Cambria Co. wins national conservation education award
WASHINGTON, Cam
bria County Conservation District
in Ebensburg, has been awarded
First Place in the National
Association of Conservation
Districts (NACD)/Deutz-Allis
Conservation Education Awards
Program, it was announced
recently.
“They tried everything they
could think of,” judges said citing
the award-winning district.
Because of their exemplary efforts
in conservation education, the
district was asked to implement a
six-week environmental education
program at one of the district high
schools. “This was the ultimate in
achievements,” said district
chairman Ted Hoover, pointing out
that this was the first time ever in
Pennsylvania that a course was
offered every day for six weeks to
the same group of students a
major step in conservation
education.
“The hit-and-miss approach is
not enough to develop awareness
and appreciation, and most im
portantly, a concern for our
natural resources,” Hoover said.
The Cambria program bears out
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mittment is evident. The district
has an active conservation
program inivolving 13 separate
school districts in the county which
continues throughout the year.
They have distributed 2500 trees to
schools for Arbor Day programs
this year, many of which will be
planted on strip mined areas.
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dispersal of herds which produced
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were chosen from seven regional
winners representing 2,950 con
servation districts across the
United States.
Second Place in the National
contest went to the Douglas County
Conservation District in
Lawrence, Kansas.
The NACD/Deutz-Allis Con
servation Education Awards
Program is open each year to all
average levels of milk sold per
worker employed in the milk
production sector was ac
companied by a major
displacement of dairy farm
workers.
The total market for raw milk
supplies was only 115 billion
pounds of milk in 1973-1975 com
pared with 118 billion pounds in
1942. The static national milk
market in the U.S. resulted from a
larger population base that con
sumed a lower average quantity-of
milk and milk products per capita.
Since the 1975 period, milk cows
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conservation districts in the United
States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. Objectives of the awards
program are to foster awareness
and appreciation of the value of
conservation education and to
stimulate efforts by teachers and
conservation districts to advance
the wise use, protection and
enhancement of the nation’s soil,
water and related resources.
numbers have essentially stopped
declining nationally (10.8 million
low point) even though individual
milk cow herds have been sold and
some surviving milk cow herds
have continued to grow in size.
The long-term trend toward
higher milk sold per cow was
temporarily halted in 1984, but it is
expected to continue into 1986 and
1987 and perhaps beyond if grain
feeds and protein meals remain
abundant and low in price relative
to milk product prices.
Most agribusinesses and land
grant universities are geared
toward raising average milk sold
per dairy cow. However, ways
must be found to reduce total
numbers of milk cows in the
national herd to restrict national
milk output yet, at the same time,
individual dairy herds and farms
can improve average productivity
per worker.
This type of industry production
adjustment would mean fewer
dairy farm workers as well as
fewer commercial dairy farms in
future years.
Economic policy analyses to
date have frequently utilized
supply responses which ignore the
costs of labor and management
resource transfers and unem
ployment, as well as the expenses
of human skill development for
integration into the non-dairy farm
sectors of the economy whether
off-the-farm or in on-farm ac
tivities such as crops with beef
production to utilize pastures and
forage crops produced in the usual
crop rotations.
The provision of some type of
long-term dairy cow herd
“buyout” program may be in
corporated into the final version of
the 1985 farm bill currently moving
slowly through Congress. The
probable details of the herd
“buyout” program should become
available before the end of 1985.
The provision could permanently
reduce the number of U.S. dairy
herds and eliminate the current
surplus production of milk.
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