PORK DELEGATES VOTE ON FARM BILL, FARM CREDIT

  Delegates from the National Pork
  Producers Council, NPPC, attending the American Pork Congress
  in Indianapolis, voted overwhelmingly to recommend the U.S.
  congress not to change the farm bill. While there are no
  specific pork items in that legislation, feed grain prices
  directly affect pork producer profits, the NPPC said.
      Don Gingerich, a delegate from Iowa, said "to have
  unpredictable changes come along periodically makes it very
  difficult to plan and causes a lot of disruption."
      Other members said the farm bill has some imperfections but
  that's a price pork producers are willing to pay for
  legislative stability, an NPPC spokesman said.
      Delegates also passed unanimously a resolution that
  Congress and the administration should act swiftly to identify
  problems in the farm credit system.
      Farm Credit Task Force chairman and newly elected Vice
  President of the NPPC Ray Hankes, said delegates wanted a
  program that all commodity groups can work with and bring a 
  resolution to this problem with legislators in Washington.
      Hankes added that the National Pork Producers Council will
  work to save farmers and keep credit available, but not to save
  or create any one credit system.
  

