Di6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 11,1980
Farm leaders pool ideas to expand ag exports
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Thirty prominent leaders
representing every major
segment of agriculture met
• in Washington last week to
begin drafting a long-range
“Blueprint for U.S. Farm
Export Expansion” due for
completion next February.
Those participating in the
two-day meeting at the
Capitol included
representatives of the grain
cooperatives and grain
companies, presidents of
major grojrer organizations,
agribusiness executives,
academic leaders and top
government officials.
At the group’s closing
session its Chairman, Eton
Charier, President of Far-
Mar-Co, the nation’s largest
grain cooperative, noted,
“To my knowledge a group
such as this has never been
assembled before. We have a
great opportunity and a real
responsibility to develop the
kind of plan that can greatly
benefit our entire country.”
Chartier is heading-up a
special Blue Ribbon Com
mittee named as a part of
the U.S. Farm Export
Education Project. The
project is being coordinated
by tiie Agriculture Council of
America in an effort to
obtain “maximum feasible
farm export expansion over
the next decade.”
The group meeting here
this ' week reviewed a
working draft plan prepared
by Michael Code of Texas A
it M University under the
direction of a small Steering
Committee.
Members of the Blue
Ribbon Committee made
numerous suggestions that
will provide the direction for
a second draft due tor
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presentation at a second
meeting of the Committee in
January in Washington.
The final draft will be
presented at a National
Conference on Export
Strategies for the Future,
February 9 to 11,1981 at the
Mayflower Hotel in
Washington.
Some 50 members of
Congress have already
announced their support for
the project, and
many of them attended a
reception for the Blue
Ribbon Committee in the
Rayburn House Office
Building on Wednesday
night. Supporting Members
of Congress are naming five
to 10 prominent non-farm
constituents to review and
make suggestions on the
first draft Blueprint
discussed here this week.
“This is an excellent way
to get the thinking of a very
select group of non-farm
leaders from around the
country,” Chartier com
mented. “This involves a
fundamental part of the
whole approach with this
project. We’re going to
develop a plan that we can
take to the American people
something that shows
conclusively that farm
exports don’t just benefit the
entire country.
“We also expect to show
what specifically can be
done to expand farm exports
as a means of reducing in
flation, cresting new jobs
and strengthening the
dollar.”
Jerry Rees of the National
Association of Wheat
Growers, a spokesman for
the Project Steering Com
mittee, noted that the group
expects to have more than
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providing active support by
the end of the year.
In presenting the project
timetable, Rees noted
members of the Blue Ribbon
Committee will have 60 days
to provide further written
comment on the first
working draft Blueprint.
The Steeling Committee
and Cook will evaluate this
response as well as that from
prominent constituents
named by Members of
Congress for inclusion in the
second draft to be presented
to the Blue Ribbon Com
mittee in January.
Another member of the
Steering Committee, Warren
Lebfeck, representing the
Chicago Board of Trade,
described plans for the
development of a series of
radio and television com
mercials on important points
emphasized in the Blueprint.
Lebeck said complete details
on this part of the program
will be presented at the
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conference in February. Washington, DC 20024, or by non-farm public.
Further information on the calling the Agriculture It is supported by a broad
project may be obtained by Council of America at cross-section of farm
writing Farm Export 202/466-3100. ACA serves as commodities and
Education, Box 23421, a communications link to the agribusiness companies.
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