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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Jan. 31.1976
Butz addresses York meeting
YORK U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz. made
an appearance in York a week ago yesterday (Friday), to
speak before the 13th annual Agribusiness Seminar, spon
sored jointly by the York County Agricultural Extension
Service and the York Area Chamber of Commerce.'
Displaying a sense of humor much of it “canned" since
he uses the same Jokes over and over again at different
speaking engagements Butz had the audience laughing
intermittently. Although this paragraph is not Intended to be
an editorial column, it could be said that the Secretary’s
presentation was more entertaining rather than revealing of
agricultural policies. More than anything, it was, perhaps, a
talk stressing the importance and potential of agriculture.
The reader is Invited to judge for himself, as we present the
bulk of Butz’s speech;
“It’s a real pleasure being here I commend you for this
agri-business seminar that I understand the Chamber of
Commerce sponsors,” Butz said. Upon learning that the
Extension Service was also involved with it, he quipped: “I
should know that anything worthwhile, Extension takes
credit for.” After a burst of laughter, he acknowledged:
“And usually they deserve it too.”
A minute or two of small talk followed, then he focused for
a time on agribusiness.
“Agribusiness has kind of a bad connotation in this
country. The word agribusiness has kind of a bad con
notation,” be continued. “When I was up for confirmation
four years ago the liberals in there beat me over the bead
without mercy because I had had some association with
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agribusiness. This wax evil. It’s not at all I think it’s great.
We are all part of this great food and fibre complex in
America.” (The audience was divided nearly half and half
between farmers and agri businessmen.) “And anybody who
tries to send one sect of that against another is doing a great
disservice to this whole agricultural complex in America.
“Because this milk that came from a Holstein cow out here
this morning one of these farms doesn’t have much
value until it’s packaged either as milk or butter or cheese or
whatever it may be and attractively displayed in a super
market counter in Philadelphia or New York. That's
agribusiness. The bushel of wheat produced on a Kansas
farm doesn’t have much value ... until it’s an attractive
breakfast roll in a Philadelphia pastry shop. That’s
agribusiness. When I was on a farm back in Indiana we used
to produce our own power ... we had a colt or two foaled
each year. We produced our own fuel we raised oats and
hay. We produced our own nitrogen and we hauled it out of
the cow stable. Now somebody supplies it much more ef
fectively than we did it then, and at much lower cost That’s
agribusiness. It’s all a part of this food and fibre complex.
And somebody says: ‘Yea, but they make a profit.’ I say: T
hope they do.’ Like farmers, they deserve to, that’s what
they’re in business for.
“The other day I was in a news conference somewhere out
here in one of the larger cities and some woman who must
have been the food editor she asked a question with a kind
of a sneer in her voice. She said: ‘Well, aren’t farmers
making money?’ I said ‘I hope so, I think that’s what they’re
in business for.
“You can’t convince me that some of you chaps in this
room get up at five o’clock in the morning, seven mornings a
▼eek and go out to the cow stable because you like to
,*ate with Holsteins. I think you have a higher motive in
tjpn that. As somebody said: “I think you’re not that
it’s good that we sit down together and examine this
iood and fibre complex, or somebody has called it the
chain.’ That sounds like a grocery store, doesn’t it? It
i clear back here at a gas well from which we make
;en ... from which we make grain, from which we
milk and meat, and then it goes right on to those who
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process it and merchandise it. It's all part of that business.
There’s only about five per cent of us in America on farms?
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