NEWARK, Del. - The 1985
Delmarva Com and Soybean
Conference will take place
Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Wicomico
Youth and Civic Cednter,
Salisbury, Md. Doors will open at
8:30 a.m. for exhibits, coffee and
donuts. The program will start at
9:15 a.m.
Highlight of the conference will
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Delmarva Corn & Soybean Conference set for Feb. 7
be a talk, “What lies ahead for
agricultural credit?” by Frank W.
Naylor, Jr., U.S. Undersecretary
of Agriculture for Small Com
munity and Rural Development.
The following talks will also be
featured; “Pesticide drift liability
from misuse of agricultural
pesticides,” by Herbert D.
Morrison, attorney from
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Frederick, Md.; “Farmers and the
Chesapeake Bay,” by Tony
Mazzaccaro, assistant director of
marine advisory programs at the
University bf Maryland; and “How
to survive in ’85,” by Bob Miller,
agriculture representative for the
Maryland National Bank.
Other presentations will cover
new herbicides for soybeans, crop
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protection chemicals, the Lasso
safety message, new ideas in
farming equipment, and farm
safety.
Master of ceremonies will be Dr.
Carl Hurley, a professional public
speaker and entertainer billed as
“America’s Funniest Professor.”
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The conference is being spon
sored by Delmarva agribusiness
industries and the Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia
Cooperative Extension services.
Free lunch tickets are available
from county agents or
agribusiness representatives.
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critical to
Delaware’s
economy,
study
NEWARK, Del. - In
.erms of the multiplier
rffect of dollars spent,
Delaware’s poultry
orocessing industry
:ontnbutes more to
state economic growth
Chan any other industry,
according to a recent
University of Delaware
study.
“Most people know
farming is important to
the state’s economy, but
they may be surprised
to learn just how im
portant it is,” says
Sharon M. Brucker, a
research associate at
the university’s
Agricultural Ex
periment Station. “Our
study shows that poultry
processing has the
highest multiplier effect
of any industry in the
state.”
Furthermore, the
study shows that when
the poultry industry
grows, a large number
of inputs from other
Delaware industries are
required-which means
potential growth for
them, too.
Seventy-six percent of
all poultry processing
inputs are bought in
state, Brucker says.
And 75 percent of all
poultry production
purchases are made in
Delaware. No other
industry except paper
products buys more
than 50 percent of its
inputs (goods and
services) inside the
state. For example, the
chemical industry buys
only 46 percent of its
inputs locally.
Using secondary data
from various govern
ment sources, Brucker
and resource economist
Dr. Steven E. Hastings
have developed an in
put-output table
showing all the tran
sactions undertaken by
various industries in the
state. The table covers
55 different types of
industries, ranging
from poultry and crop
production to banking,
chemicals, business
service, amusement,
auto repair and
educational services.
Data in the model can
be used to estimate how
much of each input is
required to produce one
dollar of output.
Although Delaware’s
chemical industry is the
most important in terms
of size, the model shows
industry
shows
that an increase of
$lOO,OOO in sales in
chemicals stimulates
less additional instate
population than the
same sales increase in
the poultry production,
poultry processing, or
paper sectors.
According to Hastings
and Brucker, an in
crease in poultry
processing of that
magnitude could be
expected to increase
total statewide
production by $373,000.
“It is important to
note that different in
dustries would be ap
propriate growth
targets depending on
the development goals
of the state,” Brucker
says. For example, if
generating more in
come were the goal, a
$lOO,OOO change in
output in medical or
federal government
services could be ex
pected to increase in
come in the state by
$107,000 or $109,000,
respectively. If new jobs
were the goal, an in
crease in the apparel or
health facility sectors
(such as hospitals and
nusring homes) would
be most beneficial.
“Business people,
government officials
and others who make
economic development
decisions in Delaware
need this kind of in
formation,” Brucker
says. “They need to
know how encouraging
the growth of certain
industries, such as
banking, is likely to
affect other sectors of
the economy. They also
need to know how
existing industries use
local resources, what
markets are underused,
how new markets can be
encouraged, and how
tax or zoning changes
can affect the
economy.”
The results of
Brucker’s and Hastings’
study are available in
Agricultural Ex
periment Station
Bulletin 452, “An In
terindustry Analysis of
Delaware’s Economy.”
Copies of the bulletin
are available by
writing: Dr. Steven E.
Hastings, Department
of Agricultural and
Food Economics,
Townsend Hall,
University of Delaware,
Newark, DE19717-1303.