—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 15,1977
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Grant is worried
Allen Grant
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students see no -need for
profits.
-Sixty-one percent feel that
a worker should not produce
all he can
-Fifty-five per cent think
the best way to unprove
living standards is r.ut by
producing more, bm by
giving workers more wages.
Md. dairy judging teams
close out winning season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Maryland collegiate and
youth teams faltered a bit in
national dairy cattle judging
competition last week during
the World Dairy Expo at
Madison, Wis.
The University of
Maryland team tied for sixth
with Texas A and M in a field
of 36 teams at the Madison
event, while the state 4-H
•‘A” team placed eleventh in
its division.
This showing was a let
down from the victorious
sweep made by the
Maryland collegiate and
state 4-H and FFA “B”
teams in regional com
petition just nine days
earlier during the Penn
sylvania All-American
Dairy Show at Harrisburg,
Pa.
In the Harrisburg contest
on Sept. 26 the University of
Maryland delegation placed
first among a record-large
field of 18 collegiate teams;
the state 4-H “B” team won
its division, and a team from
Damascus high school in
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-Fifty per cent felt the
government contributes
most to national prosperity.
-And most chilling of all, 40
per cent could not name one
advantage of capitalism
over communism.
The AFBF chief made the
remark during a gathering
of 1600 people attending the
National Association of
County Agricultural Agents,
here, earlier this month.
Grant, a native of Los
Angeles County, Calif.,
praised the Cooperative
Extension Service, adding
that “it’s primary respon
sibhty should continue to be
one of service to the
educational and information
needs of farmers and ran
chers.” He said m his
keynote address that such an
emphasis would benefit the
American consumer. The
American Farm Bureau and
the Extension Service share
a long history of cooperation,
Grant said In a recent
meeting with State
Cooperative Extension
Service directors, he listed
several needs for farmers as
Montgomery county cap
tured first place for
Maryland in the FFA
division of the nmth in
vitational youth dairy cattle
judging contest.
Ralph W. Shank, Jr., 18, of
Hagerstown, Md., led the
Maryland 4-H team at
Harrisburg. He was second
high individual both in
Guernsey judging and in
over-all placmgs; third in
Ayrshire judging, and fourth
in Holstein judging. The
Maryland team placed first
in Guernsey judging, and
third in both Ayrshire and
Holstein judging.
In the collegiate com
petition at Harrisburg,
Jerone D. Myers of West
minster was top individual in
over-all placmgs by a fairly
wide 31-pomt margin, and he
scored 240 out of a possible
250 points in oral reasons.
Myers was also high in
dividual in both Ayrshire
and Brown Swiss judging;
third in Jerseys, and fifth m
Guernsey judging. He is a
senior in agricultural and
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told to him by state farm
bureau leaders. Among
those areas for improvement
is the situation which is
described in the first
paragraphs of this article.
Others were:
1. More attention needs to
be given to economics and to
international marketing.
2. There is a great need for
more research and
education in the fields of
price analysis and price
information.
3. Extension Service
educators should be more
aggressive in creating a
better understanding of the
private competitive en
terprise marketing system.
Referring to the 1977 new
farm bill which President
Carter signed into law
recently, Grant said, “the
new farm bill is a com
promise that may do more
long-term harm than good to
American Agriculture.
“The new law,” Grand
continued, “contains
mechanisms that would
move agriculture back to the
kind of farm programs that
contribute toward the ac
cumulation of huge sur
pluses of government con
trolled gram.” “Such sur
passes,” he added, “can be
Extension education at the
College Park campus.
At the Eastern States
Exposition, the University of
Maryland team was also
first in Brown Swiss judging.
And it placed fourth in
Ayrshire, Holstein and
Jersey breed judging.
used to depress market
prices as part of a cheap
food policy.”
Grant lauded the in
creased authorization for
agricultural research
programs from $B9O million
in fiscal 1978 to $1.42 billion
by 1982 as being urgently
needed by farmers and
future generations of con
sumers.
According to Grant, Ex
tension and farm bureau
leaders need to build support
by helping the public become
more aware that programs
of agricultural research
benefit all citizens not just
farm people. Sometimes, it
takes 20 or more years
before fundamental
research reaches a payoff
point.
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Grant, who operates beef
cattle and field crops farms
in Tulare and Madera
Counties in California, noted
that the current emphasis in
farming is on management.
Farmers now receiving
low prices for cattle and for
gram are worried and upset.
They want to know more
about the markets, about
pricing factors, and what
they can do about them.
Grant said there is
pressure for direct
marketing - for more
grower-producer in
volvement in dealing for
price and other terms of
trade.
“These people ” Grant
noted, “want more attention
given to economics, to in
ternational marketing. They
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- want a greater shading of
research results ajnong
states, and quicker delivery
of new discoveries. ”
“Our (Farm Bureau)
members say they want
more Extension specialists
and fewer generalists. They
say that they can make as
good guesses as the
generalists can.”
Grant concluded his talk
by noting that he anticipates
the members at the annual
Farm Bureau meeting in
Houston, Texas, next
January, will again adopt
resolutions of strong support
for the Cooperative Ex
tension Service and again
ask that the present
cooperative identity of the
Service remain.
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