Delaware Launches Farm Management Project
The Delaware Cooperative
Extension Service has launched a
three-year project designed to help
farmers become better managers.
According to University of
Delaware extension farm
management specialist Dr.
Tilmon, the project was developed"
with the cooperation of “a blue .
ribbon panel of advisers consisting
of one farmer and one agricultural
agent from each of Delaware’s-'
three counties.”
The goal of the project is to teach
fanners how to make better
management decisions, based on a
system of accurate records on
individual production units. A
production unit can be a single
field, an entire farm (if more thkn
one is owned), a broiler house, “or
just about any production unit a
farmer wishes to designate for'
record-keeping purposes,” Tilmon
says.
Meetings to launch the project
were held in mid-March in all three
counties in the state. The 14
families who signed up will keep
detailed records during the
production season and periodically
mail them to Tilmon for
processing. At the end of the
season, inventories will be taken
and any expenses incurred but not
assigned to a specific enterprise
will be reported.
“That’s when the project’s real
educational effort will begin,” the
farm management specialist says.
“During the winter of 1986/1987 a
series of meetings will be held to
analyze various aspects of the
records kept during the growing
season. At these meetings our
extension crop fertility specialist,
Dr. Richard Taylor, agricultural
engineer Tom Williams, and other
extension specialists will discuss
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and nine alternates to the
American Egg Board to serve two
year terms ending Dec. 31,1987.
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national research and promotion
program designed to strengthen
the egg industry’s position in the
marketplace. The program is
funded entirely by a £cent per 30-
dozen assessment charge against
eggs marketed by all nonexempt
commercial egg producers.
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plans and projects to assure that it
is operated according to law and in
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Members named by Lyng,
followed by their alternates, are:
• North Atlantic states - Jay
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Westminster, Mass.
• South Atlantic states - Edward
L. Houston, Lumber City, Ga.;
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second year of the project. They’ll
also have much more information
for analysis during the second
winter of meetings. “The third and
final year,” he says, “should
provide enough information for
individual omHurers to beei" to
• East North Central states -
Joseph J. Maust, Pigeon, Mich.;
alternate Keith L Stringfield,
Cambria, Wis.
• West North Central states -
Gilbert B. Eckhoff, Omaha, Neb.;
alternate Jack W. McKee, Clay
Center, Kan.
• South Central states - Charley
Kammerdiener .Tr Hono Ark.;
A.I.D. ‘out’ of soybean
ST. LOUIS - The Agency for
International Development
(A.1.D.) told American Soybean
Association leaders it is “totally
out” of funding projects that assist
in the foreign production of
soybeans.
Dr. Anson Bertrand, Director of
the Office of Agriculture for A.I.D.
announced the new policy at a
recent ASA Board of Directors
meeting in Washington D.C.
Bertrand told ASA leaders that the
new A.I.D. policy requires: 1) that
A.I.D. will not support funding of
any project that assists or
establishes foreign production of
soybeans and 2) that A.I.D. will re
focus existing production projects
to soybean utilization projects.
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see if any trends are developing in
their records. For example, is the
cost per bushel to grow soybeans
on rented land going up over time?
Or is pH declining with the current
liming program, indicating that
the interval might be stretched out
alternate R.K. Looper, Jackson,
Miss.; D.L. Ryan, Cottondale,
Ala.; alternate Melvin Russell,
Collierville, Tenn.
• Western states - John W.
Buffington, Sherman Oaks, Calif.;
alternate James W. Selzler,
Riverside, Calif.; Arnold Riebli,
Petaluma, Calif.; alternate Barrie
expressed by ASA members and
leaders,” Bertrand told soybean
leaders.
ASA President George Fluegel
praised the A.I.D. policy reversal
as a positive step for U.S. soybean
farmers. He said the changes are
an example of what can be done
when farmers work together to
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“We realize the need to assist
farmers around the world,” says
Fluegel, “but for some time we
have been concerned that A.I.D.
funding has been helping develop
soybean production capabilities of
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farmers in these marginal areas to
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a bit?”
If the project appeals to fanners
who haven’t enrolled, they haven’t
missed out completely, Tilmon
says. “A new group will be started
next winter and we’ll try to give
them plenty of notice.”
Wilcox, Roy, Wash.
Lyng also named Reginald
Keddie, Aurora, Ore., to fill an
alternate vacancy in the Western
states and John Russo, Hope
Valley, R.I. to fill a member
vacancy in the North Atlantic
states. Keddie and Russo will
serve for the term ending Dec. 31,
1986.
projects
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from U.S. fanners.”
“Rather than developing foreign
production capability, we want to
see A.I.D. money invested in
helping fanners in other nations
use soybeans and soybean
products,” explains Fluegel.
' “That helps U.S. farmers because
it reduces the amount of crop in the
world market. Furthermore, as
countries learn to use more and
more soybeans and products, we
create new markets for U.S.
soybeans.”
Fluegel said A.I.D. money
should be invested with two ob
jectives in mind first the
humanitarian aspect of helping
those less fortunate, and second
consideration for potential of
creating new markets for the U.S.
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