—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2,1978
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Farm Credit Banks hold problem-sharing forum
By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. -
In an effort to seek how they
can best serve the needs of
young fanners of the mid-
Atlantic area, the Farm
Credit Banks of Baltimore
hosted a Young Farmers’
Forum on November 20 and
21 at the Hunt Valley Inn.
Almost 30 local Farm
Credit offices from Penn
sylvania, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia
sent representatives to the
problem-sharing forum.
Participants were en
couraged to offer honest and
frank opinions about their
borrowing experiences with
the cooperative’s lending
system.
Laying the groundwork for
better understanding of the
member-owned credit
system, Baltimore Farm
Credit administrative
personnel explained briefly
the cooperative’s purposes,
philosophy and operating
methods.
Chairing the forum was
vice-president Donald L.
Poultry nutritionist
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Dr. William W. Saylor
NEWARK, Del. - Dr.
William W. Saylor, a
specialist in monogastric
nutrition from Butler
county, Pa., has joined the
research and teaching staff
of the University of
Delaware,’s department of
animal science and
agricultural biochemistry.
Saylor, who holds both his
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Shiflet. David Martin,
assistant director of training
explained “Who is Farm
Credit?” “Where does the
Money Come From” was
answered by Vice President
and Treasruer Gerry
Maynard.
Regional assistant Vice-
President Bon Byrd outlined
details of “How We Make
Credit Decisions” and
Robert Carpenter, general
manager of the Central
Valley Federal Land Bank
and Production Credit
Association related his
“Experiences with Young
Farmers.”
Then the floor was thrown
open for a two-hour
recommendations session.
Three young farmer
spokesmen were selected to
condense and present a
summary of that open forum
to management and board
members who attending the
evening reception and
dinner.
The general consensus of
the session was that the
Farm Credit district is too
conservative." Participants
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
animal nutrition from Penn
State, also earned an un
dergraduate degree in dairy
science from the same in
stitution.
At Delaware, Saylor ex
pects to conduct research on
trace mineral metabolism in
broilers - a subject related
to this earlier work in
Pennsylvania. Among other
things, he may be studying
the possible toxicity of trace
elements ingested by birds
raised on recycled litter
materials such as shredded
newspapers or recycled
urban waste.
“But my major emphasis
right now,” says Saylor, “is
on identifying the practical
nutritional problems of the
poultry industry on the
Delxnarva peninsula.”
According to department
chairperson Dr. John K.
Rosenberger, the
nutritionist will also be
teaching a basic course on
feeds and feeding.
days two tunes a day
milking, according to The
American Guernsey Cattle
Club.
The testing was super
vised by Pennsylvania State
University
recommended that each
local and district elect one
young farmer to be an at
large active voting member
of the Board of Directors.
Another suggestion was that
each elected director be
limited to two three-year
consecutive terms.
In an effort to continue
evaluating the problems of
young farmers, conferees
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advised local boards to
sponsor similar forums on
county-levels. There were
also requests for help in
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climbing interest rates,
young farmers expressed a
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tune for applications. In
vestigating the possibility of
establishing interest rates in
relation to the risk taken was
also recommended.
One final suggestion was
that local association
managers be periodically
evaluated to determine if
policies are fully-serving the
expanding needs of the farm
community.