. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ^SL 9utrage^ pure md simple Administration pulling, congressional pushing is likely to result in a farm Dgram that won't yank the rug out too quickly from too many hard pressed i mers. That there will have to be a gradual change in farm support regulations t;re can be no doubt. A good place to start is the Administration proposal limit support payments to those farmers with annual incomes under : 00,000. That big agri-business gets as large a slice as it does from farm i;istance is an outrage. The more farming can distance itself f
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ^SL 9utrage^ pure md simple Administration pulling, congressional pushing is likely to result in a farm Dgram that won't yank the rug out too quickly from too many hard pressed i mers. That there will have to be a gradual change in farm support regulations t;re can be no doubt. A good place to start is the Administration proposal limit support payments to those farmers with annual incomes under : 00,000. That big agri-business gets as large a slice as it does from farm i;istance is an outrage. The more farming can distance itself from Washington, the better off it will t. It's bad enough being subjected to the fickleness of nature. Farmers don't 1 ve to be buffeted about by the winds of political change, too. Comparing wheat farming or cattle ranching to cranberrying is like comparing i'ples to oranges-or coconuts. They're different. Size, for one thing. But other lanches of agriculture might take a look at the cranberry field. They might Ke a look at the fruits of cooperation, as in A Solid Investment requires solid financing . . and that's our spe- cialty. Credit for equipment, land, buildings ... all your financial needs. For Credit . . Plus a full range of other finance-related services, see your local Farm Credit representative. Box 7 Taunton, Mass. 02780 Tel: (617) 824-7578 Office: Located on Rt. 44, Va Mile West of Rt. 24 IIIIIIIHIimMlllllllltllllllimiir:timillllltHIIHIIIIII III 1111(11IIIMIMIIHKIIIIMIIIIIIHUIHUUIIIIIMII TOWN BOGS PROFITABLE Last fall's harvest of cranberries provided over $100,000 in revenue to two Massachusetts towns. Falmouth, which leases its SO acres of bogs to the Handy Cranberry Trusts, derived , based on a $5 per barrel fee. Mashpee received over $80,000 in proceeds from its cranberry bogs. The two towns' bogs are under the supervision of their respective conservation commissions. -STEVE HALL 3ie9ie:|e:|e:|c:|e9(c:|e*3k*9|e*3ie9ie9ie)|e REAL ES
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