—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 26,1978
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areas is declining, according to Dr. William Templeton, Jr., (insert) director of pasture research has been pointed out at major national and international
the United States Department of Agriculture regional forage and pasture conferences.
Forage research dwindling while needs increase
By DIETER KRIEG
CAMP HTT.T. The fact that forage research has been
diminishing during times when farmers need to realize
optimum productivity from their lands should be a cause
of concern to everyone in the country, says Dr. William C.
Templeton, Jr., director of the U.S. Regional Pasture
Research Laboratory on the Pennsylvania State
University campus at University Park. Added to that
concern should be the fact that while research funds and
activities are being severely trimmed at the public level,
a growing populace is taking millions of acres of farmland
out of production each year.
Speaking here earlier this month to a gathering of seed
dealers and other agriculturalists during the annual Seed
Marketing Symposium, sponsored by Beechley-Hardy
Seed Co. of Shiremanstown, Templeton said that the Soil
Conservation Service completed a study in 1976 which
showed that some 2.8 million acres of farmland in the
Northeast went for urban development between the years
1967 and 1975. Over 50 per cent of that total was Class I, II
or II soil.
Broadening his speech’s base, Templeton declared that
agricultural research on all levels is suffering as a result
of increased enrollments in agricultural colleges. Monies
flowing into the learning institution is being used to
provide more space and facilities for students, hire more
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educational budgets.
Templeton contends that there is a clear need for more
research, but instead the industry has seen a steady
decline of public supported research efforts since 1965. He
points out that research funds for com sorghum and other
grains increased by 16 per cent from 1967 to 1974. Soybean
research increased by 61 per cent during those years.
Pasture, forage, and range research was cut by nine per
cent in that span of time.
Citing conclusions of national studies and conferences,
the forage and pasture researcher said that the need for
more forage and range research is widely recognized as
one of the more pressing needs in agriculture today. At a
conference on determining future U.S. and world food
needs, it was concluded that the area of forage, pasture,
and range research is in need of 126 additional scientist
years.
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increased research in his field of work and study is needed
in order to develop forage crop varieties with multiple
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