—Lancaster Firming. Saturday, Nov. 29.1975
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Ag official
speaks on
COLUMBUS. Ohio - Dr.
Richard Fettner, Assistant
Secretary o( Agriculture (or
Consumer and Mutating
Service* said recently “the
long maaaive wealth
draining migration of
millions of farm and rural
resident* to cities has slowed
to nearly a standstill.”
Feltner was the guest
speaker at a Rural America
Luncheon sponsored by the
National Grange in
Columbus, Ohio, where the
Grange held its Annual
Convention, Nov. 10-18.
Feltner said “the rural
turn around” is due to
“urban people looking for
the tranquility and values of
country and small town
life.” He said job op
portunities in rural America
from 1970 to 1974 increased
twice as fast as city jobs
because business and in
dustry are placing plants,
laboratories and offices in
small town areas. He said
this trend offers op
portunities for the smaller
Waste management parley
scheduled in lowa
ANKENY, lowa Two address a luncheon session
leaders in the nation’s en- on Tuesday, March 16; and
vironmental protection Thomas F. ' Williams,
movement will address the director of the technical
national conference on information staff in the U.S.
“Land Application of Waste Environmental Protection
Materials,” March 15-18, Agency’s Office of Solid
1976, in Des Moines, lowa. Waste Management
Richard H. Briceland, Programs, will speak at the
director of the Illinois En- banquet on Wednesday,
vironmental Protection March 17.
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migration
communities to provide
those people with many of
the programs, facilities and
services they’ve always
wanted.
Feltner also said this is a
new era for agriculture
Inasmuch as the earth’s
population and demand for
food will nearly double
during the next 25 years. He
said the lion’s share of the
needed increase in world
food production must take
place in the less developed
countries ax there is no
possible way to U.S. or other
developed nations can feed
the world.
Feltner also pointed out
some difficulties UJS. far
mers and ranchers face in
increasing their production.
Re singled out the huge
amount of capital neede,
inflation, skyrocketing
expenses, need for more
young fanners and need for
more understanding on the
part of non-farm people
concerning the requirements
of today’s modern
agriculture.
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Granger named to ag council
HAIUUBBURG The vironmeotal problems could Other members of'the Oriinliitioni, Aaron
Department of ‘ En- replace o* Committee are: Rape. Kent Stauffer, Lancaster County
vlronmantal Resources’ farmers acquiring State and Shelbamer, D-Columbla, and Conservation District
Agricultural Advisory Federal environmental Marvin Weldner, R-Bucks, Director, and Walter N.
Committee has elected J. permits. Sens. Patrick J. Stapleton. Heine, DER Associate
Luther Snyder of the Peon- D-Indiana, and WOllamß. Deputy Secretary for Mines
sylvania State Grange as The Committee has Lents, R-Dauphln, Ted end Land Protection and
chairman tor 1976 and corresponded with the UJB. Fairbanks, Pennsylvania Afton Schadel, Chief of
embarked on development of Farmers Union, Harry DER’s Division of Soil
a “best management Ulrich. Pennsylvania Resources and Erosion
practices” approach to Council of Farm Control,
solving farm environmental
problems.
Snyder was elected at a
recent committee meeting at
which Cheater Helm, Penn
sylvania Farmers
Association, was named
vice-chairman.
Hie Agricultural Advisory
Committee was named by
DER Secretary Maurice K.
Goddard to advise the
agency in the development of
rule* and regulations and
policies and procedures
relating to agriculture and to
open and maintain channels
of communication with the
fanning community.
Development of a “best
management practices”
approach to farm en-
Illinois agency for nearly
two yean. He previously
served for two yean as
director of technical support
and special projects in the
U.S. EPA’s Office of Air and
Water Programs.
Williams was promoted to
his current post in 1971 after
serving more than a year as
the assistant to the EPA
administrator on public
affairs.
The conference is being
sponsored by the Soil Con
servation Society of
America, a nonprofit
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Agency urging that proposed
new Federal regulations
affecting farmers Include
the “best management
practices” approach.
A Manure Management
Work Group appointed by
the Committee is developing
a handbook for use by far
mers to enable them to
design manure handling
facHites in compliance with
environmental requirements.
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pects to focus its attention on
many other problems of
Pennsylvania farmers with
Initial emphasis on erosion
control requirements and
education and training, of
DER inspectors, extension
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vironmental - farming
problems and concerns.
servatioaists with an interest
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include the American
Society of Agronomy, Soil
Science Society of America,
American Society of
Agricultural Engineers, and
National Association of
Conservation Districts.
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ference is to review the
science and art of using land
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mediumw ith emphasis on ■
how wastes can be used as
nutrients to enhance plant
growth without damaging
land resources.
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