Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11, 1972
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Butz Hails
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2
Secretary of Agriculture Ean L.
Butz said the United States has
“entered a new era as a world
food supplier” with $lO billion of
U S agricultural exports ex
pected in the fiscal year ending
next June 30
“This represents almost a 25
per cent increase in our farm
exports in a one-year span, and
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preliminary research at the
Vermont Agricultural Ex
periment Station The finding, if
confirmed by additional
research could mean an extra
billion pounds of food for the
nation without extra production
costs Broiler cockerels raised
under narrow-band green light
gamed almost four ounces more
than other birds on the same
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feed This is a 12 per cent dif
ference
In a second key finding, the
researchers noted that narrow
band red light stimulated
reproductive development. They
speculate that narrow red and
narrow green, in combination,
could speed the development of
pullets This might start them
laying sooner and speed the
production of large eggs. The
researchers are also attempting
to learn the mechanism by which
the different wavelengths affect
the birds Activity seems to
center on the pineal gland, a tiny
organ attached to the brain and
sometimes called “the third
eye ” But exactly what happens
is still a mystery
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7:30 FARM & HOME CENTER
- Guest Speakers - Agriculture Extension in the 70’s, by
Max Smith, Jay Irwin, and Joan Lucas.
- Election of four member committeemen
- Management Reports
- Selections by Garden Spotters Quartet.
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reaching the $lO billion goal,” the
Secretary said.
“Russia’s purchase of about
$1.2 billion worth of wheat, corn
and soybeans accounted for
around half the total increase
forecast over last fiscal year’s
$B.l billion in agricultural ex
ports,” Mr. Butz said.
The Soviet Union, which bought
only $l5O million worth of
American farm products last
fiscal year, vaults to the number
two position as a customer of the
U.S. agriculture with its pur
chases this year. Russia is second
only to Japan, the long-time one
country leader which has
projected farm purchases this
fiscal year of $1.5 billion.
“We expect the USSR to
remain a major importer of gram
for possible the next 3 to 5 years,”
the Secretary said
The Secretary said the
projected farm exports “will give
the United States a $3.5 billion
balance of trade surplus in the
agricultural area,” for this fiscal
year
“This increase should reduce
the nation’s overall trade deficit
below last year’s $5.1 billion
mark, despite an expected in
crease in the non-farm deficit this
year,” the Cabinet officer said
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