—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 23,197 S 114 Silo’s MADISON, Wise. - If Chromalloy Farm Systems has its way, a Madison silo of the future will do more than process and store silage. It will also function as the tower for a unique, wind turbine generating system which can provide much of the electric power required to operate a farmstead. For the past year, Chromalloy Farm Systems Division, headquartered here, has been participating with several other com mercial firms in a privately funded wind energy research project at Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York. Other participants are' Agway, Inc., Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, Allen Bradley Company, Reliance Electric Company, Sign X Laboratories, Inc., Unarco Rohn Division of Unarco Industries and PCB Piezotronics, Inc. Project manager is Dr. Edward B. Kear, chairman of Clarkson College Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. A dedication and demonstration of the unique research unit was held at the Clarkson College Wind Energy Test site last month. It was attended by officials from various government energy agencies and by executives of the industries sponsoring the project. Inflation COLLEGE STATION, Tex. - Inflation has now become agriculture’s number one economic problem and unless it is brought under control producer-consumer con fidence m the U.S food system will be seriously threatened. This is one of the major conclusions presented earlier this month at the National Farm Summit in a ‘ask force report on Resource Allocation and Production Costs for U. S. Agriculture. The report was drafted by Dr. Emery Castle of Washington, D.C., who is vie president of Resources for the Future, an organization that conducts economic research on major issues. To control inflation the Task Force recommended greater restraint in government spending and a program which would limit wage increases to produc tivity gains and provide for windmill may provide farm’s electricity - Resembling a giant egg beater, the world’s first silo-mounted “Darrieus” wind turbine is attached to the outside of a Madison silo in a privately funded wind energy research project at Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York. biggest problem mandatory indexing of prices and costs. Major resource problems facing agriculture were cited as chronic inflation, inadequate market in formation, tax inequities, rapidly nsmg land values and land use planning. To deal with problems of nor-competitive pricing, the Task Force recommended improvements in in formation. Particular in formation needs concerned prices in input markets, the terms of contracts, weather and pest inf ormation. A major change in tax policy which tied taxes to real income - as opposed to property, sales or actual income mended V s * ciS 1 Different tax rates on different sources of income were cited as a major source of resource investment and allocation distortions in agriculture. “A fundamental problem of resource allocation and V '.V ' / f is agriculture’s producton costs in U.S. agriculture is our failure to distinguish between those factors resulting in fun damental changes in the social environment affecting agriculture and those forces causing transitory changes,” Castle declared. He said the history of U.S. agriculture is replete with examples of government responding to short run, transitory phenomena in such a way as to make long run adjustment more dif ficult. The Task Force noted that “Farm land prices have increased beyond the level that can be sustained by the contribution of land to farm income.” The solution to this problem does not, however, lie in government in tervention in the market for land, members added. “Instead, agricultural programs must be geared to producing increased stability of farm income in recognition of fundamentals as opposed to transitory changes in agriculture,” Castle said. The Task Force suggested increased educational programs in land use planning as a means of reaching a concensus on land use control. Members also recommended a removal of the 160-acre limitation on the use of water from federal irrigation projects. See your nearest HOLUAISD Dealer for Dependable Equipment and Dependable Service: Airville. PA Airville Farm Service Airville, PA 717-862 3358 mdna. Alex, Clapper Farm Equipment RD 1 814-669-4465 Annville. PA B H M Farm Equipment, Inc RD 1 717 867-2211 town. 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