail car Assistance Program problems to farmers faced supply. As part of President Nixon's with severe economic losses The supply of rail cars is very broad effort to reduce due to natural disasters. Such tight due to large export sales, government expenditures, an losses often prevent obtaining lack of ship loading facilities announcement was made credit from customary com- and manpower to handle rail December 26 that funding of REP. FORD mercial sources and the cars at some ports, short the Rural Environmental A similar bill (H.R. 3723) regular operating loans of locomotive fuel supply and Assistance Program (REAP) HA adverse weather. The rail car was introduced on February 5, was being terminated. F . bl by Congressman B.F. Sisk (D- Legislation (H.R. 1795) has shortage also poses pro ems On February 7, the House been app~oved by the House to the delivery of 1973 spring California) for himself and 23 passed, by a vote of 251 to Agriculture Comm'ittee which fertilizer supplies. others, including 142, H.R. 2107, which would Congressmen Marvin Esch (R- would reinstate the disaster Although the current require the Secretary of Ann Arbor) and Philip Ruppe loan Pl'ogram through FHA. situation is critical, it will be Agriculture to carry out REAP. (R -Houghton). The $5,000 forgiveness and more serious if the In- It 'would also require the full REP. RUPPE one percent interest ternational Longshoremen's Congressman Esch was expenditure of all funds ap- provisions would be repealed. and Warehousemen's Union elected to the 90th Congress Both H.R. 2834 and H.R. propriated by Congress for Full repayment of disaster and the Pacific Maritime in 1966 and has been 3723 are supported by Farm REAP in each fiscal year. reelected to each succeed ing loans would be required and Association go on strike when Bureau. Congressmen Ford, Farm Bureau 1973 national Congress. He is a member of the Secretary of Agriculture their contracts expire June 30. Esch and Ruppe are to be policies do not support the Education and Labor congratulated for their sup- would be granted authority to Farm Bureau testified to the govern ment payments to Committee and the Science port of this progressive establish the interest rate at a Senate Agriculture Committee farmers for annual con- and Astronautics Committee. agricultural legislation. level not to exceed six percent. that Congress could help to servation practices such as Farm Bureau supports H.R. solve the grain transportation .~ 1795, but has suggested that it crisis by providing loan be amended so that the in- guarantees for the purchase of terest rate cannot exceed the rail cars and engines, a Booking cost of money to the federal government as established periodically by the Secretary of the Treasury. revi~ion of the rail car in- .centlve rental system to make it more effective and providing an orderly means of settling transportation strikes. BonanzaDay Water Pollution Permit Last October, Program Congress passed the Federal the 92nd Comminuted Meat Several Water Poll ut ion Control Act Congressmen have sponsored over President Nixon's veto. legislation Standards Michigan (H.R. 1752) to The Act prohibits the permit Michigan to retain its *0 ne day only ..... discharge of pollutants into high sta ndards for com- *Lowest prices of the/:y:ear surface waters from a "point minuted meats. Federal source" unless authorized by a standards permit the use of " *AII products on sal~;;:~;il~:,~t permit. The permits would be animal by-products while issued either by the Federal Mich iga n standards permit ~:~\Order now, paY.::9..q';;::~""jlivery Environmental Protection only skeletal meat to be used ,~~',)Pii'rizesand re~f"e'~~'I.ri:~:'nts Agency (EPA) or the Michigan in hot dogs, sausages and Water Resources Commission lunch meats. A Federal Court "Farmers Petroleunf"experts (WRC) if its permit program ruling now being appealed to " on:hand to.:'~J.1swerquestions was approved by EPA the US Supreme Court would On December 5, 1972, EPA force Michigan to lower its \ ~ < :Plan ahead a..nd save published proposed rules to comminuted meat standards. - '~" , . " ~ . Where \bur Fann Comes First implement the permit Michigan Congressmen program. The rules would sponsoring H.R. 1752, to a"?w .'tf:F8Rmr1 have required virtually every higher state standards, in- .BUreaU FARMERS PETROLEUM farmer to file a complicated WRC to determine if a permit clude Congressmen application form with EPA or Ford, Nedzi, Esch, Ruppe, Broomfield, William Dingell, O'Hara, was needed. The time for Griffiths Huber, Brown, publ ic comment on the Cederberg, Harvey and Reigle. MARCH 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 5 Blue Cross MACMA Holds Annual Meeting Pickle Grovvers Meet Blue Shield Michigan's new Agricultural new frontiers in marketing and This year, 1973, may prove for all acceptable number four Marketing and Bargaining Act bargaining legislation. Enrollmenf to be more than interesting for Mich iga n pickle growers, pickles. Foster urged all pickling (Public Act 344) was one of the major topics discussed at Special recognition given to Senator Charles was Why not find out today how according to Harry Foster, cucumber growers to use a the Michigan Agricultural Zollar, Senator William you can join the thousands of manager of the Processing pencil and figure out the net Cooperative Marketing Ballenger, Representative Farm Bureau members who Vegetable Division of Michigan returns per acre on any. Association's annual meeting James Bradley, Represen- enjoy the best possible Agricultural Cooperative proposed pickle contract. held Feb 23 at the Pantlind tative Dennis Cawthorne, and protection against the high Marketing Association. Processors' contract should Hotel in Grand Rapids. five WSAM chapters for their cost of illness or injury-- "Since the passage of the contain a clause which Dr. James Shaffer of efforts in the enactment of Michigan Blue Cross and Blue Michigan Agricultural eliminates the grower's Michigan State University state farm marketing rights Shield. Marketing and Bargaining Act, responsibility or liability, reviewed the possible use of legislation. If you're not enrolled and are pickle growers from around resulting from chemical the new farm marketing rights 'The Future is Yours" was an eligible Farm Bureau the state have been ex- treatments in situations over act. Also on the program was the topic of Troy Barton, member, you can sign up, pressing interest in the which the grower has neither Ralph Bunje, president of the American Marketing during the annual reopening possibility of using the new discretion nor control. California Canning Peach Association, as he capped off period March 1-15, for Blue legislation," Foster said. Association. Bunje discussed the luncheon program. Cross and Blue Shield through The Michigan Agricultural It was also suggested that your county Farm Bureau and Marketing and Bargaining Act contracts contain a "passed" take advantage of this was passed by the House and acreage clause requiring Young People's Citizenship Seminar coverage at the lowest Senate in the closing days of processors to make 100 possible group rates. the last session and signed percent payment for acreage Nea rly 200 high school The Americanism program will , into law by Governor Milliken not harvested for any reason students are expected to be handled by Dr. Clifton If you re already enrolled in January. The legislation beyond grower control, such as participate in Michigan Farm Ganus, president of Harding through your county Farm received strong support by over-contracting or poor Bureau's tenth annual Young College, Searcy, Arkansas. Bureau, you .can take ad- man y a g r i cui t u r a I scheduling of planting, har- People's Citizenship Seminar The "People and Governments vantage ?f this on~e a year organizations, icluding the vesting, qelivering or June 18-22 at Ferris State Around the World" study will opportunIty to adJust. your M i chi g a nAg r i cui t u r a I receiving. Growers should College, Big Rapids. be led by Dr. John Furbay, covera~e to comprehensive 0: Cooperative Marketing have notice of "intent not to harvest" with the right of third County Farm Bureaus have lecturer, author and global air deductible, or ward. or semI. Association, an affiliate of responsibility for selection of commuter. The discussion on Blu~ Cros~ hospital care Michigan Farm Bureau. party abritration within four students and each has been "Economic Systems" will be benefits provide all of the care According to Foster, in- hours of said notice to invited to sponsor four under the guidance of Dr. John you need no matter .what .the formation and organization determine if proper judgement students -- juniors or seniors A. Sparks, chairman, Depart- cost, ~nd feature~ liberalized meetings have been held for has been made or whether the in the 73-74 school year -- and ment of Economics and benefits for physical therapy. the purpose of discussing the crop should. be under the additional students on a first- Business Administration, Blue Shield MVF (Michiga-n possible use of the new ."passed" acreage clause. come, first served basis. Hillsdale College. A session on Variable Fee) benefits pay marketing act this year and to MACMAofficials recommend Emphasis will be placed on the Challenge of Leadership most doctor bills in full for make plans for improved that if a grower is able to sell four major subject areas will be conducted by Art Holst, covered services and offers pickle contracts in 1973. his crops at a price equivalent during the five-day seminar -- Nat iona I Football League added physician benefits to According to MACMA of- to the contract price, the American Way of Life; official. Larry Ewing, manager, give you better coverage. ficials, the organization will be processors should be People and Governments MFB Program Development Contact your county Farm working for contract terms released from liability. Around the World; Economics Division, will assist the Bureau secretary today for sufficient to return a $5.00 per 'Samples should be taken in Everyday Use; and Our students in becoming familiar details on how you can enroll hundred weight average FOB within four hours of intent to American Political System. with the U.S. political system in Michigan Blue Cross and at the farm for number one, by-pass with a determination Outstanding and competent as the basis for the American Blue Shield. two and three size pickles and of payment due t~ be made instructors have been ob- system of government, society The deadline is March 15. a $1.50 per hundred minimum within 48 hours. tained forthe various sessions. and enterprise. Over 80% of eli ible Farm Bureau fami les alread have Blue Cross & Blue Shie d protection because of these advantages ..• o Full group protection o Recognized identification card o Never cancelled because of health conditions or age o Benefits for eligible single children to age 25 o Personal service through your local Farm .Bureau Secretary The deadline for enrolling is March 15 .. @' Effective date May 20. BlueCross@ Blue Shield@. of Michigan PAGE 6 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MARCH 1, 1973 Workmen"s Compensation Questions lationship exists where there is a problem pecular to far- Michigan Hay is a contract of hire between ming. When two farmers agree On December 21, 1972, the certain agricultural employers. the parties. The contract may to exchange labor, they usually Shipped East Supreme Court of Michigan As such, the exemptions were be written or oral and it may do not consider themselves ruled that the agricultural The Michigan Farm Bureau removed and now agricultural be express, or it may be im- employeesand they usually do exemptions of the Workmen's Market Development Division employers will be treated by plied from the circumstances. not consider what the con- Compensation Act were recently coordinated efforts to the law the same as any other The law provides that it is to sequences of an injury would discriminatory and un- public employer. ship 36 tons of hay to be construed liberally in favor be. constitutional. Massachusetts at the request How does this decision of the employee. All too often, a claim for The following are questions of the Farm Bureau affect farmers? Farmers are The employer cannot injury as an employee may asked by some farmers and now classified as private Association of Massachusetts. provide coverage for himself result in a contested work- brief answers to those employers and required to A serious shortage of feed and he is not counted as an men's compensation claim and questions. However, each provide Workmen's Com- supplies has developed on the employee. A member of the a damaged friendship. In such farmer should secure in- pensation Insurance Eastern Coast because family might be an employee cases, it is necessary to look at formation or specific facts protection for their employees Hurricane Agnes destroyed under unusual circumstances, all of the circumstances and regarding his own operation as follows: (a) all private the major portion of feed crops but there must be a valid apply all of the tests for the from his insurance agent to employers who regularly employee - employer re- early last summer. The existence of an employer- situation has been further make sure he is adequately employ three or more em- lationship and such cases are employee relationship to protected under the law. ployees at one time; and (b) carefully scrutinized. compounded by the high cost determine the validity of the of moving feeds into the area What is workmen's com- all private employers who Independent contractors are claim. The safest approach to pensation? An insurance regularly employ less than due to weather and trans- not employees. It is difficult to the problem is for the farmers portation problems. system for work injuries in three employees if at least one tell whether one is an em- to agree on the value of the which employers purchase an of them has been regularly Market Development ployee or an independent services and report that value insurance policy that provides employed by that same em- Division personnel were able contractor when the for premium payment pur- specified medical and in- ployer for 35 or more hours to locate the needed hay here a rrangement is made in- poses. The work should then demnity benefits to workers per week for 13 weeks or in Michigan, secure railroad formally. Basically, it is a be'performed in a manner that who sustain injuries in the longer during the preceding 52 box cars and supervised the question of employer control. would indicate an employer- course of and arising out of weeks. trucking and loading of the Who hires and discharges? employee relationship. their employment. What are the benefits under 1,500 bales of hay. Who directs the manner, time How are landlord and tenant When did it start? Work- the law? Basically, they are and method of doing the work? relationships affected? MACMA men's compensation began in unlimited medical expenses, How is payment made? An Normally, the landlord-tenant Michigan in 1912. Agriculture disability il'1come, death independent contractor is a relationship does not produce Membership Drive was excluded. In 1967, benefits, and costs of person who holds himself out an employer-employee agriculture was included with rehabilitation. to be in the business of relationship. There can be no Launched certa in specific exemptions. In the event the injury providing the service that he hard and fixed rule, however, The Michigan Agricultural Why does workmen's causes the workman's death, performs. He usually receives because the landlord-tenant Cooperative Marketing compensation exist? It is a specified benefits are payable a fixed sum for the service. He relationship varies so much. It Association (MACMA) has substitute for the old to the dependents of the work- controls the manner of doing may be an ordinary lease, a launched a big membership negligence concept of liability. man. the job. He is responsible .for partnersh ip, or a contract of drive, to sign up enough Before workmen's com- Occupational diseases are an end result. He controls the hire, depending on the terms. growers of processing apples, pensation, a worker who was covered, as well as injuries. An persons who work with him. The relationships may exist asparagus, tart cherries, injured might have to bring occupational disease is one He hires and fires those who concurrently. In a lease grapes and pickling cucum- suit against his employer to that is peculiar to the oc- work wi.th him. He generally arrangement, the landlord may bers, to qualify under the new recover damages for a work cupation. sets the time for performing also hire the tenant to perform marketing and bargaining law injury. What about failure to comply the work. work on the landlord's account P.A.344, according to Harry A. Under workmen's com- with the law? An employer who A farmer who is amenable to and thus have a contract of Foster, manager of MACMA's pensation, the cost of work is subject to the Act and who the law should be careful in hire, in addition to the lease Fruit and Vegetable Divisions. injuries is a part of the cost of does not carry workmen's hiring independent con- arrangement. The new law goes into effect doing business. It is an item of compensation, may suffer very tractors who are amenable to In the landlord-tenant on April I, Foster said, and expense in the same manner severe fina ncial loss. If one of the law. If the amenable in- situation, each should consider MACMA wants to be prepared that supplipc:;,payroll, etc., are his employees is injured, the dependent contractor doesn't his amenability to workmen's to petition as soon as the items of expense. Fault is not a employee may sue the em- carry coverage, the farmer compensation. administrative arrangements factor in workmen's com- ployer and recover the may have the cost of injuries to If a farm employer hires can be readied for operation. pensation. It is immaterial as damages that he proves or the employees of the in- members of his own family to "We recogn ize that these to whether the employer, the may elect to file a claim under dependent contractor charged work on the farm, what is the administrative functions may employee,or neitherof the two the compensation law. In such to his risk. You can protect situation? The law says:' take a few days, but we want to caused the accident. case,the employer is liable for yourself by requiril)g the in- "Private employees; spouses, be ready to move ahead," he What brought about the the full amount of the award. dependent contractor to partners, minors. Every person said. change? On December 21, One should never take a furnish you a copy of his in the service of another, "Members of MACMA's Fruit 1972, Michigan's Supreme chance where compensation is certificate of workmen's under any contract of hire, and Vegetable Divisions Court ruled that the state's involved. compensation coverage. express or implied, including already have 40 to 60 percent Workmen's Compensation Act Who is an employee? An What about exchange labor? aliens, any person regularly of Michigan's production of is discriminatory in exempting employee - employer re- Exchange labor between farms employed on a full-time basis these crops, so we are near or .~ by his spouse having specified just over the 50 percent hours of employment at a production requirement in the specified rate of pay, working law. What we need is a few Booking . members of partnersh ips more growers to put us over receiving therefrom wages the top as far as the number of irrespective of profits, any growers of a particular person insured for whom and commodity is concerned," to the extent premiums are reports Foster. BonanzaDay paid based on wages, earnings He continued, "We are very or profits, and minors, who close to the time when we can shall be considered the same fulfill the raw product full as and have the same power to market pricing objectives contract as aduIt employees. growers have been working for Any minor under 18 years of over the years. Price age whose employment at the bargaining under the law sets *One day only ;:'::. time of injury shall be shown to up an orderly system to arrive be illegal, in the absence of at price and should eliminate *Lowest prices of th~{;Mlear fraudulent use of permits or the need for harvest holidays ~*All prod ucts 0 n sat~::.:~~\.~:~~.:. certificates of age in which and related activities." case only single compensation "Effective price bargaining I f":~\Order now, pay .on'~'delivery shall be paid, shall receive is one of the many marketing .~~~.)Pp'rizes a nd refreshments compensation double that tools wh ich have been provided . in this act." developed for the fruit and ;,.. .f~rmers'Petro'leum""experts - "Exclusion of coverage of vegetable industry in ... on:hand to answer questions partner or spouse. Any policy Michigan. Other marketing \h < ;Plan ahead and save or contract of workmen's compensation insurance, by tools include the state and federal marketing orders for , .. I j.;;.. Wh.e)bur Farm Comes First indorsement may exclude orderly marketing and ! f'o FaRm r1 coverage as toa ny one or more named partners or the spouse promotion and market development activities along '~i/ Bureau FARMERS PETROLEUM of an employer who is an in- dividual. No such spouse or partner so excluded shaII be with centralized marketing. When the industry works together we can come close to subject to the provisions of the total marketing system this act." concept," he concluded. MARCH 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 7 lagoons. There the wastewater Rumors and unconfirmed representatives on the issue. Land Wastewater Disposal Plan would receive secondary reports often accompany Constructive testimony was treatment and then be appled controversial issues. Such is given by the Huron County to land in Huron, Tuscola, St. the case with the proposed Farm Bureau at the December Involves Prime Agricultural Land Clair, Monroe and Lenawee Southeastern Michigan 11 public hearing in Bad Axe. Counties by irrigation systems. wastewater disposal plan. County Farm Bureaus have A controversial proposal to the Corps initiated feasibility Crops would be grown to When the current Corps of taken a firm but constructive manage wastewater from studies in five metropolitan utilize available nutrients and Engineers wastewater position on the proposed la nd Sout hea stern M ich iga n by areas including Southeast the wastewater would be disposal studies are completed wastewater disposal system disposal on large areas of Michigan. further purified as it per- this summer, the report will be and are continuing their ef- prime farmland is having a Among the several alter- colated through the soil. forwa rded to the Governor for forts on this important issue serious impact in counties natives that have been Proposals for land further action. The State of facing agriculture. affected by the proposed plan. proposed to ma nage wastewater disposal appear to Michigan will make the final Reports ind icate that business wastewater from the be designed primarily to decision as to what use, if any, activity, land values and other Southeast Michigan area is achieve water quality goals. will be made of the Corps economic services have been hurt. How did this come land disposal. The concept of land disposal of wastewater is Public attitudes and individual property have not been major study. Citizens of this State should not forget that they can Membership about? simple, but very controversial. factors in designing the be a powerful and deciding In 1970, Congress Land disposal of Southeast proposed land wastewater force in such decisions. as of Feb. 16, authorized the U.S. Army Michigan wastewater as disposal system for County Farm Bureaus are Corps of Engineers to develop proposed by the Corps of Southeastern Michigan. actively involved in this issue. alternative ways to manage wastewater from metropolitan Engineers would involve the collection and transporting of Without the proposed such consideration system will A special meeting was held at Sandusky on December 7 to 98.91 % areas. As a result of this action the wastewater to storage remain highly controversial. brief county Farm Bureau COUNTY % GOAL 1. Menom inee 106.08 2. Mac-Luce 104.54 3.. Otsego 103.57' 4. Montmorency 103.29 5 Cheboygan 103.27 6. Kalkaska 102.63 7. Alpena 102.59 8. Chippewa 102.53 9. N. W:Mich. 101.36 10. Osceola 101.14 11. Saginaw 101.13 12. Montcalm 101.07 13. Ottawa 101.02 14. Macomb 101.089 15. Berrien 101.082 16. Copper Ctry. 101.06 17. Sanilac 100.98 18. Newaygo 100.93 19. Arenac 100.83 20. Washtenaw 100.57 21. Kent 100.50 22. Clinton 100.41 23. Oceana 100.386 24. Bay 100.3856 25. Gratiot 100.3855 26. Livingston 100.36 27. St. Clair 100.33 28. Clare 100.00 29. Benzie 100.00 30. Emmet 100.00 31. Gladwin 100.00 32. Ogemaw 100.00 33. losco 100.00 34. Wexford 100.00 35. Tuscola 99.66 36. Shiawassee 99.65 37. Missaukee 99.38 38. Allegan 99.28 39. Oakland 98.96 40. Lenawee 98.60 41. Mason 98.41 UWhen I buy seed and 42. Ionia 43. Eaton 98.35 98.33 fertilizer for 1,COO-acres, {f 44. Charlevoix 45. Van Buren 46. Monroe 98.15 98.14 97.91 I get more than just a bill," 47. Presque Isle 48. Barry 97.88 97.21 49. Alcona 97.14 says Gerry Elenbaum. 50. Huron 51. Wayne 97.10 97.01 In 1955, Gerry Elenbaum started farming on 80 re~t~d acres with b?rrowed tools. He ':"!ls quick to 52. Ingham 96.96 realize that he needed more than just seed and fertilizer to grow. HIs Farm Bureau affiliated co-op 53. Mecosta 96.90 was there with the kind of help he needed .. 54. Lapeer 96.84 Gerry still turns to his co-op for advice on op~rating his 1OOO-acre Huro~ country farm: On 55. Muskegon 96.78 his co-op's recommendation, he us~s Farm Bureau s Hurryup Bean Starter to Improve crop Yleld.s. 56. Calhoun 96.63 This year Gerry accidently omitted Hurryup Bean ~tarter on one row of navy beans. The row IS 57. St. Joseph 96.28 FaRm~ only half as high and has been hardest hit by blight and wa.ter 58. Cass 96.26 damage, proving Hurryup's performance. Farm ~ureau's feed specla.l- Where)bur Fann Comes First 59. Isabella 96.04 ist has helped Gerry improve his overweight d~lry h~rd. T~e herd.ls 60. Hillsdale 95.96 au~eau now on Farm Bureau LPS free choice, along With Dairy 55 ~ Premix 61. Antrim 95.91 and haylage. Both calving and milk production have improved. 62. Jackson 95.58 63. Genesee 95.27 Gerry agrees that he gets more than a bill from his co-op .. Call 64. Manistee 94.87 your nearest Farm Bureau co-op. Find out about the services, 65. Midland 94.84 technical help and marketing assistance that can make your farm 66. Branch 94.79 more profitable. FARM BUREAU SERVlCES,INC 67. Hiawathaland 93.53 68. Kalamazoo 91.05 69. Iron Range 80.95 219 PAGE 8 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MARCH 1, 19~3 Estate Planning Seminar Dates Dates and locat ions for estate planning seminars have been set for much of the state. The seminars will feature several specialists in the field of estate planning ... a lawyer, trust officer and an insurance estate plan ning special ist. ~~,. ...:~~, Regionswhere seminars are ~''>1 forthcoming are: Southwest, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER VANDERLANN (center) was March 1, 1 p.m.,Albion College one of the legislative leaders personally presented copies of the Science Commons 1973 Michigan Farm Bureau Policy Books. Meeting with the Auditorium; West Central, The Michigan Farm Bureau Dairy Advisory Committee Senator were (left to right) Robert Smith and AI Almy, March 5, 1 p.m., Isabella recently met to discuss issues of importance to the dairy in- legislative counsels; Administrative Director Robert Braden; County Building, Mt . Pleasant dustry. Committeemen present were: Dist. 1, Harlow Bailey, Vice President Pridgeon and .President Smith. and 8:00 p.m., National Bank Kalamazoo; Dist. 2, Marvin Wade, Branch; Dist. 3, Tom Mid- of Ludington; West, March 6,8 dleton, Oakland; Dist. 4, Gerald Larson, Ionia; Dist. 5, Robert P.M., Stanton Commons High Grams, Clinton; Dist. 7, Wayne Johnson, Osceola: Dist. 8, School and March 7, 8 p.m., Charles Kleinhardt, Clare: Dist. 10, Francis Themn, Kent County Farm Bureau Charlevoix; Dist. II, George Palmer, Menominee; Members At- Office, Comstock Park; North- Large: Art Forbush, Genesee; Charles Fisher, Allegan. west, March 13, 1 p.m., First Representing its MFB Board were: Richard Wieland, Franklin National Bank, Cadillac, and 8 Schwiderson and Andrew Jackson. Discussion at the meeting p.m., PCA Building, Traverse included: The Environment, EPA Permits and Proposed City; Northeast, March 19 and Federal Standards for Milk. Craig Thomas, director, Commodity 20 (tentative), Alpena, Activities Division, AFBF,spoke on the potential and limitations of a Dairy Commodity Division .. Gaylord, West Branch; and Southeast, March 15, 8 p.m., location to be announced later. Farm Bureau Insurance Group's unique farm estate SPEAKEROF THE HOUSE RYAN (center) looks at a copy of planning service will be the 1973 Michigan Farm Bureau Policy Book delivered and discussed d uri ng the discussed by (left to right) Administrative Director Robert semi nars, The insurance J Braden, Legislative Counsel Robert Smith, President Smith, company's ideas include: how Vice President Pridgeon and Legislative Counsel AI Almy. to keep the farm profitable for sons remaining on the farm while making an equitable inheritance provision for other children; family agreements for Social Security qualification; partnership business continuation agreements, in event of a partner's death or disability; estate analysis for reducing federal estate tax, Michigan inheritance tax and probate Miss Rita Ruby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruby, and tra nsfer costs; how to Ludington, smiled as she was crowned Mason County's 1973 estimate the number of acres Farm Bureau Queen by Elton R. Smith, president, Michigan it will"cost" to die and how to Farm Bureau. II pay these costs within nine PRESIDENT SMITH, Legislative Counsel Almy, Ad- months after death; ministrative Director Braden, Vice President Pridgeon, and development of proper wills Legislative Counsel Smith presented copies of the Michigan and trust agreements; and tax -10 Farm Bureau 1973 Policy Book to House Minority Leader Smart. shelters available current tax laws. __ under o ANNUAL INTEREST i!D Farmers Petroleum Is one of the most progressive cooperatives It! Michigan. Booking .~ The debentures offered, present anum. Bonanza Day ber of advantages to the liwestor, such as, Interest starting on day of purchase and paid annually on September 1st, no brokerage fees, registration In up to 3 names, and no charge for trans- fer to a new owner. 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BUreaU Name Road RFD __ _ , FARMERS PETROLEUM Clty County _ ~ ~-_._-_._._._ ....._ ..._._-------_.~ 301 Phone , MARCH 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 9 Market Report tributed to the worldwide lack slightly, while stocks off farms all hay declined during Michigan State University, the of sufficient protein. Total are down by 25 percent. January. Prices received by State of Michigan, United By Greg Sheffield, stocks of Michigan grains, Soybea n stocks in all farmers in Michigan, for Airlines and others. Sales are Manager including soybeans, corn and January 15, 1973 were: corn' increasing weekly as the positions as of January 1, FBS Marketing Services wheat as of January 1 were 1973, totaled 10.03 million per bushel, $1.35, up $.32 from product reaches institutional Feed Ingredients. Feed grain larger than last year. Soybeans bushels, up 67 percent from a last year; wheat per bu., $2.54; users. usage is expected to increase were up nearly 67 percent and year earlier. The farm stocks, up $1.09 from last year; oats Supplies. The big question nationally by ten percent this showed the largest gain for the 3t 7.8 million bushels, are per bu., $.97, up $.21 from last mark at this time is rail yea r. October 1 carryover year. Oats, on the other hand, 1early double January of last year; dry beans per cwt., transportation. Extreme rail could drop by 25 percent. Total were down slightly, according (ear, while the total stocks off $8.60, down $4.20 from last car shortages are being ex- feed grain this year is to the Michigan Crop farms are up 15 percent. year; hogs per cwt., $32.50, up perienced in Michigan and estimated nationally at a new Reporting Service. Agricultural Prices. Ac- $9.70 from last year; beef throughout the country due to high of 210 million tons. Corn stocks in all positions cording to Michigan Crop cattle per cwt., $32.30, up the heavy grain shipments Ca rryover by October 1 may in the first of this year totaled Reporting Service, index of $5.50 from last year; calves overseas. tumble to 25 percent or about 117.3 million bushels, up 16 prices received by Michigan per cwt., $52.80, up $9.80 from Secu~ing fertilizers and 36 million tons, according to percent from a year earlier. farmers rose three points to last year; lambs per cwt., other supplies will be touch the February 8, USDA Feed Farm stocks, at 100.1 million 135 percent of the 1967 $32.50, up $5.20 from last and go. Lumber is in very short Situation Summary. During bushels are 35 percent more average during the month y~r; milk per cwt., $6.50, up supply. The situation for January and the first half of than last year, while total all- ending January 15, 1973. $.30 from last year; eggs per treated logs is critical in some February, wild trading at the farm stocks at 117.2 million Higher prices for eggs, hogs dozen, $.428, up $.168; and areas. Chicago Board of Trade bushels, are. down 36 percent. and cattle were responsible for wool per pound, $.50, up $.27. Feed ingredients remain in pu shed soybea nand mea I Total oat stocks, at 12.6 million much of the increase, but most Eggs. New Country Queen short supply with high prices. futures up the limits for bushels, are down four percent items in the index were higher Peeled Hard-Cooked Eggs are Fruit growers should order several contracts day after from January 1, 1972. The or unchanged from a month getting fine market acceptance their supplies of pesticides day. Bullishness was at- total on-farm stocks are down previous. The price of corn and with major users such as early this year' because of shortages and shipping dif- BOOK IT. ficulties. Technical Parathion will be in very short supply because manufacturers are converting 'it into Methyl Parathion and HAVE IT••• shipping it overseas for cotton insect use. Furadan lOG for soil insect control in corn will also be very short this year. when you Some Corn Crop 40 perce nt Michigan's corn crop remained of "need it! unharvested in fields at the start of the new year, ac- cording to Edward R. Powell, vice president of the Michigan Elevator Exchange division of Farm Bureau Services. The slowness of harvest operations has broken a II records and many farmers are feeling a severe economic pinch without returns from the cash crop. Wet fall weather and muddy fields are blamed for delaying corn picking. Because the corn harvest never reached peak volume, the coop elevators have been able to handle the 1972 crop without major h itches, but a current shortage of rail hopper cars is creating problems in some areas, Powell said. Already some five 100-car trainloads of Michigan corn have been shipped east for export from the Ottawa Lake terminal and four similar 100- car trains have departed from the Saginaw termina lover the Fertilizer Shortages, you remember Your dollar buys more when you last several months. Each 100- car train carries about the long lines that occurred last year. Well, invest in Farm Bureau Fertilizer 350,000 bushels of corn. with the predicted increase in crop acreage Farm Bureau fertilizers are formulated to Powell said that the 100-car and phosphate shortages, your present trains were contracted far provide maximum benefits at minimal cost. source of supply might not have what you That way, money invested in Farm Bureau before harvest started which need, when you need it. allowed us to have cars to load fertilizer returns to the farmer stronger, during the peak harvest Come see your nearest Farm Bureau dealer. faster maturing, better yielding crops. period. Because of this for- He is fully stocked with the fertilizer you ward contracting, we were require. Your dealer can also help with Ask your dealer about these able to continually receive sound investments today! corn even during the heaviest modern spreading equipment you can rent. ha rvest period. Very few railroad cars were available in hurryup TM Get your crop growing the conventional manner and STARTERFERTlLlZER strong and fast Where }bur Fann Comes Rrst without the forward con- FaRm~ tracting for 100-car trains, we would not have been able to Your Farm Bureau dealer has Hurryup receive corn every day. starter ferti Iizers, proven to get you r crop BUreaU Experts now fear that a growing strong and fast. The polyphosphates portion of the 1972 corn crop in Hurryup and the minor elements of will be lost due to field losses manganese, boron and zinc can help you caused by ears falling off and FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC stalks breaking down. get high yields this year. 241 However, corn can be har- vested anytime the weather permits. PAGE 10 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MARCH 1, 1973 way of life is a reality. The following portion of this Future technology may someday provide answers to "ENERGY CRISIS" article discusses the major energy sources available problems of extraction of fuel from these sources, to the United States now, and sources which may but for the present, at least, synthetic fuels as major Discussion Topic become important supplements in the future. energy sources appear only as intriguing COAL, our most abundant fossil fuel, is the main possibilities. by KEN WILES source of power for electric generators. America has GEOTHERMAL POWER.Heat radiates constantly enough underground coal reserves to last several from the earth's core, sometimes concentrating in DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS centuries. After utilities began their courtship with local hot spots near the surface. When underground On November 9, 1965 in eight short minutes a nuclear power, many power plant operators passed water meets naturally heated underground rocks, near total electrical eclipse swept over much of the up customary long-term contracts with coal com- steam results -- the same kind of steam that makes northeastern portion of the United States. An in- panies, and the number of producing mines Old Faithful perform on schedule. By drilling into conceivable event occurred as the quiet servant declined. Then when environmental and technical geothermalty active areas, natural steam can be electricity unexpectedly resigned. problems delayed atomic power, many utilities and directed into the blades of turbines to produce low- The Great Blackout, as it came to be known, was industries started switching back to coal. Strict new cost electricity. Geothermal power has several the first dramatic warning that the relationship mining and safety laws have closed some mines, and advantages. It is clean -- no combustion products are between energy supply and demand had reached a environmental restrictions of one kind or another emitted to the atmosphere. Plant ronstruction costs precarious balance in the United States. Today, we have curtailed the use of coal in this country. The are Jess than the cost of a fossil fuel plant, or a know the problem as the energy crisis. We are only future of coal as a prime source of electrical power nuclear plant because no fuel handling facilities or starting to realize its full dimensions and we may depends on developing ways to scrub out pollutants high pressure boilers need be constructed. continue to feel its effects for a long time to come. and finding better ways of mining and transporting However, the plants and the power lines leading To many people, an energy crisis might mean no the low-sulphur grades that are less polluting. from them do destroy the natural beauty of the electricity to operate appliances, less heating fuel or .GAS consumption last year in the United States surrounding area. The Geysers, located north of San less gasoline to operate the family car. But to far- reached a staggering 23 trillion cubic feet. It is more- Francisco, is the U.S.'s first geothermal power mers, an energy crisis can mean all of these plus a widely in demand than ever before because of its project. It is estimated that by 1985 from one-half of hault or a slow down in their farming operations. reputation as a "clean" fuel. Proven domestic one percent to about two percent of the U.S.energy Many farmers in Michigan first became aware or reserves, the gas we know is available in the ground, demand may be provided by geothermal power. concerned about an energy crisis when elevators are down by one count to 247 trillion cubic feet, OCEAN POWER. Breaking surf, tides, ocean had to cease drying grain due to a shortage of exclusive of the reserves in Alaska. For the last four currents, and cold water welling up to the surface natural gas. While the phrase "energy crisis" has years, discovery of new reserves has failed to keep have the potential for generating billions of become a household phrase in only the last few pace with production. The Federal Power Com- megawatts of electricity, if they could be harnessed. months, it has been developing for some time. mission projects a supply shortage of 3.6 trillion Many of the schemes to channel the ocean's energy The United States, with six percent of the world's cubic feet in 1975 and a gas famine in the coming into power production are feasible from an population, consumed nearly one-third of the globe's decades. engineering standpoint, but construction costs energy production during 1972. The demand for Although there is probably enough gas un- would be high and also production and transmission energy is expected to double or even triple within derground for a couple decades, exploration will be costs. Looked at quickly, oceanic power does not the next 15 to 20 years. The nation's farmers spend costly, and drillers sometimes will have to go down seem likely toa rouse environmental opposition. It is, more than four billion dollars annually for fuel. and more than 5,000 feet to tap new sources. Present after all, a clean, natural, self-renewing power lubricants. They also use some 33 billion kifowatt deficits are being reduced with pipeline imports source. Yet, some unforeseen environmental con- hours of electricity each year, which is more than the from Canada and Mexico. sequences may result from using tidal power on a annual residential use in Washington, D.C., One school of thought is the-gas shortage' can be large .scale. A -few serious researchers' have Maryland, and all the New England states combined. blamed on a 1954 Supreme' Court decision giving -predicted that the imposition of large-scale tidal Cause of the energy crisis is difficult to explain, as the Federal Power Commission the right to set gas power plants would disturb the normal tidal ebb and so many different factors are involved. But it ap- .prices at the well head, although a liberalization of . flow, and would slow the earth's rotation. While pears that the basic reason is that the demand for the rates is now being considered. This policy, the power from the sea is alluring, 'it is also disap- energy has rapidly increased while economic con- argument goes, has resulted in unrealistically low pointing. Its cost, remoteness from large user areas, trols combined with the new emphasis on ecology prices and subsequent reluctance of industry to and unknown environmental effects are problems have hampered the incentive to meet the demand. invest in exploration. which must be solved before ocean power can There are some who accuse the petroleum in- 01 L.ln 1971, we burned 5.5. billion barrels of oil to become an important energy supplement. These dustry and power companies of "crying wolf" over run more than 90 million autos, to power jet fleets, to solutions are not likely to be forthcoming for the energy cri~is in an effort to get rate increases for heat homes and to run a host of items from ships to decades. their products and tax advantages for their in- chain saws. This is the equivalent of three gallons a SOLAR. ENERGY. Siflce its beginning, life has vestors. This may be true to some. extent, but it is day for every man, woman and child in the country. depended upon the sun to sustain a hospitable also true that the petroleum and power people are By 1985, demand will be around 27 million barrels a climate on earth. Now, the use of solar energy is using a line of reasoning which farmers can un- day, but domestic production, currently around 11 beginning to be viewed as a potentially attractive, derstand. - million barrels a day, will be only about ten million. abundant, and non-polluting means of sup- Farmers maintain that government price controls Even if environmental concerns over the con- plementing our present energy resources. Solar on food would kill the incentive for expanding troverSial pipeline from Alaska's rich North Slope energy is already being used as a sOurceof heat. The agricultural production. Utilities and the petroleum can be overcome, it would add only an estimated two principle that a blackened surface exposed to the industry are telling the same type of story. Phase million barrels a day. sun will absorb solar energy is the basis for the Two price controls curtailed the incentive to drill for So a large part of America's oil must eventually operation of several million domestic hot water oil and natural gas. come from abroad, mainly from the Middle East, heaters used in a dozen countries. A more advanced Farmers are concerned that the push toward richest source of this fuel. Projections for three system could be applied to home heating and more strict rules and regulations in the name of years ahead already call for importing 39 percent of cooling. What would be ideal, of course, would be to ecology will hamper agricultural production our oil, 14 percent above former import estimates convert solar energy to electric power. Satellites techniques. Petroleum and utility companies say for 1985. could microwave solar energy back to earth and in new rules and restrictions are keeping refineries The key to these supplies will be U.S. relations this way realize six to eight times more solar energy from being built, cables from being strung, and pipes with oil-producing countries, which have been than would be available in the best location in the from being laid. known to cut off the flow on a whim. International U.S.As yet, it is too early to state what bets should Farmer cooperative leaders at a recent meeting observers warn that powerful groups like the be placed on this optional energy source, but its with government officials warned that the energy Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries can potential for supplementing our present sources is crisis w ill have a serious effect on food production in easily allot 011 to favored buyers and the U.S. an exciting one. 1973 unless steps are taken to alleviate it. bargaining position will b~ made no easier. by the In sessions with White House and USDA officials, Japanese and European appetite for oil, now The Future the group told how fuel allocation programs are growing faster than our own. Foreign competition Can we ease our energy crisis by cutting down on affecting their operations this winter. II Most aside, the job of ferrying overseas oil here will be fuel waste right now? Certainly. Cars could be built cooperative refineries," they declared, "are staggering, calling for an estimated 360 new to get more milage per gallon, buildings could be operating well below capacity or on a hand-to-mouth supertankers costing billions of dollars. better insulated and most appliances 'could be basis right now." NUCLEAR POWER, at one time considered the designed to produce less waste heat. An ordinary "If the present situation of refineries running answer to energy needs, has been restricted by fear light bulb converts into light only about ten percent below capacity continues another 30 days, there of radiation contamination and thermal pollution of of the electricity it burns, and most air conditioners won't be sufficient products available logistically to water. Despite the problems, power plant operators are far less efficient than they might be. serve the spring needs of agriculture," they said. are betting on the atom as a major source of There is a basic need to improve the techniques of The group predicted these consequences in 1973 if tomorrow's electrical energy. Nuclear plants are generating, storing and transmitting electricity, too.. relief i';Il't forthcoming: agricultural production projected to go from 28 operating today to 150 in Power plants are around 30 percent to 40 percent failing to meet national goals; rising food costs 1980 and 450 by 1990, provided designs prove efficient. because of insufficient supplies; lack of adequate acceptable and enough uranium can be found to The time is coming when energy planners, spread grain supplies to fill export needs; a worsening of heat their boilers. The U.S. has stocked only 50,000 through sixty-some government agencies, must face the balance of payments; and general confusion and tons of uranium oxide, the raw material of nuclear up to the crucial question~ Can America create a discontent in the farm population. power, with another 273,000 tons in estimated sensible policy that meets today's energy demands Cooperative officials also predicted that farm reserves. This would supply power plants into the on one hand, and provide for tomorrow's en- demand for power fuels could increase ap- 1980's when the Atomic Energy Commission must vironmental and fuel needs on the other? proximately 25 percent this spring. This is due to a have additional enrichment facilities for processing Nobody thinks the answers will come easily. But wet fall throughout the Midwest which caused late uranium. the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, harvesting, and prevented fall plowing and planting SYNTHETIC FUELS. A hunk of rock, a grain of William Ruckelshaus, states optimistically, "Right in many areas; and 1973 government programs sand and garbage are unlikely to bring petroleum to now, energy and environment are on a collision which will increase total plantings by some 40 mind, but realistically they could. Certain forms of :ourse. But that need not be. We have the power to million acres. such u'nlikely elements produce "synthetic change directions. With common sense,goodwill and Energy Sources petroleum." Sometime in the future these synthetics a desire to modify the hallowed habits of the past, we Our national commitment to an energy-supported could become important new sources of energy. can not only survive, but prosper." MARCH 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 11 Discussion Topic Report Sheet Clinic Topic Summary The Discussion Topic and Report Sheet for the discussion topic on the opposite page is furnished for use of Dafes .community group members who may wish to review it prior Replies to the January Discussion Topic on the Metric County Farm Bureau Board t? their group meetings. If used by a Community Group, in System showed a majority of those replying in favor of the members have been invited to lieu of report sheet furnished the Discussion Leader, metric system, but opposed to making it mandatory. Generally attend one of the series of please forward answers with minutes to Program speaking, those with little previous contact with the metric clinic meetings for managers Development Division, Michigan Farm Bureau. If used by system could see no reason to learn a new measurement and directors of cooperatives. individuals, please forward answers to Information language. For their purposes, the customary system is far The clinics, sponsored by Division, Michigan Farm Bureau, P.O. Box 960, Lansing, betterthan the metric system because they already know it. Michigan Association of Michigan 48904 on or before April 1, 1973. 1. In your opinion, which system, the metric or the Farmer Cooperatives, will be '1 cust,<:ma ry, ,fT1a kes ca Iculations I ea sier? Metric: 51 % held in areas where COMMUNITY FARM BUREAU _ Cu stoma ry: 49% .cooperatives have recently Discussion Exercise and Report Sheet 2. In your opinion, is increased metric usage in the best added new facilities. In ad- March,1973 interest of the United States? Yes: 75% No: 25% dition to touring the new 3. Do you think it is feasible for the United States to com- facilities, the program will .Community Farm Bureau County _ pletely convert to the metric system? Xes: 52% No: 48% include discussions on Please ind icate the number of people taking part in this 4. Since conversion to the metric system is legal, should it be "Changes Taking Place in discussion _ made mandatory? Yes: 43% No: 57% .: Agriculture" and "Ad- 5. If conversion t9 the metric syste,m beco'1les mandatory, I justments Cooperatives are TOPIC: ENERGY CRISIS what time span should be allowed forthe complete conversion? Making to Meet the Needs of The suggested time span ranged from five to ten years, but the Agriculture." 1. What can ind ividuals do to help conserve energy sup- vast majority favored ten years . The clinics are scheduled . plies? _ 6. Do you think the general public is almost forgotten in the March 6, Buchanan Co-op, proposed cha nge to the metric system? Yes: 77 % No: 23 % Buchanan; March 8, Comet 7. Comments: Let's get it over with; any change is difficult Restaurant, Grand Rapids; to accept; you can teach old dogs new tricks; old dogs can March 14, Michigan Livestock 2. Do you agree with the Administration's action which learn new tricks; metric system is more accurate; too con- Exchange, Manchester; March suspended oil import quotas through April 30 and set fusing for our age; confusing, but then so is most everything 15, East Jordan Co-op, East higher limits for imports of crude oil through 1973? else these days. Jordan. Yes: __ No: __ , Explain :_' _ 3. What preparations db you suggest farmers make to Booking assure themselves an adequate supply of energy needs for their farming operations? _ 4. What is the present situation wIth your fuel and electric supplies? _ 5. Are the suppliers of the energy you use attempting help you be prepared if a.fuel shortage occurs? 6. Earlier this year President Nixon appointed presidential counselors with board authority over areas three to _ Bonanza Day of domestic concern. One of the counselors was given responsibility for natural resources, including energy policy. What is this person's name? _ 7. 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