ITHACA, NY - Senator Robert
Dole, chairman of the U.S. Senate
Finance Committee, is among the
major speakers scheduled to
address the 75th annual meeting of
the American Agricultural
Economics Association (AAEA) at
Cornell University, Aug. 5-8.
Dole (R-K,ansas) will discuss the
political realities of the 1985
federal farm bill at 10:15 a.m. on
Monday, Aug. 6, in 45 Warren Hall
on the Cornell campus.
He will be joined by Don Conlan,
president of Capital Strategy
Resources Inc., who will consider
the outlook for the U.S. economy,
and Clayton Yeutter, president of
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
who will discuss the outlook for
U.S. agriculture and agribusiness.
AAEA’s opening session at 8
a.m. Monday will be addressed by
Neil E. Harl of lowa State
University, president of AAEA;
Olan D. Forker, chairman of the
department of agricultural
economics at Cornell; David L.
Call, Cornell Vice President; and
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Chancellor
of the State University of New
York. The opening session will be
m Bailey Hall.
More than 2,200 people are ex
pected to attend the AAEA
meeting, which is being held in
conjunction with the Northeast
Agricultural Economics Council
and the Association at En
vironmental and Resource
Economists.
Among topics to be discussed
during the four-day meeting are
the current economic outlook for
agricultural commodities and
predictions for the 21st century;
the economics of hazardous waste
disposal; women professionals in
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Sen. Dole to address economist at Cornell
agricultural economics; and
agricultural growth in sub-Sahara
Africa. In all, nearly 100 sessions
will be conducted during the
conference.
Two representatives of the
USDA Economic Research Service
will look toward the 21st century in
a presentation entitled, “The
Future Productive Capacity of
U.S. Agriculture; Economic,
Technological, Resource, and
Institutional Determinants.”
David H. Harrington and Clark
Edwards will speak at 10:15 a.m.
Monday, in 120 Ives Hall.
Sessions on Monday afternoon
will deal with agricultural com
modities. Speakers will be John
Ferris of Michigan State
University, on the AAEA con
sensus forecast; Darrell Good,
University of Illinois, on the grain
and oilseed outlook; Wayne
Purcell, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, on
the livestock and meat outlook;
and Dennis Koutras of Drexel-
Burnham-Lambert on the sugar,
cocoa, coffee, and cotton outlook.
The session is at 1:30 p.m. in 45
Warren Hall.
Also at 1:30 p.m. Monday,
“Valuing Reduction in Risk from
Hazardous Waste” will be the topic
of a presentation by V. Kerry
Smith of Vanderbilt University and
William Desvouges of Research
Triangle Institute. Their
presentation will be in 145 Warren
Hall.
Thomas Urban, president and
chief executive officer of Pioneer
Hißred International, Inc., will
speak at the Monday evening in
dustry banquet in the Statler Hall
ballroom. His topic is, “The Im
pact of Agricultural Policy
Development on Agribusiness.”
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Speaking at the international
banquet at the Sheraton Inn
Conference Center, also Monday
night, will be Dunstan Spencer,
principal economist with the In
ternational Crops Research In
stitute for the Semi-Arid Tropics,
headquartered in Niamey, Niger.
His presentation is, “Problems
and Prospects for Agricultural
Development in West Africa. ’ ’
On Monday and Tuesday,
AAEA’s Committee on Women in
Agricultural Economics will host a
luncheon and open house in 401
Warren Hall. During the Tuesday
open house, members will discyss
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FLEMINGTON, N.J. - Speaker
for this year’s Hunterdon County
Farmers’-Busmessmen’s Picnic
will be Sen. Garrett W. Hagedorn
of Midland Park. A long-time
proponent of agriculture in the
Garden State, Sen. Hagedorn
represents a very large con
stituency, district 40, in the nor
theast corner of the state. The
topic he has chosen for the annual
County Board of Agriculture
sponsored event is “Farmers and
Businessmen Working Together.”
The picnic this year will be at
Sam Leon’s sod farm, a tew miles
south of Pittstown, in Franklin
Township. Date will be Tuesday,
July 31.
Senator Hagedorn is currently
serving his 17th year in the New
Jersey Senate. He works closely
with Sen. Walter Foran. In fact,
they sit next to each other in the
Senate Chamber.
and
Senator
An Issue or Not?” There are a
growing number of women among
the 4,700 members of AAEA.
This year’s meeting of AAEA is
being hosted by faculty in the
department of agricultural
economics in the New York State
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at Cornell. AAEA, first
proposed at Cornell in 1909, was
finalized one year later at lowa
State University, which will host
the 1985 AAEA meeting.
AAEA’s professional and student
members are engaged in research
and teaching in agricultural
economics and resource
economics, while others do
to address NJ. farmers
Senator Hagedorn attended the
recent New Jersey Agricultural
Society’s tour for legislators held
in Hunterdon County. At the
evening banquet, he praised the
efforts of Sen. Foran and went on
the express his continued interest
in the agricultural community. He
called for strong action on the part
of his fellow legislators to promote
agriculture in New Jersey.
He was much impressed by what
he had seen that afternoon at the
first four farms visited:
Tewksbury Wine Cellars,
Stonegate Standardbred Horse
Farms, Panacek's Sycamore Lane
Farm & Nursery, and the Susan
and Ted Blew Oak Grove Plan
tation.
The following morning the over
100 participants were to visit Ernie
Kuster’s Dairy and Grain Farm,
the Exxon headquarters farming
operation (farmers Jack and Bob
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forecasting and policy analysis to
help government agencies and
private firms make decisions. The
academic, government, and
business economists have common
interests in the economics of
agnc„ , natural resources,
and rural development.
The AAEA conference will
preceded (August 3-4 by a
workshop on “Realizing Your
Potential as an Agricultural
Economist in Extension."
Following the conference
(August 8-10), a workshop on
macroeconomics emphasizing
international trade has been
scheduled.
Rinehart and Ed Jablonski lease
the land), and Johanna Farms.
Sen. Hagedorn was asking
legislators to be responsive to the
needs of farmers, so that they
might indeed work more closely
together. His address on July 31, at
the County Board of Agriculture
picnic will call for the same kind of
cooperation between farmers and
the business community.
Tickets are $7.50 each. Tours
begin at 5:30 p.m., picnic supper
served by Gene Maddalena’s
catering service at 7 p.m. The
Senator will be on after the meal.
Checks for tickets should be
made payable to: Hunterdon
County Board of Agriculture, and
mailed to August Knispel,
Chairman, Farmers’-Businessm
en’s Picnic Committee, Hunterdon
County Board of Agriculture, 4
Gauntt Place, Flemmton, NJ
08822.
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