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Bertrand says food, ag needs
SCOTTSDALE, Am., - To
continue as the principal con
tributor to world trade without
depleting its natual resources, the
United States must find ways to
maintain and improve its
technology base in food and
agriculture from production to
processing to distribution, a U.S.
Department of Agriculture official
told a food industry group recently.
Speaking at the 20th Food and
Drug Law Institute’s Food Update
’Bl Conference, Anson R. Ber
trand, USDA’s director of science
and education, said “Secretary of
Agriculture John B. Block
recognized this need and has called
for an increase in the agricultural
research budget.”
The annual conference is a
seminar for professionals and
executives from leading food
manufacturers, distributors, food
industry suppliers and related
industries.
Bertrand described some of the
research goals USDA’s Science
and Education Administration has
set to meet U.S. food and
nutritional needs.
“Of course, all of our research
priorities must be established
within the limitations set by the
broad concerns of the USDA and
the nation,” he said. These con
cerns, he said, mclude our finite
natural resources of energy and
the need to increase productivity.
“USDA food utilization research
is aimed at reducing processing
costs; improving products through
innovative and improved
processing technologies; in
creasing efficiency by reducing
energy needed to process and
handle foods; optimizing nutrient
retention, and providing new foods
that are high in quality and safe for
consumers,” he said.
The need for the federal
government to become involved in
or to continue each particular line
of agricultural research must be
carefully examined, Bertrand
said.
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“Obviously, if the research
benefits only a few, if it would be
more appropriate for a particular
industry to carry out the research,
or if other institutions already
have better capabilities to conduct
the research, it would not be ap
propriate for the federal govern
ment to take the lead.”
Bertrand said research and
development projects are the
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
shortage.of brucellosis eradication
funds has forced U.S. Department
of Agriculture officials to order a
20-percent across-the-board cut in
indemnities paid for brucellosis
affected cattle, effective May 1.
Paul Becton, director of the
national brucellosis eradication
program for USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service,
said thfe cut was necessary to make
sure indemnity funds were
available through the remainder of
the fiscal year, which ends Sep
tember 30.
“If we had continued to pay
brucellosis indemnities at existing
rates, there would have bgen no
funds to compensate owners of
brucellosis reactor cattle during
the last three months of the current
fiscal year,” Becton said.
Program standards under the
cooperative state-federal
brucellosis eradication program
require cattle to be slaughtered if
they react positively to brucellosis
tests. Indemnities for registered
cattle are based on a percentage of
each animal's appraised value,
less the salvage paid when the
animal is sent to slaughter.
This percentage is 88.5 percent,
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foundation for continuing progress
in all of this nation’s industries.
USDA’s research, he said, af
fects the food industry directly and
indirectly. Often, this research
supplies the fundamental in
formation needed by the food in
dustry to develop new or unproved
products. Sometimes, basic
research findings lead to
development, that fai exceed the
Brucellosis indemnities cut 20 percent
but the calculated indemnity is
now reduced by 20 percent.
Non-registered dairy 'cattle
indemnities are fixed at a flat rate
within each state, based on current
market values. These flat rates
will be reduced by 20 percent,
Becton explained. Other non
registered cattle have been in
demnified at the rate of $62 per
head, but under the spending cut,
the rate is reduced to $5O per head.
Research Associate joins U.
NEWARK, Del David R.
Parker has assumed responsibility
for the day-to-day operation of the
University of Delaware soil testing
laboratory, effective April 27.
The new soil research associate
holds degrees in sod science from
the University of Vermont and
Oregon State University. While at
Oregon he studied the behavior of
boron in acidic soils in the western
part of the state for his master’s
thesis
At Delaware, Parker will be
responsible for laboratory
equipment upkeep, improving
methodology and investigating
new sod testing procedures
His presence will relieve
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improved technology base
researcher’s expectation.
“Private industry has an
enormous capacity for translating
basic research results into prac
tical application and putting them
within the reach of fanners,
ranchers, businessmen and con
sumers,’’he said.
Bertrand said agriculture
depends on a rapidly expanding
export market for food and feed
Brucellosis in cattle, also called
Bang’s disease or contagious
abortion, is an easdy spread
bactenal infection of domestic
animals, especially cattle and
swine. It can be transmitted to
humans, where it is known as
undulant fever. However, it is not a
hazard to people who eat meat and
pasteruized dairy products.
Currently, 31 entire states have
of Delaware Soil Test Lab
David R. Parker
commodities and the nation relies
on exports to help offset the
growing U.S. deficit in in
ternational trade.
“We must increase agricultural
productivity to meet the an
ticipated 60 to 85 percent increase
in demand for U.S. agricultural
products by the year 2000,” he
said.
been classified as certified
brucellosis-free under the
eradication program. Except for
six counties in Florida and
Louisiana and the Yellowstone
National Park, all remaining
counties in the country are either
certified free or m modified
certified status, which indicates
that they are progressing toward
eradication.
laboratory supervisor Leo Cotnoir
of these routine duties so that
Cotnoir can spend more tune
working- on soil test recom
mendations and participate more
fully in soil fertility information
programs at the University. This
will involve working more closely
with county Extension agents.