Good t Morning
Part 111
ED NOTE: “Good Morning:
3,336 People Starved Last
Night’*, is taken from a report
by George C. Tolls, Manager
of the Washington operation of
Computer Usage Company,
Inc. The report is titled, “Com
puters And Food’*.
3. Cost or the ingredients at
tl e point of mixture.
While such calculations can be
madd* "by. guess and by golly”
for small herds, such practices
n m.. it- would quickly lead the modern
Keeling up farmer down disastrous paths.
Like the dairy farmer whose p or example, meat scraps
food product milk —is a re- ranging from $5 to $5.20 per
suit of proper diet and breedipg hundredweight - are frequent
procedures, the cattle farmer is jy mixed with soybean meal
"beefing up" on new technology, 'ranging in cost from about $4.30
As a result the control of ci*t- t 0 $4:50 a hundredweight. When
tle feed procedures is another ever possible, since meat scraps
area in which computer usage - are cheapest when soybean meal
is spreading. It takes something j s most expensive, the computer
like eight pounds of grain to pro- determines the least expensive
duce a pound of beef. And the 'mix that has equivalent nutri
cost of that grain can make or tional value,
break the farmer.
Computers are therefore put Future
to work in the “kitchen” figur-- "The computer farmer is a
mg what to feed livestock for manager," says Anthony E.
maximum dollar return. This Casino of International Minerals
“least cost” rations calculation & Chemical Company. “The
requires three kinds of informa- owner of a farm of the future
tion; will no more be out riding a
to hold up production, body condition...
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Yet, good dairymen know that grass is 85% water.
As summer advances it turns brown, losses its paya
bility and is even less nutritious.
Tests at the Purina Dairy Center proved that cows
fed a grain supplement with grass produced up to
20% more milk. They kept'up in body condition,
too, and held up better in production in following
lactations.
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1. Requirements of ration to be
formulated.
2. Approximate chemical ana
lysis of available feed ingredi
ents; and
West Willow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-9251
R. D. 3, Ephrata
tractor than the president of
General Motors is out on an as
sembly line tightening bolts."
L. S. Fife sees the farm land
scape spotted with television
towers used to scan the fields,
keeping an eye on robot tractors
criss-crossing about in numeric
ally precise patterns.
Mr. Fife has also referred to
tne development of sensing de
vices to relay information on
fields and crop conditions to a
computer which will be able to
send back orders to speed up or
slow down operations, alter the
depth at which seeds are being
planted and regulate intensities
with which fertilizer is being ap
plied.
These are only some of the
areas where computer technol
ogy is having an impact on food
production, quality, and plan
ning in the U.S. However, the
problems of a world power with
starving billions at its gates are
not likely to be solved through
the application of current, limit
ed-objective programs. If Mal
thus is to be proven wrong—if
we’re not destined to be decima
ted by war, famine, or flood
then the key to man’s very sur
vival on this planet lies in the
application of computer technol
ogy to agricultural technology in
all the countries of the world.
Recently, Dr. Roger Revelle,
Director of the Center for Popu
lation Studies at Harvard Uni
versity, proposed the creation of
two government agencies to
bring the modernization of agri
culture to underdeveloped areas.
Dr. Revelle has led efforts to in
crease food production in Pakis
tan and India According to him,
"The only way we can be as
sured of a stable world in which
the United States can live peace
ably, is to work for a diminution
of poverty and misery every
where.”
It Can Work
Past efforts to aid countries in
their farming practices have not
been" too successful But the suc
cess of the Rockefeller Founda
tion, whose specialists worked
directly with Mexicans on their
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 8.1968--
Hatfield Says New Marketing
Practices Confronting Dairymen
Acceptance of new marketing
practices is one of the most dif
ficult hurdles confronting the
dairy industry, an American
Farm Bureau Federation dairy
specialist told dairy division
members of the South Carolina
Farm Bureau Marketing Associ
ation recently.
corn and wheat production, is an
exception. In 1941 Mexican farm
ers produced 11 bushels of wheat
an acre and the country had to
import wheat to avoid starva
tion, Today production is up to
35 bushels an acre and Mexico
exports wheat. Mexico has also
sent its own agricultural team
tc India and Pakistan.
Crossbreeding is familiar to
every farmer. Breeding in the
best of a variety of traits and
breeding out weak traits has
produced hardier animals and
more nutritious crops.
Crossbreeding those technolo
gies having to do with the pro
duction. storage and distribution
of food is, perhaps, the single
most important task facing men
today. A vast job of information
cataloging and communications
has only been started
The future is being sowed now.
And the message is clear. The
Director-General of the United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization, Binay Sen. says
"Either we take the fullest
measures both to raise product
ivity and to stabilize population
growth, or we face a disaster of
unprecedented magnitude . . .
Problems of hunger and malnu
trition which afflict more than a
half of the world’s population ..
.pose a serious threat to peace.”
Nothing miraculous will allevi
ate the present food shortage.
The pooling of diverse disci
plines represents our only hope
to avert the violent upheavals
sure to result from world-wide
starvation.
Hollis HnUip’d, assistant di
rector of AFBF’s research and
commodity activities division,
told dairymen the "butter story
will not be repeated if the milk
industry adapts itself to the
changing marketing structure.”
He said that handling of milk
in many U.S. markets is largely
determined by “vested interests,
including labor unions, trying to
maintain the status quo,”
The dairy industry has only
two real choices, Hatfield said:
(1) follow the butter route and
lose another 25 percent or more
of the dairy market to substi
tutes, or (2) follow the frozen
dessert route, meet the substi
tute competition, and increase
dairy product sales.
He explained the recommen
dations of the AFBF national
dairy advisory committee, ap
proved by the organization's
Board of Directors, which “are
based upon the assumption that
the dairy industry cannot com
pete effectively with substitute
fluid milk products by moving
further behind 'protective' reg
ulatory and pricing barriers.”
“Milk substitutes are here to
stay,” Hatfield said, in spite of
reports that many of the non
dairy imitations have been pull
ed off the market. “The worst
thing that could happen to the
U S dairy industry is to sit back
with a sigh of relief and say ‘we
told you so ’ The absence of non
dairy fluid milk substitutes will
be for only as long as it takes
the laboratory technicians to
remedy problems in their prod
ucts and to perfect them
“Fortunately, there is a grow
ing feeling throughout the dairy
industry that its approach to
marketing is due for a change.
The desire to promote the sale
of milk and milk products for
any use the market demands ex
emplifies this change in atti
tude.”
Hatfield pointed to laws and
regulations which deter or pro
hibit the sale of dairy products
in forms other than the standard
types as being a major challenge
to the U S. dairy industry.
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