Farm Group Seeks To Bring
Farmers, Consumers Together
What part do farmers play
in the economic problems to
today? What arc they trying
to do to help? What would It
be like to live on a farm'’
Many who would otherwise
have little or no opportunity
to find out arc about to do so,
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Council of America brings its
Direct Touch program to
town beginning next month.
The ongoing campaign will
"provide grassroots contact
between people who buy food
and fiber, and those who
grow it," according to ACA
Chairman Baxter Freese,
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cattleman from Wellman,
lowa.
After a highly successful
test effort in Chicago and the
Midwest last fall, ACA feels
the time is right to present
its unique program to mass
city audiences in the Eastern
states of New York, New
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Leesport, PA
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Ross H. Rohrer & Sons
Quarryville, PA
(717) 786-3372
Paradise Supply Co.
Paradise, PA
(717) 687-6292
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Elizabethtown, PA
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Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware and the
District of Columbia, During
the next few weeks, many in
the area will have a chance
to actually visit a farm, or
talk directly to someone
responsible for putting food
on our tables, and generally
leam what things arc really
like on the farm.
One of the first phases of
Direct Touch involves city
farm exchanges, where
selected families spend a
three-day weekend on a
working farm during the
harvest. Farm families will
later spend a weekend in the
city as guests of the same
family who visited them.
Last fall’s Chicago “Swap"
resulted not only in better
understanding between city
and farm - both among those
who actually participated
and those who merely read
or heard of the experience
through the media - but
lasting friendships as well.
And when two farm par
ticipants scheduled their
return visit recently, so
many of the city families’
neighbors were interested
that discussions had to be
held in the banquet room of
an area hotel.
A “Farm Line” is also
being set up in the five-state
region. Interested con
sumers will be able to dial a
toll-free number and talk
directly to a farmer or
rancher who will answer
their questions about
agriculture. Dates of
operation have yet to be
pinned down, but ACA hopes
to open the lines two con
secutive nights each month,
with different commodity
groups -- wheat, dairy,
cattle, etc - taking turns
manning the phones. In
coming calls kept the lines at
peak capacity during last
falls’ test in Chicago.
Two other Direct Touch
programs of note scheduled
for operation here involve
panel discussions between
farmers and influential
consumer leaders, and in the
symbolic sense “deeding”
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The Agriculture Council of
America is a non-profit
organization headquartered
In Washington, D.C. It is
made up of individual far
mers and ranchers;
representatives of various
farmers and ranchers;
representatives of various
farm organizations; and
businesses that supply farm
equipment, fertilizers and
other items necessary for
production.
It was formed, according
to chairman Freese,
primarily to build a base of
public support for
agriculture. He pointed out
that during the past 150
years America has shifted
from a nation of people who
were mostly farmers, to a
country in which 95 percent
of the population is con
centrated in urban areas.
Most have lost sight of how
droughts, fuel crises, strikes
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and boycotts can affect food
and fiber production and,
consequently, th>
availability and cost o'
everyone’s basic needs.
“All our programs ar
aimed at putting city pcopl
and farm people in touc.
with each other - face l
face, by phone or mail - s
we can all learn more about
the interaction betwee t
those who buy and those wh;
grow," Freese said. "Ou
experiences in Chicago
proved that a better un
derstanding of the problem i
faced by both consumers anil
farmers will result, and it i.
hoped that, as we extend oui
efforts nationally, we car
find ways of working
together to improve our food
supply system so everyone
will benefit."
Anyone wishing further
information about the
Agriculture Council of
America can contact ACA at
Suite 1025, 1625 Eye Street,
N. W., Washington, D.C.
20006.
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