Virginia Corn Growers
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Marketing was also the topic of
Ken Hobbie with the U.S. Feed
Grains Council. Zeroing in on
overseas market development,
Hobbie told the Virginia com
producers of his organization’s
work as the overseas arm of the
American feed industry. Financed
with funds from producers,
agribusiness and the USDA, the
Council has 15 offices and 200
ongoing programs around the
world to develop the use of U.S.
feed grains in other countries.
As countries develop
economically, Hobbie explained,
the local diet begins to include
more meat, eggs and dairy
products—all of which require feed
grains to produce. Between 1981
and 1986 there was a two billion
bushel growth in the market for
feed grains, he reported, even
though the United States’ share of
the market declined dramatically
during that time. American grains
simply weren’t competitive, he
said, and consequently U.S. feed
grains exports are at an all-time
low of 1.5 billion bushels.
Next year’s exports are
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projected to be 1.8 billion bushels
and by 1990 the Feed Grains
Council hopes levels will be sub
stantially higher, but buying
patterns will not shift right away,
Hobbie warned. There is also a
great need for more private
support for export market
development, he continued, since
this would make such important
activity less dependent on shifting
USDA policies. Building markets
for American grain requires active
involvement from everyone, in
cluding producers, and while
optimistic, these goals are not
unreachable, Hobbie concluded.
Virginia’s Commissioner of
Agriculture, Mason Carbaugh,
also echoed- the same note of
cautious optimism in the
program’s closing remarks. Bright
spots in conventional farm
products include feeder cattle,
poultry, hogs and dairying—all of
which utilize com. He also ex
pressed confidence that Virginia
producers and their commodity
associations would continue to
develop the markets needed for
their crops.
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Maryland Dairyman Elected To
SOLEBURY - The Northeast
Regional Council of the National
Association of Conservation
Districts has elected Donald L.
Spickler to serve on the NACD
Board of Directors. The election
came at the Northeast NACD
regional meeting in Hagerstown,
Md., on August 14.
Spickler is currently the
president of the Maryland
Association of Soil Conservation
Districts. He said he is happy with
his election. “It will be a challenge
to serve on the board, but it will
also be fun. I am pleased that the
council members had the con
fidence in me to serve,” Spickler
said.
The board of directors is the
main governing body of the NACD.
Board members carry out the
policies of the NACD, vote on the
association budget, and elect of
ficers. Twenty-one people, three
from each of the seven NACD
regions, serve on the board.
“He (Spickler) will definitely be
an asset,” said board member Bill
Lange. “I am looking forward to
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working with someone of Mr.
Spickler’s capabilities.”
Spickler will officially join the
board in February 1987 at the
NACD national convention in
Reno, Nev. He will serve a three
year term.
Spickler is a dairy farmer in
Clear Spring, Md., and has been a
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Woodcock Valley
Local To Meet
SOUTHAMPTON - The
Woodcock Valley Local of Inter-
State Milk Producers’ Cooperative
District 13 will hold its fall business
meeting Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. at the
Penn Central Bank, Marklesburg.
The purpose of the meeting is to
elect officers and delegates for the
coming year. John Lynn, Wood
cock Valley Local president, and
Director Charles E. Schilling will
preside over the meeting.
Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative represents over 3,000
dairy farm families in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia. The cooperative
marketed 2.54 billion pounds of
milk in fiscal 1986.
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