Farm Group Lobbies To Preserve Icc

Wheat growers are concerned about plans in Congress to abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission and are calling on lawmakers to retain at least some of the agency’s functions.

They fear that elimination of the ICC which regulates the prices that rail lines set for shipping grain and other goods - will leave some farmers in a financial lurch.

The National Association of Wheat Growers says more than half of all U.S. grain shipments go by rail.

“Wheat producers are concerned that railroads continue to be held to certain obligations to their shippercustomers,” President Ross Hansen of the wheat growers said in a recent letter to Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.