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Corporate farm bill
draws praise, nays
By Randy Essex
Farmers and farm groups are split in their opinions
concerning a bill that would restrict corporate ownership
of farm land in Nebraska.
"Farm Power" and "1 support agriculture" buttons,
mixed with American Agriculture Movement jackets and
caps, decorated the room Thursday, while the Legislature's
Agriculture and Environment Committee heard testimony
from 17 witnesses on LB 190.
The bill's sponsor, Adams Sen. George Burrows, said
corporations already control food prices in the grocery
store, and could control the price at both ends if they get
control of the land.
Burrows showed a 15-minute tape from CBS televi
sion's 60 Minutes program regarding foreign ownership of
farm land in California. The tape sdd land prices are
forced up by corporations paying inflated prices for land,
making it impossible for individual farmers to expand or
for young people to buy land.
Burrows said his bill is not directed solely at foreign
corporations. He argued that domestic corporations can
cover up foreign ownership and it is difficult to separate
the two.
Burrows' bill would allow only family-based farms or
corporations.
Under LB 190, a farm owner could move off the farm
and still hold (family) corporate ownership for 30 years,
or until a family member moved back onto the farm.
Burrows said because surrounding states-except to the
west -have such laws, Nebraska is left as a target for cor
porate investors. He said there is not much corporate
ownership in the state now, and argued that the Legisla
ture should act before there is more.
One corporation owner, Ernest Rousek of Lincoln, said
his corporate farm near O'Neill has put three former
family farmers back on the farm after they went out of
business. He said the farm has patronized local businesses
and has made efficient use of the land.
He said he thinks the bill discriminates because his
corporation would not be allowed to buy more land and
enjoy corporate protection, while Burrows, whose farm is
owned by a family corporation, can expand.
Rousek said he thinks it is unfair to put American cor
porations in the same class as foreign companies that are
not subject to tax laws.
In support of the bill, Dorothy McKay, representing
the Women Involved in Farm Economics, told the
committee she doesn't want farmers to become share
croppers working for a corporation.
"I've heard that corporations control everything except
food, and that's only because the farmer is a pretty in
dependent cuss," Mrs. McKay said.
On the other hand, Glenn Ladioyt, representing Ne
braskans for Progressive Agriculture, said the bill would
restrict the free enterprise system and undermine the
state's economy.
He called the 60 Minutes report shown by Burrows sen
sational, and argued that investment is a catalyst for
efficiency.
Matt Barron, who works for the Massachusetts Depart
ment of Food and Agriculture, told the committee his
state is interested in watching anti-corporation laws work
in Midwestern states. Barron said his state has lost its
tobacco industry to corporate interests.
He said corporations 3o not make effective use of land.
Barron also said an upstate New York dairy farm owned
by Iranian interests was found to be a headquarters for an
Iranian intelligence operation last summer.
Also supporting the bill were representatives of the
American Agriculture Movement, the Nebraska
AFL-CIO, the president of which is Omaha Sen. William
Brennan, the Nebraska State Grange, Nebraska State Elec
trical Workers, the Nebraska Farmers' Union and the
National Farmers' Organization.
The electrical workers supported the bill because of
the number of farm children who are unable to stay on
their family's farm and must find work elsewhere, their
representative Ralph Crowl said.
Others opposing the bill were realtors, the Nebraska
Stock Grower's Organization and the Nebraska Livestock
Feeder's Association.
The biii has been introduced every year since 1974. It
contains a grandfather clause that would allow existing
corporate farms to stay in operation.
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