Committee Hires
New Veal Student Ag Day At
Merchandiser
CHICAGO. 111. V. Russell
Woodward has joined the Veal
Committee as veal merchandiser.
In this position. Woodward will
work with retail and foodservice
operators in selected target cities
to implement veal promotion and
merchandising programs. He will
regularly visit with meat directors,
meat merchandisers and advertis
ing departments of major retail
and wholesale headquarters, as
well as packers, foodservice oper
ators, distributors and purveyors.
Much of Woodward’s work
will focus on encouraging veal
marketers to participate in the new
“Veal. Discover The Special
Choice” campaign, launched last
fall by the Veal Committee.
Previously, Woodward was a,
purchasing/raw products manager
at Keystone Foods Corporation in
Bala Cynwyd, Pa. He has also
worked on the resource staff of the
Texas 4-H Center and as a lab
assistant at Texas A&M Universi
ty, where he received his bache-
FARGO, N.D. The primary
objective of national agricultural
policy must be to revitalize the
family farm system of agriculture
and to enhance farm income so
that farmers can continue to pro
vide a reliable supply of food and
fiber while serving as stewards of
the nation’s land and water resour
ces, according to the National Far
mers Union.
In policy adoption recently, del
egates to the farm organization’s
92nd anniversary convention said
the basic issue facing rural Ameri
ca is the control of American
agriculture.
“National farm policy must pro
vide direction and emphasis to
ensure that control of agriculture
is vested within the family farm.
The decline in the number of
farms must be reversed. Programs
Workshop Set On Rural Income Opportunities
KEEDYSVILLE. Md.
Farmers and other rural landown
ers can explore opportunities to
produce additional income from
their property at a workshop on
“Income Opportunities For Rural
Areas Utilizing Your Natural Re
sources.”
Sponsored by the Cooperative
Extension Service in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia and the Small Business
Development Center, the work
shop will be held Saturday, April
16, at the Center for Career and
Technical Education in Cresap
town, Md., five miles south of
Cumberland on Rt. 220.
“Response to this very popular
workshop in past years has been
extremely encouraging,” said
Jonathan toys, a natural resource
specialist with the Maryland Co
operative Extension Service. “Par-
ticipants at past workshops have • Agritourism: fee fishing, bed
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Farmers Union Recommends Targeting
which encourage sustainable agri
culture and diversified production,
while discouraging capital inten
sive and hight input fanning, can
be keys to reversing this trend,”
delegates said in the adopted poli
cy statement.
The farm group said the current
farm law has placed this nation’s
system of family farm agriculture
into “continuing economic jeopar
dy, leaving farmers at the mercy
of a marketplace which is increas
ingly dominated by vertically
integrated, multi-national grain
and food conglomerates.”
The Farmers Union called for
new directions in the development
of the 1995 farm law to prevent
family farmers from becoming an
“endangered economic species.”
It urged federal farm program
benefits be targeted to the produc-
their natural resources to meet re
creational demands and provide
non-traditional products and ser
vices.”
Kays believes that continuing
concerns for the environment, es
pecially as regards water quality
and long-term land stewardship,
will only increase interest in alter
native income-producing enter
prises.
The workshop will help pros
pective entrepreneurs and produc
ers looking to diversify get started
by providing them with informa
tion on how to produce, market,
and finance a variety of non-tradi
tional products and services.
The morning program will ex
plore various opportunities, exam
ine legal and liability issues, and
discuss enterprise budgeting and
marketing.
After lunch there will be three
breakout sessions:
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
“Agriculture: Learning today to
care for tomorrow” will be the
theme for this year’s Student Ag
Day on the University of Mary
land campus at College Park.
The 69th annual event is .sche
duled April 30 in the livestock
bams area behind the Animal £ci
ences/Agricultural Engineering
Building. Activities will run from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no admis
sion charge, and the public is in
vited.
Typical of country fairs, Ag
Day will feature student competi
tion in fitting and showing dairy
cattle, beef cattle, swine, horses,
and sheep. The program booklet
again will be dedicated to a Col
lege of Agriculture faculty or staff
member who has rendered out
standing support to students and
student activities.
By 2:30 p.m. the winners in
each livestock class will be ex
changing animals to determine
who deserves the honor of being
selected grand champion show
man.
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food science and
tion levels of family farms in order
to reduce government costs and to
further the sustainability of family
farms and rural communities.
The farm organization histori
cally has favored supply
management programs and con
tinues to do so; however, it ack
nowledged that “current farm law
and trade policy directions lessen
this nation’s ability to manage the
agricultural supply-demand and
pricing situation on behalf of its
producers.”
The result is that future farm
policy seems limited to a choice
between continued decoupling or
the targeting of farm program ben
efits, according to the Farmers
Union. “Decoupling so far has
provided artificial competitive
advantages to the largest farms
while collapsing the very safety
* Environmental horticulture:
greenhouse crops, marketing spe
cialty products and maple syrup
production.
• Forestry and natural re
sources: dollars from woodlots,
mushroom and ginseng produc
tion and kiln drying opportunities.
A $l2 registration fee includes
lunch, morning coffee and donuts,
break beverages, and information
al materials. Preregistration is re
quired by April 8 and is being
handled by the Alleghany County
office of the Maryland Coopera
tive Extension Service. Call this
office at (301) 724-3320 to re
quest a brochure or to register by
phone. Your local cooperative ex
tension service office in Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
West Virginia also have workshop
brochures.
For more information, contact
Steve Bogash or Jonathan Kays,
(301) 791-2298.
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Prior to the final student com
petition around 2 p.m. Col
lege of Agriculture faculty mem
bers (with little or no previous ex
perience) will compete in a
humor-filled swine showmanship
contest. Contestants are encourag
ed to dress in funny or outlandish
costumes.
Ag Day is sponsored each year
by the Agriculture Student Coun
cil at the University of Maryland
with support from 12 College of
Agriculture student clubs. Many
of the clubs will operate conces
sion booths, selling barbecued
beef sandwiches, hot dogs, soft
drinks, and other food items.
Bedding plants and vegetable
transplants also will be on sale.
The Collegiate FFA group and an
Anne Arundel County 4-H club
will be selling craft items.
Barnyard babies will be includ
ed in a farm animal petting zoo.
Woodsy Owl and Molly the pink
cow characters will be on hand,
too.
net that was originally established
for family farmers,” the Farmers
Union policy declared.
The organization explained that
the nation’s largest farm opera
tions have continued to receive
their full entitlements, while the
across-the-board cuts through the
triple-base system have put the
burden of the budget cuts on the
backs of the small and mid-sized
farm families.
The Farmers Union policy said
the organization would adamantly
oppose further decoupling. It said
targeting farm program benefits is
the “most viable policy alternative
available today to respond to the
crisis facing family farm
agriculture.
“Targeting must establish a
basis that provides cost-of produc
tion returns and a reasonable
livelihood from the basic output of
Books Provide Latest
Tillage, Soil Management
Information
MOLINE, 111. Farm owners,
farm managers, and anyone else
who seeks the latest information
about profitable, site-specific till
age practices and effective soil
management strategies can find it
in two books, entitled ‘Tillage”
and “Soil Management.” The
books are published by Deere Si
Company’s Service Publications
Department
‘Tillage,” a completely revised
edition, replaces a book of the
same title in Deere’s Fundament
als of Machine Operation (FMO)
series. “Soil Management” is pan
of the company’s Farm & Busi
ness Management series.
“Both series are used extensive
ly by educators and make excel
lent reference material for those
associated with production agri
culture,” said John Kuhar, senior
editor with Deere’s publication
department.
The 164-page tillage book,
complete \yith more than 300 il
lustrations, presents up-to-date in-
Maryland
In conjunction with this year’s
Ag Day, an 11 a.m. dedication
ceremony will commemorate the
new Agricultural Engineering
wings of the Animal Sciences-
Agricultural Engineering Building
at the University of Maryland.
A major speaker at the dedica
tion will be Norman R. Scott, vice
president for research and advanc
ed studies at Cornell University.
Ithaca, N.Y. Dr. Scott is national
president of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers.
Sheri L. Jardine of Bowie
(Prince George’s County), an ani
mal science pre-vetcrinary senior,
is president of the ag student coun
cil, the sponsoring organization
for Ag Day.
Jardine said that the goals of Ag
Day are to make the public and the
campus community more aware of
Maryland agriculture and to give
College of Agriculture students an
opportunity to participate in all
aspects of a scaled-down county
fair.
a family farm,” the farm group
said.
Tiered marketing quotas, set
asides, and price supports,
together with overall, per program
and volume (bushel) based com
modity loan and deficiency pay
ment limitations were endorsed as
effective targeting tools.
In addition to targeting efforts,
the Farmers Union endorsed
defining farmers eligible for prog
ram benefits as “farm operators
who rely on farm income for their
livelihood.” The organization said
farm operators who have supple
mental off-farm jobs should con
tinue to be eligible for farm prog
ram benefits, but those persons or
entities which have extraordinary
annual net incomes from unre
lated, non-farm sources of more
than $lOO,OOO should not be
eligible.
formation on primary and secon
dary tillage systems and provides
practical strategies for conserva
tion planning and working with
higher levels of crop residue.
Other topics include dryland till
age practices, tillage at seeding,
managing soil compaction, and
equipment adjustments.
The soil management book con
tains 140 pages of practical infor
mation about subjects such as soil
fertility, erosion control, soil com
paction and its management, fac
tors affecting crop yield, and con
servative planning. The topics are
illustrated with more than 200
photographs, charts, and draw
ings, and many are in color.
“Tillage” and “Soil Manage
ment” are priced at $29.95 and
$24.95 respectively.
For ordering information, write
Lori Lees, Deere & Company,
Service Publications Dept., John
Deere Rd., Moline, 111.
61265-8098, (309) 765-4516.