SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A long range and realistic national agricultural policy is one critically important element that should be part of the 1985 Farm Bill ac cording to a group of New York State agricultural leaders. Meeting recently for the second time, the newly formed 1985 Farm Bill Committee, comprising dairy cooperatives,- Farm Bureau, Grange and National Farmers’ Organization representatives, is “beginning to reach a consensus on the principles that should be in the Farm Bill” according to the Committee’s Chairman Clyde E. Rutherford, of Otego, N.Y. He said that all of the Committee members felt that U.S. agricultural policy too often tended to drift from one emergency to another. “Not enough attention is paid to establishing policies and programs that will keep America’s food supply abundant and available in the year’s ahead,” said Ruther ford. The Committee Chairman, who is also President of Dairylea Cooperative, commented that the recent Dairy and Tobacco Ad justment Act of 1983 is an example. “ The net result of the milk diversion program (in this act) plus difficult economic pressures on dairymen, plus some very bad weather in key milk production areas has resulted in a significant drop of about 3.5% in milk production,” said Rutherford. “That’s good news for all of us, but it only deals with today’s problem. “What is going to happen to our milk supply if the increasing rate y- >. w* 1 ■? CONSTRUCTION • SPECIALISTS IN: FARM BUILDINGS - EXCAVATING MANURE PITS - SEPTIC TANKS THE "OPEN END" IVANY BLOCKS Manure Pits with: J c „ • POURED WALLS ' /r 1 .BLOCK WALLS ' I _S4? • LAGOON SYSTEMS 1 i jgri • ABOVE GROUND if -j. CSP* SYSTEMS J _ SPECIAL FARM PRICES DYNAMIC MASONRY CONTRACTORS Gordonville, PA Mike Fisher Larry Herr (717) 687-6801 Aft*r 6 PM, Coll (717) 6*7-7217 Get realism back into ag policy of sellouts, bankruptcies, and foreclosures gathers momentum and can’t be stopped quickly enough? What about the long term effect of subsidized foreign competition on our vegetable crop growers? What will happen to the U.S. if short range policies leave us with long range shortages, something the American public has never experienced in peacetime? “Congress and the President as MEMPHIS, TN. Agricenter International, once just a dream of a small group of visionaries, moved one step closer to reality on Thursday, with official ground breaking ceremonies at Memphis, TN. The ground-breaking for a 140,000 square foot Exhibition Pavilion, featuring permanent display and office spaces, a 700- seat arena, marked the first major permanent structure for the unique center, which is expected to be fully operational by late 1985. Although the Agricenter building is at more than a year away from being ready for occupancy, already 40 agribusinesses have announced intentions to lease space in it, space representing approximately half of what will be available. When completed, Agricenter International will, in the words of its founders, “provide a single location where the entire agricultural community can come together, communicate, ex- well as all concerned American citizens, should demand an agricultural policy that preserves our abundance... which means preserving our farms and our farmers. Today only 2% of the population are feeding themselves and the other 98%. Other subjects discussed by the Farm Bill Committee were the possibility of creating a new dairy parity that would reflect current conditions in the industry; whether Ground broken for Agricenter periment, demonstrate new technology and learn.” It will provide for equipment exhibits, demonstration plots, sales and training centers and special year round exhibitions. Agricenter International will be located on approximately 1,000 acres of prime West Tennessee farmland, much of which will be utilized as demonstration plots showing the latest in equipment, fertilizers, chemicals and production practices. Demonstration crops will in clude virtually anything from wheat, grain, sorghum, com, cotton and soybeans through livestock and dairying. 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