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Ag official says
grain agreement essential
“The only person in the
food production chain whose
neck is out all the way ia the
farmer. That’s why the
Russian grain agreement ia
so essential,” Kenneth E.
Frick, Administrator of the
Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service
(ASCS), told Pennsylvania
ASCS officials gathered for a
PENN VALLEY CROPSTORE INC.
meeting recently in
Champion, Pennsylvania.
"The certainty of Russian
purchases will be a plus for
both the farmer and the
consumer,” Frick said,
“because ft will promote
efficient agricultural
production. The U.S.S.R. has
become a guaranteed
market the farmer can plan
and plant for.”
Continuing on the con*
ference theme of In
ternational Trade - The Key
to Prosperity, Edward D.
Hews, Director of the ASCS
Eastern Region, emphasized
the need to get food moving
into export channels. “Over
the next 25 years world
population will double,” be
said. “It is essential for
American agriculture to
meet the challenge of a
hungry world by likewise
increasing production and
focusing on the world
market.”
YOU AND YOUR WIFE FOR LUNCHEON
“FUTURE FOR TOMORROW”
SPEAKERS: GEORGE LEWIS & GEOFF FEAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1975
NAME
ADDRESS
HOW MANY.
Torgenson named director
WASHINGTON -
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz recently an
nounced the appointment of
Dr. Randall E. Torgerson as
administrator of Farmer
Cooperative Service (PCS).
Dr. Torgerson had been
serving as staff economist to
the administrator of
Agricultural Marketing
Service, U.S, Department of
Agriculture, since January
1874 on a special assignment
from the University of
Missouri. He succeeds Dr.
Ronald D. Knutson, who
resigned in August to
become professor of
agricultural policy and
Both Frick and Hews
termed rural development
and conservation important
in achieving efficient crop
production. Frick said -
government cost-share funds
are spent to improve and
correct conservation
deficiencies in rural areas.
Conference participants
(farmer-elected ASC county
committeemen, county
office staffers and State
personnel) also attended
workshops covering the
current trends in con
servation, crop disaster
insurance and farm
markets.
PaulH. Keeney, Chairman
of the Berks County ASC
Committee; Mark S.
Balthaser and Donald E.
Lutz, committee members;
Henry E. Bohn, Sr., ASCS
County Executive Director;
and Dianne F. Younker &
Janice E. Miller, program
assistants, attended the two
day conference.
Invites ...
AND A PRESENTATION
10:30 AM. TO 2:30 P.M. SHARP
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marketing at Texas A&M
University.
As administrator of PCS,
Dr. Torgerson will direct the
research and technical
assistance efforts of 60
agricultural economists and
cooperative specialists. PCS
programs are designed to
increase the efficiency of the
nation’s 7,700 farmer - owned
cooperatives involved in the
production and marketing of
the nation’s food and fiber.
These cooperatives have
about 6 million members
(many fanners are a
member of more than one
cooperative) and have a
combined annual business
volume in excess of $22
billion.
Dr. Torgerson is the
author of numerous articles
and two books related to
farmer cooperatives. As an
associate professor at the
University of Missouri -
Columbia, he taught
cooperative business
organizations, management
programs of cooperative
firms, and economics of
collective action in
agriculture.
He served as executive
secretary of the Missouri
Institute of Cooperatives,
1969-73, and as executive
secretary of the Graduate
Institute of Cooperative
Leadership, University of
Missouri, 1971-74. His father,
Truman Torgerson, is
general manager of Lake to
Lake Dairy Cooperative,
Manitowoc, Wis., a
cooperative whose annual
sales approach $6O million.
Dr. Torgerson, 36, native
of Wisconsin, earned a
bachelor degree from the
University of Minnesota and
master’s and doctor's
degrees from the University
of Wisconsin, all in
agricultural economics. He
attended the Swedish Center
for Cooperative Develop
ment in 1962-63 and was a
Fulbright Graduate Fellow
at the Agricultural College of
Norway in 1965-66.
His book, “Producer
power at the Bargaining
Table: A Case Study of
Legislative Life of 5.109,”
was winner of the 1970
Curators’ Publication Award
at the University of
Missouri. He also authored
“Farm Bargaining,” a
description of this fanner
activity in Norway and
Sweden.
He is married to the for
mer Susan Grace Grundahl.
They have one son, Knut
Everett, age 3.