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Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Sept. 2
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policies, we can outcompete, outhustle, out-
for another major event. But unfortunately,
work anybody on the face of the Earth.
I won't be able to stay to see the Raiders
I wish I were this guy's age over here. It's
open it up tomorrow with Oklahoma. But go
going to be an exciting time ahead. And the
Texas Tech!
American farmer is going to lead the way.
A little bit of reminiscing. Barbara and I
Thank you all very, very much. And may God
moved down into Odessa in 1948, and then
bless our great country. Thank you.
we lived in Midland, Odessa-Midland for 12
years. And I've driven every mile between
Note: The President spoke at 10:05 a.m. at
Lubbock County and Ector and Midland
the Kapperman farm. In his remarks, he re-
County, into Dawson County and Howard
ferred to George Shanard, South Dakota
County and-[applause]-1 thought we
State Senate majority leader, and Don Peter-
might have a few from around there. But I'll
son, South Dakota Republican Party chair-
tell you, on a day like this, you can't help
man.
but feel you're glad to be back. This is beau-
tiful, and I'm very grateful to all for this fan-
tastic turnout.
I remember when west Texas was dry. I
Remarks to Shallowater Co-op Gin
remember picking out the Lubbock
Company Employees in Shallowater,
tumbleweeds out of one of those evaporative
Texas
air conditioners in our little house in Odessa.
September 2, 1992
No more, I'll tell you. But when I lived in-
one more reminiscent that some of you foot-
The President. Thank you all very much.
ball fans, older ones, might remember. We
Hey, let me tell you something. In case you
had a touch football team in Midland. And
don't know it, we finally have a first-class,
we played against the Lubbock team made
great Secretary of Agriculture in Texas that
up of Glen Davis, Mel Kutnow and Bobby
understands the farmer in Rick Perry. And
Lane. Now, how do you like that for Lubbock
I was very, very proud of him at that Houston
excellence? We lost.
convention when he got up there and told
Now, I came back here to Texas today to
it as it is, making all Texans proud, making
the heart of this wonderful part of rural
people across the country understand that we
America to talk about the farm and to talk
know about agriculture and we know about
about the future of the farmer. Let me be
the American spirit. Rick, thank you very
very clear right up front: I am for opening
much for that introduction.
up world markets, for increasing exports, for
And let me salute the Future Farmers that
keeping the Government off your back at
are with us today. Also, you know I'm having
home, and being there to help you get back
a little feud with the liberal gridlocked Con-
on your feet when disaster strikes.
gress. If we had more Congressmen like
The challenge for agricultural America is
Larry Combest, we wouldn't have a
to win this economic competition and to win
gridlocked Congress. And may I thank Mayor
the peace. And out here in Texas we know
Moe Dozier and, of course, Sonny Lupton,
this: We must be a military superpower, we
the one-footed glider pilot who has made us
must be an economic superpower, and we
feel so much at home here, turned the facili-
must be an export superpower. That means
ties of this great place over to us. And I'm
looking forward and getting ready to com-
very, very grateful to him. May I say hello
pete. Make no mistake, America's farmer can
to Carye Gruben, the 1992 South Plains
compete with anybody, anywhere around the
Maid of Cotton. You should be very proud
world, provided that playing field is level,
to be represented by her. And special thanks
provided we get an even shot at world trade.
to Randy Kennedy, who has worked so hard
I've fought to open new markets for Amer-
on this event, and Jane Anne Stinnett, both
ican agriculture: Texas beef to Asia, Midwest
of them. And so many more.
grain to Russia, and just last month we con-
Our convention in Houston was so suc-
cluded a North American free trade agree-
cessful that I just had to get back in Texas
ment with Mexico. That means new markets,
7
and hurt our growth. My approach is to help our farmers take the
battle to the competition: offense, not defense.
That's been the historical strategy adopted by the other
side -- they support supply controls. My strategy is to
outproduce our competition, and to beat them in the marketplace.
But to win in the marketplace, we must take the steps today
that will make us more competitive tomorrow. So another part of
my agricultural program is to help farmers keep pace with the
fast changing world by developing new techniques for fighting
pests and disease, for understanding human nutrition, for growing
more. My Administration has launched a National Research
Initiative -- endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences -- to
help meet these challenges with innovation instead of regulation.
We're pushing research into new uses of agricultural products --
from cleaner fuels to printers' ink to biodegradable plastics.
And we've expanded the Federal investment in biotechnology.
Biotechnology holds promise in so many areas: from curing human
crop destroying
disease, to improving agricultural yields, to stopping pests
without pesticides.
wedon't want fewe hysterical view of pesticides.
The point is this: these advances don't just happen. They
are the result of the choices we make today. This year, Congress
has cut our research and biotechnology initiatives -- in order to
dip into the pork barrel. In this case, the money taken from
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the home district of the Democratic subcommittee chairman -- and
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policies, we can outcompete, outhustle, out-
for another major event. But unfortunately,
work anybody on the face of the Earth.
I won't be able to stay to see the Raiders
I wish I were this guy's age over here. It's
open it up tomorrow with Oklahoma. But go
going to be an exciting time ahead. And the
Texas Tech!
American farmer is going to lead the way.
A little bit of reminiscing. Barbara and I
Thank you all very, very much. And may God
moved down into Odessa in 1948, and then
bless our great country. Thank you.
we lived in Midland, Odessa-Midland for 12
years. And I've driven every mile between
Note: The President spoke at 10:05 a.m. at
Lubbock County and Ector and Midland
the Kapperman farm. In his remarks, he re-
County, into Dawson County and Howard
ferred to George Shanard, South Dakota
County and-[applause]-1 thought we
State Senate majority leader, and Don Peter-
might have a few from around there. But I'll
son, South Dakota Republican Party chair-
tell you, on a day like this, you can't help
man.
but feel you're glad to be back. This is beau-
tiful, and I'm very grateful to all for this fan-
tastic turnout.
I remember when west Texas was dry. I
Remarks to Shallowater Co-op Gin
remember picking out the Lubbock
Company Employees in Shallowater,
tumbleweeds out of one of those evaporative
Texas
air conditioners in our little house in Odessa.
September 2, 1992
No more, I'll tell you. But when I lived in-
one more reminiscent that some of you foot-
The President. Thank you all very much.
ball fans, older ones, might remember. We
Hey, let me tell you something. In case you
had a touch football team in Midland. And
don't know it, we finally have a first-class,
we played against the Lubbock team made
great Secretary of Agriculture in Texas that
up of Glen Davis, Mel Kutnow and Bobby
understands the farmer in Rick Perry. And
Lane. Now, how do you like that for Lubbock
I was very, very proud of him at that Houston
excellence? We lost.
convention when he got up there and told
Now, I came back here to Texas today to
it as it is, making all Texans proud, making
the heart of this wonderful part of rural
people across the country understand that we
America to talk about the farm and to talk
know about agriculture and we know about
about the future of the farmer. Let me be
the American spirit. Rick, thank you very
very clear right up front: I am for opening
much for that introduction.
up world markets, for increasing exports, for
And let me salute the Future Farmers that
keeping the Government off your back at
are with us today. Also, you know I'm having
home, and being there to help you get back
a little feud with the liberal gridlocked Con-
on your feet when disaster strikes.
gress. If we had more Congressmen like
The challenge for agricultural America is
Larry Combest, we wouldn't have a
to win this economic competition and to win
gridlocked Congress. And may I thank Mayor
the peace. And out here in Texas we know
Moe Dozier and, of course, Sonny Lupton,
this: We must be a military superpower, we
the one-footed glider pilot who has made us
must be an economic superpower, and we
feel so much at home here, turned the facili-
must be an export superpower. That means
ties of this great place over to us. And I'm
looking forward and getting ready to com-
very, very grateful to him. May I say hello
pete. Make no mistake, America's farmer can
to Carye Gruben, the 1992 South Plains
compete with anybody, anywhere around the
Maid of Cotton. You should be very proud
world, provided that playing field is level,
to be represented by her. And special thanks
provided we get an even shot at world trade.
to Randy Kennedy, who has worked so hard
I've fought to open new markets for Amer-
on this event, and Jane Anne Stinnett, both
ican agriculture: Texas beef to Asia, Midwest
of them. And so many more.
grain to Russia, and just last month we con-
Our convention in Houston was so suc-
cluded a North American free trade agree-
cessful that I just had to get back in Texas
ment with Mexico. That means new markets,
1554
Sept. 2 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
and that means jobs for Americans. Open up
with us. We are fighting for a|successful con-
trade.
clusion of the GATT round. That's the Gen-
You all know this, but I want to share it
eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. A
with the rest of the country here today.
GATT agreement will force our competitors,
American products, from blue jeans spun
especially those in the European Commu-
from Texas high-plains cotton to bushels of
nity, to cut their massive export subsidies on
wheat from Haskell County, are in demand
agriculture. And we want free trade, but I
everywhere. In fact, one in every three acres
am going to insist on fair trade.
planted in this country produces crops for
To help us reach these good agreements
export. Exports are up, and that is good for
we're going to be using the same strategy
the growth of the American economy. If it
that won the U.S. military security: peace
hadn't been for exports, we'd really be in
through strength, no unilateral disarmament.
deep trouble. Thank you for exporting our
And we've used this export enhancement
goods and services abroad.
program, we call it EEP, to fight for market
This fall we've got a choice. Rick, I appre-
share against the EC subsidized exports. And
ciate what you said, that I do stand with
since 1989, we have doubled the number of
American agriculture. This fall we've got a
EEP initiatives and tripled the value of these
real clear choice, an important choice be-
EEP bonuses, selling almost $10 billion of
cause it's going to mean the economic health
commodities to 93' countries. But now we
of American farmers all across the country.
need to do more. The fact is that farm prices,
And if our opponents in this year's election
the ones you all are getting are too low today.
put up these walls around America, whether
And to get those prices where they belong,
they're high tariff walls or high tax walls, the
we must expand demand. That means an
first losers will be American agriculture and
even more aggressive export policy. And so
American jobs.
today I am announcing the largest EEP ini-
And let me make this point. You know that
tiative in history, to sell over one billion bush-
Texas is America's number one exporter of
els, or over 30 million metric tons of wheat,
cotton, and the State of Texas ranks among
with a market value of over $3 billion, to 28
the top 10 exporters in 14 different major
countries around the world. The wheat farm-
crops. And if Governor Clinton gets infected
ers have to lead the way from up in the Pan-
with that antitrade strain from the protec-
handle. We're committed to reducing sub-
tionist crowd he's running around with, the
sidies worldwide, but my announcement
big labor guys, it's going to be Texas that
ought to leave no doubt. With theavy EC sub-
catches pneumonia. And we cannot have
sidies continuing, this export program is vital,
that.
and we will use it as necessary.
One of the big union heads in Washington
Now, to keep running, work in the global
today was quoted in a Washington paper as
marketplace, we've got to get ready to com-
saying, "Well, we're not going to get Clinton
pete. So we've expanded research in every-
to take a position on the free trade agree-
thing from alternative uses of agricultural
ment. We'll get that all worked out after the
products to biotechnology. And right here in
election." They're trying to get it worked out
Texas, a new kind of cotton called B.T. cotton
for protection, and that's going to hurt jobs
looks and feels like regular cotton, but pro-
in west Texas. And we cannot have it. He's
tects itself from bugs by producing its own
got to commit. When you're President you
insecticide.
can't sit on the fence-"Well, on the one
And we will always work to make sure of
hand it's this way, and on the one hand an-
this: American products are the highest qual-
other." You've got to say, I'm for it or against
ity products in the entire world. I know
it. I am for opening markets abroad. I am
you've had it tough here with these excessive
for free trade.
rains, but I'll tell you one thing: Over the
Audience members. Four more years!
past 3 years agricultural income has averaged
Four more years! Four more years!
a higher level than at any time in American
The President. I hope the west Texas
history. But even so, 1992 has been a tough
farmer knows this because you're in this fight
year for rural America. And last fall's extreme
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Sept. 2
1555
drought-Sonny and I were talking about it,
another. He's already said $150 billion. No,
and Randy, inside-followed up by a freeze
we're not going to have that.
in late May hurt the winter wheat crop from
And if any area understands what I'm
Kansas to the Texas Panhandle. And you
about to say it's west Texas, with the values
know the Cotton Belt, what's happened: You
we have. Government spending: the choice
saw a freeze in '91 followed by a wet spring
is clear. They want to spend-already, his
that prevented many acres from being plant-
own proposal-want to spend $220 billion
ed at all. And for some farmers, these disas-
more. And I want to cut spending, keep the
ters come on the heels of losses last year and
growth on mandatory programs. And I need
the year before.
your help. Ask Congress to pass my plan for
Last fall I signed a bill, and Rick referred
a check-off for America. If the Congress can't
to it, I believe, to provide almost $1 billion
do it, give the taxpayer the right to check
in disaster assistance for '90 and '91 crops.
his tax return and force all of us to get that
And today I want to announce the next step.
deficit down. I mentioned that in Houston,
I am today releasing an additional $755 mil-
but I'll mention it again. We're mortgaging
lion in disaster assistance funds to help tackle
the future of these Future Farmers here, and
these emergencies which have stricken the
we've got to stop it. I want a balanced budget
American farmer. American farmers need
amendment to the Constitution, and I want
help, and with this action you'll get it. I know
a Congress that will pass it. Help me. We
that that $755 million will not solve every
can get that done. And while we're at it, give
problem. We will begin signups for winter
me what 43 Governors have: a line-item veto.
wheat next Tuesday, other crops shortly
If they can't do it, give me a shot. Give me
thereafter. We can't prevent an early freeze,
a chance.
but these funds will help keep farmers on
Now, let me just say this in conclusion.
their feet so that the bankers will work with
We tried the other side's recipe of higher
you and the next season's crops can be plant-
taxes and higher spending before. We went
ed. And if additional disaster funds are need-
down that path of foreign policy inexperi-
ed, we will secure them.
ence. We tried that combination in the late
You know, when people are hurting in this
seventies of a Congress controlled by the lib-
country, whether it's from a hurricane in
eral Democrats and a liberal Democratic
south Florida or losing a tremendous sugar
President. And you remember what the re-
crop over in Louisiana, the Government
sults were. We had back-to-back years of
must help. We must help in disasters of the
double-digit inflation. Farmers were dev-
magnitude that you've suffered right here in
astated. We had grain embargoes. We had
cotton country. And sometimes, Government
interest rates at 21.5 percent. Farmers, to-
can help by just simply getting out of the
tally devastated. We had grain embargoes
way and letting Americans do what they do
that just kind of fizzled out, but nevertheless
done. best, roll up their sleeves and get the job
hurt every grain grower in the whole United
States. Farmers were devastated. So let's not
Take the subject of regulation. My oppo-
try that again. We cannot afford a rubber-
nents want to regulate the world's safest food
check Congress and a rubber-stamp Presi-
supply and drive up its costs. Yes, I'm for
food safety, but let's also protect the
dent. Do not take a chance on that and go
back to those misery index days.
consumer from the bureaucrats. Let's have
less regulation out of the United States Con-
So in this political year it's easy to be
gress.
fooled. And the new kid on the block always
And now let me get to a subject that I
shows up with new lines, the same old song.
really want to warm up to. Take the subject
Here in west Texas you know all about the
of taxes. The difference here is simple. Al-
choice between the latest synthetic fiber and
ready, and he hasn't even started yet, my op-
real cotton. And I don't pretend to have the
stretch of spandex; I don't understand all of
ponent wants to raise them by $150 billion.
And I want to cut them across the board.
that. But I do know this: Some ideas and
Imade one mistake; I'm not going to make
values and concepts are timeless. Freedom
works. Opportunity awaits those who dare to
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reach for it. Competition brings out the best
ter] But it was pilot error, I'm afraid. And
in the American people, brings it out. So if
let me also thank our two Congressmen here
we remember those home truths and re-
today, Pete Geren, Joe Barton. Mayor Grang-
member the strengths that we get from the
er is with us, the Mayor of Fort Worth. And
families that are all here today, there is no
look at this hardware. I guess they had Gen-
telling what we can accomplish. The other
eral Dynamics in mind when they said, don't
side says that we're a country in decline.
mess with Texas.
Don't you believe it for one single minute.
With all the Air Force types here, the true
We are number one, the most respected
heroes of Desert Storm, I hate to bore you
country anywhere in the world.
with war stories. But 48 years ago to this very
So coming back to west Texas is good for
day, September 2, 1944, I was shot down
the soul. Thank you for this fantastic, fantas-
while on a bombing raid flying off our carrier
tic welcome back. I ask for your support. We
over the island of Chichi Jima. I think if I'd
have changed the world. We have brought
only had F-16's, things might have been a
dramatic reduction in nuclear weapons. We
lot different, a lot different. In all serious-
won a magnificent victory with the sons and
ness, I can't blame the plane I was flying.
daughters of Lubbock County there in
It was the best torpedo bomber ever to land
Desert Storm. And now help me bring this
on a carrier. I did learn, though, from that
new prosperity to the United States of Amer-
combat experience something that I think ev-
ica. We can get the job done.
erybody here knows and has contributed to:
Thank you all very much. And may God
Give our pilots the best, and then fight to
bless our great country.
win. Don't tie their hands behind their backs.
And that's exactly what they did over there
Note: The President spoke at 1:48 p.m. at
in Desert Storm.
Shallowater Co-op Gin Co. In his remarks,
I am very pleased to be here this after-
he referred to Rick Perry, Texas commis-
noon, even for a brief visit. I wanted to come
sioner of agriculture; Sonny Lupton, presi-
to General Dynamics to personally make a
dent, Shallowater Co-op Gin Board; Randy
statement that concerns all of you, your fami-
Kennedy, manager, Shallowater Co-op Gin
lies, and this wonderful community. I'm an-
Co.; and Jane Anne Stinnett, regional chair-
nouncing this afternoon that I will authorize
man, Bush-Quayle '92.
the sale to Taiwan of 150 F-16 AB aircraft,
made right here in Fort Worth. We're proud
to do this. This F-16 is an example of what
only America and Americans can do. Only
Remarks to General Dynamics
American technology, only American skill
Employees in Fort Worth, Texas
could have produced this flawless piece of
September 2, 1992
craftsmanship which is sought all around the
world.
Thank you all very much for that welcome.
Throughout this century, the marvels of
And Bill Anders, thank you, Bill. It's a great
American defense have saved lives, kept the
pleasure to be introduced by Bill Anders, a
peace, and defended American values. The
friend of longstanding. And it's great to be
world has seen the F-16 in action. Over the
back here, back home in Texas, the home
skies of Desert Storm the F-16 continued
of Jose Canseco. [Laughter] I think we're all
America's tradition of military excellence in
in the wrong line of work, don't you? I'll tell
more than 13,000 combat sorties. At this very
you.
moment planes like these may well be flying
But let me thank Jim Mellor here. I'm glad
over Iraq to guarantee that the bully of Bagh-
to be back here with him. He reminded me
dad, Saddam Hussein, will not brutalize his
that I flew the simulator when I was here
own people by striking at them from the
last time. He was gracious enough, given the
skies.
circumstances, not to remind me that the
This sale of F-16's to Taiwan will help
simulator obviously- had a failure because it
maintain peace and stability in an area of
crashed with me at the helm there. [Laugh-
great concern to us, the Asia-Pacific region,
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ities, rehabilitation offers the means by which
Remarks to the Community in
many will be able to pass through them.
Humboldt, South Dakota
Because rehabilitation cultivates one's po-
September 2, 1992
tential for personal and economic autonomy
and advancement, it not only enriches the
Please be seated. And let me just say how
lives of Americans with disabilities but also
very pleased I am to be back in this State.
enables our entire Nation to benefit from
Today I want to give a rather serious speech.
their knowledge, creativity, and skills.
I'm glad you all have seats, don't have to
Thanks, in large part, to rehabilitative pro-
stand through this epic. But first of all, I want
grams and services, persons with disabilities
to thank George Mickelson, the Governor.
are attaining positions of leadership and re-
You've got a great Governor. He's a great
sponsibility throughout American society: in
friend of agriculture and a great friend of
government and business, in science and
George and Barbara Bush.
education-wherever there is an opportunity
And I hope you'll excuse us for being a
or a need. The accomplishments of Ameri-
little tardy in getting here because Sue and
cans who have benefited from rehabilitation
Jeff Kapperman have just introduced us to
are the catalyst for continuing efforts to de-
one of the largest and nicest families I believe
velop a wider array of rehabilitative services
I've ever met back there. There's a rep-
and to promote improved coordination
resentative group of them standing up
among human services agencies in both the
against that fence. I cannot guarantee it's all
public and private sectors.
of them.
In honor of Americans with disabilities
But in any event, we're just very pleased
who are achieving their goals through reha-
to be here. I want to say that it's fun seeing
bilitation and in recognition of the profes-
the kids and visiting the farm here and com-
sionals and volunteers who serve in this im-
ing to Montrose and Humboldt. It's special
portant field, the Congress, by Public Law
because with us on the plane today, Air Force
102-362, has designated the week of Sep-
One, coming out was Larry Pressler, who's
tember 13 through September 19, 1992, as
here someplace. Went right by his own home
"National Rehabilitation Week" and has re-
farm, I believe. We salute him and thank him
quested the President to issue a proclamation
for his support there in Washington.
in observance of this week.
And I can get a little feel, coming back
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, Presi-
here, for what Money magazine was talking
dent of the United States of America, do
about when they named Sioux Falls the best
hereby proclaim the week of September 13
place to live in America. That's pretty high
through September 19, 1992, as National Re-
praise. I also want to salute another public
habilitation Week. I encourage all Americans
servant and one who has been at my side
to observe this week with appropriate pro-
for a long time, the Lieutenant Governor,
grams and activities.
Walt Miller. I think he's here with us, Walter
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set
Miller; anyway, an old friend. And Mayor
my hand this first day of September, in the
White greeted us. I thank him for that. Sen-
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nine-
ator Shanard is here, Don Jarrett of the
ty-two, and of the Independence of the Unit-
South Dakota Wheat Commission, and two
ed States of America the two hundred and
people that I plan on seeing in Washington.
seventeenth.
I've known Charlene Haar. She's a good
George Bush
woman and a good, active campaigner. And
I salute her, for the United States Senate,
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register,
and also John Timmer, running for the con-
2:09 p.m., September 2, 1992]
gressional seat here. I'd back him. We've got
to make a change in this gridlocked Con-
Note: This proclamation was released by the
gress.
Office of the Press Secretary on September
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't
2, and it was published in the Federal Reg-
single out another guy that's been at my side
ister on September 4.
in politics, your former Governor, Bill
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Sept. 2
1549
Janklow. I thank him and also Don Peterson,
Today, when I talk to Boris Yeltsin, the
out there helping with the Republican elec-
Russian President-and I talked to him just
tion effort this year, so many people doing
last week-we don't talk about nuclear weap-
so much for what I think is good, sound gov-
ons. We talk about how much grain we can
ernment.
provide to Russian consumers and how we
I'm told that Jeff is a Democrat. But look-
can solidify his democracy, his freedom, his
ing around at this setting, even I can't hold
reforms. We also talk about the biggest
that against him. [Laughter] And I must say
swords-into-plowshares agreement ever, one
that I am very, very grateful to him and to
that will return that Russian bomb-grade ma-
his family for letting this mob, including you
terial, uranium, into fuel for the peaceful
guys out here, hit this beautiful place of his.
generation of electric power right here in
It's something very special about talking
America.
about agriculture in a setting that's so down-
The American people are universally re-
to-earth and so wonderfully family oriented.
spected as the most generous and innovative
Jeff and Sue, as family farmers, represent
on Earth. American products, whether it is
something very important about this State
a pair of blue jeans spun from Texas cotton
or a bushel of wheat from here in South Da-
and, I would say, also very important about
this country. Agricultural families represent
kota, are in demand everywhere. The chal-
the heart of South Dakota's economy.
lenge before us, then, is to seize this mo-
ment. Our challenge now is to win the eco-
So I came out here today to rural America
to talk with you about how I have been fight-
nomic competition, literally to win the peace.
In the 1990's, we must be a military super-
ing and will continue to fight for the eco-
nomic security of American farmers through
power, an economic superpower, and an ex-
a program that is based on opening markets
port superpower.
In 2 months, you're going to be asked to
abroad and then helping you export and grow
choose between two completely different
more, keeping the Government off your back
versions of how to win- this global economic
as best we can, and being there to help you
competition. One vision is to turn inward,
get back on your feet when disaster strikes.
to try to protect what we have, to put up
I plan to speak mainly today about wheat
walls around America. Mine is to look for-
and about disaster assistance, but let me just
ward, to open new markets to American ex-
say to America's corn growers-I noticed the
ports, to prepare our work force to compete,
cornfields as we came in-that I am a strong
to keep the social fabric of this country
supporter of ethanol. We have worked hard
strong, and to save and invest in those things
to see ethanol demand go to new heights
that will help us win.
through everything from tax credits to re-
The best example that I can cite of our
search and new programs for clean fuels. And
forward-looking approach is the work we've
we're working now on a very difficult legal
done to open new markets for American agri-
problem facing the White House: to make
culture. In the last 4 years, we have signed
sure that ethanol plays a leading role in
11 bilateral agreements with 10 countries to
America's drive for cleaner air and America's
open up new markets for American farm ex-
drive for greater markets, diverse markets for
ports. We signed agreements to increase beef
the corn growers of this country. And we're
exports to Japan and Korea, now the third
going to whip that problem.
largest market for U.S. beef. We've made in-
We now enjoy an unparalleled reign of
roads throughout Asia, which now accounts
free markets and free people around the
for 38 percent of American agricultural ex-
globe, an unprecedented opportunity for
ports, 38 percent going. to Asia. And just last
growth. When I think of my Presidency, I
month, we concluded the North American
must say I look at these kids, and I think
free trade agreement, which will boost our
we are very lucky that in the last 3 years
$3 billion worth of agricultural exports to
we've been able to reduce the threat of nu-
Mexico.
clear war that has scared every family half
One in every three acres planted in this
to death in this country.
country produces crops for export. That may
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be hard for some to realize, but that's a lot
ers but as people that are doing the Lord's
of export. One in every three goes to exports.
work out in the field, you're entitled to know
U.S. agricultural exports support over a mil-
where a person stands on something as fun-
lion jobs. And just since 1989, our agricul-
damental as a free trade agreement that's
tural trade has reduced our overall trade defi-
going to open up more markets for your
cit by almost $69 billion. You are doing the
products.
Lord's work.
You cannot be on every side of every issue.
Make no mistake, if the other side puts
He's stuck riding the fence so hard he's got
up walls around America, whether they're
saddle sores. I might say "straddle sores".
high tariff walls or high tax walls, the first
[Laughter] But don't kid yourselves. The
loser is going to be the American farmer.
money, the manpower, and the support for
Now, let me drive this point home. Seventy-
his campaign comes from the opponents of
six percent of South Dakota's wheat is ex-
free trade. And after the election, they'll call
ported, 76 percent of it. Agriculture contrib-
in that anti-free-trade IOU, and then you'd
utes $13.2 billion to South Dakota's econ-
better watch out. American agricultural ex-
omy, 3 times more than any other industry.
ports and job-creating exports of every kind
We were talking about it with the Governor
will be the victims.
coming in here. And if Governor Clinton gets
I don't believe that this double-speak
infected with that antitrade strain from the
means one thing except double-trouble. The
protectionist crowd he's running around
Congress is going to take this vacillation as
with, it will be the American farmer that
weakness, and the vital national economic in-
catches pneumonia, and South Dakota is
terest will lose out to congressional log-roll-
going to get mighty sick.
ing, back-scratching, and business-as-usual.
Where does the Governor stand on free
Over 7.5 million jobs, American jobs, are
trade, on our historic free trade agreement
tied to merchandise exports. We can create
with Mexico? He won't say, says nothing
hundreds of thousands of additional new jobs
about all of that right now, is studying it, tak-
with a free trade agreement. And we cannot
ing another look. The newspapers reported
afford a President who will put these jobs
in Washington this morning-I don't like to
at risk. That's why I fought very hard to reach
read those papers very much, but I do from
a new agreement under the GATT, the Gen-
time to time-and they reported this morn-
eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. USDA,
ing that one of the most powerful labor
Ag Department, estimates that a successful
bosses in the country, Lane Kirkland, said
GATT agreement will add over a billion dol-
that they decided to, the unions decided to
lars a year to farm income, a billion dollars
let Governor Clinton off the hook on this one
a year. And it will do something else. It will
until after the election. They'll let him be
force our competitors, especially in the Euro-
on both sides of this free trade agreement
pean Community, to reduce their excessive
now.
export subsidies in agriculture. We want free
Big labor made it clear that they are vehe-
trade, but we must insist on fair trade. To
mently opposed to this free trade agreement,
help us reach good agreements, I've been
mind you. And one labor source said, and
using a strategy that won us military security:
this is a quote: "There have been private con-
peace through strength, no unilateral disar-
versations with the candidate, and he remains
mament.
receptive to us." I have found as. President
Our export enhancement program-you
you cannot be on both sides of every issue.
all refer to it as EEP-have enabled us to
You've got to take a position and say what
help farmers fight for market share against
you think is right, whether some people like
the EC's subsidized exports. Since 1989, we
it or some people don't. This was in the paper
have doubled the number of EEP initiatives.
today. Here's another, quote from them:
We've nearly tripled the value of EEP bo-
"Labor does not plan to push Clinton for spe-
nuses. Just since the beginning of this year,
cific public commitments that might prove
we've awarded $914 million worth of EEP
politically embarrassing to his candidacy."
bonuses, leading to sales of over $3 billion
think you're entitled to know, not just as vot-
under the EEP program: wheat to Algeria,
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1551
Egypt, the Philippines; veg oil to Morocco
strengthen America's reputation as a reliable
and Turkey; a pork EEP to the former Soviet
supplier. The other side's approach to trade
Union. In total, our EEP's have helped us
is to create barriers here, right here in this
fight back against European subsidies and
country, that increase prices, dull our com-
sell almost $10 billion worth of commodities
petitive edge, and hurt our growth. The usual
to 93 countries during these past 4 years.
strategy is to propose production controls.
But now we need to do more. The fact
My approach is to help our farmers take the
is that the prices farmers are receiving are
battle to the competition; offense, not de-
too low today. To get the prices up, we must
fense. My strategy is to outproduce our com-
expand demand, and that means an aggres-
petition and beat their socks off in the mar-
sive export policy. Today I am announcing
ketplace.
a broadside of EEP initiatives to sell over
But as every farmer here knows, to win
one billion bushels or 30 million metric tons
in the marketplace we must also take steps
of U.S. wheat, with a market value of over
today that will make us more competitive to-
$3 billion, to 28 countries around the world.
morrow. So another part of my agricultural
This is the largest quantity of wheat ever
program is to help farmers keep pace by de-
made available under the EEP program at
veloping new techniques through our na-
one time.
tional research initiative for fighting pests
There is no question that in a world of
and disease, for understanding human nutri-
open trade, the U.S. would be the premier
tion, for growing more. We're increasing re-
supplier of wheat to world markets. That's
search in biotechnology and into new uses
why we are committed to reducing subsidies
of ag products from cleaner fuels to printer's
worldwide. But my announcement today
ink to biodegradable plastics. The initiatives
should leave no doubt. With heavy EC sub-
that we are pushing will help strengthen
sidies continuing, this EEP program is vital,
prices, boost farm income, and create jobs.
and we will use it as necessary. I am putting
That's why farm income over the past 3 years
foreign governments on notice to that effect
has averaged a higher level than at any time
right here today in South Dakota.
in American history. And more of that in-
That's why I am also taking a second step
come is coming from the market, instead of
today to show that we're in this competition
from the Government, than at any time in
for the long haul. Two years ago, I worked
decades.
with Congress to include two so-called GATT
But even so, 1992 has been a difficult year
triggers in our law. They were a warning to
in parts for rural America. Last fall's drought,
other nations that we would counter their
followed by a freeze in late May, severely
subsidized exports if they would not agree
weakened the winter wheat crop in Kansas
to negotiated cuts. The date of the first trig-
and right here in South Dakota and else-
ger has passed. So today we are acting to
where. Weather has hit farmers from Ne-
protect the American farmer. We will in-
braska to New York, California to the Cotton
crease programs to promote agricultural ex-
Belt. And now this Louisiana sugarcane has
ports by $1 billion. The law said we would
been damaged by the winds of Hurricane
do this in 1994 and 1995. I am announcing
Andrew. Barbara and I saw some of that dev-
that we will increase these programs begin-
astation yesterday there in Jeanerette, Louisi-
ning now. And my support for wheat is the
ana.
first step.
For some farmers, these disasters come on
Let me make this comment to those
the heels of losses in 1990 and 1991. Late
friends of ours overseas also. Let me be clear:
last year, I signed a bill to provide about $1
This action is aimed at those who subsidize,
billion in disaster assistance for the 1990 and
not at those, such as Australia and others,
1991 crops. Today I would like to announce
who do not subsidize.
the next step. I am releasing an additional
Today's wheat EEP initiatives will give
$755 million in disaster assistance funds. A
farmers, exporters, and buyers more cer-
minimum of $100 million is set aside for
tainty about market opportunities. We want
crops planted in 1991 for harvest in 1992,
to help growers plan, and we want to
such as winter wheat. American farmers need
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help. With this action, this disaster relief ac-
Take the subject of spending, which is ab-
tion, you will get it.
solutely critical, Federal spending. They want
Now, I know that this $755 million is not
to use those no taxes to add $220 billion in
going to solve every problem. We will begin
new spending. And Newsweek magazine
signups for winter wheat next Tuesday, other
pointed out this week that Governor Clinton
crops shortly thereafter. We can't prevent an
failed even to put a price tag on his four big-
early freeze, and I know that this amount
gest programs. The real cost of his spending
may not be enough to pay the full amount
binge, said Newsweek, "is arguably at least
of every loss. But these funds will help keep
three times higher than that." That's the
farmers on their feet so that bankers will
quote from Newsweek.
work with you and next season's crop can be
And remember, we tried this recipe of
planted.
higher taxes and higher spending before. We
We've worked hard over the past several
went down the path of foreign policy inexpe-
years to reduce farm debt. Debt is way down;
rience. We tried the combination of a Demo-
equity is up; balance sheets are stronger. To-
cratic-controlled Congress and a Democratic
day's announcement will help secure those
President, and you remember the results. We
gains to advance the economic security of the
had back-to-back years of double-digit infla-
American farmer. If additional disaster funds
tion. And farmers were devastated., We had
is needed, we will go to bat with the Congress
interest rates at 21.5 percent. And farmers
to secure them.
were devastated. We had grain embargoes-
You see, an economic strategy based on
nobody here forgets that-we had grain em-
competition is not an abandonment of gov-
bargoes and food as a foreign policy weapon.
ernmental responsibility. Sometimes when
And farmers were devastated.
disaster strikes, the Federal Government is
In this political year it is easy to be fooled.
uniquely equipped to help. We've seen that
The new kid on the block shows up with a
this week in Florida and Louisiana in the
new set of lyrics, but it is the same old song
aftermath of the hurricane. That's one reason
Wouldn't it be ironic if now, at the exact mo-
I went down to Florida and Louisiana again
ment of America's triumph around the world,
yesterday, to see the progress and the prob-
we were to turn backwards, to turn inward?
lems with my own eyes. And we're going to
Not far from here, on the way into Hum-
stay with the people of Florida and Louisiana
boldt, there's a sign that calls this a small
until we get that job done.
town with a big heart. Well, now that the
Now getting the job done in agriculture
entire world is turning our way, toward open
means Government should get out of the way
markets, less bureaucracy, less regulation,
of the producers when intervention will hurt
more freedom, more competition, we Ameri-
our competitiveness. Take the subject of reg-
cans must not and cannot lose heart.
ulation. My opponents want to take the
We've learned this: Freedom works. Op-
world's safest food supply, tie it up with more
portunity awaits those who dare to reach for
regulation, and make it more expensive for
it. Competition brings out the best in our
the consumer. We want to work to make our
people, especially those here working in the
food supply safe and affordable without this
soil, those farmers that know how to really
extremism, without this hysteria.
get out there and do the hard work. If we
Take the subject of taxation. My opponent
remember these home truths, there is no tell-
says that Government takes too much of your
ing what we can accomplish, for America's
money in taxes. But they want to take more
finest hour is yet to come.
of it, $150 billion already proposed in new
The opposition tells you that we're not re-
taxes, new taxes on small business to pay for
spected abroad. They tell you that we're in
Government health and mandatory training.
decline. We are not a declining Nation.
I want to cut the taxes, cut them across the
We've had enormously difficult economic
board, reduce the burden particularly on
problems; so has the entire world, caught up
small business. Small business is overregu-
in a global recession. But we are the United
lated and overtaxed.
States of America. And if we follow these
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1553
policies, we can outcompete, outhustle, out-
for another major event. But unfortunately,
work anybody on the face of the Earth.
I won't be able to stay to see the Raiders
I wish I were this guy's age over here. It's
open it up tomorrow with Oklahoma. But go
going to be an exciting time ahead. And the
Texas Tech!
American farmer is going to lead the way.
A little bit of reminiscing. Barbara and I
Thank you all very, very much. And may God
moved down into Odessa in 1948, and then
bless our great country. Thank you.
we lived in Midland, Odessa-Midland for 12
years. And I've driven every mile between
Note: The President spoke at 10:05 a.m. at
Lubbock County and Ector and Midland
the Kapperman farm. In his remarks, he re-
County, into Dawson County and Howard
ferred to George Shanard, South Dakota
County and-[applause]-1 thought we
State Senate majority leader, and Don Peter-
might have a few from around there. But I'll
son, South Dakota Republican Party chair-
tell you, on a day like this, you can't help
man.
but feel you're glad to be back. This is beau-
tiful, and I'm very grateful to all for this fan-
tastic turnout.
I remember when west Texas was dry. I
Remarks In hallowate in
remember picking out the Lubbock
Company Employees in Shallowater,
tumbleweeds out of one of those evaporative
Texas
air conditioners in our little house in Odessa.
September 2, 1992
No more, I'll tell you. But when I lived in-
one more reminiscent that some of you foot-
The President. Thank you all very much.
ball fans, older ones, might remember. We
Hey, let me tell you something. In case you
had a touch football team in Midland. And
don't know it, we finally have a first-class,
we played against the Lubbock team made
great Secretary of Agriculture in Texas that
up of Glen Davis, Mel Kutnow and Bobby
understands the farmer in Rick Perry. And
Lane. Now, how do you like that for Lubbock
I was very, very proud of him at that Houston
excellence? We lost.
convention when he got up there and told
Now, I came back here to Texas today to
it as it is, making all Texans proud, making
the heart of this wonderful part of rural
people across the country understand that we
America to talk about the farm and to talk
know about agriculture and we know about
about the future of the farmer. Let me be
the American spirit. Rick, thank you very
very clear right up front: I am for opening
much for that introduction.
up world markets, for increasing exports, for
And let me salute the Future Farmers that
keeping the Government off your back at
are with us today. Also, you know I'm having
home, and being there to help you get back
a little feud with the liberal gridlocked Con-
on your feet when disaster strikes.
gress. If we had more Congressmen like
The challenge for agricultural America is
Larry Combest, we wouldn't have a
to win this economic competition and to win
gridlocked Congress. And may I thank Mayor
the peace. And out here in Texas we know
Moe Dozier and, of course, Sonny Lupton,
this: We must be a military superpower, we
the one-footed glider pilot who has made us
must be an economic superpower, and we
feel so much at home here, turned the facili-
must be an export superpower. That means
ties of this great place over to us. And I'm
looking forward and getting ready to com-
very, very grateful to him. May I say hello
pete. Make no mistake, America's farmer can
to Carye Gruben, the 1992 South Plains
compete with anybody, anywhere around the
Maid of Cotton. You should be very proud
world, provided that playing field is level,
to be represented by her. And special thanks
provided we get an even shot at world trade.
to Randy Kennedy, who has worked so hard
I've fought to open new markets for Amer-
on this event, and Jane Anne Stinnett, both
ican agriculture: Texas beef to Asia, Midwest
of them. And so many more.
grain to Russia, and just last month we con-
Our convention in Houston was so suc-
cluded a North American free trade agree-
cessful that I just had to get back in Texas
ment with Mexico. That means new markets,
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in the European Community, to reduce their excessive export
subsidies in agriculture. We want free trade -- but we want fair
trade.
To help us reach a good agreement, I've been using a
strategy that won us military security: Peace through Strength.
No unilateral disarmament.
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been dropped?
The fact is that the prices farmers are receiving are too
low today. To get prices up, we must expand demand -- and that
means an aggressive export policy.
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are committed to reducing subsidies worldwide. But my
announcement should leave no doubt: with heavy EC subsidies
continuing, the EEP is vital -- and we will use it as necessary.
That's why I am also taking a second step today to show that
we're in this competition for the long haul. Two years ago, I
worked with Congress to include two so-called "GATT triggers" in
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our law. They were a warning to other nations that we would
counter their subsidized exports if they would not agree to
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American farmer. As a result, we are prepared to increase
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that we will increase these programs beginning now.
Today's EEP initiatives will give farmers, exporters, and
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buyers more certainty about market opportunities. We want to
help growers plan -- and we want to strengthen America's
reputation as a reliable supplier.
The other side's approach to trade barriers is to create
barriers here that increase prices, dull our competitive edge,
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and hurt our growth. My approach is to help our farmers take the
battle to the competition: offense, not defense.
That's been the historical strategy adopted by the other
side -- they support supply controls. My strategy is to
outproduce our competition, and to beat them in the marketplace.
But to win in the marketplace, we must take the steps today
that will make us more competitive tomorrow. So another part of
my agricultural program is to help farmers keep pace with the
fast changing world by developing new techniques for fighting
pests and disease, for understanding human nutrition, for growing
more. My Administration has launched a National Research
Initiative -- endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences to
help meet these challenges with innovation instead of regulation.
We're pushing research into new uses of agricultural products --
from cleaner fuels to printers' ink to biodegradable plastics.
And we've expanded the Federal investment in biotechnology.
Biotechnology holds promise in so many areas: from curing human
crop destroying
disease, to improving agricultural yields, to stopping pests
without pesticides.
wedent want few hysterical view of pesticides
The point is this: these advances don't just happen. They
are the result of the choices we make today. This year, Congress
has cut our research and biotechnology initiatives -- in order to
dip into the pork barrel. In this case, the money taken from
biotechnology went to build a dock and a building on a lake in
the home district of the Democratic subcommittee chairman -- and
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they haven't even figured out what they're góing to use the
building for yet!!
The other side even wanted me to sign an international
agreement that would have paralyzed our ingenuity with new red
tape and then required us to give the secrets of our new
techniques to other nations.
That's what I mean when I say you face a choice -- between
the architects of the future and the patrons of the past.
It's time to clean the House./
The initiatives we are pursuing will help strengthen prices,
boost farm income, and create jobs. That's why farm income over
the past three years has averaged a higher level than at any time
in American history -- and more of that income is coming from the
market, instead of from the government, than at any time in
decades.
But even so, 1992 has been a difficult year in parts of
rural America. Last fall's extreme drought followed by a
freeze in late May severely weakened thé winter wheat crop in
TX
checked
Kansas, here in South Dakota, and elsewhere. Frost, rains and
hail hit Nebraska and the Midwest. Flooding from the wettest
summer in memory ravaged upstate New York. Drought dragged on in
Oregon, California, and throughout the West. A wet spring
brought trouble to the cotton belt. Sugarcane in Louisiana has
Nurseries in Florida
been damaged by the winds of Hurricane Andrew.
Tropical Fruits in Florida.
For some farmers, these disasters come on the heels of
losses in 1990 or 1991. Late last year, I signed a bill to
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provide almost $1 billion in disaster assistance for the 1990 and
TX
1991 crops. Today, I would like to announce the next step.
I am today releasing an additional $755 million in disaster
TX
assistance funds. This assistance will become available
automatically because I am sending a certification to the
Congress today that an emergency exists. American farmers need
help -- and with this action, you will get it./
Now I know that this $755 million will not solve every
problem. We will begin signups for winter wheat next Tuesday,
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and for other crops shortly thereafter. We can't prevent an
early freeze, and I know that this amount may not be enough to
pay the full amount of every loss. But these funds will help
keep farmers on their feet -- so that bankers will work with you,
and next season's crop can be planted.
We've worked hard over the past several years to reduce farm
debt. Debt is down, equity is up, and balance sheets are
stronger. Today's announcement will help, if only somewhat, to
secure those gains -- to advance the economic security of
American farmers.
You see, an economic strategy based on competition is not an
abandonment of governmental responsibility. Sometimes when
disaster strikes, the Federal government is uniquely equipped to
help. We've seen that this week in Florida and Louisiana, in the
aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. If additional disaster funds are
needed now, we will secure them.
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That's one reason I went to Florida and Louisiana again
yesterday to see the progress and problems with my own eyes.
It's a magnificent sight to see the armed forces of the United
States -- one of the most skilled organizations on earth -- lend
their weight to helping people. And we're going to stay with the
people of Florida and Louisiana until we get the job done.
Now getting the job done in agriculture means government
should get out of the way of the producers when intervention will
hurt our competitiveness.
Take the subject of regulation. My opponents want to take
the world's safest food supply -- tie it up with more regulation,
and make it more expensive for the consumer. We want to work to
make our food supply safe and affordable. But we can do it
without the hysteria that unnecessarily scares consumers; and
without the stifling bureaucratic regulation that will prevent
the very kinds of improvements that made our food supply safe in
the first place.
Take the subject of taxation. My opponents say that
government takes too much of your money. But they want to take
X
x
X
X
more of it. $150 billion in new taxes. New taxes on small
X
X
X
X
business to pay for government health care and mandatory
Dandtey
X
training. I want to cut taxes across the board -- and reduce the
burden on small business.
Take the subject of Federal spending. My opponents want to
use those new taxes to add $220 billion in new spending. And
Newsweek magazine pointed out this week that Governor Clinton
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failed to even put a price tag on his four biggest programs. The
real cost of my opponent's spending binge, said Newsweek, "is
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arguably at least three times higher than that." "
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Remember: we tried this recipe of higher taxes and higher
spending before. We went down the path of foreign policy
inexperience.
And remember the results.
We had back to back years of double digit inflation. And
farmers were devastated.
We had interest rates at 20%. And farmers were devastated.
We had grain embargoes, and food as a foreign policy weapon.
And farmers were devastated.
In this political year, it's easy to be fooled. The new kid
on the block shows up with a new set of lyrics, but it's the same
old song.
Wouldn't it be ironic if now, at the exact moment of
America's triumph around the world -- we were to turn back now?
Not far from here, on the way into to Humboldt, there is a
SMALL
sign that calls this a "Little town with a big heart." "
Now that the entire world is turning our way -- toward open
markets, less bureaucracy, less regulation, and more
competition -- we Americans cannot lose heart.
We've learned this: freedom works. Opportunity awaits
those who dare to reach for it. Competition brings out the best
in people -- especially the American people.
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If we remember these home truths, there is no telling what
we can accomplish. For America's finest hour is yet to come.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AGRICULTURAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
insereral
MONTROSE, SOUTH DAKOTA
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1992
9:55-10:25
Thank you, [Governor Mickelson] for that introduction. And
anthell
let me thank our hosts, Sue and Jeff Kapperman.
Visiting this
Congress
beautiful farm, coming here to Montrose and Humboldt -- the home
&
town of your great Senator, Larry Pressler -- I can see what
Money magazine was talking about when they named Sioux Falls,
AMERICA
South Dakota the best place to live in the United States. /
I'm told Jeff is a Democrat, but, looking around at this
setting, it's hard to hold that against him. Emerson once said WROTE
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that a farmer's "bones ache with the days work that earned it.
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After all the work that went into getting ready for this visit,
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aching bones of farming.
Jeff and Sue, as family farmers, represent something
important about this state -- and about this country.
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through a program based on opening markets abroad, helping you
export and grow more, keeping the government off your back at
home, and being there to help you get back on your feet when
disaster strikes.
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We now enjoy an unparalleled reign of free markets and free
people around the globe, an unprecedented opportunity for growth.
These days, when I talk to Russian President Yeltsin, it's
about how much American grain we can provide to Russian
consumers. Or about the biggest swords-into-plowshares agreement
ever, one that will turn Russian bomb grade material into fuel
for the peaceful generation of electric power here in America.
The American people are universally respected as the most
generous and innovative on earth. American products -- whether
it is a pair of blue jeans spun from Texas cotton or a bushel of
wheat from here in South Dakota -- are in demand everywhere.
The challenge before us is to seize this moment. Our
challenge now is to win the economic competition -- to win the
peace. In the 1990s, we must be a military superpower, an
economic superpower, and an export superpower.
In two months, you will be asked to choose between two
completely different visions of how to win this global economic
competition.
One vision is to turn inward, to try to protect what we
have, to put up walls around America.
Mine is to look forward -- to open new markets to American
exports, to prepare our workforce to compete through better
education and training, to keep our social fabric strong, and,
both as a government and a society, to save and invest in those
things that will help us win -- from new technologies to new
methods that will help us produce more.
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The best example of my forward-looking approach is the work
we've done to open new markets for American agriculture. In the
last four years, we have signed 11 bilateral agreements with 10
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countries to open up new markets for American agricultural
exports.
We signed agreements to increase beef exports to Korea --
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reduced our overall trade deficit by almost $69 billion.
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Dakota will get sick. DAVID TELL manpower & political support"
Remember this. Where does the money for my opponent's
campaign come from? From the opponents of free trade.
Where does Governor Clinton stand on our historic trade
agreement with Mexico? He won't say. But saying nothing says it
all. He may know in his heart that it's the right thing to do,
but the special interests won't let him embrace it.
He's stuck riding the fence so hard he's got saddle sores.
But that kind of doublespeak means one thing: double
trouble.
The Congress will take his vacillation as weakness, and the
vital national economic interest will lose out to Congressional
logrolling, backscratching, and business-as-usual.
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President who will put these jobs at risk.
Our goal is to create a more open trading regime around the
world that increases economic growth for our customers -- and for
ourselves. Our job is to compete, not retreat.
That is why I have fought so hard to reach a new agreement
under the GATT -- the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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SOUTH DAKOTA BRIEFING POINTS
KEY FACTS
- AGRICULTURE CONTRIBUTES $13.2 BILLION TO SOUTH DAKOTA'S
ECONOMY - MORE THAN 3 TIMES LARGER THAN ANY OTHER INDUSTRY.
THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY ACCOUNTS FOR 65% OF THE AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRY - $8.7 BILLION.
- CROPS AMOUNT TO 35% OF THE AG INDUSTRY - $4.5 BILLION.
- A 1% INCREASE IN AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT WOULD ADD $141 BILLION
TO SOUTH DAKOTA'S ECONOMY,
- A 1% INCREASE IN AGRICULTURAL OUTPPUT WOULD CREATE 1,230
FULL AND PART-TIME JOBS.
- AGRICULTURAL FAMILIES - REPRESENTING APPROX. 17% OF SOUTH
DAKOTA'S TAX-PAYING PUBLIC - CONTRIBUTE 22% ($76 MILLION)
OF THE STATES SALES TAX REVENUE AND 29% OF THE STATES
PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.
- 55% OF SOUTH DAKOTA WHEAT IS EXPORTED.
KEY ISSUES
(1) WETLANDS - WETLANDS PROTECTION IS RAPIDLY BECOMING A VERY
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE. THE DEFINITION OF WETLANDS AND WET-
LANDS DETERMINATIONS ARE CRUCIAL ISSUES. THE WETLANDS ISSUE
MAY BE THE TOP ISSUE FOR PRACTICALLY EVERY SOUTH DAKOTA FARM
AND RANCH ORGANIZATION. ANOTHER ISSUE IS THE DELINEATION
MANUAL THAT AGENCIES MUST FOLLOW IN ADMINISTERING WETLAND
LAWS. A PROPOSED REVISION TO THE MANUAL WOULD EXEMPT
PRAIRIE POTHOLES FROM A REWRITE AND PLACE PRAIRIE POTHOLES
UNDER A SEPARATE AND STRICTER DEFINITION OF WETLANDS.
(2). DROUGHT - MANY PARTS OF SOUTH DAKOTA HAVE ENTERED THEIR
FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR OF DROUGHT. HARDEST HIT WAS NORTH-
WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. WET WEATHER IN JUNE
AND JULY HAS REDUCED MOST OF THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS.
ASSISTANCE FOR LOSSES DUE TO DROUGHT HAS BEEN PROVIDED.
(3). POTENTIAL FOR EARLY FROST - CROP DEVELOPMENT BEHIND NORMAL.
(4). ETHANOL - PRECLUDING ETHANOL'S PARTICIPATION IN THE
REFORMULATED GASOLINE MARKET WOULD REDUCE THE PRICE
RECEIVED BY FARMERS FOR THEIR CORN BY AN AVERAGE OF 24 CENTS
PER BUSHEL. SOUTH DAKOTA PRODUCES OVER 240 MILLION BUSHELS
OF CORN PER YEAR. A LOSS OF 24 CENTS PER BUSHEL WOULD COST
SOUTH DAKOTA CORN GROWERS $57.6 MILLION ANNUALLY. SUCH A
DROP IN THE PRICE OF CORN WOULD COST THE AVERAGE SOUTH
DAKOTA CORN GROWER $10,000 ANNUALLY.
(5). FORK E.E.P. - ON AUG. 2, 1992, PRES. BUSH APPROVED THE USE
OF THE EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (EEP) FOR THE SALE OF
30,000 METRIC TONS OF U.S. PORK TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
(CIS).
(6). BIOSTRESS LABORATORY STATUS - CONGRESS FUNDED $1.015
MILLION IN FY 1993, WHICH MEANS ALL NECESSARY FUNDING FOR
THE $11.8 MILLION LAB HAS BEEN SECURED. GROUNDBREAKING
HELD IN MAY 1991 FOR THIS HIGH-TECH RESEARCH CENTER AT SDSU.
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AGRICULTURE BRIEFING POINTS
WEYLANDS
THE PROBLEM
UNDER CURRENT RULES, PRODUCERS ARE AT THE MERCY OF FOUR
FEDERAL AGENCIES IMPLEMENTING R POLICY THAT IS BASED ON VERY
LIMITED STATUTORY AUTHORITY. THE BUREAUCRACY AND UNCERTAINTY OF
CURRENT REGULATIONS HAS PROVEN VERY COSTLY TO MANY PRODUCERS WHO
HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF DRAINING AND/OR FILLING WETLANDS. THE
HEART OF THE PROBLEM IS THE WETLANDS DEFINITION MANUAL, AND THE
LACK OF ANY STATUTORY MEANS OF COMPENSATION FOR LANDOWNERS WHEN A
WETLANDS DETERMINATION RESULTS IN A MONETARY LOSS OR DIMINISHED
PROPERTY VALUES.
WETLAND DEFINITION -- THE MANUAL
THE DEFINITION OF WETLANDS IS THE MOST DIFFICULT ISSUE IN
THE ENTIRE DEBATE. THE WHITE HOUSE HAS VARIOUS PROPOSALS
PENDING, THE PRIMARY ONE OF WHICH HAS DRAWN CONSIDERABLE FIRE
FROM ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND PRAISE FROM FARM GROUPS. THAT
PROPOSAL WILL NOT LIKELY MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT
COMPROMISE. THERE IS TALK THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS TRYING TO
REVIVE THE ISSUE AND GET A NEW MANUAL APPROVED SOON. REPORTEDLY,
ADMINISTRATOR REILLY AT EPA HAS INDICATED HE WOULD SIGN OFF ON
GOING BACK TO THE 1987 MANUAL -- UNDER WHICH THE DEFINITION WAS
MORE STRINGENT AND COMPENSATION IS PROVIDED TO LANDONNERS.
PENDING LEGISLATION
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BILLS PENDING, ALTHOUGH NOTHING IS
MOVING. MOST EVERY FARM GROUP IS BEHIND THE BREAUX BILL (THE
HAYES BILL IN THE HOUSE) WHICH CLASSIFIED WETLANDS INTO VARYING
DEGREES OF INPORTANCE. YOU HAVE COSPONSORED A BILL INTRODUCED BY
BOND THAT DEALS WITH THE REGULATORY ISSUE, GIVING THE SOIL
CONSERVATION SERVICE SOLE AUTHORITY FOR THE REGULATION OF
AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
MOST ON BOTH SIDES WOULD LIKE TO SEE LEGISLATION PASSED TO
ESTABLISH A STATUTORY BASE, BUT THE QUESTION IS WHETHER A BILL
CAN BE PASSED THAT IS GOOD FOR AGRICULTURE AND RESPECTS THE
PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS.
BOTTOM LINE POINTS
THE DEFINITION MUST MAKE ROOM FOR COMMON SENSE, KEEPING
EXISTING EXEMPTIONS SUCH AS FARMED WETLANDS AND PAYING FOR
COSTS INCURRED IN MITIGATION.
COMPENSATION MUST BE PROVIDED TO LANDOWNERS WHO EXPERIENCE A
LOSS IN PROPERTY VALUES AND/OR MUST PAY FOR MITIGATION. NOT
ONLY IS IT THE RIGHT THING TO DO, BUT IT WOULD ALSO PLACE A
FISCAL CAP ON THE AMOUNT OF LAND THE GOVERNMENT CAN TAKE.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS
The record shows the Administration aggressively using EEP
programs to boost American farm exports in world markets. The
Administration is making available great opportunities for
American goods to compete against unfairly subsidized exports
around the world.
From January 1989 through August 20, 1992:
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The number of EEP initiatives made available will have
increased by more than 300 percent.
Total bonuses awarded will have risen nearly 200 percent.
Value of sales will have risen by nearly 20 percent.
Volume of sales held about steady.
Value-added exports rose by over 60 percent in value terms
on a 10 percent rise in volume.
The programs include EEP (Export Enhancement Program), SOAP
(Sunflowerseed oil Assistance Program), COAP (Cottonseed Oil
Assistance Program), an DEIP (Dairy Export Incentive Program).
FISCAL YEAR SUMMARY OF EEP, SOAP, COAP AND DEIP
(*Accounts for FY 1992 - to August 20)
1989
1990
1991
1992*
Number of Initiatives
EEP
31
35
59
63
SOAP
2
2
9
4
COAP
1
0
9
3
DEIP
0
40
78
73
TOTAL
34
77
155
143
Quantities Sold - (000 Metric Tons)
EEP
17,143
16,412
20,394
18,583
SOAP
54
39
69
187
COAP
0
0
36
36
DEIP
0
5
30
58
TOTAL
17,197
16,456
20,529
18,864
Bonuses Awarded - ($ Millions)
EEP
339
312
916
914
SOAP
9
4
10
16
COAP
0
0
7
2
DEIP
0
9
39
56
TOTAL
348
325
972
988
Value of Sales - ($ Millions)
EEP
2,803
2,355
1,910
3,056
SOAP
24
20
34
95
COAP
0
0
17
17
DEIP
0
9
50
155
TOTAL
2,827
2,384
2,011
3,323
Export Enhancement Program (EEP)
Sunflowerseed Oil Assistance Program (SOAP)
Cottonseed Oil Assistance Program (COAP)
Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)
FISCAL YEAR SUMMARY OF EEP, SOAP, COAP AND DEIP
(*Accounts for FY 1992 - to August 20)
1989
1990
1991
1992*
Quantities Sold - (000 Metric Tons)
EEP
Wheat
16,005
14,361
17,779
16,420
Flour
469
237
511
232
Barley
529
1,700
1,788
1,142
Barley Malt
4
45
38
32
Rice
20
0
76
330
Vegetable Oil
105
45
166
388
Frozen Poultry
8
18
20
24
Canned Peaches
o
0
0
0
Table Eggs
3.
6
16
16
SOAP
Sunflower oil
54
39
69
187
COAP
Cottonseed Oil
0
0
36
36
DEIP
Butterfat
o
5
11
12
Processed Milk
0
0
17
42
Cheese
0
0
2
3
TOTAL
17,197
16,456
20,529
18,864
Bonuses Awarded - ($ Millions)
EEP
Wheat
289
242
768
705
Flour
30
13
38
24
Barley
4
34
74
45
Barley Malt
0
6
3
2
Rice
0
0
4
21
Vegetable Oil
11
4
14
26
Frozen Poultry
4
11
10
13
Canned Peaches
o
0
0
0
Table Eggs
1
2
5
4
SOAP
Sunflower oil
9
4
10
16
COAP
Cottonseed Oil
0
0
7
2
DEIP
Butterfat
0
9
22
16
Processed Milk
0
0
13
36
Cheese
0
0
4
4
TOTAL
348
325
972
914
FISCAL YEAR SUMMARY OF EEP, SOAP, COAP AND DEIP
(*Accounts for FY 1992 - to August 20)
Value of Sales - ($ Millions)
EEP
Wheat
2,537
2,028
1,483
2,522
Flour
123
60
99
54
Barley
74
211
181
129
Barley Malt
2
10
9
9
Rice
7
0
25
121
Vegetable Oil
49
20
72
175
Frozen Poultry
8
21
25
31
Canned Peaches
0
0
0
0
Table Eggs
3
5
16
15
SOAP
Sunflower oil
24
20
34
95
COAP
Cottonseed Oil
0
0
17
17
DEIP
Butterfat
0
9
19
37
Processed Milk
0
0
27
108
Cheese
0
0
4
10
TOTAL
2,827
2,384
2,011
3,323
Export Enhancement Program (EEP)
Sunflowerseed Oil Assistance Program (SOAP)
Cottonseed Oil Assistance Program (COAP)
Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)
EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
Initiatives Announced from January 1, 1989 to August 13, 1992
Date
Quantity
Country
Commodity
Announced
Announced
Soviet Union
wheat
01/25/89
2,000,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
02/01/89
400,000 MT
West Africa
wheat
02/22/89
186,700 MT
China
wheat
02/27/89
2,000,000 MT
Iraq
wheat
02/28/89
1,000,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
05/02/89
1,500,000 MT
Egypt
wheat flour
06/09/89
250,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
barley
07/11/89
225,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
07/14/89
4,000,000 DZN
Turkey
barley
07/20/89
200,000 MT
Tunisia
vegetable oil
07/25/89
60,000 MT
Algeria
wheat
07/28/89
1,000,000 MT
Philippines
wheat
09/05/89
600,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
09/27/89
1,000,000 MT
Brazil
barley malt
09/28/89
50,000 MT
Colombia
barley malt
09/28/89
25,000 MT
Sri Lanka
wheat flour
09/28/89
50,000 MT
Egypt
wheat flour
11/08/89
500,000 MT
Algeria
barley
11/08/89
500,000 MT
Sri Lanka
wheat
12/07/89
350,000 MT
China
wheat
12/07/89
1,000,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
12/13/89
1,000,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
12/19/89
2,000,000 MT
Yemen
wheat
01/04/90
150,000 MT
Morocco
vegetable oil
01/24/90
60,000 MT
China
wheat
02/08/90
1,000,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
02/23/90
1,000,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
barley
03/13/90
500,000 MT
Sub-Saharan Africa
wheat flour
04/17/90
200,000 MT
Jordan
poultry
04/25/90
6,000 MT
Jordan
wheat
05/01/90
MT
China
wheat
05/02/90
2,000,000 MT
Zaire
wheat
05/21/90
Algeria
wheat
05/21/90
2,000,000 MT
Jordan
barley
05/24/90
Cyprus
barley
Soviet Union
wheat
06/06/90
2,000,000 MT
Philippines
wheat
1,200,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
07/19/90
4,000,000 DZN
200,000 750,000 250,000 130,000 350,000 150,000 100,000
MT
MT
06/05/90
MT
06/22/90
Saudi Arabia
barley
07/25/90
MT
Israel
barley
07/25/90
MT
Trinidad and Tobago
wheat
08/23/90
MT
Colombia
barley malt
09/07/90
35,000 MT
Colombia
wheat
09/10/90
500,000 MT
East Europe
rice
09/13/90
100,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
09/20/90
4,000,000 DZN
Soviet Union
wheat flour
09/26/90
500,000 MT
Morocco
wheat
09/26/90
1,810,950 MT
West Africa
wheat
09/26/90
500,000 MT
Central America
barley malt
09/26/90
40,000 MT
Philippines
barley malt
09/28/90
75,000 MT
Yemen
wheat flour
09/28/90
125,000 MT
Date
Quantity
Country
Commodity
Announced
Announced
Sri Lanka
wheat flour
10/03/90
50,000 MT
Tunisia
wheat
10/04/90
500,000 MT
Singapore
poultry
10/23/90
4,000 MT
Sri Lanka
wheat
10/23/90
400,000 MT
Brazil
wheat
11/08/90
300,000 MT
Yemen
wheat
11/15/90
150,000 MT
Jordan
wheat
11/15/90
250,000 MT
Malta
wheat
11/15/90
50,000 MT
Gulf Countries
poultry
11/16/90
16,000 MT
Hungary
barley
11/16/90
100,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
poultry
11/16/90
10,000 MT
China
wheat
12/10/90
1,500,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
12/20/90
2,000,000 MT
Finland
wheat
12/31/90
50,000 MT
Norway
wheat
12/31/90
100,000 MT
Egypt
wheat flour
01/09/91
500,000 MT
Brazil
barley malt
01/09/91
15,000 MT
Philippines
wheat
01/14/91
1,200,000 MT
Tunisia
vegetable oil
01/15/91
60,000 MT
Turkey
rice
01/25/91
50,000 MT
China
wheat
01/25/91
1,500,000 MT
Venezuela
barley malt
02/07/91
30,000 MT
Turkey
wheat
02/12/91
200,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
02/27/91
4,000,000 DZN
Morocco
vegetable oil
03/21/91
30,000 MT
Jordan
wheat
03/21/91
250,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat-
03/21/91
2,000,000 MT
Near East
table eggs
04/18/91
5,000,000 DZN
Sub-Saharan Africa
wheat flour
04/29/91
300,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
barley
05/10/91
1,000,000 MT
Brazil
wheat
05/10/91
700,000 MT
Dominican Republic
vegetable oil
05/14/91
30,000 MT
Turkey
rice
05/17/91
50,000 MT
Bangladesh
wheat
05/22/91
250,000 MT
Algeria
wheat
05/30/91
2,500,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
05/30/91
4,000,000 DZN
China
wheat
06/11/91
2,000,000 MT
Kuwait
wheat
06/13/91
100,000 MT
Turkey
vegetable oil
06/21/91
30,000 MT
Mexico
vegetable oil
06/21/91
60,000 MT
Yemen
wheat flour
06/28/91
200,000 MT
Jordan
poultry
07/02/91
6,000 MT
Malta
barley
07/26/91
35,000 MT
Cyprus
barley
07/26/91
250,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
07/29/91
4,000,000 DZN
Algeria
vegetable oil
08/02/91
42,000 MT
Egypt
poultry
08/05/91
5,000 MT
Yemen
wheat
08/05/91
300,000 MT
Trinidad and Tobago
wheat
08/23/91
130,000 MT
Algeria
barley
08/27/91
500,000 MT
Israel
barley
08/27/91
300,000 MT
Jordan
barley
08/27/91
200,000 MT
Central America
barley malt
08/29/91
20,000 MT
Morocco
vegetable oil
08/30/91
60,000 MT
Turkey
vegetable oil
09/13/91
30,000 MT
China
wheat
09/13/91
2,000,000 MT
Tunisia
wheat
09/18/91
250,000 MT
Morocco
wheat
09/18/91
1,000,000 MT
Date
Quantity
Country
Commodity
Announced
Announced
China
vegetable oil
09/20/91
60,000 MT
Soviet Union
vegetable oil
10/01/91
80,000 MT
Caribbean
barley malt
10/10/91
15,000 MT
Philippines
barley malt
10/18/91
35,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
10/18/91
3,000,000 MT
West Africa
wheat
10/24/91
800,000 MT
Malta
wheat
10/31/91
50,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
11/05/91
1,000,000 MT
Hong Kong
table eggs
11/14/91
20,000,000 DZN
Soviet Union
barley
11/21/91
250,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat flour
11/21/91
500,000 MT
Soviet Union
rice
11/22/91
100,000 MT
East Europe
rice
11/29/91
100,000 MT
Tunisia
vegetable oil
12/03/91
60,000 MT
Sri Lanka
wheat
12/05/91
250,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
12/10/91
1,000,000 MT
East Europe
durum
12/12/91
150,000 MT
Jordan
rice
12/12/91
75,000 MT
Near East
table eggs
12/17/91
5,000,000 DZN
Colombia
malting barle:
12/24/91
50,000 MT
Turkey
vegetable oil
01/08/92
20,000 MT
Algeria
vegetable oil
01/09/92
60,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
01/13/92
1,000,000 MT
Bahrain
wheat
01/16/92
25,000 MT
Turkey
rice
01/21/92
50,000 MT
Brazil
barley malt
01/21/92
25,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
poultry
01/24/92
MT
Singapore
poultry
01/24/92
MT
Jordan
poultry
01/30/92
MT
Turkey
rice
01/30/92
100,000 MT
Yemen
wheat
01/30/92
200,000 MT
Egypt
wheat flour
02/03/92
250,000 MT
Philippines
wheat
02/13/92
1,200,000 MT
Saudi Arabia
barley
02/14/92
500,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
02/20/92
1,200,000 MT
Cyprus
wheat
03/04/92
60,000 60,000 16,000 12,000 10,000 2,000
MT
Gulf Countries
poultry
03/10/92
MT
Venezuela
wheat
03/23/92
400,000 MT
Morocco
vegetable oil
05/01/92
MT
Sub-Saharan Africa
wheat flour
05/06/92
300,000 MT
Jordan
barley
05/08/92
200,000 MT
Egypt
wheat
05/12/92
500,000 MT
Soviet Union
vegetable oil
05/13/92
150,000 MT
Soviet Union
wheat
05/13/92
2,000,000 MT
China
wheat
05/14/92
2,000,000 MT
Israel
rice
05/18/92
15,000 MT
Jordan
wheat
05/21/92
350,000 MT
Algeria
rice
06/03/92
40,000 MT
Turkey
vegetable oil
06/09/92
40,000 MT
Hong Kong
vegetable oil
06/12/92
60,000 MT
Mexico
canned peach
06/16/92
2,500 MT
Japan
canned peach
06/16/92
5,000 MT
Korea
canned peach
06/16/92
1,500 MT
Soviet Union
barley
06/19/92
500,000 MT
Sri Lanka
wheat
06/23/92
150,000 MT
Bangladesh
wheat
06/30/92
500,000 MT
Algeria
wheat
07/01/92
1,000,000 MT
Date
Quantity
Country
Commodity
Announced
Announced
Soviet Union
wheat
07/08/92
2,000,000 MT
Venezuela
barley malt
07/08/92
25,000 MT
Yemen
wheat flour
07/08/92
300,000 MT
Kuwait
wheat
07/10/92
100,000 MT
Dominican Republic
vegetable oil
07/16/92
20,000 MT
Egypt
poultry
07/24/92
25,000 MT
Soviet Union
pork
08/03/92
30,000 MT
SUNFLOVERSEED AND COTTONSEED OIL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Initiatives Announced from January 1, 1989 to July 7, 1992
ANNOUNCED
DATE
INITIATIVES
ANNOUNCED
QUANTITY
Egypt/cotton oil
Apr 28,89
20,000 MT
Egypt/sun oil
Apr 28,89
20,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
Nov 16,89
20,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
Mar 29,'90
20,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
Oct 10,90
20,000 MT
Egypt/cotton oil
Mar 15,'91
20,000 MT
Egypt/sun oil
Mar 15,'91
20,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
May 22,'91
20,000 MT
Dominican Republic/cotton oil
May 22,'91
10,000 MT
Mexico/sun oil
May 22,'91
20,000 MT
Turkey/cotton oil
May 22,'91
20,000 MT
Venezuela/cotton oil
May 22,'91
10,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
40,000 MT
Dominican Republic/cotton oil
Nov 14,'91
10,000 MT
Egypt/cotton oil
Nov 14,'91
60,000 MT
Egypt/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
40,000 MT
E1 Salvador/cotton oil
Nov 14,'91
20,000 MT
Mexico/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
30,000 MT
Soviet Union/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
30,000 MT
Turkey/cotton oil
Nov 14,'91
30,000 MT
Turkey/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
30,000 MT
Venezuela/cotton oil
Nov 14,'91
20,000 MT
Venezuela/sun oil
Nov 14,'91
20,000 MT
Algeria/sun oil
Mar 3,'92
60,000 MT
El Salvador/cotton oil
Mar 25,'92
20,000 MT
Soviet Union/sun oil
Mar 25,'92
50,000 MT
Guatemala/cotton oil
May 14,'92
15,000 MT
Guatemala/sun oil
May 14,'92
15,000 MT
Mexico/cotton oil
Jun 24,'92
10,000 MT
Mexico/sun oil
Jun 24, '92
30,000 MT
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DAIRY EXPORT INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Initiatives Announced from January 1, 1989 to July 7, 1992
ANNOUNCED
DATE
INITIATIVES
ANNOUNCED
QUANTITY
Algeria/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
5,000 MT
Bahamas/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Bahrain/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Cameroon/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Canary Islands/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Chile/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Cyprus/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Egypt/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
5,000 MT
Gabon/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Ghana/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Guadaloupe/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Hong Kong/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Indonesia/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Israel/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Ivory Coast/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Jordan/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Kuwait/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,500 MT
Madagascar/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Malta/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Martinique/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Morocco/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
2,500 MT
Mozambique/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Netherlands Antilles/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Nigeria/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Oman and Muscat/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Pakistan/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Qatar/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Reunion/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Saudi Arabia/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
5,000 MT
Senegal/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Singapore/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
500 MT
Somalia/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
250 MT
Taiwan/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Thailand/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,500 MT
Trinidad and Tobago/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Tunisia/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Turkey/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
United Arab Emirates/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Yemen/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Yugoslavia/butterfat
Jan 30, '90
1,000 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Jul 19, '90
2,500 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
5,000 MT
Bangladesh/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
100 MT
Bolivia/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
100 MT
Caribbean/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
1,500 MT
Central Africa/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
5,000 MT
09-Jul-1992
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ASSOCIACED
DATE
INITIATIVES
ANNOUNCED
QUANTITY
Central America/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
1,000 MT
China/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
1,000 MT
Colombia/butterfat
Mar 1, '91
100 MT
Cyprus/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
200 MT
Djibouti/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Egypt/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Faroe Islands/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
French Guiana/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Greenland/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Guyana/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Israel/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
200 MT
Morocco/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
2,000 MT
Netherlands Antilles/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
New Caledonia/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Pakistan/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Persian Gulf/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Peru/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Saudi Arabia/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Soviet Union/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Suriname/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Tunisia/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Turkey/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
500 MT
Venezuela/butterfat
Mar 1,'91
300 MT
Algeria/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
20,000 MT
Bolivia/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Caribbean/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Central Africa/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
20,000 MT
Central America/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
7,500 MT
Chile/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
2,000 MT
China/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
4,000 MT
Colombia/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Cyprus/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
250 MT
Djibouti/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Ecuador/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
500 MT
Egypt/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
French Guiana/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
250 MT
Greenland/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Guadaloupe/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
1,000 MT
Guyana/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
250 MT
Israel/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
2,000 MT
Malta/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Morocco/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
2,000 MT
Netherlands Antilles/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
500 MT
New Caledonia/dry milk
Mar 1,91
250 MT
Pakistan/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
3,000 MT
Persian Gulf/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
5,000 MT
Saudi Arabia/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
15,000 MT
Seychelles/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
100 MT
Soviet Union/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
20,000 MT
Suriname/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
500 MT
Tunisia/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
3,000 MT
Turkey/dry milk
Mar 1,'91
1,500 MT
Venezuela/dry milk
Mar 1,
15,000 MT
Korea/dry milk
Mar 27, '91
2,000 MT
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ANNOUNCED
DATE
INITIATIVES
ANNOUNCED
QUANTITY
Algeria/chesse
Jun 24, '91
4,000 MT
Canary Islands/cheese
Jun 24, '91
4,000 MT
Cyprus/cheese
Jun 24, '91
750 MT
Egypt/cheese
Jun 24, '91
5,000 MT
Farce Islands/cheese
Jun 24, '91
100 MT
French Guiana/cheese
Jun 24, '91
150 MT
French Polynesia/cheese
Jun 24, '91
200 MT
Greenland/cheese
Jun 24, '91
100 MT
Jordan/cheese
Jun 24, '91
1,000 MT
Malta/cheese
Jun 24, '91
1,000 MT
Morocco/cheese
Jun 24, '91
500 MT
( New Caledonia/cheese
Jun 24, '91
200 MT
Reunion/cheese
Jun 24, '91
750 MT
Saudi Arabia/cheese
Jun 24, '91
5,000 MT
Soviet Union/cheese
Jun 24, '91
500 MT
Suriname/cheese
Jun 24, '91
100 MT
Tunisia/cheese
Jun 24, '91
1,000 MT
Venezuela/cheese
Jun 24, '91
200 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Sep 18, '91
5,000 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Dec 3, '91
5,000 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Bolivia/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Caribbean/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,500 MT
Central Africa/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Central America/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
China/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Cyprus/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
200 MT
Egypt/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Eurasia/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Faroe Islands/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
French Guiana/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Greenland/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Israel/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
200 MT
Jordan/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Malta/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Morocco/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
3,000 MT
Pakistan/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Persian Gulf/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Peru/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Saudi Arabia/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Suriname/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Turkey/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
Tunisia/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Venezuela/butterfat
Jan 14, '92
300 MT
Algeria/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
20,000 MT
Brazil/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
10,000 MT
Bolivia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Caribbean/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Central Africa/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
20,000 MT
Central America/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
7,500 MT
Chile/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
4,000 MT
China/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Colombia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
1,000 MT
Cyprus/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
250 MT
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ANNOUNCED
DATE
INITIATIVES
ANNOUNCED
QUANTITY
Egypt/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Eurasia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
20,000 MT
French Guiana/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
250 MT
Greenland/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Guyana/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
250 MT
Israel/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
2,000 MT
Jordan/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
3,000 MT
Malta/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Morocco/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
2,000 MT
New Caledonia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
250 MT
Pakistan/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
3,000 MT
Persian Gulf/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
5,000 MT
Saudi Arabia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
15,000 MT
Seychelles/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Suriname/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
Tunisia/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
4,000 MT
Turkey/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
1,500 MT
Venezuela/dry milk
Jan 14, '92
15,000 MT
Algeria/cheese
Jan 14, '92
2,000 MT
Bahrain/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Cyprus/cheese
Jan 14, '92
200 MT
Egypt/cheese
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
Jordan/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Kuwait/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Malta/cheese
Jan 14, '92
300 MT
Morocco/cheese
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
Oman/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Qatar/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Saudi Arabia/cheese
Jan 14, '92
500 MT
Turkey/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
United Arab Emirates/cheese
Jan 14, '92
100 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Jan 27, '92
5,000 MT
Algeria/butterfat
Feb 10, '92
5,000 MT
Ecuador/dry milk
Mar 4, '92
900 MT
Mexico/dry milk
Apr 9, '92
25,000 MT
Jamaica/dry milk
Apr 24, '92
1,000 MT
Colombia/dry milk
May 6, '92
1,000 MT
India/dry milk
Jun 19, '92
10,000 MT
Colombia/dry milk
Jul 21, '92
1,000 MT
09-Jul-1992
CLOSE HOLD
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/1/92
COB, TODAY! SEPT 1
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PROPOSED FACT SHEET AND PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
SUBJECT:
EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (EEP)
(IN CONJUNCTION WITH POTUS TRIP TO SIOUX CITY, SD 9/2)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MOORE
BAKER
MULLINS
SCOWCROFT
PETERSMEYER
DARMAN
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
BOSKIN
HORNER
BLUMENTHAL
MCBRIDE
BATES
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly to
Gary Blumenthal, x6630, Rm. 231, with a copy to this
office NO LATER THAN COB, TODAY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
CLOSE HOLD
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
* MARKET SENSITIVE*
PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON EEP ANNOUNCEMENT
Our Nation's wheat farmers depend on export markets for more than
half of their sales. American wheat producers have been developing
overseas markets for more than 30 years, and in a world of open
trade there is no question that we would be the premier supplier
of wheat to international markets. That doesn't just mean sales
for U.S. farmers, it means export-created jobs for everyone from
stevedores, railroad workers, truckers, and longshoremen to grain
merchandisers and workers in grain elevators.
Unfortunately, world wheat trade has been distorted by subsidies -
- especially the export subsidies of the European Community which
have depressed prices received by our farmers. That is why we have
proposed to reduce trade distorting subsidies worldwide -- our own
included. Our objective is to win trade agreements and open up
markets. But until that objéctive is accomplished, we will not
leave our farmers in the lurch and the Export Enhancement Program
(EEP) is vitally important in enabling U.S. farmers to meet the
subsidized European competition.
Today, I am announcing an EEP initiative to sell almost 1.1 billion
bushels or 30 million metric tons of wheat to 28 countries and
regions around the world. This is by far the largest EEP
initiative ever announced, and it charts our export course for the
year ahead.
Today's announcement should leave no doubt in anyone's mind the
scope of our resolve. The global trade talks are at a key point
and I want to make myself perfectly clear: until we obtain a good
agreement I intend to pursue an aggressive export policy. But our
export policy will also be a fair one: We have designed this
package for use against countries that subsidize their exports not
the ones that do not.
I want the message to be loud and clear to American farmers,
exporters and everyone else with a stake in the wheat industry:
We are for open trade but we will fight for market share with
countries that are not willing to reduce their export subsidies.
Wheat exports are crucial to U.S. farm income, the U.S. trade
balance and economic activity throughout the nation. This broad-
based EEP initiative will mean more exports, more income and more
jobs.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September
1992
Today the President directed the Secretary of Agriculture to make
available close to 1.1 billion bushels (30 million metric tons) of
U.S. wheat to 28 countries under the Export Enhancement Program
(EEP). This initiative will stimulate exports to markets where the
U.S. wheat industry faces subsidized competition, especially from
the European Community (EC).
This new export package will support an additional 110,000 U.S.
jobs, most of them off the farm, and generate a total of $10.5
billion in business activity for the U.S. economy. The package
replaces all previously announced wheat initiatives and will remain
in effect throughout the 1992/93 international marketing year for
wheat, which ends June 30, 1993.
The Problem
U.S. wheat producers face heavily subsidized competition from
the EC. The U.S. has been working to substantially reduce trade
distorting subsidies through the Uruguay Round of multilateral
trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT). Absent an agreement, the President is committed to using
tools at his disposal to ensure that U.S. producers are able to
compete. This announcement aggressively implements the "GATT
trigger," a provision of law that allows aggressive export
promotion because the EC and other countries have SO far failed to
accept proposals to reform international agricultural trade.
The President's Proposal
Today's 30 million ton EEP package provides market opportunities
for about half of the 1992/93 U.S. wheat crop and represents the
largest quantity of wheat ever made available under the EEP at one
time. Wheat sales to destinations targeted by EEP totaled 18.6
million metric tons during the 1991/92 international marketing year
for wheat. However, several countries that had not previously been
offered wheat under EEP have been added to the list of eligible
destinations announced today.
Before today's announcement, wheat EEP initiatives were announced
on a country-by-country basis. The new approach will offer several
advantages:
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The Uruguay Round negotiations are at a key point and this
announcement signals to the EC the scope of our resolve and
encourages movement toward international trade reform. It is
clear evidence of the President's determination that the U.S.
will remain competitive in world wheat trade.
Farmers, exporters and foreign buyers will have greater
certainty about market opportunities, making the U.S. a more
reliable supplier.
The EEP will remain flexible and able to adapt to changing
circumstances. The President has stated explicitly that
additional countries may be made eligible during the course
of the year.
The new approach will help avoid sales disruptions that
sometimes occur when initiatives expire. The tonnages offered
in today's announcement can be supplemented later in the year
if necessary.
The package will continue to aggressively target subsidized
competition, primarily from the EC. The EEP respects the
traditional market share of countries that do not subsidize
exports. By contrast, the EC does not attempt to safeguard
non-subsidizers' market share, and its subsidies are available
for sales to any destination in the world, unlike the more
targeted EEP.
Background on EEP
The EEP was created administratively by the Reagan-Bush
Administration in 1985 and has been instrumental in maintaining and
expanding U.S. market share for wheat and many other commodities,
including high-value products like vegetable oil, poultry, barley
malt and flour.
The EEP enables U.S. exporters to meet prevailing world prices for
targeted commodities and destinations. Under the program, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) pays cash bonuses to U.S.
exporters. The bonuses make up the difference between the U.S.
domestic price and world prices, which are often lower because the
EC and other subsidizing exporters dump surplus production into
world markets.
*Market Sensitive*
EEP Wheat Package
Program Level
Algeria
1,750
Bangladesh
700
Bahrain
25
Brazil
500
China
7,000
Cyprus
50
East Europe (Durum)
140
Egypt
3,500
India
1,500
Jordan
600
Kenya
100
Kuwait
150
Lebanon
160
Malta
50
Morocco
1,000
Norway
150
Pakistan
800
Philippines
1,200
Poland (Non-durum)
400
Romania (Non-durum)
500
South Africa
400
Sri Lanka
500
Trinidad and Tobago
125
Tunisia
300
Former Soviet Union
5,500
Venezuela
400
West and Central Africa
1,000
Yemen
600
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Public Papers of the Presidents
Remarks on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Mount Rushmore
National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Thank you, and thank all of you for that magnificent music. And that includes
the Air Force. Thank you.
What a personal privilege and honor to be introduced by America's beloved
Jimmy Stewart. May I salute our Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan; our
Senators Larry Pressler, Tom Daschle. Congressman Johnson with us today. South
Dakota's Governor, Governor Mickelson; Lt. Governor, Mr. Miller; former Governor
Janklow. And former Senators Abner and McGovern are with us here today also.
This is a fitting occasion, and I'm proud to be a part of it.
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May I also salute those who make it happen all the time, our Director of the
National Park Service James Ridenour. My special greetings, of course, to this
all-star-studded cast: Tom Brokaw, Mary Hart, Barry Bostwick, Billy Dee
Williams, Johanna Meier, Barbara Eden; our favorite, White Eagle, who sang at
the Inauguration; Rosemary Clooney; and everybody else that participated in
making this a very special day in the life of our country.
You talk about a Hollywood Hall of Fame. This is unbelievable. And to all
of you, thank you for the privilege of helping dedicate a memorial that once
moved a visitor to say, "A visit to Mount Rushmore is a moment of communion
with the very soul of America."
Fifty years ago, brave Americans completed this monument to four great
nation-builders. It took 14 years, enormous sacrifice, and a daring worthy of
our nation. You heard about one man here who remembers -- Tom mentioned him.
From 1935 through '41, Hap Anderson, who I believe is with us today -- Hap, you
out there somewhere? Well, I don't see him. There he is, right there. I want
to tell you a little more about the man. He worked as a driller at Mount
Rushmore. Says Hap, to quote him: "Hard work? If you can imagine putting a
35-pound jackhammer against your belly and letting her go, I guess it was hard
work." And here's the interesting part, little anatomical. "But my belly was 50
hard in those days my wife could dance on my stomach with high-heeled shoes."
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I can picture it. [Laughter] Seeing Mary Hart up here, I prefer cheek to cheek
-- [laughter] -- but nevertheless, the Andersons can do it their way.
[Laughter]
But seriously, when Hap and his coworkers, several others of whom we've met
here today, dusted themselves off after the last day's work, they had produced a
living monument. When the great producer-director Cecil B. De Mille described
it, here's what he said: "Not only do you look at those four faces, they look at
you as well."
Today WE salute Hap and all the others here today and all the rest who built
Mount Rushmore. We salute, too, the four men whose faces appear on the
monument. They knew that America 15 always a beginning, never a consummation.
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt all surmounted old barriers and
opened up NEW Prontiers. They broadened our nation and they strengthened its
foundations. They chiseled into our national soul a yearning for freedom,
democracy, equality, and justice - a conviction that all people have the right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You heard From: our Four stars a little history of each, but let me, at the
risk of being repetitive, say just a little more. During our Revolution, Ben
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Franklin, as an American Minister to France, attended a diplomatic dinner in
Paris. First, id French official rose, toasting Louis XVI, comparing him to the
moon. The British Ambassador then toasted his monarch, George III, likening him
to the sun. Finally, the aging Franklin stood to speak. "I cannot give you the
sun nor the moon, but I give you George Washington who, like Joshua of old,
commanded both the sun and the moon to stand still, and both obeyed." [Laughter}
Washington sought not the security of power but the power to secure America's
independence, to build a nation devoted to Freedom and human dignity. 1 think
more than any other President, he shaped the contours of the Presidency. He
established a model and set precedence that has served us well, and no wonder he
is remembered as the Father of our Country.
Washington's Secretary or State and the author of our Declaration OF
Independence helped the young nation grow in different ways. Thomas Jefferson
championed the majesty of individual determination and imagination.
While Jefferson had some troubles with Congress, he accomplished
extraordinary things. Among these, as WE heard, he negotiated the Louisiana
Purchase. The Purchase expanded our boundaries forever and opened to millions
new horizons, opportunities, and dreams. His love OF democracy was matched only
by his faith in human nature. He believed that the God who gave us life give
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us liberty at the same time, and that man would use that liberty to ennable
life.
The man to the Par right of Jefferson in the sculpture also extended id
technological frontier, by challenging the Nation to complete the first
transcontinental railroad. But Abraham Lincoln's greatest challenge was to
preserve our Republic, preserve it through its bloodiest war. In 50 doing, he
sharpened our passion for liberty, equality, and dignity. Once Abraham Lincoln
said, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." And
yet armed with changeless moral laws, he paved the path for the Future. He
abolished slavery and preserved the Union. And he showed that the "better
angels of our nature" can banish the darkness that threatens us all.
While the Lincoln of history often seems solitary or sad, the real Lincoln
never lost his appetite for a good story, id tall tale, or a poignant quip. Once
a friend encountered him and two of his kids -- his sons -- on the street. The
boys were sobbing uncontrollably. "Mr. Lincoln, what's the matter with the
boys?" the friend asked. Lincoln sighed, "Just what's the matter with the whole
world. I've got three walnuts and each kid wants two." [Laughter}
Abraham Lincoln understood the American character. He could speak in tones
as familiar as a heartbeat or in cadences capable OF summoning Forth laughter,
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tears, and awe. Without Lincoln, 1 don't believe WE would be a whole nation
today. He kept us, you see, the United States.
The Final man on this monument also left a wonderful bequest. HE won renown
as a warrior, but, again, as we heard, he also won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
He helped cut the Panama Canal out of the wilderness, but also Fought to
preserve our national beauty.
Theodore Roosevelt Fell in love with the Mount Rushmore area. Visiting the
Dakota Badlands in '83 - 1883 - he grew infatuated with the cattle business,
acquired two ranches, and became a gentleman cowhand. TR brought to the
outdoors the same exuberance that he brought to life, calling our lands and
wildlife "the property of unborn generations." He managed to preserve our
magnificent environment while transforming America from a continental force into
a truly global power.
Each of these Four Presidents enriched this country. Each made Full use of
his Presidential powers without forgetting that he owed his power and legitimacy
to the people.
The heroes behind ME WETE Fighters -- as Americans have always been -
fighters for independence, for freedom, for democracy, for equality, for the
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values and the lands WE revere.
Today, WE must build on their beginnings -- WE must continue to preserve our
greatness while pushing back the limits of our imagination. We must teach our
children that responsibility comes with Freedom. WE must remind them OF the
endless possibilities of the American dream. Our new Supreme Court nominee,
Judge Clarence Thomas, has said it best: "As a child, I could not dare to dream
that I would ever see the Supreme Court, not to mention be nominated for it.
Only in America could this be possible."
Our challenges are enormous. But remember, this is America, and here, great
things are possible. Look at the vast sculpture before us, and you SEE carved
in stone a symbol that evokes the American character, soaring and unafraid.
Now, on this 58th anniversary OF the monument, a group OF dedicated volunteers,
the Mount Rushmore Society, is mounting a nationwide campaign to preserve this
treasure.
This, too, Fits into a distinguished tradition. In June of 1826, an ailing
Thomas Jefferson politely declined an invitation to celebrate the Fourth of July
in Washington. Instead, he encouraged his would-be hosts to hold dear the
rights that Americans alone recognized and cherished. And he wrote this: "Let
the annual return OF this day Forever refresh our recollections of these
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rights, and an undiminished devotion to them." Fittingly, this was Jefferson's
last letter. Ten days later, on the 50th anniversary of our independence, he
died.
On the EYE of this Fourth OF July -- and the 50th anniversary of this
monument -- let us express our undiminished devotion to the ideals of
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, ideals as towering and solid as
the monument that honors them.
Thank you For this occasion. Sod bless the United States of America. And
now I am proud to dedicate Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Note: The President spoke at 2:55 p.m. at the memorial. In his remarks, he
referred to actor Jimmy Stewart; NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw and entertainer
Mary Hart, who spoke; actors Barry Bostwick, Billy Dee Williams, Barbara Eden,
and Jimmy Stewart, who gave tributes to the memorial; singer Johanna Meier, who
sang the national anthemy Sioux Indian White Eagle, who sang "So Many Voices";
and entertainer Rosemary Clooney, who sang "America the Beautiful." Following
the event, the President and Mrs. Bush took a nature hike, Fished, and
participated in a picnic. In the evening, the President and Mrs. Bush departed
for Springfield, MO.
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That is why I have fought so hard to reach a new agreement
under the GATT -- the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
The GATT will knock down the barriers we face in X everything from
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else: it will force our competitors, especially those in the
European Community, to reduce their excessive export subsidies in
agriculture. We want free trade -- but we want fair trade.
But even as we work for an agreement, we must be prepared to
defend the interests of the American farmer. Two years ago
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As a result, we are prepared to increase programs to promote
agricultural exports by one billion dollars. The law requires
that we do this in 1994 and 1995. But today, I would like to
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programs beginning now
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Today I am announcing a series of initiatives under our
Export Enhancement Program -- known as "EEP" -- to sell over
1
billion bushels of U.S. wheat to 28 countries and regions around
the world. This is the largest quantity of wheat ever made
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available under the EEP at one time.
Today's announcement should leave no doubt: we will not
engage in unilateral disarmament when it comes to fighting for
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markets. We are committed to reducing subsidies worldwide. But
in the interim, with heavy EC subsidies continuing, the EEP is
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initiatives. We have tripled the volume of EEP bonuses. This
has enabled us to remain a key player in vitally important
markets around the world.
Today's EEP initiatives will give farmers, exporters, and
buyers more certainty about market opportunities. We want to
help growers plan -- and we want to strengthen America's
reputation as a reliable supplier.
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These initiatives will help strengthen prices, boost farm
income, and create jobs. But even so, 1992 has been a difficult
year in parts of rural America. A freeze devastated the winter
wheat crop in Kansas, the Dakotas, and the Texas panhandle.
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Frost, rains and hail hit Nebraska. Flooding from the wettest
summer in memory ravaged upstate New York. Drought dragged on in
Oregon. And here in the Cotton Belt, you saw a freeze in 1991 --
followed by a wet spring that prevented many acres from being
ever mercalib true
planted to cotton at all.
For some farmers, these disasters come on the heels of
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losses in 1990 or 1991 as well. Late last year, I signed a bill
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and 1991 crops. Today, I would like to announce the next step.
Enough losses in 1992 have occurred due to drought, floods,
storms, and hail that I am today releasing an additional $755
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million in disaster assistance funds. This assistance wil
become available automatically upon my certification to the
Congress that an emergency exists. I am sending this
certification to the Congress today. American farmers need
help -- and with this action, you will get it./
Now I know that this $755 million will not solve every
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problem. We will begin SHORTL signups for winter wheat right away, and
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for other crops as soon as the harvest is complete. And while
this amount may not be enough to pay the full amount of every
loss, it will help keep farmers on their feet -- so that bankers
will work with you, interest on debt can be paid, next season's
crop can be planted.
You see, the philosophy of competition is not an abandonment
of governmental responsibility. Sometimes when disaster strikes,
the Federal government is uniquely equipped to help. We've seen
that this week in Florida and Louisiana, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Andrew. If additional disaster funds are needed to
address that emergency, we will secure them.
In the mean time, let me say this: it's a magnificent sight
to see the armed forces of the United States -- one of the most
skilled organizations on earth -- lend their weight to helping
people. Our men and women in uniform were called upon this week
to perform a humanitarian mission. They have performed
superbly -- and every American should be proud and grateful. /
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we have a fundamentally different philosophy from our opponents.
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And a different agenda. Again, you have a choice.
Take the subject of regulation. They want to take the
world's safest food supply -- and remove from it all traces of
butnet
risk, no matter what the cost. We want to advance the capacity
for improvement that made our food supply safe in the first
place
The choice is yours.
Take the subject of taxation. They say in their speeches
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But they want to
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take more of it. $150 billion in new taxes. New taxes on small
business to pay for government health care and mandatory
training. We want to cut taxes across the board -- and reduce
the burden on small business. The choice is yours.
Take the subject of Federal spending. They want to use
those new taxes to add $220 billion in new spending. And that's
not all. Newsweek magazine pointed out this week that the
Newsweek
Governor failed to even put a price tag on his four biggest
9/7/92 programs. The real cost of Clinton's spending binge, said
Newsweek, "is arguably at least three times higher than that."
I will concede this. Governor Clinton is a clever
politician. He's managed to blur the distinctions -- to confuse
the American public on a lot of issues.
But remember: we tried this recipe of higher taxes and
higher spending before. We went down the path of foreign policy
inexperience -- of flirting with disaster by not understanding
how decisions made abroad affect lives here at home.
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And remember the results.
We X had back to back years of double digit inflation. And
farmers were dovastated,
We bad interest rates at 80%. And farmers were devastate
We had grain X embargoes, and food as a foreign policy weapon.
And farmers were devastated.
In this political year, it's easy to be fooled. But here in
West Texas, you know all about the choice between the latest
synthetic fiber and real cotton.
you know which of the two serves well in rough weather or
calm. Which lasts through the seasons.
I don't pretend to have the stretch of spandex or the luster
of lycra. But I do know this: some ideas and values and
concepts are timeless. Froodom works. Opportunity awaits those
who dare to reach for it. Competition brings out the best in
people -- especially the American people.
If we remember these home truths, there is no telling what
we can accomplish. For America's finest hour is yet to come.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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MEMORANDUM FOR BOB GRADY
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
SHALLOWATER AND MONTROSE
TEXAS
--Rick Perry is indeed introducing POTUS. Also on stage will be
about ten Future Farmers of America, all highschool age. Moe
Dozier will be there, he is the mayor of Shallowater. And the
owner of the cotton gin: Mr. Sonny Lufton.
SOUTH DAKOTA
--Governor George Mickelson will intro POTUS. Kapperman family
will be standing nearby.
--From Montrose/Humboldt to the State Fair in Huron is
approximately 100 miles.
--two buses will be taking Soybean Council people from the fair
to the speech site. One interesting sidebar is that the buses
run on soybean deisel -- 2 of the 4 Sioux City Transit buses that
do so.
--politically we might want to mention Mrs. Char [shaar] Harr who
is running for Congress. She seconded the nomination of Dan
Quayle at the convention. Also John Timmer, he's running for
Congress.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
01-Sep-1992 07:35pm
TO:
Robert E. Grady
FROM:
Jennifer A. Grossman
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: re: South Dakota speech
Just a thought -- on that first page where you have the Emerson
quote. It might be more tight and funny to replace "Jeff and Sue
are probably looking forward to getting back to the aching bones
of farming" with "Jeff and Sue could probably use a king-size
bottle of Ben-Gay."
ADVANCE UPDATE ON SHALLOWATER: I've already given you some acks,
note that the owner's name is Lupton, not Lufton. You might also
want to acknowledge Congressman Larry Combest, he's from the
district. There will probably be 3-4,000 standing.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
01-Sep-1992 07:52pm
TO:
Robert E. Grady
FROM:
Jennifer A. Grossman
Office of Communications
SUBJECT:
re: shallowater
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Thank you, Rick [Perry]. for that introduction. Now, I've
Shallow Water never been accused of being born with a silver tongue in my
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doesn't smother every innovation, Americans can outperform and
out compete any people on earth.
I came to Texas right after the war. And I think back today
to all that has happened since then. It was 47 years ago today -
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I've come here today to talk to you about my agenda for
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Attached, please find your ticket to the Official Arrival
Ceremony for His Excellency, the President of the Russian
Federation and Mrs. Yeltsin. You will enter through the South
West Gate. The gates will open promptly at 8:30 a.m. Upon
arrival, please display your pass and ticket to the officers.
The ceremony does not begin until 10:00 a.m.
Please remember that passholders will not be permitted to bring
guests.
Thank you for paying attention to the above guidelines.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
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Thank you, Rick [Perry] for that introduction. Now, I've
never been accused of being born with a silver tongue in my
mouth, but I recognize a good speech when I see one. And I think
you'll agree that Rick Perry delivered a bang-up speech at the
Republican National Convention./
Our Convention back in Houston was so successful that I just
had to come back to Texas for another big event. Unfortunately,
I won't be able to stay until tomorrow night's season opener for
the Texas Tech Red Raiders. /
Now I'm going to keep my silver tongue under control today
and try not to speak too long -- for two reasons. First, I don't
want to violate what we used to call "the Bill Clinton rule" --
in honor of his 1988 speech in Atlanta, in which the biggest
applause line was, "In conclusion
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The second reason may be more important. The Shallowater
Mustangs scrimmage at four o'clock -- and I know better than to
go head-to-head against the Mustangs./
I love coming back to the High Plains of West Texas. I got
my start not far from here in Midland -- not far, that is, by
West Texas standards. I joined a business, and later started
one. I learned the joy and treatment tha Comes with meeting a
payroll. I learned first-hand -- in the private sector -- the
things that helped me form the philosophy I brought to
government. I know this from the core of my own experience: A
given the chance of a level playing field, and a government that
I don't believe that a bad experience to be President.
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doesn't smother every innovation, Americans сай outperform and
out compete any people on earth.
I came to Texas right after the war. And I think back today
to all that has happened since then. It was 47 years ago today -
- on this very day -- that Japan tendered its surrender aboard
the U.S.S. Missouri to end World War II. And less than 30 years
ago -- exactly 29 years ago this week, the hot line was
established between the White House and the Kremlin, to cut
through the nuclear tension.
In less than a half-century, we have seen the rebuilding of
Europe and Japan, the onset of the Cold War, and its happy
conclusion: Freedom finished first. /
Today, when I talk to Russian President Yeltsin, it's about
how much American grain we can provide to Russian consumers -- or
about how we can turn Russian weapons grade material into fuel
for the peaceful generation of electric power here in America.
Those events are connected, because they trace the path to
the crossroads we face today. Now, we face a unique opportunity:
a world at peace, an unparalleled reign of freedom around the
globe, an unprecedented opportunity for growth.
Today, the American people are universally respected as the
most generous and energetic on earth. American products --
whether it's Levis spun from Texas cotton or wheat from the
rolling hills of South Dakota -- are desired everywhere. And
most importantly, American ideals are openly embraced and
emulated around the world as never before.
3
The challenge before us is to seize this moment. Our
challenge now is to win the economic competition -- to win the
peace.
Out here in Texas, you know this: we must be an military
superpower, an economic superpower, and an export superpower.
I've come here today to talk to you about my agenda for
achieving these things. In a few short weeks, you will be asked
to choose between two completely different visions for how to win
this global economic competition.
One vision is to turn inward, to try to protect what we
have, to put up walls around America.
Mine is to look forward -- to open new markets to American
exports, to prepare our workforce to compete through better
education and training, to keep our social fabric strong, and,
both as a government and a society, to save and invest in those
things that will help us win -- from new technologies to new
methods that will help us produce more.
Let me give you some examples.
With the world changing as quickly as it is, agriculture
will need to keep pace -- to develop new techniques for fighting
pests and disease, for understanding human nutrition, for
protecting the environment. So we've launched a major program of
research -- endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences -- to
make sure that American agriculture maintains its lead in
producing the safest, most abundant supply of food and fiber that
the world has ever seen. That's the trend of the future.
4
A related example: we've expanded the Federal investment in
biotechnology. Biotechnology holds promise in so many areas:
from curing human disease, to improving agricultural yields, to
stopping pests without pesticides.
Right here in Texas, a new kind of cotton -- called
"B. T. Cotton" -- looks and feels like regular cotton but protects
itself from bugs by producing its own insecticides.
The point is this: these advances don't just happen. They
are the result of the choices we make today. This year, Congress
has cut our research initiative -- in order to dip into the pork
barrel. And, believe it or not, Congress cut my proposed
investment in biotechnology.
I'm sure those Congressmen didn't cut these investments in
the future to defend disease or help boll weevils -- but they did
use the money to feather the nests of those who go along with the
old system. In this case, part of the money taken from
biotechnology went to build a dock on a lake in the home district
of the subcommittee chairman in charge of the funding.
That's what I mean when I say you face a choice -- between
the architects of the future and the patrons of the past.
This much is clear. It's time for a new Congress. It's
time to clean the House./
Perhaps the best example of our forward-looking approach is
the work we've done to open new markets for American agriculture.
In the last four years, we have signed 11 bilateral agreements
5
with 10 countries to open up new markets for American
agricultural exports.
Increased beef exports to Korea and Austria. Corn and
sorghum to Europe. And the North American Free Trade Agreement,
which I signed last month, will boost the 3 billion dollars worth
of agricultural exports we now send to Mexico.
Overall, since 1988, American exports are up 28 percent --
even after adjusting for inflation. Exports to Mexico: up 62
percent; to Japan: up 28 percent; to Europe; up 35 percent; to
the Pacific Rim: up 31%.
You won't read this in the national media -- they only
report the bad news -- and you won't hear this from our opponents
-- they only want you to believe the bad news -- but the facts
reveal that we can compete, and we can win.
Those of you who make your living in agriculture know better
than most Americans the damage that would be done by the wrecking
ball of protectionism. One in every three acres planted in this
country produces crops for export. U.S. agricultural exports
support over a million jobs. And just since 1989, agricultural
exports have reduced our trade deficit by over $68 billion.
Make no mistake: if the other side puts up walls around
America -- whether they are high tariff walls or high tax walls -
- the first loser will be the American farmer.
But farmers won't be the only losers. Auto workers,
software writers, machine makers: from Missouri to Michigan,
from Kentucky to the Carolinas, jobs will be put at risk. Why?
6
Because in a world where everything from financial flows to faxes
moves faster than ever before -- the high tax policies of the
other side will prevent foreign capital from seeking out and
teaming up with the most productive workers it can find anywhere
on earth: American workers.
Let me drive the point home. You know that Texas is
America's number one exporter of cotton. But did you know that
in 14 of America's 17 major farm products, Texas ranks among the
top ten exporters. If Governor Clinton gets infected with that
anti-trade strain from the protectionist crowd he's been hanging
around with -- it will be Texas that catches a cold.
Remember this. Where does the money for my opponent's
campaign come from? From the opponents of free trade.
Where does Governor Clinton stand on this historic trade
agreement with Mexico? He won't say. But saying nothing says it
all. He may know in his heart that it's the right thing to do,
but the special interests won't let him embrace it.
He's stuck riding the fence so hard he's got saddle sores.
But that kind of doublespeak means one thing: double
trouble. Today, over 7 1/2 million American jobs are tied to
merchandise exports. We can create millions of new jobs with a
free trade agreement. And we can't afford a President who will
put these jobs at risk.
Our goal is to create a more open trading regime around the
world that increases economic growth for our customers -- and for
ourselves.
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That is why I have fought so hard to reach a new agreement
under the GATT -- the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The GATT will knock down the barriers we face in everything from
financial services to farm products. And it will do something
else: it will force our competitors, especially those in the
European Community, to reduce their excessive export subsidies in
agriculture. We want free trade -- but we want fair trade.
But even as we work for an agreement, we must be prepared to
defend the interests of the American farmer. Two years ago, I
worked with Congress to include in law a pair of "GATT triggers."
The date of the first trigger has now passed, and we still have
not reached agreement.
As a result, we are prepared to increase programs to promote
agricultural exports by one billion dollars. The law requires
that we do this in 1994 and 1995. But today, I would like to
announce that we will speed up that deadline and increase these
programs beginning now.
Today I am announcing a series of initiatives under our
Export Enhancement Program -- known as "EEP" -- to sell over 1
billion bushels of U.S. wheat to 28 countries and regions around
the world. This is the largest quantity of wheat ever made
available under the EEP at one time.
Today's announcement should leave no doubt: we will not
engage in unilateral disarmament when it comes to fighting for
our market share. There is no question that, in a world of open
trade, the U.S. would be the premier supplier of wheat to world
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markets. We are committed to reducing subsidies worldwide. But
in the interim, with heavy EC subsidies continuing, the EEP is
vital -- and we will use it as necessary.
In fact, since 1989, we have quadrupled the number of EEP
initiatives. We have tripled the volume of EEP bonuses. This
has enabled us to remain a key player in vitally important
markets around the world.
Today's EEP initiatives will give farmers, exporters, and
buyers more certainty about market opportunities. We want to
help growers plan -- and we want to strengthen America's
reputation as a reliable supplier.
These initiatives will help strengthen prices, boost farm
income, and create jobs. But even so, 1992 has been a difficult
year in parts of rural America. A freeze devastated the winter
wheat crop in Kansas, the Dakotas, and the Texas panhandle.
Frost, rains and hail hit Nebraska. Flooding from the wettest
summer in memory ravaged upstate New York. Drought dragged on in
Oregon. And here in the Cotton Belt, you saw a freeze in 1991 --
followed by a wet spring that prevented many acres from being
planted to cotton at all.
For some farmers, these disasters come on the heels of
losses in 1990 or 1991 as well. Late last year, I signed a bill
to provide almost $1 billion in disaster assistance for the 1990
and 1991 crops. Today, I would like to announce the next step.
Enough losses in 1992 have occurred due to drought, floods,
storms, and hail that I am today releasing an additional $755
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million in disaster assistance funds. This assistance will
become available automatically upon my certification to the
Congress that an emergency exists. I am sending this
certification to the Congress today. American farmers need
help -- and with this action, you will get it. /
Now I know that this $755 million will not solve every
problem. We will begin signups for winter wheat right away, and
for other crops as soon as the harvest is complete. And while
this amount may not be enough to pay the full amount of every
loss, it will help keep farmers on their feet -- so that bankers
will work with you, interest on debt can be paid, next season's
crop can be planted.
You see, the philosophy of competition is not an abandonment
of governmental responsibility. Sometimes when disaster strikes,
the Federal government is uniquely equipped to help. We've seen
that this week in Florida and Louisiana, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Andrew. If additional disaster funds are needed to
address that emergency, we will secure them.
In the mean time, let me say this: it's a magnificent sight
to see the armed forces of the United States -- one of the most
skilled organizations on earth -- lend their weight to helping
people. Our men and women in uniform were called upon this week
to perform a humanitarian mission. They have performed
superbly -- and every American should be proud and grateful./
But what competition does mean is that, when appropriate,
government should get out of the way of the producers. And here
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we have a fundamentally different philosophy from our opponents.
And a different agenda. Again, you have a choice.
Take the subject of regulation. They want to take the
world's safest food supply -- and remove from it all traces of
risk, no matter what the cost. We want to advance the capacity
for improvement that made our food supply safe in the first
place. The choice is yours.
Take the subject of taxation. They say in their speeches
that "government takes too much of your money." But they want to
take more of it. $150 billion in new taxes. New taxes on small
business to pay for government health care and mandatory
training. We want to cut taxes across the board -- and reduce
the burden on small business. The choice is yours.
Take the subject of Federal spending. They want to use
those new taxes to add $220 billion in new spending. And that's
not all. Newsweek magazine pointed out this week that the
Governor failed to even put a price tag on his four biggest
programs. The real cost of Clinton's spending binge, said
Newsweek, "is arguably at least three times higher than that."
I will concede this. Governor Clinton is a clever
politician. He's managed to blur the distinctions -- to confuse
the American public on a lot of issues.
But remember: we tried this recipe of higher taxes and
higher spending before. We went down the path of foreign policy
inexperience -- of flirting with disaster by not understanding
how decisions made abroad affect lives here at home.
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And remember the results.
We had back to back years of double digit inflation. And
farmers were devastated.
We had interest rates at 20%. And farmers were devastated
We had grain embargoes, and food as a foreign policy weapon.
And farmers were devastated.
In this political year, it's easy to be fooled. The new kid
on the block shows up with the new lines. But here in West
Texas, you know all about the choice between the latest synthetic
fiber and real cotton.
You know which of the two serves well in rough weather or
calm. Which lasts through the seasons.
I don't pretend to have the stretch of spandex or the luster
of lycra. But I do know this: some ideas and values and
concepts are timeless. Freedom works. Opportunity awaits those
who dare to reach for it. Competition brings out the best in
people -- especially the American people.
If we remember these home truths, there is no telling what
we can accomplish. For America's finest hour is yet to come.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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MEMORANDUM FOR BOB GRADY
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
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many of the event specifics are still fluid. Here's what we
know: the President will speak at the Shallow Water Cotton Gin.
Founded in 1935, the company processes cotton, selling its
product domestically and internationally. Background will
probably be a charming menage of cotton bales, combines, and
coveralls.
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--Hutton's is a popular Shallow Water restaurant. It is rumored
to serve the best chicken fried steak in the whole U S of A.
--town revolves around its schools -- especially its football and
basketball teams. The boys' teams are the Mustangs. The girls'
basketball team is the Fillies. School colors are red and black.
--The DQ Saturday Night Supper Club: Old timers, families, etc.
gather round the Dairy Queen every Saturday night for a weekly
reunion. Bluegrass once a month. Real America.
--half a mile down the road from the Shallow Water Cotton Gin,
right along the motorcade route, is a Heritage Farm. Sisters
Dana (62) and Elleine (70) Woodward, two retired school teachers,
have recreated a farm and household as it would appear in the
1930's (they moved to Shallow Water in 1930). They've got a
windmill that pumps water, a smoke house, outhouses, kerosene
lamps, and native buffalo grass -- the works.
Dana tells me that about two years ago, they set up a
horse shoe pit in the back. They used to joke and tell
people they were getting the place ready for President Bush.
Well, what do you know
here he is!
--Dana Woodward says this about her town: "our people are just
good genuine people.' She talks about the community spirit,
neighbors helping neighbors. One night at the DQ Saturday Night
Supper Club, she met a woman from Little Field, a town about 25
miles away. The woman asked Dana if she could be buried in
Shallow Water when she dies. Dana asked: "Why would you want to
be buried here?" The woman replied: "Because everyone shows up
for a funeral in Shallow Water."
EP: August 21, 1992
FACTS ON U.S. EXPORT AND TRADE PERFORMANCE
Surge in Exports
Between the fourth quarter of 1988 and the second quarter of 1992, real U.S. exports
increased by 28 percent, or 7.3 percent at an annual rate.
Source: Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and
Product Accounts
Contribution of Exports to Growth
Since the fourth quarter of 1988, net exports have accounted for 60.3 percent of overall U.S.
real GDP growth.
Source: Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and
Product Accounts
Shrinking U.S. Trade Deficit
The U.S. merchandise trade deficit has fallen from $118.5 billion in 1988 to $70.9 billion at
an annual rate so far in 1992.
Source: Commerce Department, Census Bureau, U.S. Merchandise Imports and
Exports)
Soaring Surplus in Services
In addition to merchandise trade gains, the U.S. surplus in services soared from $12.7 billion
in 1988 to $56.8 billion in the first quarter of 1992.
Source: Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. International
Transactions
Vanishing U.S. Current Account Deficit
The U.S. current account deficit, the broadest measure of trade, declined from $126.7 billion
in 1988 to only $21.2 billion at an annual rate in the first quarter of 1992. (The deficit in
1991 was only $3.7 billion, but it was abnormally reduced by Desert Storm transfers).
Source: Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. International
Transactions
U.S Export Surge is Widespread
The surge in U.S. exports has been widespread geographically. Between 1988 and 1991:
-- Exports to Mexico increased from $20.6 billion to $33.3 billion, or 62 percent.
-- Exports to Japan increased from $37.7 billion to $48.1 billion, or 28 percent.
-- Exports to Western Europe increased from $87.9 billion to $118.7 billion, or 35
percent.
-- Exports to the Pacific Rim countries increased form $34.8 billion to $45.6 billion, or
31 percent.
Source: Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Merchandise Imports and Exports
Number of Jobs Supported By U.S. Exports
As of 1990, 7.2 million jobs were generated by exports, compared to 6.4 million in 1988.
(Based on 1991 trade data, about 7.7 million jobs were generated by exports -- not
Commerce estimate)
Source: A study released in April 1992 by the Department of Commerce, "U.S. Jobs
Supported by Exports".
More Manufacturing Jobs Depend on Exports
The proportion of jobs dependent on exports in the manufacturing sector increased from 15.6
percent in 1988 to 17.4 percent in 1990. In 1985 only 12.5 percent of manufacturing jobs
were export-related.
Source: A study released in April 1992 by the Department of Commerce, "U.S. Jobs
Supported by Exports".
Improved U.S. Competitiveness in Manufacturing
(Data not yet available for 1991. Comparisons are shown for 1986 to 1990 only, since most
of the U.S. improvement occurred in 1986 and 1987)
Unit labor costs in U.S. manufacturing declined by an annual rate of .1 percent from 1986 to
1990. In the other G-7 countries, unit labor costs (in $) rose at annual rates ranging from
1.9 percent (Japan) to 10.3 percent (Italy).
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, International Comparisons
of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends
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BOB PACKWOD
OREGON
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3702
July 15, 1992
The Honorable George Bush
President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to request your assistance in
ensuring that adequate Federal assistance will be
available this year for farmers in Oregon who are
suffering the effects of severe and prolonged drought.
Oregon is in the seventh year of a devastating
drought. According to the USDA Soil Conservation
Service, Oregon has never faced worse drought
conditions since record-keeping began in 1905. Our
farm and livestock producers are facing a crisis
situation as lack of rainfall causes crops to burn up
or forces livestock off the range. We are therefore
asking that appropriate relief measures begin as soon
as possible to ease the situation.
The Governor of Oregon has already asked Secretary
Madigan to declare 23 primary and adjoining Oregon
counties a disaster area. We wish to affirm the urgent
need for a disaster declaration, and to urge prompt
attention to this matter.
Second, the 1990 Farm Bill authorizes disaster
payments to producers who experience minimum crop loss
of 40 percent -- or 35 percent if the producer had an
active crop insurance policy. Congress appropriated
$775 million for this purpose in the Dire Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act (P.L. 102-229)
Therefore, we also urge that you take steps to make
sure these funds will be available if needed to farmers
who experience the requisite crop losses.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
2
Bob Cackwood
MARK O. HATFIELD
BOB PACKWOOD
U.S. Senator
U.S. Senator
Bol Smith
ROBERT F. (BOB) SMITH
Member of Congress
CC: Secretary Madigan
Glen Stonebrink, ASCS
Jack Kanalz, SCS
Don Thompson, FmHA
Kim Whitman, FEMA
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THOMAS DASCHLE
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P.O. Box 1536
SOUTH DAKOTA
ABERDEEN, SD 57401
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July 22, 1992
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The Honorable George Bush
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Several weeks ago, a bill was signed into law providing assistance for disasters that occurred in
Chicago and Los Angeles. I would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to an
important component of the legislation.
One of the bill's provisions is a Sense of the Congress resolution that requests the President to treat
urban and rural disasters consistently. Most of the funding for the urban relief programs is to be
made available pursuant to a Presidential declaration of emergency. A similar measure was passed
by Congress last fall giving the President authority to provide $755 million for agricultural
disasters from 1990-1992. While a Presidential declaration of emergency has been made for the
urban relief programs, agricultural producers who have experienced disaster conditions in the past
three years are still waiting for an announcement from the White House. The Sense of the
Congress resolution contained in the Los Angeles/Chicago supplemental appropriations bill makes
it clear that rural disasters should be addressed as well. In addition, the Agricultural
Appropriations bill recently passed by the House also urges the President to release the funding.
There can be little doubt that relief is needed by agricultural producers who have been affected by
disasters in the past three years. Chronic low prices in conjunction with repeated disasters have
left thousands of farmers at the brink of economic disaster. Census figures that show a 25 percent
decline in farm population in the last decade underscore the financial stress being faced by the
nation's farm sector. Disaster assistance is needed to help stem the outward flow of more and
more producers. If not, the exodus from farm and rural areas to urban centers will put even more
stress on our already troubled cities.
Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I hope that the White House will
concur that an agricultural emergency declaration is needed.
With best wishes, I am
Sincerely,
Tom Daschle
United States Senate
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BILL PAXON
31ST DISTRICT, NEW YORK
July 27, 1992
Mr. Nick Calio
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
The White House, East Wing
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Nick:
On July 26 and 27, I had the opportunity to visit farms in
Ontario County, N.Y., which have been badly affected by recent
heavy rainstorms.
I can tell you this is the worst storm damage we have seen
in this part of New York in many years. I have lived in this
part of New York my whole life, and worked on farms while growing
up, and this storm damage surpasses any in my experience. Bean
and cabbage fields have been turned into lakes. Unable to get
equipment into their fields to apply pesticides, or cultivate
their crops, farmers can do nothing to remove the weeds that are
now choking their fields.
Because it has been so wet, many farms have been unable to
make their first cutting of hay. In many farms, the wheat has
sprouted, so that if it is harvested it will get a much lower
price at market. For dairy farms, too, the wet weather has
caused problems in the form of an outbreak of mastitis.
The damage done to farms by all this rain is far worse than
any in my experience. The county officials with whom I met
explanied that even Hurricane Agnes in 1972 did not strike
Ontario County as hard as this last month's rain.
I am aware that the State of New York has requested
appropriate assistance for a number of counties in Western New
York and the Finger Lakes Region, including Wayne County. It is
my understanding that the contiguous counties of Ontario and
Seneca will also qualify for assistance if Wayne County is found
to qualify.
Considering what I have seen these last two days, I would
appreciate it if the administration could make a determination on
the qualification of these counties as soon as is possible. I
would also like to inform you that if rains continue as
184 suffalogredicted,
additional counties may need assistance.
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On behalf of those in my Congressional district who have
been hurt by this bad weather, I want to thank you for your
prompt attention to this matter.
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HENBY J. NOWAK
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August 10, 1992
The Honorable George Bush
President
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to request your assistance in making disaster
relief funds available for farmers in Western New York who have
had their crops severely damaged and destroyed by record rains.
Governor Cuomo recently asked the Department of Agriculture
to declare 14 counties disaster areas making the farmers there
eligible for disaster assistance loans. However, it is my
understanding that only you can release funds from the disaster
payment fund to pay farmers the value of their destroyed crops.
According to the local office of the Agricultural Stabiliza-
tion & Conservation Service the State stands to lose millions of
dollars worth of cabbage, cherries, corn, hay, onions, potatoes,
peaches, prunes and wheat. Rainfalls of three to four inches in
one day have occurred in some counties. Many farmers will be
ruined without federal assistance and I, therefore, urge you to
make every effort to make that aid available. Thank you for
your consideration to this request.
With best wishes and kindest regards,
Sincerely,
Member HENRY J of NOWAK Congress
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The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As farmers in Nebraska and across the country continue to be the
victims of this year's particularly severe weather, I'm writing to
encourage you to immediately begin the process of releasing the $755
million made available by Congress for disaster payments for the 1991-
92 growing season.
Since the record-breaking low temperatures in late May, Nebraska
farmers have experienced untimely rains, below-average temperatures,
tornados, hail, and strong winds. This climate has delayed wheat
harvest and caused severe damage to corn, soybean, sugarbeet, and other
major Nebraska crops.
State-wide production statistics for Nebraska seem to indicate an
average crop; however, these numbers do not account for many parochial
losses. Many wheat farmers throughout southwest Nebraska didn't even
get their combines out of the shed for harvest. In central and
southeastern Nebraska, corn and soybeans have been hard hit. For
example, in Dawson County, where ASCS Associate Administrator John
Stevenson joined me on a crop disaster tour, 88,500 acres out of
176,000 of corn and 13,000 acres out of 25,000 acres of soybeans have
been hit by frost and hail.
As bad weather continues to hit Nebraska and the number of
disaster-designated counties grows, and as other states experience
similar weather disasters, the response from Washington has been
inadequate. Agriculture producers are looking into their fields at
devastated crops and only hearing about urban aid packages and aid to
the former Soviet Union. Agriculture is just as deserving of our
attention and assistance, and it should be demonstrated as such with
immediate action to release the already approved and appropriated
disaster funds.
I appreciate your past cooperation and consideration, and I stand
ready to assist you in expediting the release of these funds.
Sincerely,
Lice
Bill Barrett
Member of Congress
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 12, 1992
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today marks the beginning of a new era on the North
American continent. This morning, the United States, Mexico,
and Canada are announcing the completion of negotiations for a
North American Free Trade Agreement -- NAFTA. I want to
express deep appreciation to Ambassador Carla Hills, our United
States Trade Representative, and to Secretary Serra of Mexico
and Minister Wilson of Canada for this outstanding achievement.
This historic trade agreement will further open markets in
Mexico, Canada, and the United States. It will create jobs and
generate economic growth in all three countries.
The Cold War is over. The principal challenge now facing
the United States is to compete in a rapidly changing and
expanding global marketplace. This agreement will level the
North American playing field, allowing American companies to
increase sales from Alaska to the Yucatan. By sweeping aside
barriers and expanding trade, NAFTA will make our companies
more competitive everywhere in the world. We have seen this
happen with the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement; we will see
it even more with the NAFTA.
Open markets in Mexico and Canada mean more American jobs.
Our nation is the world's leading exporter -- well ahead of
Japan and Germany. Today, over seven million Americans are
hard at work making products that will be sold around the
world. Export-related jobs pay 17 percent more than the
average U.S. wage. These jobs are the kind that our nation
needs to grow and prosper -- the kind that showcase American
talent and technology.
More than 600,000 Americans are now employed making
products and selling them to Mexico -- our fastest growing
major export market. We sold over $33 billion worth of goods
to Mexico last year, and are projected to sell $44 billion this
year. In the last five years, as President Salinas has
dismantled many longstanding Mexican trade and investment
restrictions, our exports to Mexico have nearly tripled --
that's more than one-quarter of a million new American jobs.
This agreement helps us lock in these gains and build on them.
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Last year the Congress endorsed moving forward with NAFTA
by extending the "fast track" procedures for congressional
consideration and implementation of trade agreements. The
successful completion of the NAFTA talks shows how much can be
accomplished when the Executive Branch and the Congress work
together to do what is best for our Nation. I will work
closely with Congress for rapid implementation.
At the time "fast track" was extended, I outlined steps we
would take to address environmental and labor concerns. We
have taken every promised step, and we are meeting -- or
beating -- every commitment I outlined.
This is the first time a trade agreement has included
stringent provisions to benefit the environment. The NAFTA
maintains this nation's high environmental, health, and safety
standards. In fact, it goes even further and encourages all
three countries to seek the highest possible standards.
The Environmental Protection Agency and its Mexican
counterpart have already developed a comprehensive integrated
border plan to clean up air, water, and hazardous waste along
the Rio Grande. These problems are serious, but they will be
solved by environmental cooperation, increased trade, and
higher levels of economic growth -- not protectionism.
Unfortunately, Congress has reduced funding for our border plan
in the appropriations process -- I ask Congress to fully fund
these important environmental initiatives.
With NAFTA, we are moving forward with our trade strategy.
Trade is part of my long-term economic growth plan to create
more opportunities for all Americans. In a changing world, we
must give our workers the education and skills they need to
compete, and assistance and training to find good jobs.
I've said many times: level the playing field and the
American worker can out-think, out-produce, and out-work
anyone, anytime.
Today's historic agreement links our future with our past.
Five centuries ago this very month, a man of courage and vision
set sail from the Old World in search of new trade routes and
opportunities. Christopher Columbus was an entrepreneur -- and
the journey he started 500 years ago continues to pay off
abundantly today. By moving forward with the North American
Free Trade Agreement, we will replenish that investment,
opening up new horizons of opportunity and enterprise in the
New World.
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Since the Bush Administration took office, the United States has
entered into 11 agreements with 10 countries to expand
opportunities for U.S. agricultural exports. Specifics include:
Negotiated extensions in 1990 and in 1991 of the agreement
with the European Community which permits 2.3 million tons
of corn and sorghum, valued at $400 million annually, to
enter the Community at a reduced duty.
Negotiated a beef agreement with Korea in 1990 that has
resulted in an additional 49,000 tons of U.S. beef exports
valued at $215 million.
In 1989, an agreement with the European Community which
limited subsidies on canned fruit exports to the United
States, an end to Sweden's seasonal ban on apple imports.
In 1990, negotiated an agreement with Japan on to expand
access for U.S. exports of wood products, an end to
Finland's seasonal import bans on apples, expanded access
for hatching eggs and chicks into Canada.
In 1991, obtained the EC's acceptance for certain U.S.
winemaking practices that otherwise could have excluded
certain U.S. wine exports (which totaled nearly $40 million
in 1990), a bilateral agreement with Thailand which provides
non discriminatory access to the Thai cigarette market,
valued at $160 million annually.
In 1992, completed beef agreement with Austria which permits
an additional 600 tons annually valued at $2.6 million.
Other accomplishments which benefit agriculture include:
Sold 12 commodities (grains, livestock and livestock
products, barley malt, wheat flour and vegetable oils)
worth $9 billion to a combined total of 91 countries
under the Export Enhancement Program (EEP). The EEP
makes U.S. product competitive with subsidized product
from other suppliers in third country markets.
Challenged and won a GATT case against EC oilseed policies.
In the process of negotiating a settlement which provides
improved access opportunities for U.S. oilseed producers.
Completed negotiation of a "Draft Final Agreement" on
agriculture in the Uruguay Round negotiations. If accepted
by all members of the GATT, the Agreement would cut export
subsidies on agricultural products by 24 percent, on a
volume basis, over six years and provide improved market
access opportunities for our agricultural exports, such as
fruits and vegetables to Asian markets and rice to Japan.
Completed negotiation of a North American Free Trade
AUG 31 '92 19:25
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Agreement (NAFTA) which will assure that growth in our $3
billion in U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico will
continue.
Negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the European
Community designed to restore duty free treatment of dorn
gluten feed valued at $600 million annually into the
European Community.
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001/002
LEADING FARM EXPORT STATES FY-91
(In s Millions)
FARM PRODUCT
No.
No. 2
No
No. &
No. 3
No. 6
No.7
No. 5
No
N. 10
U.S. 5 TOTAL
Feed Grains & Prod.
Iowa
III.
Neb
Minn.
Ind
Ken.
Ohio
Wis.
Tax
S.D.
U.S.: $6905 Mil.
1270
1091
802
647
571
378
340
290
271
222
Seybeans & Frod.
III
Iown
Vian
Ind.
Ohio
Mo.
Ark.
Neb.
SD.
Kan.
U.S.: $4651 Mil.
857
792
433
414
328
301
218
197
130
113
Live Animals & Meat
Neb
Kan.
Texas
Iowa
Ky.
Colo.
III.
Callf.
Minn.
Wis.
U.S.: $3320 MII.
482
476
425
279
267
170
133
116
13
94
Wheat & Prod.
N.D
Kan.
Wash
Okla.
Ideho
Minn.
Mont
S.D.
Threes
Ore.
U.S.: $3129 Mil.
472
432
299
183
181
159
149
134
121
118
Cotton & Linters
Texas
Calif.
Miss
La.
Ark
Arte,
Tenn
2.
OKIR
Ala.
U.S. $2619 MII.
853
472
313
199
183
170
84
68
65
63
Vegetables & Prep.
Callf
Wash.
Wis
Mich.
Minni
Ore.
Idaho
Fla.
Colo.
N.Y.
U.S.: $2597 MII.
1327
181
124
113
101
100
89
89
63
54
Fruits & Prep.
Callf
Fla.
Wash
Ore,
Ariz
Mich.
N.Y.
Haw.
Pa
Tex.
U.S.: $2424 MII.
1182
520
291
100
62
61
57
35
25
20
Tobacco
N.C.
Ky.
Va
S.C.
Ga
Tenn.
Coun
Fla.
Mass
Ohio
U.S.: $1533 Mil.
639
338
LL
110
105
90
52
20
16
15
Hides & Skins
Kan
Neb.
Texas
Colo,
Iowa
Callf.
WIS
TII
Minn
Pa.
U.S.: $1453 Mil.
2881
261
234
91
82
54
52
50
45
44
Feeds & Fodders
Neb
Iowa
Kan
Texas
Minn
Fla.
THE
Ind.
WE
Colo.
U.S.: $1066 MII.
132
106
52
91
75
74
73
37
36
34
Poultry & Prod.
ArL
Ga.
Ala
N.C.
Callf
Miss.
Texas
Pa.
Del
Md.
U.S.: $1004 Mil.
140
126
115
104
72
S6
55
36
34
32
Tree Nuts
Callf
Haw
Ga
Texas
Ore
N.Mex.
Ln.
Ala
Okla
Fla.
U.S.: $ 820 Mil.
740
18
15
13
11
8
1
1
1
1
Rice
Ark
La.
Texas
Calif.
Miss
Mo.
-
U.S.: $ 749 Mil.
319
119
18
93
80
21
Seeds
Callf
Ore.
Wash
Idaho
Neb
Iowa
Kan
Texas
N.D
III.
U.S.: $ 618 MII.
147
83
49
46
29
24
22
21
$1
18
Animal Fats
Ksn
Neb.
Texas
Colo.
Iowa
Callf.
Wis
III.
Minn
Pa.
U.S. $ 419 MII.
80
77
69
27
24
16
16
15
14
13
Dairy Products
Wis
Callf.
Minn
Pa.
NY
Wash.
lown
Ohio
Texas
Mo.
U.S.: $ 203 MIL
72
44
31
16
16
11
10
9
8
7
Peanuts & Prod.
Ga
Texas
N.C
Ala.
Va.
Okla.
Fle
N.Mex.
S.C
-
U.S.: $ 1840 MIL
69
28
24
20
16
12
25
3
TOTAL
Calif
Iowa
TIII
Texas
Neb
Kan.
Mino.
Ind.
Wash
Ohio
U.S.: $37609 Mil.
4620
2805
2578
2545
2357
2007
1795
1295
1051
1017
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STATES WITH THE MOST PRODUCTS IN THE TOP 10
Texas 14
III.
7
Ga,
5
Ark
4
Ind.
3
N.Y.
3
Mick. 2
Va.
2
Callf. 11
Nob.
7
Ora
$
Ga.
4
La.
3
S.D.
S
N.D.
2
Conn. 1
Mine, 9
Wis.
7
Pa.
5
Obio
4
Miss.
3
Arts
2
N.Mar. 2
Del.
1
Iowa
8
Fla.
6
Wash, 5
Okla. 4
Mo.
3
Haw.
2
S.C.
2
Md.
1
Kan.
8
Colo. 5
Ala.
4
Idaho 3
N.C.
3
Ky.
2
Tenn. 2
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TEXAS ranked among the top 10 States for 14 of the 17 major export commodities,
surpassing California, which made it into the top 10 rankings for 11 commodities.
Minnesota followed, breaking into the top 10 for 9 commodities, as Iowa and Kansas made
the top 10 rankings for 8 commodities.
ILLINOIS, WITH 7 appearances among the top 10, still topped Texas and took the No. 3
spot in total export revenues by selling $2.58 billion, compared with $2.55 billion for No. 4
Texas. The remaining 6 States among the top 10 in export revenue are Nebraska, Kansas,
Minnesota, Indiana, Washington, and Ohio. The data assume that each State shared in
export values in the same proportion as its share of the Nation's production for each
commodity.
SHOWING THE DIVERSITY of American agriculture, 41 States made it into the top 10
exporters of one or more of the 17 major farm export commodities in FY-91. California had
the biggest lead over the No. 2 State in exports of vegetables, fruits, and tree nuts.
California exported more than half of the Nation's exports of "Vegetables and Preparations."
HIGH-VALUE FARM EXPORTS-such as meats, fruits, vegetables, and tobacco-reached
a record $20.4 billion in FY-91. This was $1.5 billion higher than in FY-90. High value
farm products made up more than half of the value of FY-91 farm exports, with bulk
commodities, such as grains and cotton, making up the remainder of the $37.6 billion.
FARM EXPORT VALUE forecasts for FY-92 were raised to $41.5 billion this week, $4
billion higher than in FY-91. Biggest gainers will be oilseeds, wheat, horticultural, and
animal products.
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Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
APRIL 14, 1992
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7446
PERRY UNVEILS "NATURALLY TEXAS,"
BOLD INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE TEXAS NATURAL FIBERS INDUSTRY
LITTLEFIELD - Promoting the state's textile manufacturing and natural fibers
industries, Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today unveiled "Naturally
TEXAS" a comprehensive marketing campaign designed to increase consumer
awareness and demand for items made from cotton, wool, mohair and leather.
"Our goal is to help farmers and ranchers as well as manufacturers,
merchandisers and retailers promote textile and leather products made from Texas-
grown natural fibers or that are assembled within our state's borders," Perry said in a
news conference at the Plains Cotton Cooperative's denim mill.
"Naturally TEXAS is aimed at spreading the Texas mystique throughout the
world and will capitalize on our state's prominence in the production of natural
fibers," Perry said.
"Texas is the 'World Capital of Natural Fiber' as America's top producer of
cotton, wool, mohair and hides."
During 1991, Texas produced 4.75 million bales of cotton, 16.7 million pounds
of wool and 14.8 million pounds of mohair. The state also produces nearly six
million cattle hides for leather production each year.
Naturally TEXAS is a far-reaching, aggressive campaign - featuring the use of
hang tags or special labels that Perry said "will let the rest of the planet in on what
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we already know: Texas produces the highest quality natural fibers in the world."
Through the "Naturally TEXAS" campaign, the Texas Department of
Agriculture plans to:
Stage fashion shows and other special events featuring "Naturally TEXAS"
products.
Encourage foreign buyers, through participation in both foreign and
domestic trade/fashion shows, to purchase "Naturally TEXAS" products.
Develop promotional materials for display where "Naturally TEXAS"
products are sold.
Develop a directory of "Naturally TEXAS" product manufacturers,
distributors, wholesalers and retailers.
"The High Plains is the cotton capital of Texas, and no where else on earth
will you find the cotton production that you have right here," Perry said.
"Naturally TEXAS will spark economic activity and make sure that High Plains'
producers benefit from this region's most valuable asset."
Perry recognized American Cotton Growers and Plains Cotton Cooperative as
being leaders in value-added processing. "In 1973, a group of cotton farmers
established this mill which has been using Texas cotton to 'make it Texas' ever
since," Perry said.
"Each year, this facility produces about 28 million yards of denim - enough to
stretch from New York to Los Angeles and back two and one-half times," Perry said.
"This mill is Levi Strauss's top and best supplier, and worldwide, people have been
wearing comfortable denim jeans made from High Plains cotton.
"If it's from Texas, it's naturally a must-have product," Perry said.
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BOB- -
Plant constructed in 1975
This is
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-one of largest most modern of its kind in
the Littlefield
the world - covers 1Dacres under one roof
Denim
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Plains area
employs 500 people from a 5- county 5.
mill.
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-Rossarver
yards of denim each year
American Cotton Growers (ACG), a cotton
pool-marketing, and denim manufacturing farmer-
owned cooperative, was organized iñ April, 1973 to
improve the cooperative cotton ginning. processing,
storage, handling and marketing systems for West
Texas cetten producers. We are proud to say ACG
met its original objective and exceeded even the most
optimistic expectations of its organizers.
ACG sold this denim mill in 1987 to Plains
Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA), a cotton
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marketing cooperative established in 1953 and
currently serving 25,000 cotton producers in Texas
and Oklahoma. This transaction pumped more than
$100 million into the West Texas economy at A time
when capital for many farming operations was badly
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needed. More importantly, PCCA's purchase of this
(Laft)
mill ensures continued operation and cooperative
C.L. Boggs
ownership of this region's valuable asset. With
President,
corporate headquarters in Lubbock, Texas, PCCA
Chief Executive Officer
continues to search for innovative ideas to better
serve its members by increasing profitability and
(Right)
returning greater dividends.
Autry Moore
Vice President,
Manufacturing
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Two cotton trucks haul 90,000 bales of West Texas
cotion annually. This cotton will be processed into
approximately 28 million yards of 60-inch denim.
Unil is is scheduled to be processed, cotton is stored
in a 1,500-bale capacity warehouse.
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R.S.THPPSCOMPANY
Shallowater: official opening June 36, 1913
June 26 and at Littlefield, Texas on July 4. In both cases Lubbock's band
was part of a grand celebration: fortunately, many of the details have
been preserved.
As the Santa Fe connection from Lubbock through Shallowater to
Texico (and on to the West Coast) neared completion, the former Ripley
Townsite, with the new name of Shallowater, prepared to take its place on
the map. A huge celebration was planned and announced by a notice. no
doubt appearing in many newspapers, inviting all 10 come (Figure 12). 12
Arranged for this special occasion was a train from Lubbock, the
first ever to Shallowater, that part of the line from Lubbock to Texico re-
cently completed. The program for the day. with its attention to detail
and its wide variety of excellent events, would guarantee that a good
time was had by all:
[1.] After the crowd had assembled under the arbor, which had
been built especially for the occasion. all were entertained by a few
choice selections from the band.
[2.] About 11:00 A.M. the people were ushered into the school
house. where they listened to the literary program. First came a hearty
welcome to all from Bro. Word followed by response from Judge McGee
of Lubbock. Then Shallowater's boys and girls displayed their talents,
and they do indeed deserve praise. The program though brief was well
rendered.
[3.] While the band boys were playing some appropriate selections,
the good ladies of Shallowater were spreading the dinner and after
everything was in readiness and dinner announced, all, with quickened
step and smiling faces, assembled at the tables and the spread was one
of the finest that it has ever been my pleasure to enjoy. Barbecued meats,
bread, pickles, choice cakes, pies, salads and coffee constituted this de-
licious report [repest?].
[4.] At 2:30 P.M. the band began to play: the crowd soon re-assem-
bled and were [next] entertained by the singers of Shallowater, Lubbock
and other places.
[5.] Some time was spent in the sale of lots and several choice busi-
ness lots were sold.
[6.] Bronco riding and tournament racing were the entertaining fea-
tures for the remainder of the day The band furnished music during
[the] games.
[7.] At 5:30 P.M. another spread was made and lunch served to all
who desired to partake
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As impressive as the celebration at Shallowater was, the one at Lit-
tlefield matched if not exceeded it. Events were set in motion on June 7,
1912, when Major George Washington Littlefield signed a contract with
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grapovines on patio, this winery 15 one of Texas' largest. Tasting
Also in park is segment of Yellow House Canyon, site of last
room and gift shop open Mon. Sat. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m, Sun.
fight in Lubbock County between buffalo hunters and Indians in
noon 4 p.m. Tours available. Take U.S 87 south to Γ.M. 1585,
1877 Yellow House Canyon was known 10 Spanish explorers 35
then 3.2 miles cost. 806/746-2268.
early as 17th Century. Within city off I-27:
Lubbock County Museum - Outdoor exhibit of vintage farm
Museum of Texas Tech - - Exhibits cover the broad range of arts,
equipment used during the past century in this area. Open daily
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences with emphasis on
during dayiight hours; 9 miles northwest of Lubbock off U.S. 84
study of arid and semiarid lands, their environments and the
(exit F.M. 1294 at Shelloweter).
outtures that inhabit them. Open Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Lubbock Fine Arts Center - Changing exhibits of contemporary
(Thurs. 8:30 p.m.): Sun. 1 - 4:30 p.m. Moody Planetanum in
art. Open Mon. - Fri, 9 a.m. 5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. 4 p.m., at
museum offers programs Mon. - Fri. at 2:30 p.m.; Sat., Sun. at
2600 Avenue P.
2 & 3:30 p.m. Fee for planetarium. 4th St. & Indiana AVC.
Lubbock Lake Landmark -- National historic landmark yielded
Renching Heritage Center - Story of Panhandle/renching told in
entacts and tools of early Clovis and Folsom man. spanning some
30 authentic structures moved to this 12-acre site: bunkhouses,
12,000 years. Excavations also uncovered remains of a mam-
barns, dugouts, windmills, school and ranch homes from 19th
mouth extinct horse camel. bison and a 6-ft. long armadillo. Site IS
and 20th Centuries, excellently restored and furnished. JUST east
undergoing expansion. Tours evailable during summer on Satur-
of Museum of Texas Tech (above). same hours. Nearby. 1875
days 2 a.m. - noon. At North Indiana and Loop 289.
Goodman Cotton Gin may also be visited.
Mackenzie State Park " Day-use park operated by city attracts
Walk of Fame - Honors Lubbock and West Texas natives who
more visitors than any other state park in Texas, Fraine Dog Town
have made significant contributions in entertainment industry.
in park is one of lew remaining colonies of its type in nation.
Plaques include Mac Davis, Waylon Jennings, Jimmy Dean, four
Visitors enjay close-up views of the frisky tittle animals that once
members of the Crickets. others: life-size bronze statute of
inhabited the plains by the millions. Swimming, picnicking, goll.
Lubbock's favorite son, Buddy Holly. 8th St. and Ave. Q.
and children's amusement park.
PLAINS HISTORY IS PRESERVED AT LUBBOCK'S
RANCHING HERITAGE CENTER
PLAYFUL PRAIRIÉ DOGS AT MACKENZIE STATE PARK, LUBBOCK
PIDNEER SOTOL HOUSE, RANCHING HERITAGE CENTER IN LUSBOCK
LUCKENBACH
Pop. 25
Alt. 1,561
Map K-15
General - Settled in 1850 by Germen
pioneers, the tiny hamlet remained obscure until
bought in the 1970s by the late Hondo Crouch,
pixicish Hill Country humorist, writer, and
authentic Texas character. An enomously
popular country-western song made the name
known virtually worldwide.
Luckenbach remains 03 it was - one unpointed general store
that also serves as 8 beer tavern, a traditional rural dance hall, and
a sometimes-used blacksmith shop. Sunday afternoons are
usually spontaneous "happenings," Banjo pickers, guitar strum-
mers, and fiddiers form impromptu groups beneath huge old live
baks. Whittlers ply their leisurely craft, and washer pichers exer-
cise deceptively simple skills.
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um - Indian and cowboy museum
dergoing expansion. Lours available De
9 a.m. - noon. AI North Indiana al.
theads and other ertifacts. including
ckenzie State Park - Day-use park (
lowboy Collection and exhibits from
insure Spanish collection com-
are visitors than any other state park in 1
on the horse in Texas Gift shop.
park IS one 01 few remaining colone
riety of exhibits which will show the
sitors enjoy close-up views of the trisky
Shabited the plains by the millions Swin
8 during hs first 100 years of
Three miles south of Lockhart on
no children's amusement park.
ENTER
for
AIL 339
Map E-22
LUBBOCK
PLAYFUL PRAIRIE DOGS AT MACKENZIE STAT
Pop. 178,528
! of Gregg County, settled early
Alt. 3,241
Map B.g
evelopment by planters from the
PIONEER SOTOL HOUSE, RANCHING HERITAG
1850. Named in 1870 by Sur-
& Pocific Railroad impressed by
City of the South Plains. Established 1891 major
General - Seat of Lubbock County and
W from village. Discovery of Oil
compromise between rival town builders. Slow as
e than tripled Dopulation of
strial center claiming over 200
drouths. sandstorms, tumbleweeds, and occasional
early growth; settlers complained of prairie fires.
ficulture area; is loading end of
pipeline. Home of LeTourneau
Texas ing, Tech and culture. She 01 Lubbock Christian warehous- College.
Today medicine o city of industry, technology. oil, agriculture.
pric and historic Caddo Indian
one and pottery; 18th Century
Neighborhood the parks dot residential sections, and AFB.
Univ. and School of Medicine, and Reese
a.m. - 6 p.m., 701 Hardy St.
Texas: within six city draws more visitors than any other a state park
- Exhibits on local East Texas
amusement golf courses, symphony orchestra, little theater, state rodeos. park in
ons and military collections.
Lubbock park with Western train and other
er's office, perfor, kitchen and
Al. 10 am - 4 p.m. Housed
are boister more city's claim as Chrysenthernum Capital chrysanthemums of the World. to
residents are encouraged to plant attractions.
building. 214 N. Fredonia.
40,000 than 40,000 plants on Texas Tech campus, plus at There least
ter, Lake 0 the Pines. See
Major annual event is Panhandle-South Plains Fair,
more in city parks. Peak season is tate Oct.
visitors Sept., one or largest regional fairs in state. Draws dast week in
If - Permanent collection of
tional fair to exhibits. pageents, contests, and entertainment as quarter-million well as tradi-
in artists, changing exhibits.
R. 10a.m. - 4 p.m. 102 W.
Lake Highway - connecting the state's heartland to coastal ports. to
Lubbock lies on U.S. 84. a segment of the Ports Plains
Liano Estacado Winery - Born OUT or experiment with
Buffaio Springs. See LAKES listing.
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TEXAS ALMANAC 1990-1991
COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS
nogs, poats raised, crops Include geanuts, Data. hay.
Hispanic 4.92, other 0.00).
15.11, Other 0.00); Females, N (Whise 37.70. Block 0.00,
use
E
697
Business: Tourism; rench trading center; granits
Apriculture: Some cettle: no crops.
mined.
COUNTY
Business: Petroleum operations; some cettle.
LINE
center; only town.
MENTONE (50 est.) county seat; off-field supply
CEO
179
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VALLEY
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DEAL
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St. Dist. Cit
72, 99,
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CASTELL
History: Named for Col. Tom $. Lubbock, on brown
3
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nizer of Confederate Terry's Rangers: county created,
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any
PEAR
1876, from Bexer District: organized, 1891.
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AMERICAN
Physical Features: Level plains, broken by 1,500
(IE)
I
playes, Yellow House River: rich solls with under.
1774
to
PUTUAL
ground water.
ares
HURL-
Art.
PAINT
-
SECTT
Recreation: Lubback Lake archaeclogical site DAY
U
WOOD
ADTUBBOCK
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PROMITE
park: take activities. Texas Tech events; Lubbock Civic
Center. The Museum of Texas Tech. and Mondy Plane
(2)
(Sex
20
terium; Mackenzie State Park Ranching Herhage can.
97
(11)
ERCHANIER -
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for, Panhandle-South Plains Fair: Lubbock AMs
179
1653
MM
STATE PM
Festival in April; Buttals Springs Lake.
LLAND (4,147) county seat: tourist, bunting center;
Minerals OIL ONL stone, sand and gravel.
THE
KOODROW
livestock trading; some manufacturing hospital: mu-
Population
225,955 Buying Power $2,395,147
1.
seum, historic 1811; Dolf cours other TOWNS. Kingsland
Area (sq.mi.)
900 Retail Spies $1,881,651,054
BLIDE
OF
(2,616) fourism, retirement community: metal fab.
Density
251
Gross Sales
$4,387,219,462
ricetion; wood WORK: library; 10081 events; Sunrise beach
Althode (VT.)
3.015-3.402
Crime Role
the
the
(52%).
9,407.06
14th
Rainfall (In.)
18.41
Drug Crime Rate
252.24
NA
Jon. min.
25 Crim. Supervision
5,940
REESE AM FORCE BASE
Loving County
JURY max
92 Court Backing
7,228
LUDBOCK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Growing season
200 Registered vosers
107,212
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
LOCATION: New Mexico line (J-6).
Total income (mll.) $2,769
Election Turnout
0.468
MACKENZIE STATE PARK
Cong Dist.
16 U.S. Jud. Dist.
W-Pe.
per capital income. $12316
venicles
181,196
x BUPFALO LAKE
$1. Sen. Dist.
25 CI. Appeals
Total Wages $1,629,328,080
Highway Lens Miles 1,640
St. Ref. Dist.
69 Admin Jud. Dist
Ave. weekly wage $337.71
Tax VRIUE
33,707,582.253
St. Dist. Cts
143
Total Employees
Fed. Spending $$56,513,000
carpment. playes and draws: sandy loam, black, pray
cm
91,229
History: Last county organized: crested 1887 from
Unemployment Kare
5.45
Poverty Rate
salls
(3.60); H
18.7
Welfare
Recreation: Local events; ploneer museum in Taho-
SEX:
Tam Green: organized 1931; named for Oliver Loving.
$15,612.869
ka Dan Blocker museum in 0 Donnell
21.94 o
trail driver. Loving is Texas' least populous county.
Vital STATISTICS, 1987: Births, 3,873; Deaths, 1,479;
Minerals: DII, gas, STORE.
Marriages. 2369: Divorces. 1,507.
1.74, HIS
Physical Features: Rolling prairies drain to PROPE
population
7,010
Buying Power
$48,475
Ethnicity, 1981; White, 154,672 (68.50%); Black, 17,980
Agri
River; Red Bluff Reservoir; sandy, loam, clay solls,
area (sg.ml.
888
Refall Sales
$18,070,930
Recreations N.A.
(8.00); Hispanic, 50, 105 (22.20): Other, 3,198 (1.40).
wheat
Density
Gross Sples
$45,760,403
raised;
Minerals: Production of oil, pas,
Sex: Moles, 111,854 (White 33.73% Black 3.89, His.
Allitude (ff.)
2,881-3,274
crime Rate
2,095.06
Fopulation
panic 11.14, Other 0.75); Females, 114,101 (While 34.72
Reinfall (In
17.88
Drug Crime Rate
0.00
Bus:
61 Buying Power
$2,378
Black 4.07, Hispanic 11.04, Other 0.66).
Jan. min.
27
Crim. Supervision
21
TAI
Area (sa.ml.)
671 Retail Sales
$14,281
321
cotton '
Apriculture: $100 million average yearly income
July max
94 Court Backlog
Density
0
Gross Sales
$1,281,851
26853.311
about 75 percent from crops, including cotion, sorg.
Growing Season
217 Repistered Voters
4,030
Ing hen
Attitude (11.)
Crime Rate
8,353.33
hums wheat. corn sunflowers: 225.000 acres irribated,
Total Income (mll.)
$79 Election Turnout
0.587
partly "
Raintall (In.)
10.31
Drug Crime Rate
0.00
mostly cotton; feeding cattle, poultry, hogs.
Per Capite intome $10,396
Vehicles
4,204
Jan. min.
29 Crim. Supervision
1
3
Business: World's largest collensesd processing
Total Wages
$19,525,996
Highway Lane Miles
708
July max
96 Court Backlop
Ave. Weekly Wage
$294.65
Tax Value
3321.967.545
Growing Season
center; Texas' leading agribusiness center: headquer.
227
Registered Veters
103
Total Employees
1,259
Fed. Spending
$45,079,000
Total Income (mil.)
$2
Election Turnout
0.713
for for large cotton cooperative; cattle feedlots: man-
Unemployment Rate
3.50
Poverty Rate
43.4
utacturing.
Per Capita income $43,558
Vehicles
280
Welfare
$1,819,757
LOC
Total Wages
$476,484
Highway Lane Miles
67
LUBROCK (187,842) county tabl; center for large
Vital Statistics. 1987: Births, 108; Deaths, B7; Mar-
(K-13)
AVE, Weekly Wage
$393.76
Tax Value
$234,839,449
apricultural area: major electronics company's con-
riagei, 54; Divorces, 37.
Cong. C
Total Employees
24
Fed, Spending
$262,000
sumer products handquarters for making. servicing
St. Sen.
Unamployment Rafe
7.90
Poverty Rate
0.0
calculators; other large plants process oliseeds, make
St. Rep.
Welfare
$2,127
earth-moving equipment, mobile homes, food ton-
51. Dist.
Vital Statistics. 1987: Births. 2: Deaths, D; Marriages,
tainers fire-protection equipment, clothing, other
ATI
ate)
products: distribution conler for South Plaint; large
HBB
Hist
AND
5, Divorces, 0.
NEW
nized, 3
Ethnicity, 1927: While. so (82.00%): Black. 0 (0.00):
cattie feediots: medical center, psychietric hospital:
HOME
11.
loch.
museum; Taxse Tech University, with law and medical
Hispanic, 11 (18.00); Other, 0 (0.00),
WILSON
Phy
schools: Lobbock Christian College, South Plains College,
Sex: Males, 26 (White 44.2486, Black 0.00, Hispanic
Wayland Raptist University off-campus center; Duess
a.)
IN
123
redo, F
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MEXICO
Air Force Base, numerous hospitels, nursing homes;
320
210
12212
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loams t.
PETTY
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state school for mentally retarded.
LAST
=
Other towns Include Abarnathy (2,800, mostly in Hale
ties;
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County): DuMaic Spring: Lake (NA); Idalou (2,424), New
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FLAMER
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Deal (717); Rensom Canyon (602): Shallowater (2.195);
LARES
Min
011
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Staten (7,104) and Welfforth (2,000).
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(Mc)
Popular
See Lubback County Map on Next Page.
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31161
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NATURALLY
TEXAS
TEXAS IS THE CAPITAL OF NATURAL.
Naturally, it makes good sense to promote products
made with Texas natural fibers to Texas consumers.
The Texas Market
Texas is home to 18 million consumers, the third largest market in
the United States that is expected to grow to 20 million consumers by the
year 2000.
Texas is the only state with 28 metropolitan markets within its
borders.
In 1991, Texans spent $6.7 billion on retail apparel purchases, or
about 7 percent of total U.S. consumption, and about $380 per capita on
apparel purchases.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Texas Natural Fiber Production
Texas is the nation's leading cotton-producing state. Each year,
Texas produces about one-third of the nation's cotton. In 1990, the state
produced 4.9 million bales of cotton valued at $1.5 billion. representing
about 13 percent of all Texas farm income.
Texas is also the nation's leading wool-producing state. Each year,
Texans produce about 20 percent of the nation's wool. In fact, in 1990, the
state produced 17.4 million pounds of wool valued at $19.7 million, or
Texas Department of Agriculture
Rick Perry, Commissioner
P.O. Box 12847 Austin, Texas 78711 (512) 463-7624
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about 2 percent of the Texas farm income. Two million head of sheep
lived on pastures across the state in 1991.
What's more, Texas is also the nation's leading mohair-producing
state raising a whopping 90 percent of the nation's mohair annually. In
1990, the state produced 14.5 million pounds of mohair valued at $13.8
million, or about 1 percent of all Texas farm income. Angora goats -- the
source of mohair -- numbered 1.5 million head in the state in 1991.
But we don't stop there. Texas is one of the nation's leading
producers of hides. In 1990, the state produced 5.7 million cattle hides, or
17.1 percent of total U.S. production. In 1991, Texas had 13.3 million
head of cattle of cattle on pastures and in feedlots across the state.
Source: Texas Agricultural Statistics Service.
Texas Natural Fiber Exports
Texas' quality agricultural products are known worldwide. Texas
ranks among the top 10 exporting states in 12 different agricultural
products, including cotton, hides, wool and mohair. The state's enormous
agricultural output helps to cement the state as a major player in world
trade. The Port of Houston is the nation's largest deep-water port and
ranks sixth nationally in foreign trade volume. Bulk agricultural cargoes
account for much of this export volume.
As the leading cotton producer, Texas is also the nation's leading
cotton exporter, accounting for 24 percent of U.S. exports in 1990. Texas
cotton exports totalled $668.9 million in 1990.
As the nation's third largest exporter of hides and skins, accounting
for 16 percent of U.S. exports in 1990, Texas exported $289.5 million
worth of hides in 1990.
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More than 90 percent of the U.S. mohair exports and about 20
percent of U.S. wool exports in 1990 came from Texas. Total U.S. exports
of wool and mohair were $21.3 million in 1990.
Source: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Texas Textile, Apparel and Leather Manufacturing
Texas had 109 textile product mills in 1989, with total employment
of 4,082 and a total payroll of $76.7 million.
Of these, 862 were apparel plants, with total employment of 49,475
and a total payroll of $641.9 million in 1989, while tanneries and leather
works numbered 143 in 1989, with total employment of 7,657 and a total
payroll of $99.4 million.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Texas Textile, Apparel and Leather Wholesaling
The 743 Texas wholesale apparel businesses in 1989 had a total
employment of 6,059 and a total payroll of $143.2 million.
Texas had 59 wholesale footwear businesses in 1989, with total
employment of 493 and a total payroll of $12.5 million.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Consus.
Texas Apparel and Accessory Retailing
Texas apparel and accessory retail stores in 1989 numbered 9,740,
employing 79,629 and providing a total payroll of $756.5 million.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
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DEPARTMENT OF
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1992
(512) 463-7446
PERRY TOURS GENETICALLY IMPROVED COTTON TEST PLOT,
SAYS BIOTECH BOLLS GOOD FOR FARMERS, ENVIRONMENT
CORPUS CHRISTI -- What looks and feels like regular cotton but
protects itself from bugs by producing its own insecticide?
The answer is Bacillus thuringiensis cotton -- a far-reaching
product of biotechnology that promises to be a boon not only to
Texas cotton growers, but to the environment and the economy as
well.
Known as B.t. cotton, the genetically improved bolls were
developed by the Monsanto Co. and are now being grown in test plots
across the state, including one in Corpus Christi.
Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today toured the one-acre
site at the Texas A&M University Research & Extension Center here,
and noted the sweeping advances being generated by the marriage of
science and technology.
"In this century, we have witnessed four major advances in
crop agriculture: farm mechanization, hybrid crops, crop
pesticides and now, what is destined to extend the boundaries or
agriculture even further, biotechnology," Perry said.
"B.t. cotton is an example of the dramatic advances being
produced by biotechnology -- advances that will bolster
agriculture, the environment and our economy," Perry added. "Once
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on the market, this cotton will not only reduce a farmer's costs,
it will cut back the need for insecticides, furthering
agriculture's efforts to lessen any stress on the environment.
"What's more, B.t. cotton will help producers earn higher
profits -- a boost for the entire Texas economy."
In previous tests, B.t. cotton has provided pest control
results similar to those obtained with insecticides. B.t. cotton
seeds are expected to be available to farmers in three to five
years.
B.t. cotton is known to be resistant to the cotton bollworm
and tobacco budworm, Perry said, adding that estimates indicate
that cotton farmers could reduce insecticide use by as much as 75
percent with the biotech plants. These two cotton pests cost Texas
formers some $65 million a year -- $35 million in lost yield and
$30 million in control costs.
This type of research is vitally important to Texas, Perry
said. Cotton is the state's number one cash crop, second only to
cattle in terms of agricultural income. The value of the state's
cotton production is about $1.5 billion a year.
For his tour, Perry was joined by Dr. Randy Deaton, a Monsanto
scientist, Dr. John Benedict, the extension center's lead B.t.
cotton researcher, and Craig Shook, president of the South Texas
Cotton and Grain Association.
In April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its
first experimental use permit for a transgenic plant pesticide.
The permit, issued to Monsanto, allows field testing of B.t.
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Besides the Corpus Christi test plot, three others are being
overseen by Texas A&M and another by Cargill Hybrid Seeds. These
sites are located in Halfway, College station, Tivoli and Aiken.
The Texas Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture share responsibility for inspecting the state's
biotechnology test sites to ensure testing is conducted properly.
Perry said biotechnology has the potential to offer many
practical applications for agriculture, such as the production of
crops tolerant to drought and cold and others resistant to insects
and diseases.
To produce B.t. cotton, Monsanto scientists inserted a
Bacillus thuringiensis gene into the genetic structure of a cotton
plant. Bacillus thuringiensis is a bacterium that occurs naturally
in the soil and is poisonous to certain insect pests when ingested.
Harmless to mammals, birds, fish, bees and beneficial insects, it
was registered as an insecticide in the United states in 1961, and
today is used worldwide.
B.t. cotton produces a protein lethal to caterpillars. When
ingested, it disrupts the caterpillars' digestive system, causing
the insects to starve.
"To caterpillars, B.t. cotton is a deadly version of cotton
candy," Perry said. "In simple terms, the caterpillars pig out,
get a stomach ache and die."
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ADEPARTMENT
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1991
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7406
PERRY AWARDS $2 MILLION LOAN TO COTTON UNLIMITED IN POST
POST -- Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today awarded a $2
million Texas Agricultural Finance Authority loan to Cotton
Unlimited in Post -- a move expected to create 150 new jobs.
The loan is part of a $2.2 million loan package in which TAFA
and the Post Economic Development Corp. are participating.
"This funding will help Cotton Unlimited create new jobs and
spur economic growth in Post," said Perry, in the city to
personally award the loan to Joe Pate, the company's president.
"What's more, this is another important step forward in our effort
to create a thriving fiber processing industry in Texas."
The loan will help Cotton Unlimited underwrite its manufacture
of oil absorption material, cotton-based insulation and other
products, such as disposable biodegradable diapers, blankets, tent
material, casket liners and furniture stuffing. The company has
worked to develop a cotton-based insulation as an alternative to
fiberglass.
As America's top producer of cotton, Texas last year harvested
five million bales or a third of all cotton produced in the United
states. However, more than 90 percent of Texas' cotton leaves the
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state for processing -- the stage where value is added to the raw
commodity.
"By exporting our raw commodities, we are, in effect,
exporting jobs, opportunities and dollars that otherwise would go
into Texans' pocketbooks," Perry said. "It's time we changed all
that. It's time we kept our jobs at home."
To do that, Perry in June launched "Make it TEXAS," a new
program aimed at increasing the state's level of commodity
processing. Texas currently processes only 8 percent of the goods
it generates. The national average is 20 percent.
"Texas is the second largest agricultural producer in
America, " Perry said. "We're the nation's top producer not only of
cotton, but of cattle, wool and mohair and a leader in the
production of a number of other commodities. so, it makes good
common sense for Texas to process more of our raw food and fiber --
and turn those raw commodities into jobs for Texans."
TAFA was created by the Legislature in 1987 to make or
guarantee loans for agribusinesses in commodity processing and
packing. Voters in 1989 gave the authority the green light to
issue $25 million in general obligation bonds to finance the loans.
Sale of $10 million of the bonds was approved in late May by the
state Bond Review Board. The first of the bonds was sold in late
July.
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&
DEPARTMENT MASSACHUSETTS
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RÉLEASE:
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
KATIE DICKIE
MAY 4, 1992
(512) 463-7446
PERRY ANNOUNCES TAFA LOAN GUARANTY TO
BIG SPRING MANUFACTURING PLANT
AUSTIN - Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry announced today that a $1.4
million loan guaranty has been approved for a Big Spring manufacturing plant to
produce a biodegradable, recyclable cotton bale bag made from gin waste material.
The loan guaranty to Wright Fibers Inc. is being made possible by the Texas
Agricultural Finance Authority, of which Perry is a member. TAFA will guarantee
almost two-thirds of a $2.2 million loan made by Moore Development for Big
Spring Inc.
"This is a wonderful example of the good we can do when government works
with the private sector," Perry said. "Shoulder to shoulder, we can make great
progress in creating new jobs through all facets of our agricultural economy."
Herb Wright, president of the company, has developed a technique to mass
produce an economical cotton bale bag that far exceeds the strength requirements of
the cotton industry. It is also the only type of bale wrapping that does not
contaminate the cotton.
"Currently, most cotton bales are wrapped in polypropylene or polyethylene
bags," Perry said. "These are non-biodegradable bags that are piling up in our
landfills."
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It is anticipated that because of costs and other problems associated with
disposing of the oil-based bags, textile manufacturers and buyers will require that
more bales be wrapped in cotton bags. The estimated market for cotton bagging is 12
million to 15 million bales per year.
Through a patented process, Wright Fibers manufactures the bale bags from
cotton gin waste. The product proved itself in a pilot program in which more than
30,000 bags were used to ship baled cotton.
Wright Fibers will use the loan to purchase machinery and equipment for its
manufacturing plant. Initially, the company will employ approximately 60 people,
but employment could grow to several hundred when the plant is fully operational.
Wright anticipates that within two years, the company's gross revenues will exceed
$6 million.
TAFA has committed more than $20 million in loan guaranties to 21 Texas
agribusinesses since Perry granted the first loan guaranty last year. The board is
examining applications for the remaining $4 million in loan guaranty funds still
available.
Perry has made food and fiber processing a major focus of his administration.
Last June he launched "Make it TEXAS," an economic initiative aimed at increasing
the state's level of commodity processing.
"Texas ranks first in cotton production, but we fall short when it comes to
processing the cTop," Perry said. "It's time we started processing more of what we
produce, creating new jobs and opportunities. Wright Fibers will help Texas do just
that."
Nationally, 20 percent of all agricultural commodities are processed in the
state where they are raised, but in Texas, that average falls to 8 percent.
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PENENT SDEA OF ORGANICA
TEXAS
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
DEC. 23, 1991
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7446
PERRY AWARDS $156,000 TO AGRICULTURAL
DIVERSIFICATION PROJECTS THROUGHOUT TEXAS
AUSTIN - Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today announced
that nine agricultural diversification projects, including one aimed at
turning livestock waste into a high protein feed component and another to
test insect-resistant cotton, have received $156,000 in grants.
The grants were awarded by Perry after he received
recommendations from the Texas Agricultural Diversification Program
Board. The nine grants were the first grants considered by the newly-
appointed board.
The grants were awarded to agricultural diversification endeavors in
Abilene (two grants), College Station, Corpus Christi, Lubbock (two
<--
grants). Midlothian, Sweetwater and Weslaco. The awards are contingent
upon each project meeting certain financial conditions.
The Texas Agricultural Diversification Matching Grants Program
provides funds to projects aimed at transferring newly developed
agricultural crops and technologies to the marketplace, Perry said.
"This exciting program identifies and nurtures innovative programs
around the state each year," Perry said. "These nine projects will help
enhance agriculture and rural development in Texas."
The grants were matched by about $370,000 from the private sector
and other sources.
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The 1991 grants were:
* Abilene -- $27,500 to Abilene Economic Development Co. Inc.
for the creation of a new business incubator to provide training and
support services for agribusiness projects. The grant was matched with
$150,000.
* Abilene -- $12,000 to Disability Resources Inc. to develop a new
agribusiness for growing and marketing native plants and trees as a
vocational program for the developmentally disabled. The grant was
matched with $12,000.
* College Station -- $9,000 to Texas Engineering Experiment
Station/Technology Business Development, Texas A&M University, to
examine the feasibility of a sweater manufacturing plant using yarn blended
from Texas cotton and wool. The grant was matched with $10,893.
* Corpus Christi -- $11,250 to Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station to determine if pesticide use on an insect-resistant variety of cotton
can be cut in half, and to develop a computer simulation management
model on this cotton variety known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt cotton.
The grant was matched with $11,240.
* Lubbock -- $20,250 to Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit
at Texas Tech University to use waste from livestock feedlots as a nutrient
base to produce an algal protein that will in turn be used as a component in
fish, poultry and livestock feed. The grant was matched with $30,000.
* Lubbock --$18,000 to Pork Industry Research and Education
Institute, Texas Tech University, to coordinate and disseminate educational
information to pork producers and allied industries. The grant also will be
used to conduct feed analysis and fund student interns, educational seminars
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and industry promotion to local leaders. The grant was matched with
$30,000.
* Midlothian -- $20,000 to Midlothian Economic & Community
Development Commission for the creation of a new business incubator to
provide training and support services for projects that diversify Texas
agriculture. The grant was matched with $77,100.
* Sweetwater -- $28,000 to People for Progress to develop training
and technical assistance within an existing agribusiness incubator. The
grant was matched with $35,700.
*
Weslaco -- $10,000 to Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to
determine the productivity of 10 varieties of canola as a fall crop in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. The grant was matched with $15,532.
Along with encouraging diversification, the grant program is
designed to identify ways to substitute Texas agricultural products for
imported products. The grant program also encourages new farming
practices, including soil, water and energy conservation, as well as
innovative educational and technical training programs to assist rural
agribusiness incubators.
Since the program began in 1988, 72 grants totaling $941,000 have
been awarded. These grants were matched with more than $3.3 million in
private funds and other grants.
For more information about the grant program, contact TDA at
(512) 463-7624 or your nearest TDA regional office.
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AGRICOLTURE RICULTURE
TEX
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
JAN. 20, 1992
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7446
PERRY ANNOUNCES TAFA LOAN GUARANTY TO GRAHAM
SEWING FACTORY
AUSTIN - Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today announced
that a $180,000 loan guaranty has been awarded to a Graham sewing
factory that will produce sportswear made of 100 percent Texas cotton.
The loan guaranty is being made possible by the Texas Agricultural
Finance Authority, of which Perry is a member. Falcon Industries Inc., is
expanding its business from Columbia, Tenn. to Graham. TAFA will
guarantee 90 percent of a $200,000 loan made by First State Bank -
Graham.
The loan will be used by Falcon Industries to start a sewing factory
in Graham that is projected to employ between 35 to 50 people. The Texas
factory's projected revenues for 1992 are $1.2 million and $1.3 million for
1993. The factory will manufacture active wear such as T-shirts, athletic
wear, sweats and jogging suits made of 100 percent Texas cotton.
"Cotton is our number one crop in Texas generating about $1.5
billion each year," Perry said. "By expanding our state's processing
capacity -- which Falcon Industries will do by turning Texas cotton into
sportswear - we add value to our raw commodities and increase
producers' profits. And that's great news for Texas producers and
consumers both.
"What's more, it's great news for the Texas economy," Perry said.
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Falcon Industries has operated a similar factory since 1983 in
Columbia, Tenn. The company, started by Norman L. and Sujane
Carpenter, has been profitable since its inception. The Carpenters were
bom in Texas and graduated from Graham High School. The Graham
factory will be run by their sons, Norman B. and Mark D. Carpenter, who
will own 60 percent of the Texas corporation.
TAFA has awarded more than $18.3 million in loan guaranties to 18
Texas agribusinesses since Perry granted the first guaranty last summer.
The board is examining applications for the remaining $5.4 million in loan
guaranty funds still available.
Perry has made food and fiber processing a major focus of his
administration. In June, he launched "Make It TEXAS," an economic
initiative aimed at increasing the state's level of commodity processing.
Along with cotton, Texas is America's top producer of cattle, sheep,
goats, wool and mohair, and the state is a leader in producing a number of
other commodities. Yet, the state only processes 8 percent of the goods it
grows or raises -- compared with the national average of 20 percent.
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OF
STATES ACREEM
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TEXASDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
MAY 27, 1992
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7446
TEXAS ORGANIC COTTON CAPTURING
EUROPEAN INTEREST
AUSTIN - International demand for Texas agricultural products
continues to grow, says Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry, noting that
a German organic clothing retailer recently toured Texas, while European
fabric mills are seeking organic cotton supplies.
"Texas is America's top producer of organic and 'transitional' cotton
with about 5,000 planted acres," Perry said. Transitional cotton refers to
cotton that is undergoing review for organic certification by the Texas
Department of Agriculture.
Other states producing organic and transitional cotton are California
with 2,500 acres. Tennessee with 2,000 acres and Arizona with 800 acres.
Organic cotton is one of the things that brought Jürgen Hack of
Nordloh, Germany to Texas. In April, the clothing retailer visited Texas
Tech University's International Textile Research Center and toured a
Lubbock area organic cotton farm. He also attended an April 14 news
conference in Littlefield when Perry launched "Naturally TEXAS," the
department's Texas natural fibers marketing campaign.
Hack was on a buying tour to find organic cotton apparel for the
German company, Sodasan, which sells clothing such as T-shirts, tank tops
and sweats through retail stores. Hack buys apparel from Daniel Sanders'
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Eco-Sport company based in Hackensack, N.J. Eco-Sport uses Texas
organic cotton in its fabric and clothing.
Clothing isn't the only item being made from Texas organic cotton.
A European health and beauty products company has bought 65 bales of
High Plains organic and naturally colored cotton, valued at about $40,000.
The cotton was shipped May 1 to a mill in Mersin, Turkey for Bo Weevil
B.V. Based in Amsterdam, Bo Weevil B.V. makes products such as make-
up application pads. The grower selling the cotton to the Netherlands
company is Laurance Kriegel, who has a farm near Bovina.
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DEPARTMENT OF OREGON
BOB- this legislation
TEXAS.
was VETOED by
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Gov.
RICK PERRY
Richards.
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR Rossanna
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1991
KATIE DICKIE
(512) 463-7406
PERRY SAYS BOLL WEEVIL BILL TO ENHANCE COMPETITIVENESS,
COULD LEAD TO PHASE OUT OF INSECTICIDE USE FOR PEST
AUSTIN Commissioner Rick Perry today said a bill initiating
a comprehensive statewide plan to eradicate cotton-damaging boll
weevils would bolster Texas' competitive advantage among cotton
states and eventually eliminate the need for weevil insecticides as
the pest is wiped out.
The measure -- House Bill 1979 sponsored by state Rep. Pete
Patterson and state Sen. Bill Sims -- has cleared the Texas House
and Senate and is now headed to Governor Ann Richards for
consideration.
The nation's top cotton-producing state, Texas last year
produced five million bales valued at more than $1.5 billion.
However, it has been estimated that more than $20 million in cotton
production is lost to boll weevils annually.
To combat the pest, the bill would create the Texas Cotton
Foundation whose board would administer boll weevil eradication
efforts by zones in the state's cotton-producing regions. Local
cotton producers in each zone would select board members. The
eradication plan would be funded by a producer check-off program,
as well as with federal funds. The foundation would receive up to
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30 percent of the plan's cost from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
Under the initiative, the Texas Department of Agriculture
would regulate eradication zones and oversee planting schedules,
crop destruction and quarantines. The department also would
oversee the foundation's budget, rules and fees.
"Eradicating the boll weevil would enable Texas to produce
more higher-quality cotton," Perry said. "It would bolster our
competitive advantage among America's cotton-producing states.
"At the same time," he said, "a successful eradication plan
would eventually eliminate the need for insecticides to combat
these destructive pests."
Entemologists from USDA and Texas A&M University have
determined that under a successful program, boll weevil insecticide
applications would be unnecessary by the program's fifth year.
Perry noted that regional efforts to eradicate the boll weevil
have met with some success, but he stressed the need for a
comprehensive effort.
"This legislation will help Texas make great strides against
the boll weevil," Perry said. "chairmen Patterson and Sims should
be commended for their leadership in pressing forward with this
far-reaching initiative."
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TEXAS
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DALLAS
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Leader-News
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Perry promotes state⁷
boll Weevil program
(Editor's note: The following
column, which includes opinions
However, 10 Join the federal ef-
expressed by the author, was writ.
fort, Texas must first establish the
isn by Rick Perry. Texas commis-
mechanism for its own statewide
sioner of agriculture.)
program.
Legislation that would have
by Rick Perry
authorized the creation of such a
comprehensive ball weevil intua-
Texas is America's undisputed
tive in Texas was approved this
leader in the production of cotton.
year by the Texas Legislature.
Last year, growers from the
Unfortunately. Gov. Ann
state's High Plains to the Rio
Richards vetoed the bill.
Grande Valley produced ap-
And despite repeated requests
proximately 5 million bales - a har-
from the cotton industry, she did
vest valued at $1.5 billion.
not allow the issue to be recon-
But unfortunately, Texas is also
sidered during either of the Legisla-
a leading producer of boll weevils -
those tiny destructive pests that
summer. ture's two special sessions this past
devour $20 million worth of cotton
Veto effects
every year.
That's more than 66,000 bales or
The consequences of her actions
1.3 percent of our entire production
are clear. The governor's veto
being lost to an insect.
meant a loss to Texas of $40 mil.
But in other Cotton Belt states,
lion in federal cost-sharing funds, 2
farmers-are eliminating
piece of the federal pie that the
thecountry's most destructive COI-
state won't be eligible. to receive
quality. ton pest and improving cotion
again for a minimum of two years.
1: is our hope at the Texas
JUSI as importantly, they are
Department of Agriculture - the
reducing pesticide use, enhancing
hope of the cotton industry - that
the environment and earning bigger
the governor will include this issue
profits for themselves and their
session. on the agenda of any future special
states' economies.
Why aren't we doing that here at
If that fails, we are committed to
home?
pursuing the issue when the Legis-
lature meets for its regular session
in 1993.
Sad story
The future of Texas cotton is 100
It is a sad but true story, one that
reduces productivity and earnings
Please See 'Perry' Page 2B
in Texas and that could- even with
our state's number one ranking in
cout
cotton production - evenually
threaten our competitive edge.
This doesn't have to be,
The Texas cotton industry can
CUL its losses by participating in a
federal cost-sharing boll weevil
eradication program that has
demonstrated remarkable results.
including sharply reduced pesticide
environment use and a tremendous boost to the
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cant
Texas opportunities
Established 1910
(Cont. From Page 1B)
Texas could expect similar
Paso, TX
results - if not better.
Times
important to risk doing otherwise.
According to Texas A&M
Cotton is our state's number one
University. five years after the im-
(Cir. D. 57,580)
cash crop, generating $210 million
plementation of B statewide eradic-
NOV 27 1991
in direct salaries to the Texas labor
cation program, Texas could likely
force and about $5 billion 10 our
anticipate 8 70 to 75 percent drop
economy every year.
in insecticide use from current
Lawmakers
We cannot afford to let our
levels and a :2 to 15 million acre
producers find themselves at a
reduction in treatments.
serious economic disadvantage.
especially when other states are
Yielding a significant and posi-
tout 'totally
tive Impact on the environment, the
gaining adventages by eliminating
the boll weevil.
program would mean a potential
Texas' feast
decrease in colton insecucide use
The U.S. Department of Agricul.
of 1.5 million to 2 million pounds a
ture first implemented broad-based
Associated Press
191
year.
programs for boll weevil eradica-
tion in 1983 in North and South
In the Rio Grande Valley alone,
Carolina.
pesticide applications would drop
AUSTIN - Some top state
from 9 million to 6.9 million acres
leaders gathered in the Texas
Cotton Belt success
during the first five years of an
House recently to talk turkey.
eradication program.
Also giblet gravy. cornbread
Since then, other Cotton Belt
Texas' participation in the
dressing and other trimmings.
areas entering theprogram have ex-
federal program would require
A feast was cooked up to
perienced considerable success.
grower referenda to elect a
praise a "totally Texas Thanks-
Programs already under way In-
statewide board composed of mem-
giving" menu being promoted by
clude the 15-county Texas High
bers selected from eradication
the Texas Department of Agri-
Plains Boll Weevil Control
culture.
zones determined by the growers
Program, which has enabled the
themselves.
"It is not only good for our
region to maintain its $1 billion a
Such a program would not dis-
health, but it also is good for our
year cotton production.
economy," said Gov. Ann Rich-
place TDA's cotton stall: destruc-
This and other programs have
ards, who dined with Agricul-
tion efforts, which are aimed at
ture Commissioner Rick Perry
helped the national cotton
destroying the weevil's winter
and House Speaker Gib Lewis.
producers grow and increase.
habital. Frankly. such an effort
Perry said his agency is pro-
For example:
would enhance our stalk destruc-
moting use of Texas-grown foods
In Georgia, cotton acreage in-
don measures.
to consumers, grocery stores, ho-
creased from 250,000 acres in 1987
Next year will mark the 100th
tels and restaurants.
to 8 projected 400,000 acres in
year since the boll weevil arived in
"Not only this Thanksgiving
1991. The benefits to the state
Texas.
but every meal can be - and
economy multiply well into the
That's long enough. 11's high
quite frankly should be a to-
hundreds of millions of dollars.
time Texas supported its couon in-
tally Texas menu." Perry said.
By the end of this season. Geor-
dustry by ridding the state of the
The only non-Texas product
gie will have eradicated the boll
served was cranberries, and Per-
country's number one couon pest.
moovil.
ry said that dish got help from
Texas grapefruit
In North Carolina, acreage
"We're not a cranberry-grow-
more than doubled batween 1990
ing state. But you know, cran-
and 1991. and some growers are
berries can be a little bland ED
realizing a $70 an acre net increase
we spiced those up mit); some of
in profits.
those good. sweet ruby red
The boll weevil has been
grapefruit," he said.
eliminated from both North and
The dinner featured bell pep-
most of South Carolina and by this
per soup, roasted turkey, Join of
season's end is expected to be
pork, giblet gravy, cornbread
wiped out in southern Alabama and
sage dressing, brown Texmati
in Florida,
rice and sausage dressing, mint-
Parts of Arizona, California
ed carrots, broccoli. sweet pota--
and Mexico have also eliminated
to pecan pie. orange cake, Texas
boll weevlls.
wines and Texas mineral waters.
Ferry said the meal showed.
What's more, reductions in pes-
the diversity of Texas agricul-
ticide use through the program
tural products.
have been phenomenal, decreasing
as the program prgresses.
"Agriculture is an $11.2 bil-
Southeastem states have lowered
lion annual business in Texas,"
pesticide applications in Georgia,
he said. "Our farmers and ranch-
for instance, by as much as 30 per-
ers raise nearly every kind of
cent and up to 71 percent in North
America" crop and livestock produced in
Carolina.
Extended Page 32. 1
This-is extremely important be.
While the officials fulfilled
cause cotton is one of the most
their obligation to push Texas
chemical-intensive crops in the
commodities, their interest
United States.
clearly was on the table.
"Now do we eat?" the gover-
nor asked after making some
brief remarks.
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DEFARTMES
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
RICK PERRY
Commissioner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: ROSSANNA SALAZAR
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1992
(512) 463-7446
PERRY ASKS BUSH TO DECLARE NATIONWIDE
AGRICULTURE EMERGENCY
AUSTIN - Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry today asked
President George Bush to declare a nationwide agriculture emergency,
which would provide $755 million in disaster assistance to farmers for
catastrophic crop losses.
Severe weather this year in Texas has hit the state's number one
income-producing crop, cotton, particularly hard, causing damage in the
hundreds of millions of dollars, Perry said.
"In a 44-county area of the Texas High Plains and Panhandle area,
more than 1.9 million acres of cotton have been lost or were never planted
due to adverse conditions," Perry said in a letter to Bush. "Of the cotton
that is left in the fields, yields will be more than one-third below average.
The losses to producers and the communities in this 44-county area are
devastating."
In addition to cotton. Texas wheat, corn, grain sorghum, hay and
other speciality crop producers have had substantial losses this year because
of weather, Perry said.
"We are suffering through an extraordinary year that clearly
warrants the assistance that is available through your authority to request
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and release disaster funding for agriculture," Perry noted in the letter to
the White House.
The $755 million is authorized by Congress for agricultural
assistance, but requires Bush to declare a nationwide disaster before the
funds become available to farmers.
Perry noted the funds will not cover all the losses experienced by
Texas farmers, let alone the nation's farmers. However, such assistance
will help offset the devastation and assure bankers that production loans
will be covered in part through this emergency declaration.
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president's visit She said team members
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have no. information concerning the sub-
A presidential advance team arrived in stance of a speech Bush has planned." 116
no
Lubbock on Bunday to prepare A Shallowater
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cotton gin for 2 visit Wednesday by President
straight to the cotton gin and give his speech
Bush meet
and then he will leave, she said.
Bush is to arrive at Reese Air Force Base
Bush will fly here from Carswell AFB at
between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. that day and pro-
Fort Worth, she said.
ceed to the nearby Shallowater Co-op Gin,
Kemedy sald he and other employees of
where he is expected to discuss diseater pay-
the cotton gin are busy with their own prepa
ment information with the region's cotton
rations
farmers, said Jane Anne Silnnett regional
"We're Just cleaning up and making it
coordinator for the Bush/Quayle campaign
presentable,' he said. "But we're not paint-
Randy Kennedy, manager of the Shallo-
ing things or anything. It's a working gin, al
water gin, said & presidential advance team
though 18 doesn't look like we're going to gin
consisting of about 15 people including Be
any cotton this year
cret service agents spent most of Sunday
The region's cotton crop has been devas.
at the site.
lated this year by inclement weather, and
"We had a hint sometime in the latter
acreage losses across the High Plains stand
part of last week" that à visit from the presi-
at an all time high. Gov. Ann Richards has
dent was in the works, Kennedy said. "We
asked Bush to lssue a disaster declaration
didn't feel like It was official until (Sunday)
that would make assistance available to
when several people were here doing several
workers and businesses hurt by the losses in
different things
12 counties the
A spokeswoman for the advance team; Kennedy said co-op members are predict-
who declined to be identified, said the team ing they will harvest only about 3,000 bales
is In Lubbock to work out the logistics of the from their 1992 acreage.
"
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Sauce : USDA
*Market Sensitive*
Penalty and/or Imprisonment for Unauthorised Release
PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON EEP ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. wheat farmers depend on export markets to for more than half
of their sales. American wheat producers have been developing
overseas markets for more than 30 years, and in a world of open
trade there is no question that we would be the premier supplier of
wheat to international markets. That doesn't just mean sales for
U.S. farmers, it means export-created jobs for everyone from
stevedores, railroad workers, truckers, and longshoremen to grain
merchandisers and workers in grain elevators.
Unfortunately, world wheat trade has been distorted by subsidies --
especially the export subsidies of the European Community. We have
proposed to reduce subsidies worldwide -- our own included. But in
the meantime, the Export Enhancement Program, which allows us to
meet the European competition, is vitally important to U.S.
farmers.
Today, I am announcing an EEP initiative to sell almost 1.1 billion
bushels or 30 million metric tons of wheat to 28 countries and
regions around the world. This is by far the largest EEP
initiative ever announced, and it charts our export course for the
year ahead.
Today's announcement should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that I
intend to pursue an aggressive export policy. It will also be a
fair one: We have designed this package for use against countries
that subsidize their exports, not the ones that do not.
I want the message to be loud and clear to American farmers,
exporters and everyone else with a stake in the wheat industry: We
are for open trade but we will fight for market share with
countries that are not willing to reduce their export subsidies.
Wheat exports are crucial to U.S. farm income, the U.S. trade
balance and economic activity throughout the nation. This broad-
based EEP initiative will mean more exports, more income and more
jobs.
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WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET
The President today announced a multi-country initiative to provide
opportunities for sales of close to 1.1 billion bushels (30 million
metric tons) of U.S. wheat. The initiative, under the Export
Enhancement Program (EEP), will stimulate exports to markets where
the U.S. wheat industry faces subsidized competition, especially
from the European Community (EC).
This new export package will support an additional 110,000 U.S.
jobs, most of them off the farm, and generate a total of $10.5
billion in business activity for the U.S. economy.
The EEP package, which will help U.S. sales in 28 countries and
regions, replaces all previously announced wheat initiatives. The
new initiatives will remain in effect throughout the 1992/93
international marketing year for wheat, which ends June 30, 1993.
These EEP initiatives are part of President Bush's implementation
of the "GATT trigger," a provision of law that requires aggressive
export promotion because the EC and other countries have SO far
failed to accept proposals to reform international agricultural
trade. The GATT trigger, named for the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade, became effective June 30, 1992.
Today's 30 million ton EEP package provides market opportunities
for about half of the 1992/93 U.S. wheat crop and represents the
largest quantity of wheat ever made available under the EEP at one
time. Wheat sales to destinations targeted by EEP totaled 18.6
million metric tons during the 1991/92 international marketing year
for wheat. However, several countries that had not previously been
offered wheat under EEP have been added to the list of eligible
destinations announced today.
Before today's announcement, wheat EEP initiatives were announced
on a country-by-country basis. The new approach will offer several
advantages:
0
The announcement will send a strong message to the EC to
encourage movement toward international trade reform, and is
clear evidence of the President's determination that the U.S.
will remain competitive in world wheat trade.
o
Farmers, exporters and foreign buyers will have greater
certainty about market opportunities, making the U.S. a more
reliable supplier.
The EEP will remain flexible and able to adapt to changing
circumstances. The President has stated explicitly that
additional countries may be made eligible during the course of
the year.
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The new approach will help avoid sales disruptions that
sometimes occur when initiatives expire. The tonnages offered
in today's announcement can be supplemented later in the year
if necessary.
The package will continue to aggressively target subsidized
competition, primarily from the EC. The EEP respects the
traditional market share of countries that do not subsidize
exports. By contrast, the EC does not attempt to safeguard
non-subsidizers' market share, and its subsidies are available
for sales to any destination in the world, unlike the more
targeted EEP.
Background on EEP
The EEP was created administratively by the Reagan Administration
in 1985 and has been instrumental in maintaining and expanding U.S.
market share for wheat and many other commodities, including high-
value products like vegetable 011, poultry, barley malt and flour.
The EEP enables U.S. exporters to meet prevailing world prices for
targeted commodities and destinations. Under the program, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) pays cash bonuses to U.S.
exporters. The bonuses make up the difference between the U.S.
domestic price and world prices, which are often lower because the
EC and other subsidizing exporters dump surplus production into
world markets.
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EEP Wheat Package
Program Level
Algeria
1,750
Bangladesh
700
Bahrain
25
Brazil
500
China
7,000
Cyprus
50
East Europe (Durum)
140
Egypt
3,500
India
1,500
Jordan
600
Kenya
100
Kuwait
150
Lebanon
160
Malta
50
Morocco
1,000
Norway
150
Pakistan
800
Philippines
1,200
Poland (Non-durum)
400
Romania (Non-durum)
500
South Africa
400
Sri Lanka
500
Trinidad and Tobago
125
Tunisia
300
Former Soviet Union
5,500
Venezuela
400
West and Central Africa
1,000
Yemen
600
TOTAL
29,100