G34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,1980 NFO rep says world demand will offset grain embargo BYDONCUNNION Staff Correspondent DOYLESTOWN - The rapidly expanding world demand for feed grams will more than offset any,tem porary price setbacks caused by the embargo on sales to Russia, Orva Kanerva, NFO grain represent? *ive, told some 50 Bucks County farmers at a meeting, Wednesday in the Neshammv Manor Center near here. "anei pointed cut the population explosion changes in dietary habits and the sh.it from rural to urban hv -g in ail parts of the world are major factors in a massive increase in demand for high-protein foods. Even Ii he said, once a major exporter of wheat, now is an n. porter of grain. The Um'ed States, he said, Government reducing dairy NEW ORLEANS, La. - Government regulation is discouraging research on animal health problems and limiting the range of products available for less numerous species of food producing animals, a drug industry spokesman has charged. Dr John Crissmger told dairymen attending the annual meeting of the National Milk Producers Federation the increasing cost of securing government approvals for new animal drugs, and of defending drugs already approved, means that research must be directed toward the largest possible market Cnssmger, a veterinarian, is marketing manager for American Cyanamid Company’s Professional Veterinary Products line. Crissmger pointed out that, because of the cost of meeting regulatory requirements, few if any pesticides are being developed for vegetable and fruit crops “The market is simply too RESULTS OF EGG t Shaver £ Staixross 288 ♦ DeKalb XL Babcock 300 V Order Your Shaver Chicks Now SHAVER f GREIDER FARMS INC. |L» J ♦ V 1/ Mt. Joy, Pa V t/ ♦ X|r 717-653-1855 \F I will be called on to supply a major share of the world’s gram needs. He noted the U.S. now accounts for 50 percent of all wheat moving in in ternational trade and that most other gram producmg countries, including Canada, have had static outputs the last few years. “While Canadian wheat output has remained vir tually the same for the last five years, U.S. production has core from 3580 million bushels to a projected 5400 million bushels for 1980.” Despite their tremedous expansion in grain production, U.S. farmers contmue to depend on a 200- year-old marketing system run by private operators who are more mterested in volume than price, Kanerva said “Most fa rr n' , r? fragmented to justify development costs in most instances, ” he explained. “We find this scenario already occurring in animal agriculture,” he cautioned. “Dairy cattle will remain an important market, but in the long run veal calves and cull cows may well be af fected.” In today’s Washington climate, the speaker said, individual interest groups are finding they can no longer stand alone. While dairymen have been effective in advancing their interests, Dr. Crissmger urged them to seek the wider Apple holdings off HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania apples in cold storage on November 30, 1979 totaled 291,939,000 pounds, or 6,951,000 boxes of 42 pounds each, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service Apple holdings are down 9,736,000 pounds (or three percent) from a year ago. 1978-79 NEW HAMPSHIRE PRODUCTION TEST Income Egg % Large laying over cluck production & better Feed House t feed cost (Hen-Housed) eggs Conversion Mortality 58.74 260.5 82J)% 3.62 lbs. 8.3% 58.34 258.6 76.1% 3.74 lbs. 9.9% 57.46 238.0 69.5% 3.80 lbs. 15.6% From - • individuals and try to out guess the market. As a result, three percent sell on a nsmg market, half of one percent sell at the top of the market, but 90 percent wmd up selling at the bottom of the market.” “The present marketing system reacts to all kinds of things he said. “Most of them psychological in nature. But the underlying factor is that it depends on a plentiful supply of grams at low prices “These low prices have been a driving force m in creasing the efficiency of U.S. farmers, but they also have forced many of them out of business over the years. We’re now to the point where a million farmers pi oduce most of the food and fiber moving m commercial t liannels.” regulation drugs constituencies which will be necessary in the future. “Build support not just for milk but for the dairy in dustry among consumers and in our own com munities” he urged. Dr. Crissmger pomtedr out that the average dairy farmer manages a larger capital investment than most in dependent businessmen in most communities. “You probably are respected in your com munity as an important businessman,” he said. “Use this leaderslup position to help build support for your industry.” York Imperial apples are most abundant with 2,236,000 bushels in cold storage. Three apple varieties closely ranked in cold storage include- Golden Delicious apples at 1,113,000 bushels; Red Delicious at 1,082,000 bushels; and Rome Beauty apples at 1,009,000 bushels * V But cheap gram isn’t necessary m world trade, he said. “Yoa hear the gram traders insist the world market won’t pay higher prices for U.S. gram, that they’ll go elsewhere. But where can they go? No other countries can come anywhere near meeting world gram needs The grains just aren’t there They’re here - m the U S.” How can farmers beat the time-honored, conventional marketing system 9 Kanena offered an answer- Sign up with NFO to sell the grain for them under a binding con tract. Copies of the contract, passed out at the meeting, provide for both immediate sales and deferred sales Under the latter, a gram giower can commit a fixed number of acres or bushels for a period of up to five years, thus providing the NFO with a “bank” from which to draw for negotiated sales ‘ This reserve supply will enable NFO to negotiate for the best possible prices in massive quantities in the world market,” Kanerva said. The “immediate sale” portion of the contract is designed to provide producers with needed operatmg cash. Kanerva pointed out that NFO, which started out as a protest organization, nowadays operates chiefly as a marketer of gram, milk, livestock and specialty products, such as sunflower WheriVbu Want All The Protection I 1 ’' 1 I jm . Look First At The Read Difference. Choice not chance. Choose from 14' to 36' diameter Read Gram Bins, all made of heavy, galvanized steel for strength and long life. 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