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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Representatives of the National
Corn Growers Association
travelled to Moscow, USSR, this
week to discuss a variety of issues
with Soviet agricultural trade
officials.
William B. Mullins, a com
farmer from Shabbona, Illinois,
and the current president of the
NCGA, and Michael L. Hall,
Washington Representative for the-
NCGA will meet with officials from
the Ministry of Procurement,
Exportkhleb, Ministry of
Agriculture, and the State Bank for
Foreign Trade while in Moscow.
Prior to departing for Moscow,
the NCGA officials met with
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block-and officials from the U.S.
Trade Representatives office,
including Deputy Ambassador
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David Macdonald. During these
meetings, the NCGA represen
tatives discussed the issues they
hoped to cover in the series of
meetings in the USSR, and
reviewed U.S. trade policy per
taining to long-term US-USSR
agricultural trade.
“The trip is similar in nature to
the visit we held with Soviet -of
ficials in September 1980, and is
arranged to allow for a further
exchange of views on the many
issues affecting US-USSR
agricultural trade,” Mullins
commented.
The upcoming negotiations for a
new long-term grain agreement
between the U.S. and USSR, which
are reportedly scheduled-for early
1982, and the issues affecting long
term agricultural trade between
the two countries are expected to
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dominate the discussions in
Moscow. In addition,' the NCGA
officials anticipate some time will
be devoted to an exchange of views
on the prospects for' world gram
production and trade in the 1981/82
season.
“It is imperative that we
maintain lines of communication
with Soviet grain procurement
officials, and to express our desire
that trade relations between the
two countries resume a more
normal posture,” Mullins stated.
“If we are to ever re-gain the lost
market opportunity resulting from
the January 1980 grain embargo.
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we must exhibit to Soviet officials
that we are committed to a
resumption of normal trade and
that we can once again be con
sidered a reliable trading partner.’
“We are hopeful this trip to the
Soviet Union will reinforce the
commitment of American com
farmers to maximize trade with
the USSR, especially at a time
when so little progress can be
identified,” Mullins concluded
The National Com Growers
Association is made up of com
producers from 16 states, with the
purpose of promoting the general
welfare of U S '•"ra fanners bv
breeding grounds
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maintaining and developing
domestic corn production and
price and income support
programs consistent with a
market-oriented gram economy.
The activities of the organization
are conducted through two offices,
located in Des Moines, lowa, and in
Washington, D.C.'JState members
of the National Com Growers
Association include Colorado,
Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
decrease
fewer hunters met with
success. Penn State
wildlife biologists
believe the decrease is
due to declining habitat
needed for woodcock
breeding.
The decrease in
woodcock breeding
grounds occurs with the
loss of young and
shrubby growth typical
of the early stages of
forest development,
according to wildlife
scientists at Penn State.
James S, Wakeley and
Gerald L. Storm report
that young forests,
dominated by shrubs,
are- ideal breeding
grounds for woodcock.
According to
Wakeley, increased
urbanization is taking
some land.
“Between 1965 and
1977, government
sources showed land
used for urban ex
pansion in Pennsylvania
increased SO percent
while forest and pasture
land decreased by 6
percent,” Wakeley
stated.
He commented that
the urban land-use
figure includes land
being used, or intended
for use, in highway
construction. He said
land developers should
be dissuaded from using
locations .where forests
meet open fields in
areas such as valley
bottoms.
According to Storm,
since 1970 the number of
woodcock hunters
participating in the
bunting season has
increased. He said' that
from 1970 to 1975, there
were less than 150,000
hunters going after the
cagey bird. Last year,
there were more than
225,000 woodcock
hunters in the state.
There are more
hunters going after
woodcock, but they are
bagging less birds than
before, he said.
Figures amassed by
State Game Com
mission Field
Researcher Bill Shope
indicate that the
number of woodcock