Animal agriculture
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animals actually eat less
Furthermore, Baumgardt than one per cent of this
pointed out, animals can nation’s food grains. On an
utilize “waste products’’ all inclusive basis, animals
sudi as meat scraps, whey, receive their nutrition from
and even manure. In the -roughages (62 per cent), feed
production of flour, for grains, (30 per cent), by
example, It takes 138 pounds products seven per cent, and
of wheat to make 100 pounds food grains less than one per
of flour. Animals receive the cent. Ruminants use even
by-product. more forages in their diets
Research at Penn State and thus make use of what
and elsewhere across the man can’t eat and turn it into
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country has shown that
products which he can
digest.
Baumgardt let it be known
that this country does not
have a number one ranking
in any livestock category.
India, for example, has 18
per cent of all the cattle and
buffalo in the world and 17
per cent of all goats. China
has 35 per cent of the hogs,
Australia and Russia each
have 14 per cent of the
world’s sheep population.
The difference often is,
Baumgardt explained, that
other countries lack the will
or technology to efficiently
utilize their animal
resources. Yet this country
has been criticized from
time to time for keeping its
animals in alleged com
petition with man’s food
supplies.
Baumgardt disagrees.
Animals are a part of our
food supply, our ecosystem
and the agricultural
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Americans have responded
favorably to grain-fed beef,
for example, due to its
palatability.
Among the more unusual
capabilities of animals - and
their usefulness in our
economy - are;
The utilization of ‘wastes’
such as sawdust, feathers,
old newspapers, garbage,
and manure.
They also use crop by
products such as stalks,
stover, and pea vines.
Marginal lands become a
part of the agricultural
economy. Industrial by
products such as brewers
and distillers grains, beet
pulp, citrus pulp, cannery
wastes, bakery residues, and
packaging industry products
become sources of animal
feeds.
Livestock also provide a
market outlet to maintain
productivity and
profitability of our total
plant crop agricultural
system, Baumgardt said.
Furthermore, they can be
gleaners and scavengers.
“People farm and raise
animals as a way of life,” the
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct. 16,1976
PFA to meet
in Gettysburg
CAMP HILL, Pa. - The
26th annual meeting and
convention of the Penn
sylvania Farmers’
Association will be held Nov.
7-10 at the Sheraton In
ternational Inn in Get
tysburg, according to John
R. Pitzer, president of the
state farm group. Ap
proximately 1,000 farmers
and their wives are expected
to attend.
The convention theme is
Power, Freedom, Ad
vancement.
professor concluded, “but
perhaps most importantly as
a way to make a living.
Feeding patterns and all else
will change in accord with
competitive alternate uses
on a world-wide basis.”
Although the state
organization will be spen
ding most of its time at the
convenion working on policy
positions for the coming
year, the election of
president will be a major
highlight. The purpose of the
annual meeting is the
adoption of policy positions
and the election of officers.
The term of John R. Pit
zer, PFA president expires
this year. The actual annual
business meeting will take
place Wednesday, the last
day of the farmer con
ference.
Allan Grant, president of
the American Farm Bureau,
will address the annual
awards banquet Tuesday
evening. Awards for out
standing programs of county
units will also be presented.
Other speakers scheduled
are:
The Rev. Lawrence
Lykens, pastor, Camp Curtin
Memorial United Methodist
Church, Harrisburg, at the
vespers service Sunday,
Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
Murray Miles, information
director, Tennessee Farm
Bureau, at the opening
luncheon Monday, Nov. 8, at
12 noon.
Jack Armstrong, deputy
administrator, Farmers’
Cooperative Service, USDA,
and Noel Stuckman,
manager, Michigan
Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Association, both
at the affiliate services
conference Monday, Nov. 8,
at 2 p.m.
John R, Pitzer, PFA
president, at breakfast
Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 7 a.m.
Mrs. Charles Benner, PFA
Women’s Committee
chairman, and Miss Jean
Werts, women’s activities
director, Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation, both at the PFA
Women’s conference
Tuesday, at 3 p.m.
Charles R. Ord, PFA
administrative secretary, at
breakfast Wednesday, Nov.
10 at 7:40 a.m.
Hie delegates will hear
reports about different PFA
business affiliates, including
Charles R. Dull, manager,
Pennsylvania Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing
Association; William Deeds,
state sales manager. In
surance Services; Charles
H. Mohn, manager, PFA
Supply Division; and
Richard E. Denison,
manager, Farm
Management and Business
Analysis Service.
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