—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8,1977
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Energy, future of farms,
topics
By KENDACE BORRY
LANCASTER - Energy
and the future of farms were
the topics of a morning
session of a PennAg Con
vention held recently. Ex
perts on both subjects spoke
to the group of agri-business
men
Francis Murray, a
Georgetown University
professor and qualified
Brown Swiss titles
HARRISBURG - Top
Acres Farm, St. Pans, Ohio,
was named premier breeder
and pemier exhibitor for
the second year at the 1977
Eastern National Brown
Swiss show held Tuesday at
the Farm Show complex as
part of the 14th Annual
Pennsylvania All-American
Dairy Show.
Top cow in the show was a
three-year-old, “Top Acres
Beauty Glare,” named
grand champion and senior
champion female, and
exhibited by the Top Acres
Farm. Another Top Acres
entry, six year old “Kilvrock
Snow Storm,” was named
reserve grand reserve senior
champion female.
Junior winners were a pair
of senior yearling heifers.
The junior champion female,
“Top Acres Barb Dee, was
exhibited by Top Acres, and
the reserve junior champion,
“La Rainbow Designing
Gisela,” was shown by La
Rainbow Farms, New
Knoxville, Ohio.
“Royal Hill Jemim J” took
the honors as the grand
champion bull for the third
straight year The three
Pennsylvania’s Gover
nor’s Mansion, which cost
$2 4 million to build in 1968,
remains fully furnished,
operated and staffed - but
Governor Shapp does not
live there or allow it to be
used for public functions
A message of importance to
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expert concerning energy,
told that an understanding of
the overall national energy
system is needed. He
compared figures from the
past years of energy going
into the system, converted,
used, or lost, and predicted
how these figures would
change m the future while
affecting the nation. He
noted that with the exisitmg
programs in the United
Ohio farm takes
year-old bull, also the senior
champion, was shown by
Royal Hill Farms of Fort
Wayne, Indiana. The reserve
grand champion bull was
“Blessing Captain Kero,” a
senior yearling which also
earned the junior cham
pionship. “Hero” was shown
by Blessmg Farms of Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
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States, more energy is being
used than can be produced
within the country, and that
the United States is now an
energy deficiency nation.
According to Murray the
energy demand is rising, due
to the growmg population,
the growmg labor force,
(with an expected over 20
million workers by the year
1990), the increase of the
Farm, Rocky Ridge,
Maryland. Reserve junior
champion was “Blessing
Lancer Ceasar,” a bull calf
owned by Blessmg Farms,
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The premier sire award
agam went to “Welcome In
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last owner was Curtis
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The judge for the Eastern
National Brown Swiss show
was Vemon C. Hull of
Strasburg, Virginia.
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standard of living, and the
improvement of the en-
All are factors in
the energy situation. He
added that the industrial
system is intensely energy
oriented.
In -order to keep a high
standard of living without
increasing the energy, there
is a need of making use of the
energy that is available,
Murray said. His estimates
showed that approximately
half of the energy produced
is lost in wasted heat,
transition of energy
changes, or other losses, and
never used.
According to Penn State
researchers Dr. Wesley R.
Kreibel and Dr. James
Beierlem, energy must be
managed or the general
public and businesses will
bear the consequenses.
Companies need energy
management, to plan and
reduce the business’s
vulnerability to energy
needs. The energy existing
must be better utilized.
The two men told the
group that they are in the
process of trying to devise a
model showing how much
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using slightly less energy
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age was the topic of Homer
K. Luttringer, from Sperry-
New Holland, Pa. Basically,
he speculated on how much
space would be left for the
farmer in the future.
Speakmg on the American
farmer in general, Lut
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farmer created the biggest
evolution and revolution in
the world, all through his
productivity. The American
farmer uses scientific
methods, new farm equip
ment,- improved plant
varieties, and loves his
work.
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all the prejudices and
political taboos were
forgotten, nobody m the
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feed eight times the world
population, but this is not
happening due to factors
such as not all farmers being
as productive as others, and
the type of products which
are bemg raised on farms.
The capacity for hard
work and the farmer’s
ingenuity, Luttringer stated,
is what keeps agri-business
the largest industry of the
world.
Predicting the future,
Luttringer believes that
equipment will be larger,
with a higher capacity, while
smaller farm equipment will
be produced for the under
developed farmers, new
crops will be made with
higher yielding grains, and
there will be fewer but
bigger farmers.
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