020—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 21,19tl Ag forum panel presents ‘grassroots’ challenges COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Three pesticide container disposal, and prominent farmers and a constantly rising prices for land University of Maryland research rent and farm chemicals, farm supervisor presented their He declared there is a need for own lists of “Challenges and Op- granular herbicides which can portunities" during the statewide become active without a post- Agricultural Leaders Forum held application rainfall requirement, recently on the College Park His “needs” list also included a campus method for planting row crops The “grassroots” afternoon without disturbing the soil, panel discussion followed a Agriculture should have been morning program of challenges public relations, Lippy said, and a and opportunities presented by six system of land-use planning that University of Maryland wiUi maintain enough farmland to agricultural representatives and a maintain a viable agricultural food trade association official, economy. Panel moderator was Larry E. Regarding new opportunities Stewart, agricultural engineering available for farmers, Lippy cited department chairman in the recent research work by the College of Agriculture. University of Maryland which Farmer members on the panel combined fungicide and nitrogen were Donald E. Lippy of Ramp- applications to produce wheat stead, a Carroll County grain yields of more than 100 bushels per producer and former vice acre. This development might president of the Maryland Grain if make wheat worth growing in Producers Association; W. Simp- ,S Maryland, he commented, son Dunahoo of ' Hebron, a £ Lippy also niade reference to Wicomico County broiler grower .microcomputers and the and former president of the management opportunities they Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.; present for U.S. fanners to help Leon B. Enfield of Knoxville, a feed the world, rather than having Frederick County dairy farmer food used as a weapon to control and president of the Maryland the world. Farm Bureau. Lippy and Enfield are also members of the Maryland Agricultural Commission. The fourth panel member was Franklin D. Schales of Salisbury, coordinator-supervisor for the Maryland Agricultural periment Station’s vegetable research farm on the lower Eastern Shore. An associate professor of horticulture, Schales is also executive vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Food Processors Association and executive secretary of the National Agricultural Plastics Association. Field Crops Lipfly’s list of problems facing farmers included triazine- resistant weeds, common corn- stalk borer, European com borer. 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