E4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21,1981
LITITZ - “Animal agriculture animal research has been used
faces some very significant up.” Other leaders say “the
challenges in the years ahead as reservoir of unapplied technology
population increases in relation to is nearly exhausted.”
the amount of fertile land and “The consuming public, ac
natural resources.” customed to relatively low food
This statement summarizes prices, has even greater cause for
comments recently made by concern,” he stated “In 1965,
Robert H. Rumler, chairman of the Americans spent about 20 percent
Holstein Association of America. of their disposable income on food,
He stressed the need for new tobacco, and beverages. This
technology through expanded proportion declined to 18 percent m
research. He said many the early 1970’5, and to 16.5 percent
agricultural leaders claim that by 1977. By 1979, the figure had
“the storehouse of knowledge in dropped to 15.9 percent ”
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Holstein chairman looks at ag future
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spoke highly of a “multidisciplme”
approach to research, one that is
expanding. The concept is gaming
attention, he said, in Federal
research budget planning
He gave special attention to the
situation created when people
think there is competition between
humans and domestic animals for
food in the United States and for
export to needy persons world
wide. He indicated this is a moral
issue to many people.
“Unfortunately, people do not
understand that gram will be fed to
livestock, here and in other
countries, when it is economical to
do so,” he affirmed,” adding that
“it is not automatic to export gram
‘released’ from feeding animals ”
Rumler pomted to the ability of
domestic animals to convert large
quantities of forage into highly
nutritious food on land not suited to
produce other edibles consumed
directly by humans. These same
grasses and forages, he noted, are
vital to conserve and maintain soil
resources on land not readily
adapted to crops.
• ‘ We must maintain a balance on
much of our farmland between
crops which can cause soil losses,
and grasses and forages which
conserve and maintain soil
resources,” he stated. “Such a
balance mandates animal
agnculture-compietely aside from
the issue of cereal grams versus
animal products for human food ”
The Dairy and Livestock Day
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speaker called attention to the
need for improved marketing and
commented, “we have done as
poor a job in marketing our
products as we have done a good
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1980’s than they have m the past.
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coming closer and closer to the
razor's edge of deficit production,
especially of grain.
He listed certain concerns
shared mutually with the total
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agricultural community. First, he
said technological advances have
been capital intense, substituting
capital for labor. Interest rates,
obviously, are high
Production technology, on the
other hand, is energy-tense, with
energy costs going up. He said,
also, that inflation tends to in
fluence speculative producers
more heavily than other types-with
agriculture generally speculative.
Then too, productive land areas
are being reduced with available
lands usually marginal in quality
Rumler mentioned loss of water
resources as a mutual concern for
all aspects of agriculture. And he
pointed out that public pokey with
respect to agriculture is generally
as unclear as it is uncertain In
dairying, for example, he
predicted the next six months may
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