Dock Tie-Ups Stir Farm Leaders at Capitol Hearing
Farm leaders told Sen Lawton Chiles and a Senate subcommittee that dock strikes cripple exports and raise prices, with losses totaling hundreds of millions. Speakers urged compulsory arbitration and hard actions to end the maritime stoppage affecting Gulf Coast and Corn Belt farmers.
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UPL
Lawton M. Chiles
D-Fla
Senate Agriculture
Gulf Coast
Corn Belt
Paul Findley
R-I
Chiles
Tatm
National Council of Cotton Cooperatives
Pacific Coast
Michael L. Hall
Great Plains Wheat, Inc
Ralph S. Newman, Jr
Borlaug blasts hysteria over farm chemical use at FAO talk
Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug warned environmentalists against blocking essential chemicals like DDT, saying famine would follow. He delivered an 18 000 word address to the FAO governing conference in Rome, urging safe, effective pest control to boost food production and stave off global undernourishment. Delegates from 125 countries gathered to chart FAO's next two years amid imbalanced world farm conditions.
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Rome
Norman E. Borlaug
FAO
Addeke Boerma
Proxmire Proposes Ban on DES In Beef Feeding
Sen William Proxmire proposes legislation to ban diethylstilbestrol DES in cattle feeds to prevent cancer risks and push for earlier December effect. A House subcommittee will hold hearings on DES controls while the Agriculture Department and FDA prepare a formal rule tightening withdrawal periods and inspector certification.
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Washington
William Proxmire
House
Agriculture Department
Wisconsin
Senate
Food and Drug Administration
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