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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Dunahoo noted that Maryland
accounts for 59 percent of the
broilers produced in the three
state Delmarva area. And he
reported that 4,000 individuals and
organizations are currently
members of Delmarve Poultry
Industry, Inc., a trade association
based at Georgetown, Del.
The biggest challenge to the
broiler industry recently has been
just to stay in business, the former
DPI president noted wryly. His list
of challenges included better rail
and truck transportation in the
Delmarye area, lower interest
rates, and unfair subsidies to
farmers in most nations of the
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The animal rights movement
now gaining momentum in the
United States also deals with
confinement production of poultry
and eggs, Dunahoo declared, and
farmers need to be concerned
about misleading charges being
leveled against them.
Dairy & Livestock
Enfield agreed with Lippy that
land use and preservation is a
'major problem facing farmers. On
the animal rights issue, he
declared that modem confinement
systems for livestock and poultry
are generally much more sanitary
than old-fashioned open systems.
He questioned whether better
distribution might not solve some
of the transportation problems of
U.S. agriculture. He cited Midwest
butter being shipped to Maryland
when the same manufacturer
already has a major plant in this
state.
Without better marketing
channels, farmers can easily over
produce themselves into low
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can’t tell cows to produce less
milk.”
Loss of local slaughterhouses
has hurt the Maryland livestock
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sumption in the beef area.
Livestock and other commodity
groups need vigorous check-off
programs like we already have in
the dairy industry. Let’s put more
milk in vending machines and
mcrease consumption.”
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out profits, effective chemicals to
be lost due to registratftn can
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