Al6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 5,1981
Nat’l leaders meet to discuss farmland protection
WHEELING, W.Va. - Con
servation and protection ot far
mland are among the top three
priorities of Secretary of
Agriculture John Block and the
Reagan administration farm
program, delegates to the Nor
theast meeting of the National
Association of Conservation
Districts were told here recently.
In separate addresses, the
national president of NACD, Lyle
Bauer of Harper, Kan., and the
national chief of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Soil Con
servation Servlet; Norman Berg
said Secretary Block’s top goals
are increased sales of agricultural
products abroad, improvements in
agricultural research and efforts
to control soil erosion and to
reduce the loss of farmland.
Berg and other speakers also
indicated the Agriculture
Department may encourage more
initiative and decision-making on
conservation at the local and state
levels, with continued federal
support in the forms of technical
and financial assistance.
The SCS chief said the depart
ment will offer three alternatives
for the future later this year, as
part of the preparation for a five
year national conservation plan
under the Resources Conservation
Act of 1977. One choice will be
continuation of present programs,
a second will be redirection of
Agriculture Department programs
to solve several pressing resource
problems, and the third will be the
second alternative with increased
roles—including policy-making—
for local people and state govern
ments.
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Tom Barlow, senior project stall
lor the Natural Resources Detense
Council, made a similar recom
mendation in his role as
representative ot a private group
interested in preservation ot
natural resources. He proposed
local boards of farmers to decide
which conservation practices
should be used by farmers and at
what rate they should be in
corporated into farm plans.
Barlow said, “We have
suggested that these local boards
have the authority at some future
point to order a withholding ot
federal financial assistance to
those farmers not applying these
simple practices.”
Howard Tankersly, director ot
the SCS Land Use Division, said he
saw local controls already at work
in the ettorts to prevent loss ot 3
million acres ot farmland per year
to other uses, mostly urban. He
was on a panel with spokesmen
discussing farmland preservation
programs and the results ot the
National Agricultural Lands
Study.
"The most exciting thing I’ve
heard here today is all of this going
on to retain agricultural land and
you’ll notice not one dune of it is
coming out of the federal govern
ment,” Tankersly said. “But what
they’re doing in New Jersey and
what they’re doing in Maryland
and in 48 other states, the county
and state governments and
municipal governments are doing
it on their own.
"In fact, right now in
phenomenon which is in large
measure initiated and supported
by conservation districts is driving
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NACD President Bauer told the
delegates he has heard few ob
jections to the new farm bill
despite the many planned budget
cuts in most departments ot
government. He said he does not
believe conservation will be cut as
badly this year as it was in the
1970 s through depletion of the
dollar by inflation.
West Virginia Agriculture
Commissioner Gus K. Douglass
urged the Northeast leaders to
make their conservation districts
accountable to the public through
competitive elections and also
accountable m uniform, careful
bookkeeping.
in workshops, delegates learned
the following news:
Research—Jerry Jung, director
ot the U.S. Pasture Research Lab
at University Park, said his
agency (Agricultural Research
Service) is working with university
experiment stations and SCS in
developing new pasture forages.
They are using native grass
varieties selected by SCS, he said,
for marginal farmlands—hilly,
acid, droughty or poorly drained.
Such species as big bluestem and
switchgrass grow in the Midwest,
he said, but added, “If we bought
seed out of the Great Plains, we
would not have varieties as good as
the ones SCS has selected.” The
native grasses produced excellent
forage crops under adverse soil
conditions and are “very efficient
utilizers of fertilizers,” Jung said.
He reported trying two brassicas
imported from Europe and New
Zealand, forage rape and forage
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