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Digitized from Box 34 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
For Immediate Release
December 15, 976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
Statement by the President
This past summer and fall, several -primarily in the Midwest--
suffered a severe drought which caused major reductions in the amount
of feed grains produced and available for livestock feeding. Because
our livestock producers had been adversely affected, the Department of
Agriculture took steps to provide drought-stricken farmers with oats from
the Commodity Credit Corporation reserve stocks under its Emergency
Livestock Feed Program. However, the stocks reserved by the Corporation
for emergency livestock feed have now been exhausted and no further orders
for emergency livestock feed are being processed by the Department of
Agriculture.
Because this situation poses an immediate and serious threat to a major
segment of our national livestock industry, I have today directed the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Federal Disaster Assistance
Administration (FDAA) to cooperate in providing emergency livestock feed
assistance payments to protect our threatened livestock. This assistance
program will be administered by USDA and funded by FDAA. This action, which
I am taking today pursuant to my authority under the PL 93-288 grant
assistance program, will assist livestock producers to make emergency
purchases of feed grains and hay. Initially, this assistance will be provided
to producers in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, whose Governors
have already requested the assistance, but it is expected that additional
States where I have declared emergencies during 1976 due to the drought may
become eligible for assistance. As a result of today's action, I am confident
that our threatened livestock will be protected until next summer, when new
grain crops become available.
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