—Lancaster Far min*. Saturday, Dec 20. 1975
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Executive says society limits farm output
ANAHEIM. Calif. -
Society, not science nor
technology, will determine
the world's ability to feed its
growing population, the
nation’s home economists
were told here earlier this
month
Speaking at a meeting of
the National Association of
Vocational Home Economics
Teachers, Philip G Connell,
Jr, said science can ao
Soil testing up
The number of soil teats
being made at Penn State
University Merkle
Laboratory for the State of
Pennsylvania is growing
This past year 64,530 sam
ples were analyzed and
recommendations mat.
This is up from 55,560 it 19
Greatest increases
sample numbers came frm,.
farm crop uses followed
closely by home owner
samples
The most m, -rtant
Poultry groups certified
Fifty-two egg producer
organizations have been
certified by the US.
Department of Agriculture
to participate m selecting an
Egg Board to operate a
possible Egg Research and
Promotion Order
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complish what society
allows. However, the
productivity of science in
food production, he added, is
directly related to regulation
which determines what
technology can be
developed, and to incentives
which offer the opportunity
to profit from the money
invested
Connell,
potential is on the farm and
many farmers have not
taken advantage of this
important tool soil testing.
Soil testing is the most
economic use of a $3 m
\cstment on any top
t >ro ‘arm Samples
\ 'cii i ted now while
)urd is not frozen
. pie kits are available
f'f cumerous fertilizer
outlets and county
Agncultui al Extension
Offices
out the provisions of an Egg
Research and Promotion
Order as authorized by the
Egg Research and Con
sumer Information Act of
1974.
USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service earlier
had notified egg producer
organizations, associations,
or cooperatives that they
should submit requests for
certification by Nov. 21 if
they wished to nominate Egg
Board members and their
alternates. In its cer
tification request, each
organization submitted
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Agrlcultuial Division of
American Cyanamid
Company, cautioned that
society would have to begin
thinking in terms of numbers
of meals as well as other
environmental factors in
making decisions. He cited
recent action against
pesticides and possible
action against animal feed
additives as examples of how
regulation can affect the
food supply.
“These and all regulatory
actions are cumulative. In
fact these regulatory ac
tions, added together, can
reduce the com supply by
enough calones to feed more
than 85 million people each
year,” he stated.
“While regulation is
essential,” Connell added,
“it can also be costly. We
need to do more than pay
lipseruce to benefit-risk
considerations; we must
recognize that the benefit we
are talking about is food; its
supply, quality and price.”
Technology already exists
which, if fully utilized can
president,
pertinent data as to the
nature, size, stability,
permanency, and functions
of its operations.
Organizations in this
region which were certified
include; Northeastern
Poultry Producers Council,
Fairless Hills, Pa.; Penn
sylvania Farmers’
Association, Camp Hill, Pa.;
Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation, Harrisburg,
Pa.; Poultry and Egg In
stitute of America,
Washington, D C
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food supply, the home
economists were told. Even
In the U.S., com yields in
1975 averaged only 37
bushels per acre, while the
better American farmers
produced more than 150
bushels and record yields
are higher than 300 bushels
per acre.
“What can we accomplish
if wc only bring our own
agriculture up to its present
potential with existing
technology, and effectively
pass that technology to
others?” Connell asked.
“The answer is exciting.”
Future possibilities in
clude increased feed ef
ficiency in livestock, better
pest control in crops, plants
which use water and
nutrients more efficiently,
and a long list of other
scientific possibilities, the
agribusiness leader said.
However, food production
is the result of a complex
web,” he cautioned. “Most of
the strands in that web are
controlled by society, not by
the agricultural com
munity.”
Society must provide the
farmer, American and
foreign, with effective
demand to increase his
production, Connell told his
audience. Such incentives
must permit the fanner to
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see a possible benefit from
his increased efforts. While
widespread poverty is the
primary limiting factor of
food production, the speaker
said, arbitrary and sudden
embargoes or regulations,
price ceilings and other
political opportunism reduce
effective demand and
discourage production
Society must also provide
an economic clima x wh ch
makes production . .oital
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It must also provide, through
education, an understanding
of the food production
complex and its
requirements so that the
farmer "is not a voice crying
in the wilderness."
‘‘The research
laboratories of agribusiness
produce new technology, and
farmers adopt that new
technology,” Connell con
cluded, “in direct proportion
to the incentives society
provides."
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