A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2,1980
TUCSON, ARIZ. - Our
most pressing problem in the
1980 s will be getting food to
the world’s needy people at a
price that won’t cause
political unrest and violence,
agricultural consultant Glen
Men said heie recently.
Discounting predictions of
world famines and food
shortages, Men, who has
traveled to over 115 coun
tries, said, “The question is
not, can the world feed itself,
but, can the world pay for
food production and
distribution?”
Speaking to the annual
meeting of Livestock
Marketing Association,
Alien pointed out that only
seven countries currently
produce more food then they
eat, and these nations
represent 12 percent of the
world’s population.
“In other words, 88 per
cent of the people of the
world depend on the other 12
percent in the food sphere to
supply most or part of their
food. This is an opportunity
for and
distribution.”
Allen defined the food
sphere as all inputs and
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Garden Spot Young Farmers
Manure Management
meeting, 7-30 p m , Union
Grove School
Animal Health Information
Day sponsored b> Animal
Medic, Inc, 8 am,
Lancaster Co Farm and
Home Center
Dauphin Co Farm Financial
Management meeting, 10
a m , Extension Office
Cumberland Co Dairy Herd
Reproductive School, 9.15
am., Embers
Restaurant, Carlisle,
continues thru the 6th
Wednesday, February 6
Montgomery Co. Family
Estate Planning meeting,
10 a.m, Holiday Inn,
Kulpsville
DH I A Reports meeting
for feedmen, 1 pm,
Lancaster Co Farm and
Home Center
Hunterdon Co Board of
Agriculture meeting, 8
p m , Extension Center
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exist. This manure cover
will not only protect the roots
from cold weather but will
supply some nitrogen and
other fertilizer elements.
When applied on the ground
when it is frozen, there will
be little damage to the wheat
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Can the world afford to feed itself
services required for the
production of food stuffs, and
ending with the consumption
of the raw or processed
products.
Raising the necessary
money to market and
distribute food, training
local managers and
organizing local projects
raises very, very difficult
questions, and there are no
easy answers, he said.
Allen also said the
question of redistribution of
income and wealth is an
extremely controversial
area, and it could probably
be the biggest event of the
decade. He said many of the
events of the 1980 s will have
this issue as the root of the
problem.
Saying he didn’t expect a
world recession in the next
decade, Men also noted
that, if there was one, it
could icing about a
redistribution of income
where the rich get poorer,
the poor get poorer
Another big question
during the 1980 s is “whether
the philosophy of growth will
remain intact.. I think we
may come to accept much
Pennsylvania Young Far
mers Assoc. Convention,
continues thru the 7th,
Sheraton Inn, Get
tysburg
Thursday, February 7
Lebanon Co. Extension Bus
Trip to Philadelphia
Fabric District
French Creek meeting
sponsored by Grange, 8
p m , East Vincent Twp
Building.
Lancaster Co 4-H Beef &
Sheep Banquet, 6 • 30 p m.,
Farm and Home Center
Friday, February 8
Lancaster Co Swine Assoc
Banquet, 630 p m.,
Harvest Drive
Restaurant
Penna Egg Marketing
Assoc meeting, 7 p m.,
Sheraton Conestoga
Village, Lancaster
Saturday, February 9
Delaware Holstein Assoc,
annual meeting,
Bndgeville.
This practice should not be
applied on fields sloping
toward public streams.
Since fertilizer costs are
headed upward this spring,
this manure application
could take the place of
commercial fertilizer being
applied in March
Ag consultant doubts it
more of the limited or
controlled growth
philosphy.” Allen said
technological advances and
computer analyses “will
help up look at an option”
involving controlled growth, -
“rather than growth for just
growth’s sake alone.”
On the domestic front,
Men said the “key issues as
we enter the decade are
energy, inflation and food.”
Worker productivity and
wages will be another major
issue, he said, adding
“Workers are getting
behind, with 12.5 inflation
and 7 to 10 percent wage
hikes.”
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used as a basis for his
testimony a Penn State
report entitled “Alternatives
to the Property Tax for
Financing Pennsylvania
Public Schools”
The report, partially
funded by PFA, was
prepared by Theodore R
Alter, a professor with the
Penn State Department of
Agricultural Economics and
rural sociology
Mobilia told the four
commission members at the
meetmg that the average
farmer pays (T.94-percent of
his taxable income into the
school system, while the
average non-farmer pays
only 2.97-percent of his
taxable mcome.
And while Mobilia pointed
out that the property tax
levied an uneven burden, it
had some good points. It is a
stable taxing device, it is
under local control and
people understand it.
He said he recognized the
difficulty inherent m trying
to devise a state-wide taxing
philosophy that would apply
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Concerning energy. Men
said, “We will probably be
looking at $l.BO per gallon
gasoline by the end of this
year. That seems to be about
the price that I would equate
with the price of gasoline m
most of the markets of the
world when you adjust, .how
they handle gasoline taxes.”
Men also offered some
“technological forecasts”
for the 1980 s:
Genetic engineering - “I
don't know how fast it’s
going to happen, but it’s
certainly been seen a great
deal in the plant world;
we’ve seen a bit of it in the
animal world, and I think
equally to all school districts
in Pennsylvania.
According to Robert
Strauss, a Carneigie-Mellon
University sociologist who
heads up the commission’s
research activities, the
hearing was well-attended,
especially in the morning
He said the commission
was formed in October by
newly-elected Governor
Dick Thornburgh to look into
ways to make the state’s
taxing policies more
equitable without any
sacrifice in treasury
revenues.
Wednesday’s hearing, in
addition to testimony from
farmers, also heard from'
Erie area industrialists who
talked about the impact
state taxes have on
economic development and
job creation in the state
The group meets again in
Scranton later this month to
discuss the taxation of
energy and banks.
In Washington, Congress
is set to repeal *he con
troversial carry-over basis
provision for the taxation of
we’re going to see a lot more
of it ”
Preventive medicine
through nutrition - “You’re
going to have to eat food
tailored to your needs. We’re
now in a position where we
can look at "an individual’s
(nutrition) needs a little bit
better. Therefore, we’ll be
getting into some foods
which will be engineered to
be low in calories and fats,
and so forth, for some in
dividuals.”
Meat will not be replaced
by texturized vegetable
protein - “I don’t see that, I
don’t see the single cell doing
that, and I don’t see a pill
inherited property, ac
cording to a spokesman for
Rep. Allen E Ertel’s office
Ertel is one of a number of
, Pennsy Ivania Congressmen
working to repeal the 1976
law which changed the
method by which estates are
valued Prior to 1976, an
estate was appraised at the
time it passed into the hands
of the deceased’s
beneficiaries
If the beneficiary then
elected to sell the estate, his
capital gains tax was
computed on the increase in
value from the time he
inherited the property
However, the IRS in 1976
managed to get the
lawmakers to approve a law
which said the estate’s value
should be computed on the
value of the property at the
time it was acquired by the
deceased
Needless to say, it would
have been difficult to
determine original property
values of farms that have
been passed down from
generation to generation.
The law was so unpopular
that it has never been im-
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replacing food m the current
decade.”
Development of joint
ventures between farmers,
industry and government
agencies - “This is not a new
concept. It was kicked off in
the middle of the 19605. We
may not like it in its first
form, but once one examines
what the three parties are
agreeing to, it’s possible that
it might work.”
Allen spoke to the annual
meeting of LMA, a Kansas
City-based trade
organization representing
the marketing sector of the
livestock industry
plemented, and is now on the
verge of repeal
Farmers’ social security
payments were another item
for discussion in Washington
over the past few weeks,
according to Ertel’s office
According to present
social security policy, a
farmer who retires, for
example, in the fall after his
crop is harvested, can
collect social security
benefits right awa> And if
he never sells the corn he’s
harvested, he can continue
receiving benefits without a
hitch
If he does sell the corn,
however, his benefits are
reduced, maybe even wiped
Out if he gets a good enough
price
According to the Ertel
spokesman, the policy was
seen as unfair, 'because the
farmer was being paid for
work done before he retired
It also unfairly hits some
other people with delayed
compensations, such as life
insurance agents, ac
countants and attorneys. -
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