—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fab. 28. 1976
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Machinery exhibits at the recently displays were, left to right Clarence
held Southeastern Pa. Corn Clinic and Stauffer Reifsnyder and Paul
and Trade Show attracted farmers. Weaver, all from the Royersford area.
Trading opinions near one of the
Grain sales to Russia
I Continued from Pace 1)
are expected to be an
nounced at a later date
which falls more closely to
Midwestern primaries.
Moore was in this small
town on the outskirts of
Philadelphia to take part in
the Southeast Pennsylvania
Corn Growers Clinic and
Trade Show, a two-day affair
which drew several hundred
visitors.
Although Moore hit the
nail right on the head
regarding grain sales to
Russia, he was reluctant to
make predictions due to the
many factors involved. He
cited no less than 10 con
ditions which can have an
effect on the direction of
prices. He did say however,
that be personally believes
that sales to the Soviet Union
are overemphasized. He
noted that Japan was our
best customer and that a
Mini
officers
Larry Wiker, Lititz R 2,
was elected president of the
Lancaster County Mini-farm
Coop at a recent meeting.
Other officers elected were
John Murphy, Conestoga -
vice president; Mrs. Charles
Cox, New Providence,
secretary; Eugene
Degenhart, Lancaster as
treasurer.
The group met for an
educational meeting on
Friday evening and heard
Dr. Walter Trumbauer,
veterinarian from Ephrata
speak on the care of small
farm animals.
Organized last March, the
mini-farm coop is open to
any individual with a small
amount of land which he
farms as an avocation. The
number of foreign countries
buy more of our grain than
does Russia. The ag
economist believed that the
U.S. government bad caused
American farmers to lose
considerable sales when it
stalled grain sales last Fall
in order to give Russian
interests a higher degree of
priority.
Moore sees an expanding
grain exports program
ahead for the United States
and presented figures for the
past 20 years which showed a
definite trend in that
direction.
The Corn Clinic and Trade
Show, held here at the
Westover Inn and Golf Club,
had two programs going on
simultaneously and featured
no less than a dozen guest
speakers representing
universities and
agribusiness. Topics on the
agenda included weed
farm
elected
group cooperates in pur
chasing, sharing of equip
ment, trading and ex
changing labor and skills.
Population Explosion
It has been estimated that
before the beginnings
of agriculture—some 8,000
years ago—the world prob
ably supported no more than
five to 10 million people By
AD 1, this probably ranged
from 200 to 400 million
people In 1750, the human
population neared 800
million By 1850, it was 1 3
billion people, which nearly
doubled by 1950 In 1975,
there were about 3 9 billion
people on our planet and
some 7 billion people will
live on earth by 2,000 A D
identification; weed control;
sprayer calibration; “com
crystal balling;” fertility
and pH; no-till pointers;
harvesting, drying and
storage of com; economics
of corn handling; world
grain markets; the
marketing gamfe; and com
production costs
calculations.
Approximately 25
agribusinesses bad displays
and representatives on band
to assist farmers with any
questions and curiosities
they may have had con
cerning their respective
products.
More stories on the Com
Clinic are forthcoming in
next week’s issue.
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