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us. They might advertise
beef, but they sure don’t
promote it.
Advertising and sales
promotion are but two facets
of merchandising. Much
more than this is envisioned
when this program is im
plemented. To mention a
few:
- Better packaging and
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handling of beef since in
dustry methods have
changed little in 100 years.
- Research in the human
nutrition field, as more is,
known about poultry and
swine nutrition than human.
- Scientific, not emotional,
investigation into the cancer
and cholesterol con
troversies as far as beef is
concerned.
- Material for diet and
nutritional education in the
schools.
- Better cattle and beef
statistics, as USDA figures
are notoriously unreliable
and manipulative.
- Public relation cam
paigns to counter future
consumer beef boycotts that
are sure to come when prices
rise, as rise they must if we
are to stay in business.
This program gives cattle
producers a chance to get a
hold of their own industry
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and affairs and to run them
for their better benefit.
Another correspondent
moans about the voting
procedures. The present
voting procedures are not
those originally advocated
by the Beef Development
Task Force. They were
arrived at through
negotiation and compromise
with USDA and ASCS. It was
this or nothing and three
years of hard work would
have gone down the drain
with the opportunity for such
a program probably never
arising again.
Another of your letter
writers sent me a copy of a
brochure on the Beef
Referendum put out by the
National Farmers’ Union
(NFU). Their literature was
true to form, full of half
truths, outright falsehoods
and not even clever in
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I don’t think that in
telligent cattle producers in
touch with today’s economic
realities can vote any other
way than “yes” in the Beef
Referendum July 5 through
15.
Sometime ago a letter
writer from lowa in another
ag publication' stated that
farmers and cattlemen are
being ground down by the
millstones of increased
costs, controlled markets
and many other things. We
all know this, but he added
“...you will have to find a
way out from between the
millstones....lf you don’t you
are doomed to a future of
peasantry, and you had
Farm Calendar
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Sunday, June 26
Red Lion Area Young
Farmers Picnic, Ellis
Growl farm, Airville,
12:30 pjn.
Adams County fruit growers’
tour to western New
York. Depart 10 a.m.
from Athletic Budding of
Upper Adams High
School.
Monday, June 27
Lancaster County 4-H
practice for physical
fitness team, 7 p.m. at
the Farm and Home
Center.
Penn-Ag Industries
Association hosts grain
meeting at Sheraton-
Conestoga, Lancaster.
Seminar 2 to 4 p.m.;
meeting follows dinner at
6:30.
Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation Youth Day,
tour bus leaves Lan
caster Farm and Home
Center at 8:30, stops
again ' at Agway
Warehouse between E
town and Middletown at
9:15.
Tuesday, June 28
Hunterdon County (N.J.)
dairy princess pageant.
Lancaster County 4-H
Demonstration and
Public Speaking contest
at the Farm and Home
Center at 1 p.m.
Wednesday, June 29
Regular monthly Board of
Directors meeting of the
Berks Co. Conservation
District at the Ag Center,
Leespoct, Pa. at 2 p.m.
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better give up the idea of
saving the old family farm
and save the children instead
by sending them into the
city.”
Maybe so, but there are a
whole lot of us who believe
very strongly that The Beef
Market Development Plan
will go a long way in
preventing what that lowan
fears.
Vote “yes” in the Beef
Referendum July 5 through
15.
Sincerely,
John W. Stump,
Chairman
Maryland Beef Development
Task Force
Thursday, June 30
York County 4-H Demon
stration Days, 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. at the 4-H Center in
Bair.
1977 Com Contest entries due
today for Elizabethtown
Young Farmers.
Friday, July 1
Deadline for fanners to have
submitted plans in ac
cordance with
Sedimentation Act.
Deadline for Montgomery
County fanners to apply
for Act 319 for 1978 tax
assessments.
Alfalfa
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seedings as an established
stand,” Baylor advised when
he began to talk about the
management of newly
established stands. He
recommends letting the crop
come to full bloom during its
first year to eliminate any
undue stress factors. That
gives the roots a chance to
strengthen and develop and
will boost yields in future
years.
The Penn State
agronomist also says that
there is no harm done in
allowing a field of alfalfa to
stand over Winter.
“Smothering is not a
problem,” he asserted. “It’s
more of a question of
whether you need the feed
and whether or not rodents
will harbor in the field if you
don’t cut it,” Baylor said.
In another part of the field
meeting, Nate Buckwalter,
representative of a feed
additive manufacturer,
explained the use of hay
preservatives. According to
Baylor, this relatively new
practice might save a field of
hay if weather threatens.
The cost of the applicator is
$350 and the propionic acid
retails for $1.30 per pound.
The rate of application is two
pounds per ton of hay baled.
The treatment enables a
farmer to bale his hay at a
higher moisture level, which
often times represents
greater protein content since
the sun has not drawn the
nutrients out of the hay while