Putting policy into perspective is are the agricultural programs that reliable, supply ot tood‘ ?
a goal for the former chief began in the 1930 s to solving Rasmussen will discuss these and
historian of the U.S. Department of today’s problems? other questions like in a public
Agriculture. Dr Wayne D. What alternatives do we have to lecture at Penn State’s University
Rasmussen asks how appropriate insure and maintain a safe, Park Campus, Tues., Nov. 18
Communicate With Legislators
SYRACUSE, NY - Kansas
Senator Robert Dole, a 25-year
member of Congress and majority
leader of the Senate, told Agway
members meeting here last month
that some agricultural problems
are... in a broad sense... a matter
of communications and urged
them to keep talking with their
legislators on farm issues.
He noted that most people have
no idea where their food comes
from or what is involved in
producing it.
Dole called the nationwide
transition to fewer farms “in many
respects a national tragedy,” but
noted that fair and effective
solutions are hard to come by and
that farmer organizations
themselves have difficulty
agreeing on agricultural policies.
The Kansas Senator said he
could defend both the subsidizing
of U.S. agriculture, to a certain
extent, and of export products
when other nations are subsidizing
their ag exports. He warned,
however, that a “farm-cost
backlash” will force another hard
look at farm legislation this year.
Several factors are currently
helping farmers, Dole stated.
Moderating interest rates as well
as tax reform are helping. He
promised that tax rates would not
increase next year, but he warned
that the interest rate on the
national debt was $l5O billion a
year.
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USD A Historian To Speak On Ag Policy
Discussing the difficulty on
targeting government benefits to
help smaller farmers while being
fair and not worsening over
production, Dole challenged his
audience to come up with new
proposals.
Butz To Keynote No-Till Conference
NEWARK, Del. - Former
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz
will be the keynote speaker at the
Mid-Atlantic No-Till Conference
set for Dec. 17 at the York County
Fairgrounds, York.
Following Butz’s 9 a.m. address
titled “There is Still a Rainbow in
Agriculture,” five speakers and
three farmers panels will present
the morning program. Par
ticipants in the conference will be
allowed to meet and quiz the ex
perts during the afternoon.
Commercial exhibits will also be
Christmas Tree Marketing Proposal
HARRISBURG - A proposal to
establish a marketing program for
Pennsylvania Christmas trees
failed to muster sufficient votes for
enactment on Nov. 5, the State
Department of Agriculture an
nounced.
Results of the referendum were
126 growers in favor of the plan and
185 opposed, while those in favor
controlled 51 percent of the 13,873
acres represented by the eligible
II
Dole stated that Agway "does an
outstanding job” as a farmer
cooperative and is well respected
across the country and by mem
bers of Congress of both parties... a
compliment to both its leadership
and members.
open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Tickets to the conference cost $3
and must be purchased prior to
Nov. 21 from a county extension
agent.
Topics to be addressed in the
morning session include corn
diseases, creating the environment
for successful no-till forage, new
sprayer technology, “take home”
weed control programs and the
economics of no-till agriculture.
The panels will discuss “Why I No-
Till,” “Problem Weeds” and
"Cover Crops.”
ballots. For passage, the proposal
had to attract a majority of the
ballots cast and those supporting it
had to own a majority of the
acreage represented.
The referendum was limited to
growers with three or more acres
of marketable trees. More than
1,600 ballots were mailed in Oc
tober and the results were
tabulated by a special committee
in Harrisburg.
Lancaster Farming Saturday, November 15,1986-D23
An interesting thing about
agricultural policy is that it in
volves government policy in areas
such as land use, livestock health
and grading farm products. It
involves a good deal more than
price supports and farm sur
pluses,” he says. His lecture,
“Historical Overview of Federal
Agricultural Policy,” will be held
in the HUB Assembly Room at 4
PM.
Rasmussen is the co-author of a
number of historical studies in
cluding A Century of Service, The
Department of Agriculture and a four
volume set, American Agriculture, a
Documentary History, published by
Random House in 1975.
He has lectured in universities
Carroll-Baltimore, Md County OHIA
Maple Lawn Farm, Inc Fulton, Md had the herd with the
highest average tor the month of October according to figures
just released by the Carroll Baltimore Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
During the month of October 96 dairymen in Carroll
Baltimore counties participated in this program Listed below
are the top 10 herds based on their herd averages over the
past year
Owners
Maple Lawn Farm
(C E lager & Son)
Marlin Hoff
Rose Crost Ltd
(Gary Derr & Brad Garst)
Barnes and Wilhide
Ednch Farm
Joe Schwartzbeck
Del Myr Farm
(Roger and Jeff Myers)
Flint Hill Farm
(Edgar Schaeffer)
Windsor Manor
(Jason and Donna Myers)
Unicorn Associates Inc
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across the country and abroad and
has become known to radio and
television audiences as an
authority on the history of
agriculture in this country. He is
past president of the Agricultural
Historical Society and a Fellow of
the American Agricultural
Economics Association.
Rasmussen received a B.A. in
History from the University of
Montana and a Ph.D. in history
from George Washington
University. He is the second in a
series of speakers co-sponsored by
the Food, Agriculture and Society
Project (W.K. Kellogg Foun
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and Society Program and The
College of Agriculture Circleville
Farm.
October. 1986
No. Cows Milk Fat
157 21,955 789
328 21 250 769
85 20,106 741
55 19,692 734
119 19 940 715
121 19,028 699
60 19,321 695
58 19,413 691
44 19,730 689
88 17,968 684
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