Two-day Bio Ag Seminar
LANCASTER The Natural Ag
1 cchnology Association is spon
soring a two-day Bio-Ag Seminar
Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, at
the Farm and Home Center
Topics to be discussed include
safe handling of manure, reduction
of water pollution from
agricultural sources, animal
feeding without antibiotics, and
decreasing use of chemicals
without production losses
Speakers include
•Dr John Whittaker of
Springfield, MO, a consultant to
the poultry and turkey industry
and a leading advocate of
biological, preventative ap
proaches to animal health
problems
• Thomas Harding Jr of
Stockertown, the president of
Progressive Ag Systems, a con
sulting firm working with con
ventional and organic farmers
• Jerry J Brunetti, president of
Agri-Dynamics, Inc., a firm
engaged in on-farm consulting as
well as marketing of specialty
commodities for agricultural
clients
• John Albright of Lancaster,
president of New Environmental
I'echnology, Inc , who will talk
about the electro-magnetic
spectrum and its effect on people
Solid.
Reliable.
Efficient.
Gehl’s new 760
forage harvester
is more machine
for your dollars.
Put it up against all other forage
harvesters of its size and you'll
say it's the best buy on the
market.
This versatile model roars along
with tractors as high as 150 hp,
and purrs along with tractors as
low as 60 hp (Gehl also has
two other models the 1260,
which can be used with tractors
up to 300 hp, and the 1060,
with a new horsepower rating
for maximum 200 hp)
At Gehl, durability is a must
And you can see it in the 21"
cylinder of the 760 Eight
tungsten-carbide-faced knives
mounted on a hefty almost
three-inch shaft help give the
760 a reputation for ruggedness.
The 760 features a close
coupled cylinder and blower
with part of the cylinder knives
actually running in the blower
compartment. This increases
the efficiency of the harvester
by eliminating any dead spots
m material flow through the unit
The 760 can be fitted with an
m-head hydraulic knife sharpener
allowing the cylinder knives to
be sharpened right in the field,
using tractor hydraulics The
knife sharpener system can also
be used to reface the cutterbar
for better cutting and reduced
horsepower requirements
Dr John Whittaker
and animals
• George Wolf of Myerstown, an
employee of tl> Dauphin County
Soil Conservation Service and a
member of the board of the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Leonard Redzon ot
Youngstown, Ohio, operator of an
experimental farm
For more information, contact
the Natural Ag Technology
Association, P 0 Box 1214,
Lebanon, PA 17042
In-head hydraulic knife sharpener
Simplicity of design is a virtue
in the 760 And it’s a time saver
For example, with the simplified
single-station cutterbar adjust
ment system, you can reset the
cutterbar from one point on the
harvester with a single wrench
A new option for the 760 and
1060 are the bevel extenders for
the cylinders These extenders
bolt onto the knives and give a
longer cutting bevel, improving
uniformity of cut in dry corn
silage without power-consuming
screens Row attachments for
the 760 include the one-row,
and wide or narrow two-row
WASHINGTON, DC Soybean
prices will plunge even lower and
struggling U S farmers will see
export markets shrink unless
Congress acts quickly to exempt
blended credit export programs
and other export expansion efforts
from costly cargo preference
requirements, says American
Soybean Association (ASA)
President Roger Asendorf
According to Asendorf, the
recent court ruling requiring
application of the Cargo
Preference Act to agricultural
commodities has forced Secretary
of Agriculture John Block to
suspend the sale of over $5OO
million of farm commodities
"The government is already
causing farmers enough problems
without adding outrageous cargo
preference demands,” said
Asendorf He explains that under
the ruling half the cargoes shipped
under the blended credit program
must travel on U S falg vessels at
an average added cost of $4O per
metric ton
• That’s enough to make blended
credit completely unattractive to
Two adjustment bolts (A, B) for
single-station cutterbar adjustment
There you have it Some of the
reasons why Gehl’s 760 is cost
efficient as well as low-cost But
it's only part of the story You
can’t fully appreciate this
machine until you see it for
yourself Ask your dealer to
demonstrate and price one out
for you And discover its full worth
GEHL
Gehl Company, West Bend Wl 53095
Soybean group attacks
cargo preference ruling
any customer,' 1 says the St
James, Minnesota soybean far
mer “In the last three years costs
associated with cargo preference
have eaten up nearly $lOO million
in food aid monies per year It
simply doesn’t make sense ’’
Asendorf urges farmers to write
or call their Congressmen and
Senators immediately and ask
their support of recently in
troduced legislation that would
reverse the court decision on cargo
preference and exempt all farm
exports from cargo preference
Asendorf emphasizes that far
mers should also encourage their
legislators to support legislation to
exempt all agricultural exports
from cargo preference
It is almost certain that this
court ruling will result in ap
plication of cargo preference to
any future attempt to promote U S
farm exports," he explains ' One
casualty would be an innovative
idea of providing bonus com
modities’ to foreign buyers out of
surplus federal stocks ”
"A plan of this kind could help
the U S compete in world
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 27,1985-A39
markets, but it certainly would not
find any takers if shipping costs
are unaffordably high,” says
Asendorf
He notes that cargo preference
currently applies to Food for
Peace shipments to needy coun
tries as well as to the blended
credit shipments. But, because of
the high cost of shipping on U S
vessels, (generally $3O-$4O per ton
higher than foreign vessels) much
of the funding designated for
feeding hungry people ends up in
the hands of a few U S ship
owners
Asendorf says powerful
maritime interests are already at
work to defeat legislation designed
to overturn the court ruling on
cargo preference
‘Three maritime unions con
tributed over $2 5 million to
national political candidates
during the last election cycle,”
says Asendorf “Farmers are
working against a formidable
lobbying force More exports are
vital if U S agriculture is to return
to profitability and if the costs of
farm programs are to be brought
under control But until the
Congress exempts agricultural
exports from cargo preference, it's
pointless to talk about new federal
export sales programs ”
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