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Pa. Farmers 9 Union
convention Feb. 1-2
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Union’s annual state
convention will be held at Hotel
Hershey, Feb. 1-2. Over 200
locally elected delegates will be
considering and adopting
organization policy on farm issues,
according to PFU President
James Brown.
Banquet speaker Tuesday
evening will be Minnesota
Congressman James Oberstar,
who will be leading an effort in the
U.S. House of Representatives to
replace the milk producer levy,
passed last year, with a milk
surplus reduction plan that will
permit the family dairy fanner to
survive.
The stb-term congressman had
introduced a National Farmers
Union-backed bill last spring
which would have combined a milk
production reduction plan with
price incentives, allowing the
average small farmer to meet
expenses and make a modest
profit The Oberstar bill was
rejected in favor of the two-tier |1
a hundredweight producer levy
now in place, during hectic
maneuvering on the Budget
Reconciliation bill last August.
Yesterday’s farmers
were energy managers
UNIVERSITY PARK - Alcohol
production in pot stills was a
process known for generations
before it was thought of as a
possible alternative for the ’Bos.
&lar energy was used to dry crops
and''porn cobs were burned to
warm pigs long before energy
analyses were used to confirm
such benefits.
Most rural residents grew up
knowing how to cope without
electricity or liquid fuels for days
at a time.
“Farmers applied energy logic
more often than they applied
fertilizer,” says Jim Garthe, Penn
State Extension agricultural
engineer. They were energy
managers without ever having
heard the word.
USDA was involved in biofuels
potential and in the energy con
version process long before OPEC
was a household acroynm. Fuel
energy values were not important
when energy was cheap.
Garthe says that has changed
now. Agricultural Energy Centers
were established under the 1977
Flood and Agriculture Act to
coordinate the energy component
of USDA’s projects with other
organized research. The basic goal
of the Centers is to discover,
develop, and demonstrate
technology which will permit
agriculture to become energy self
sufficient on a net basis under
conditions which will sustain
productivity.
The Northern Agricultural
Energy Center is located at the
ARS Northern Regional Research
Center in Peoria, IL. This
laboratory is well known for basic
research on com, soybean, and
Other speakers include Dr. Jon
Wefald, chancellor of the State
University System of Minnesota
and formerly the state’s secretary
of agriculture. Wefald’s address on
Wednesday morning will examine
the crisis in American agriculture
in the context of American and
world economic conditions and
U.S. government policies, in
cluding international trade.
Pa. Secretary of Agriculture
Penrose Hallowell, Senators Ed
Helfrick and Patrick Stapleton and
Representatives Samuel Morris
and Roger Madigan will cover
highlights of farm related state
government issues for the con
vention a delegates. The par
ticipating legislators are
agriculture committee leaders.
Another highlight of the Far
mers Union convention will be a
panel on farm organization
coalitions with other groups.
Panelists are Pa. AFL-CIO
President Julius Uehlein; Pa.
State Education Association
Associate Executive Director
Roger Erskine; and Pa. Citizens
Consumer Council Chairwomen
Jean Ann Fox.
cereals; germ plasm culture and
fermentation; grain proteins and
vegetable oils. NAEC is organized
to gain new knowledge of the
chemical and physical properties
of agricultural materials building
on the fundamental knowledge of
chemical, physical, and biological
sciences.
The Energy Center emphasizes
production of crops for energy,
conversion of plaint biomass to
liquid fuels and petroleum sparing
chemicals, identification of
potential energy crops, and
evaluation of vegetable oils as
diesel fuels.
Breakthroughts in agricultural
energy are not expected to come
frequently nor to be of great
magnitude because the easy
technology is already in place.
Since its beginning, agriculture
has been the industry which
managed natural resources for the
production of food and fiber. A
growing crop is a botano-chemical
factory where photosynthesis
combines simple chemicals into
energy products.
Farmers are not only custodians
of soil but are experienced
managers of all production
resources including energy.
Market economics never allowed
them to fall bohuid the state-of-the
art of applying these resources
effectively, or they were soon
making their living in some other
way.
The USDA Agricultural Energy
Centers will be involved with all
new technology to modify, convert,
or use the energy content in
plant materials. They will tran
slate basic research and extend the
findings for practical application.
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Standing in front on numerous awards of Ephrata Young Farmers Association are new
officers, from the left. Ira Martin, president; Tom Bollinger, vice president; Kenneth
Hertzog, secretary; Ray Bollinger, treasurer and Jim Hess, public relations director.
Ephrata Young Farmers to install officers
EPHRATA The new slate of
officers of the Ephrata Area Young
Farmers Association will be of
ficially installed at the chapter’s
annual banquet next Saturday
night at the Mt. Airy-Durlacb Fire
Hall.
Heading the new officer slate as
president is Ira M. Martin, steer
fanner, 1967 W. Main St, Ephrata.
Other officers include Toon A.
Bollinger, dairy fanner, R 4 Lititz,
vice president; Kenneth B. Hert
zog, beef farmer, R 2 -Ephrata,
secretary; Ray P. Bollinger, dairy
FARM COMPUTER
SEMINAR
Topics to be discussed:
• What can a computer do for me on my farm?
• How do i decide which computer to buy?
. • How much will it cost?
• How do I learn how to operate it?
Plus demonstrations and operation of farm programs
Seminar will be a "hands-on” seminar, with the partici
pants operating the computers. Wives are encouraged to
attend. Apple computers will be used in seminar.
Cost Per Person...s2o.oo; or $25.00...F0r Husband &
Wife, Lunch included. Cali now for reservations.
Maximum number of persons per session is 20.
LANCASTER. PA
THE OFFICE WORKS
Computer Learning Center
29 E. King Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
FEBRUARY 8.1983 (Open)
FEBRUARY 15.1983 (Open)
farmer, HI Stevens, treasurer;
James D. Hess, beef and poultry
farmer, 825 E. Newport Rd., lititz,
public relations director.
The new officer team will be
installed by Henry E. Givler, vo-ag
consultant, at the annual banquet
which begins at 6:45 p.m. next
Saturday.
Other features of the banquet
program planned by retiring
president Clark Stauffer and the
other outgoing officers include
special appreciation awards,
greetings from the Cloister FFA
CALL FOR RESERVATIONS
717-397-7721 Authorized Dealer
Complete Apple Soles, Service end Support
Specializing in Agricultural Computers
and the Pennsylvania Young
Farmers Association.
In addition to production
achievement awards and the
awarding of door prizes, the
evening’s entertainment will be
provided by the Joyful Strings.
The menu features baked ham
with pineapple sauce and all the
trimmings prepared and served by
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Mt.
Airy-Durlach Fire Company.
Serving as hostesses will be Mr.
and Mrs. Earl F. Smoker and Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Leininger.
HERSHEY. PA
THE OFFICE WORKS
Computer Learning Center
241 Chocolate Ave.
Hershey, PA 17033
FEBRUARY 22.1983 (Open)