Soybean Group Asks For Research Funds Biting soybean production costs and static yields are major factors demonstrating a need for more intensive soybean research, according to Vemon Scott of Tillar, Ark., chairman of the American Soybean Association (ASA) Research Committee. In testimony recently before the House and Senate appropriations sub committees on agriculture and related agencies, Scott SOUIHEAST GRAPE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION FIELD DAY and BARBECUE SATURDAY, MAY 17 | Rain Date, Saturday, May 24| 12 30 to 130 Registration Pequea Valley Winery. Willow Street 1 30 to 430 Field Demonstration on Grape Culture 500 to 7 00 Barbecue and Business Meeting COST OF TOUR & BARBECUE Members $4.00 Non Members 56.00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED !!! in • • • JACK F. TRACY independent republican candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER Pull lever - 5B - fora no nonsense VOTE FOR “JACK”, FARM* We Can’t Get Our Hands Out of The Soil Either! v> contended that soybean research has been hampered by lack of funds and asked Congress to increase its soybean research ap propriation. Althouth soybean production costs have doubled ifnee 1972, Scott said, yields have reached a plateau. "When figured on a five year average, our yields have increased less than 10 percent since the late 19505," BoxBo-B, RD4 Lebanon, PA Phone 867-4474 he stated. Scott uld cost per unit of production must be reduced if soy oil is to compete with Malaysian palm oil. wh'.ch costs very little to produce and currently is priced about $2OO per ton lets than soy oil on the domestic market. Palm oil production has increased 49 per cent since 1970 and will be a continuing source of future competition, he added. A lack of basic knowledge about the soybean plant, Hid Scott, has kept soybean scientists from un derstanding why the plant loses 70-80 per cent of its production capacity by aborting flowers at an early stage, why the soybean plant does not respond to nitrogen fertilizer the way most plants do, and why water moves less freely within the soybean plant than in other plants. "Considering the limited funds available to soybean production reasearch, our scientists have done on admirable Job," ho Hid. "The problem stems from the fact that we have not had enough funds, nor enough scientists." Noting that the U.S. soybean crop is currently valued at $8 billion, Scott Mid the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will spend only 15 million on soybean production research this year, or .06 of one per cent of the crop's value. The ASA representative asked Congressmen to support an additional $1.4 million appropriation for ARS soybean research and a funding increase of $1,252,000 for soybean research by the Cooperative States Research Service (CSRS). “CSRS makes excellent use of the federal funds supplies, "Scott contended. “For every dollar of federal appropriations, the CSRS invests another $2.60 from other sources in soybean research.” Scott said research to help lower per unit production cost would be beneficial to the nation’s consumers, who annually use about 600 million bushels of soybean per year in the form of soy oil, meal-fed meat and poultry, glue, food products and medicines. Mt. Joy Photography The Mt. Joy 4-H Photography Club held its second meeting on May 1. Members discussed the parts of the camera and how they work. Discussion was held on areas to visit for field trips. the next meeting will be held at the Glossbrenner’s Church in Mt. Joy. 411 W. Roseville Road Lancaster, PA Phone 393-3921 dub Meets CREDIT 3 At Farm Credit we know people who wouldn’t give up farming for anything. They farm part time, and hold down a city job too. We make loans to these people, the same as we do to full time farmers. Loans on anything to make farming easier, and pay better. Our interest rates are the lowest possible, our terms the longest around, and we’ll go out of our way to help you. You see, we know how farming can get in your blood. Because we grew up on farms ourselves. Lincoter Farmlni, Saturday. May 10,197& SEW WHAT? THI* •» PATTM4N * »i fttii mt * i Dm Au*t ItaM Ihd bfowi# with tcorfad FARM CREDIT We’re your kind of people. 14 E. Main St. Elizabethvilie, PA Phone 362-8115 II ttt ffistl ItflM wrf mtlh pv*h No ivm» i in tl#M 10 til M Sr/# f? ttewff W toWi yd <d 44 m A |lfM)rf ifcut l»f»ll fOW#| <#♦ I*# |>ftM#in CfKhrlil Stilt >■ A X!. S(o>#i or# ffc# rog# ogoin ond »#*»• on# t« #ip#(tol/y pr#My M i #oidr CfO(h#t#d ond ri o pro<fi<#/ ttmm to fio*# m four •orrfrofc# s#nrf tor fottarn No 990 Srmf SO# fn» #nrt> «/ r»u unffnrn 10# for *ikh »i*oc/J#*»Ofk poM*»rn fm/cl 15# for #Oft» iliril poffarn fO# for #oeh rt##rff#worfc poffnrn for moJmg nnd hon rff.ng) lo AUO«r |ANf lIU 9FAU Mornifldmi New Jttt*yo?9^o 43
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