“Maybe the best way to agricultural promotion piece keep the peace is to have the distributed by the most tractors.” That’s the Agriculture Day Foun headlme from an dation. It was part of a kit [DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED iPFEIALIZINE IK COMPLETE SYSTEMS FOR HOG AND DAIRY NEED A FARM - URBAN - COMMERCIAL BUILDING? Call Your HUSKEE-BILT MAN! 717-626-5204 Huskee Gives You More • Full 6 x 6" Poles • Factory Assembled • American made steel Trusses or aluminum • Spacious Doors • Eave heights to 19' € DISTRIBUTORS OF: — ill nil El acme engineering & AMERICAN COOL AIR s CORPORATION FANS, VENTILATION, EVAPORATIVE, COOLING SYSTEMS. Dealer for GINGWAY FREE STALLS MERVIN MILLER ★ SALES & SERVICE ★ BUILDERS of FINE SYSTEMS 7 KEENER ROAD, LITITZ, PA 17543 717-626-5204 SPECIALISTS IN CABLEVEY FEED CONVEYING AND AUTOMATION • Top grade lumber throughout designed to help the media observe 'National Agriculture Day. The promotion piece went on to point out that an ex ploding world population nas tremendous food demands that many countries are not able to meet. “Those who have land don’t have technology. Those who have technology don’t have land. Many have neither. But we have both.” The Ag Day promotion suggests that we need a foreign policy that puts our agricultural capacity to work in a way that will save millions from starvation, win the U.S. stronger AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTOR SCHULD BULK FEED BINS And Mechanical Feeding Systems From 3 Ton to 125 Ton Capacity HIGH PITCH TOP 60° CENTERDRAW • FACTORY BUILT • FACTORY DELIVERED • FACTORY ERECTED friendships and help American agriculture fmd additional profits abroad to finance better food values at home. That was just one piece from a kit that contained perhaps a dozen items on the Agriculture Day theme, ‘ ‘ Thought For Food. ’ ’ Agriculture Day was launched in 1973 by a Min neapolis agri-business publisher and is held an nually to help educate the American consumer about American agriculture - its contribution, concerns, and challenges. It’s truly a national observance now with volunteer events and £? dCHULO Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 19,1980—P1S activities throughout the country to give nonfarm consumers a chance to learn more about the world’s most productive food system Another Ag Day promotion piece said, “Before you complain about the high cost of food remember it’s a mixed bag.” It showed the contents of a shoppmg bag, including toothpaste, light bulbs, and other nonfood items usually bought at the supermarket and lumped into the food budget. The mixed bag showed how a consumer can spend $4O on Tuesday and have nothing to eat by Saturday “With inflation nipping away at him daily, the consumer looks for culprits and the farmer often becomes the target. Too often the shopper forgets that the farmer as well as food processors, packagers, transporters and distributors, also face in flated fuel, labor and equipment costs In spite of rising food expenditures, which ac cording to government reports have more than tripled m the last 20 years, food in still a bargain. If egg prices increased at the same rate as transportation costs since 1958, eggs would cost over $3.40 a dozen.” The Ag Day information goes on to point out that if milk prices increased at the same rate as housing costs in the last 20 years, milk would costs over $4.50 a gallon. Compared to current prices, the average American family spends about 17 percent of its income on food, compared to 27 percent in Germany, 31 percent m England, and 32 percent in Japan. Other Ag Days themes dealt with the need for chemicals in modern Anthracnose plus very good tolerance to bacterial wilt. • Well suited to 2, 3 or more years of production. Alfalfa supply limited. See or call ( CXJ ) your Pioneer piftWFFR Salesman soon. nuntui. PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC EASTERN DIVIS.ON T ETON 'NDIANA Piontcr s’i Crj-'d no-' - '* \ Tibet* Uft v vin»*t s i Reg t< re 1 nli narV o' Picrrir H C t J InU Pit L->al 1 '"'c Moires lo\ ■ bO3CS agriculture, the cost and value of the many services provided by those supposed culprits the middlemen, and information that pointed out that cotton isn’t cloth, corn isn’t cereal, and sheep aren’t sweaters. A farm coloring book included in the kit provided something for the kiddies and also gave good basic agricultural information. Things like, “An acre of the farmer’s land is nearly the size of a football field. With a large tractor and plow, a farmer can plow an acre the size of a football field m about 16 minutes.” Or, “On one acre of land a farmer might grow enough wheat to furnish your family with bread for nearly 10 years.” Other interesting agri-facts: On an acre of ground, an American farmer might raise enough potatoes for your family to have French fries one meal every day for more than 20 years. The hamburger meat from a smgle beef steer will make about 720 quarter-pound hamburgers - enough for your family to have ham burgers each day tor nearly six months. One pig that the farmer raises could furnish yo'ir family with about 20 pounds of bacon, 30 pounds of ham, 30 pounds of pork chops, and 80 pounds of other meat. Those are just a few examples of the kind of colormg book information that was provided for the younger generation. I hope consumers take the Agriculture Day theme seriously when they sit down at their dinner tables and think a little about food - where it comes from, what it really costs, and how for tunate we are in this country to have such a bountiful supply, ranee to ALFALFA SEED
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