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Lied Center for Performing Arts presents
Tango Buenos Aires
Friday, March 26, 1999, 8pm
Danny Gottlieb, Percussion
Drummer’s Fantasy
S^ery!
Saturday, March 27, 1999, 8pm
Johnny Carson Theater
Locally sponsored by Dietze Music House, Inc.
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Box Office: 11 :00am-5:30pm M-F
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Bill aims to preserve
small-farm industries
By Shane Anthony
Staff writer
The Legislature began debate
Tuesday on an Agriculture
Committee bill created in response to
hard economic times for small farm
ers.
Originally a four-bill package, the
committee brought the legislation to
Vhe floor in the form of one bill -
LB835. The bill requires daily price
reporting for meat packers. It pro
hibits packers from raising livestock
and from discriminating in prices
paid or offered to swine producers
except for differences in quality or
acquisition costs such as transporta
tion.
The bill also would prohibit pack
ers from purchasing contract live
stock without specifying a delivery
date or month for delivery and allow
ing the producer to set the week for
delivery.
“Corporate economic systems are
robbing us of our markets and free
dom,” said Sen. Cap Dierks of Ewing.
“It is now time to disrupt the price
fixing, market-controlling practices
of these corporations and bring mar
ket fairness back into our most prized
industry.”
During committee testimony,
U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey joined small
farmers in supporting the legislation
in response to what some see as an
economic crisis created by an unfair
market system. Meat packing compa
nies and retail store owners opposed
the original bills during committee
testimony. They said that economic
woes were the result of a downward
cycle in agriculture. Some worried
the provisions would make doing
business in Nebraska difficult.
Although no senators spoke in
opposition Tuesday to the ideas
behind LB835, a few raised ques
tions.
Omaha Sen. Kermit Brashear
questioned the provision preventing
packers from raising animals and the
provision that prohibits price dis
crimination except by quality or cost.
The latter provision, he said, did not
appear to specify dates for when dif
ferent prices could be offered.
Dierks said he intended the time
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Corporate economic
systems are robbing
us of our markets
and freedom!’
Sen. Cap Dierks
line to be day-to-day.
Sen. Ron Raikes of Lincoln said
he was concerned that bringing more
people into the market and providing
better information could actually lead
to thinner markets. He was also con
cerned that the bill’s new form specif
ically identifies cattle and hogs sepa
rately.
But he said he supported better
market access.
“Whatever we can do to improve
that is a worthy goal,” he said.
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers said
Nebraska could take a stand with this
bill as opposed to a lack of legislation
on the federal level.
“Nebraska can assume a position
of leadership,” he said.
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