SYRACUSE, N.Y - The
first Empire Conservation
Tillage Conference will be
held m Syracuse at the New
York State Fairgrounds,
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Lebanon County
New York to host
February 19,1981.
Sponsored by the Empire
Chapter of the Soil Con
servation Society of
America, the one-day
meeting is expected to at
tract farmers and others
from around the Northeast
who are interested in the
latest developments in
conservation tillage.
The program will run from
10 a.m to 4 p.m and will
feature equipment and
supply displays, farmer
presentations, and recent
research findings.
Fanners will see exhibits
and displays by equipment
dealers, chemical com
panies, and seed suppliers
They will be able to talk to
commercial dealers about
the latest technology There
will also be non-commercial
displays by agencies and
other organizations involved
in conservation tillage
The morning program will
begin with a presentation by
J Roger Barber, Com
missioner, NYS Department
of Agriculture & Markets on
the theme of the conference
“A New Era in Northeast
Agriculture ”
The role of conservation
tillage in the Northeast will
be discussed by Paul A
Dodd, State Conservationist
for the Soil Conservation
Service in New York.
Featured speaker for the
morning will be Mike Sager,
an agricultural advisor and
farmer from Woodford
County, Illinois, who
pioneered many of the
current conservation tillage
Delaware names new environmental specialist
DOVER, Del. J Ross
Hams, Jr. has been ap
pointed extension specialist
in environmental quality,
according to Samuel M.
Gwinn, director of the
Delaware Extension Ser
vice.
In this newly created
position, Harris will plan,
develop and conduct
educational programs to
assist farmers and lan
downers with implementing
practices related to the
control of rural nonpomt
source pollution. He will be
working with individual
farmers, local watershed
groups and others concerned
with water quality
management planning in
Kent and Sussex counties
Harris earned a B.S in
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tillage conference
methods Specific con
servation tillage pactices in
New York will be the subject
of Jim Peck, President of
ConsulAgr, consulting
company of Brookside
Laboratories, and farmer
from Newark, N.Y Fitting
soil types to tillage practices
will be discussed by Steve
Probst, State Resource
Conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service in
Illinois
Rick Koelsch, Energy
Specialist for Cornell
University Agricultural
Engineering Department,
will address the energy
aspects of conservation
tillage
The afternoon session will
feature an Ohio no-till ex
perience presented by Neal
agriculture from the
University of Delaware in
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and Nellie Springer, farmers
from Knox County, Ohio who
have been doing no-till for
seven years on their farm
with com, soybeans, small
grains and forages.
The remainder of the
afternoon will offer
discussions on conservation
tillage for com and con
servation tillage for small
grains and forages as viewed
by two panels made up of
farmers and specialists
The panel on tillage for
com will be moderated by
Ev Thomas, Regional Ex
tension Specialist on Field
Crops.
Panel members will in
clude Andy Burt, farmer
from Canandaigua, N.Y.,
Butch Mattoon, farmer from
Phelps, N.Y., and Bill
Johann Farmer from
1975, and pursued graduate
study in Biological and
Agricultural Engineering at
North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, N.C.
Since March of 1979 Harris
has been employed as a
research associate in the
University of Delaware’s
Farmers should expect
increased labor costs
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Farmers should expect
higher labor costs in 1981,
according to John W.
Wysong, extension farm
management specialist and
professor of agricultural
economics at the University
of Maryland.
Two forces are behind the
expected increase, notes
Wysong First, the federal
minimum hourly wage will
rise from the 1980 level of
$3 10 to $3 35 on January 1,
1981.
The second force involves
the social security tax on
employee earnings. The tax
rate will not only rise from
6.15 percent to 6.65 percent,
but the amount of total in
come subject to tax will rise
from 525,900 to $29,700 per
year.
Since most hired farm
workers earn less than the
new level of taxable ear
nings, their employer will
have his tax bill increased to
6.65 percent on all wages
paid, reports Wysong
Several suggestions have
been made to offset the
unpact of rising labor costs
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Orange County, N.Y. The
panel on conservation tillage
for small grams and forages
will consist of Bill Kirby,
Regional representative for
Ortho-Chevron Chemical
Company, Dean Lmscott,
Cornell Agronomy Depart
ment and Lynn Hoffman,
Research Farm Manager,
Penn State University.
Tickets will be available
from local Soil and Water
Conservation District of
fices. The ticket price of $2
covers admission and a copy
of the proceedings.
For additional information
on the conference, tickets, or
displays, contact Fred
Gaffney, Soil Conservation
Service, 771 Federal
Building, Syracuse, New
York 13260
department of agricultural
engineering.
In his new position he is
headquartered at the Kent
County Extension Office,
which is located in the
Wesley Church Education
Building, Dover
on the price of producing
milk and meat, but these
suggestions have not been
acted on by Congress.
One of these recom
mendations involves tax
incentives for employers
who hire youths and give
them training on the job.
Another proposal is to lower
the minimum wage to 75
percent of the base rate for
youths under 20 years of age.
During rough economic
tunes, young, inexperienced
workers have the most
trouble finding and holding a
job, notes Wysong.
Passage of legislation
which permits faster rates of
depreciation on new
equipment and building
investments is still another
area to help decrease the
impact of rising labor costs.
Efficiencies in other areas
of farm management also
can help to lower the costs of
each unit of output.
Assistance and additional
information on farm
management is available
through county extension
agricultural agents
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