—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4, 1972
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Pressures Both Here and Abroad Are Reasons:
Unity in National Farm Indnstr
A unified slogan for
agriculture, such as “Better
Nutrition.”
That’s one of many things
which U. S. farmers need to do in
order to survive in the changing
U. S. scene, local farmers at
tending the annual Ortho banquet
were told Monday night by Dr.
Malcolm H. McVickar, national
manager of agronomy of the
Chevron Chemical Company.
He explained that the Beef
Cattle people have a slogan of
“Better Beef” and the sheep and
other groups have similar
slogans for their own products.
But the farm community needs to
unify behind a slogan which is big
enough for everybody.
And “Better Nutrition” is one
slogan which can encompass the
slogans of all the farm groups,
according to Dr. McVickar.
Dr. McVickar came to Lan
caster all the way from San
Francisco to be the featured
speaker at the P. L. Rohrer and
Brothers banquet at the Meadow
Hills Dining Hall.
“I think what we do in the next
few years will largely depend on
how important agriculture will be
or what it will do,” Dr. McVickar
stated. He has received many
national agronomy awards and
other recognitions for his role in
U. S. farming.
One in Three Related
The speaker also emphasized
the importance of joining far
ming with related jobs in in
dustry to develop a unified ap
proach. While the numbers of
farmers continue to decline and
farmers now only total about 2.9
million persons and this figure
will drop to an estimated 900,000
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farmer thinking of himself as one
in 20 and trying to convince 19
other persons, he needs to work
closely with the related industrial
occupations so that he is only
about one in three and only needs
to convince about two other
persons.
Among those jobs closely
aligned with agriculture, he
noted, are truckers, grocers,
butchers and many others. He
also urged enlisting support of
women of the family in telling the
farm story.
A hand written letter to of
ficials “simply expressing
yourself” will help, he stated.
One issue he particularly
singled out as needing attention
by fanners, is the environmental
issue. “Unless we watch our
selves, agriculture is going to
become the whipping board of the
environmental issue.”
But he emphasized that far
mers already are leaders in the
environmental issue and that
there are irresponsible proposals
that would hamper the farmer.
The proposal to reduce nitrogen
levels in the soil in Illinois alone
could cause a food price increase
nationally of three to five per
cent, he estimated. Such an anti
nitrogen program nationally
could increase food prices many
times that much, he said.
The fallacy of the efforts to
curb application of nitrogen on
the land is that “85 per cent of the
nitrogen drained off each year is
from decomposition of organic
material,” he noted.
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Among those participating in the annual
Ortho banquet Monday night at Meadow
Hills are: left to right, Willis Rohrer, of P. L.
Rohrer and Brothers, Inc., Smoketown; Dr.
Malcolm McVickar, national manager of
agronomy of the Chevron Chemical
Company, and Dr. Richard M. Thorup,
regional agronomist of Chevron Chemical
Dr. McVickar stated, “We’re
living in an era of com
munications when people can be
swayed by things which seem to
be spectacular whether they’re
true or not.”
Dr. McVickar began his talk
with a description of “the world
situation and how that situation
affects agriculture” by
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food crisis.
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it took 1,500 years for that
population to double. By 1900 the
figure had increased to 1.5 billion
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Company. Dr. McVickar punctuated his talk
with demonstrations which included
pushing a limber straw through a potato.
McVickar spoke on the world farm
situation and the need for U. S. farm unity,
while Thorup explained the need for high
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and in the two-thirds century
since then the population has
doubled again to three billion.
“In India, which is one-fourth
the size of U. S., there’s two and
one-half times the number of
people. This means India is 10
times as densely populated as the
U.S”
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