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201-875-5672
New Egypt
Norman Bright, Inc.
609-758-2211
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609-455-1640
PENNSYLVANIA
Breezewood
Summit Systems, Inc.
814-735-3293
Carlisle
Peterman Farm Equip., Inc.
717-249-2150
Chambersburg
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717-263-8424
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income comes from products that
are not supported.”
“We do have a major surplus
problem in agriculture. Not so
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'productivity has increased much
■more rapidly than I think most
people would have projected 10
years ago. In the mid 1970 s people
■'were concerned about the world
not having enough food. They were
worried about us running out of
technology and ruining our soils
and depleting our underground
water supplies. This has happened
to some extent. But it’s just
remarkable what happened to
world ag production.”
“Africa has stayed behind to
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717-637-3808
Ivy land
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215-675-1610
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some extent and the problems
there are extremely serious. But in
western Europe and in Asia as well
as in the U.S. production has in
creased dramatically. Ten years
ago India was a deficit country but
now while there are hungry people
in India you can see that their food
supply relative to the ability to
purchase has put them in much
better shape than they were 10
years ago. The so-called green
revolution has increased wheat
and rice supplies so they have
actually exported grain. ’ ’
“China, which five years ago
imported 15 million tons of grain,
has exported grain in the last year.
In the U.S; change in the
productivity of dairy cows has
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717-698-6825
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Donald L. Erdley Farm Equip.
717-524-2410
Mahaffey
Hutton Farm Equip.
814-277-6647
Martinsburg
Burchfield’s, Inc.
814-793-2194
New Berlinville
Erb & Henry Equip., Inc.
215-367-2169
gone up much faster than the rate
of the population. Wheat
production has gone up 25 percent
in less than 10 years. And the op
timism about increases of
productivity continues. The bovine
growth hormone and additives to
make feed convertion more ef
ficient add to this optimism. Many
people now think we have not
nearly reached our potential in
crop yields. Even in our water
supplies we are pumping water
from lower resources but we are
also making more efficient use of
our water.”
“So the results have been an
increase in production that has
surpassed our ability to find
markets. We will likely put into
storage about 70 million tons of
grain this year. We started the
year with 90 million tons so we’ll be
up to 160 million tons. That is
equivalent to about 20 percent of
our grain production being
registered as surplus. Dairy
products are about nine to 10
percent surplus. And even
soybeans has an eight to 10 percent
surplus over needs.”
“Since the population is growing
at only about one percent per year,
the prospects of doing away with
surplus by increasing demand is
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Rochester
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412-843-7211
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717-247-2601
St. Marys
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814-834-2065
Sharon
Watson’s, Inc,
412-346-6514
Washington
Headley Farm Machine Sales
412-222-1488
lancastar Farming, Saturday, May 24,1986-A39
feets of income on food con
sumption are not nearly as great
as they were 10 years ago. Even
when people get a wage increase
they do not buy very much more
food. At the rate we are going for
grain supplies, it would be at least
10 years before we could use up the
kinds of excess production we have
seen. In dairy products we are
about five years ahead of our
population needs.”
“Even if Chernobyl did affect
Russia’s grain fields, we still have
enough surplus grains to fill the
gap. Prices jumped from a
psycological effect. But in fact, we
have enough grains to ac
commodate any increase in the
demands the Soviets are likely to
make.”
In a question and answer period
following Dr. Robinson’s
discussion, he said it will take
longer to incorporate some of the
new technological advances than
was expected concerning the
bovine growth hormone. He said
farmers still need to innoculate the
cows daily, and goverment ap
proval for the product is still
necessary. On a question regar
ding marketing, he said we should
develop products for the market,
rather than markets for the
products.