*24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20,1984 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy at Resources for the Future and the National Agricultural Forum will hold a three-day national conference Dec. 4-6 on Food and agricultural policy issues facing Congress in 1985, officials of the two groups an nounced today. Cosponsors of the conference include the American Agricultural Economics Association, American Farmland Trust, Center for National Policy, Conservation Foundation, Curry Foundation, Farm Foundation, Giannim Foundation, National Food and Agricultural Policy Rosear"’’ Butter ads ROSSLYN, Va. - The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board’s “Come Home to Butter” commercial will air on television 1,907 times during November and December. The butter commercials, which began running September 10, are being shown in 18 urban areas rather than on national network TV, as are the fluid milk and cheese commercials. These cities were choses because they are historically good butter markets where consumers tend to buy both butter and margarine. Ads could persuade them to buy more butter and less margarine. Full-page color butter ads will aslo begin appearing in December, carried initially by Better Homes <6 N \ ■vTV 1 A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! Phone 717-394-3047 717-626-1164 COAL STOVES Hopper Feed and Automatic Draft BUY NOW SAVE LATER BOWMAN'S STOVE SHOP RD 3, Ephrata, PA 17522 Rt. 322.1 Mi. East of Ephrata (717) 733-4973 lues. Wed. 10-6; Thurs., Fri. 10-8; Sat. 10-4 Food & ag policy conference scheduled Institute, National Governors Association, Food and Agriculture Committee of the National Planning Association, and the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Scheduled to follow the November elections and precede congressional hearings on farm program legislatin in early 1985, the conference will bring together the wide array of individuals and organizations that have been preparing for that debate for most of this year. In a joint statement, Kenneth R. Farrell, director of the National Center, and Adrian J. Polansky, a saturate selected markets & Gardens, Women’s Day, Family Circle, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping. Butter ads are targeted at female homemakers aged 25-49. Calcium-related print ads stressing the nutritional benefits of a dairy-rich diet will also begin appearing in December. One- and two-page calcium ads, targeted to young women (12-24) will run that month in Mademoiselle, Self, Seventeen and Young Miss. Those for adult women will appear in Good Housekeeping, McCall’s, American Health and Newsweek Woman. Ads in Family Circle, People, Shape and Woman’s Day will follow in January and February. Also during November and December, 102 prime-time and FALL TILLAGE TOOLS IN STOCK Belleville, Kan., poducer and moderator of the Forum trustees, noted: “Food and agricultural policy is under extraordinary scrutiny today. Agriculture, the nation’s largest industry, has changed fundamentally since federal agricultural policy was fashioned in the 19305. A rethinking of that policy is cricially needed, and the many groups with interests in food,* agriculture and resources, in addition to producers, should be involved in the process. “Many policy-research organizations and groups with specifically focused interests daytime fluid milk and cheese commercials will air on network TV. Another 25 will run during children’s programs. When the first seven weeks of the National Dairy Board’s ad vertising effort end October 31,171 fluid milk and cheese commercials will have appeared on network television. This number includes 60 commercials of the point-of-sale 'Cheese Jamboree” in grocery stores nationwide. The Cheese Jamboree ends in late October. The National Dairy Promotion and Research Board’s $50.6 million advertising campaign runs from September 9 to April 30, 1985. Its commercials are complemented and supplemented by ads spon sored by state and regional promotional bodies that appear in their local markets. since | TRACTOR CO. —I PARTS * SALES * SERVICE See Page B 7 For Field Demonstration Day resource conservation, in ternational trade, food safety and nutrition, for example are preparing to enter the debate in a significant way. Several organizations have studies un derway to define policy options on these issues, in addition to the preparations of governmental bodies, general farm organizations and major commodity organizations. “All this interest is an important and healthy development for agriculture, because of the op portunity it offers for public dialogue and education before new policies are set. “We are organizing this con ference because we see a need to pool information among the many groups working on policy options, to share perspectives, to air and ‘cross-fertilize’ proposals and thus to reduce the level of possible confusion prior to congressional deliberations.” Top national officials and business and academic leaders will be invited to address the conference and join in its discussions. The program also will feature representatives of policy research institutions, general farm organizations and commodity, consumer, resource and en vironmental groups. 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