Ag Issues Forum
(Continued from Pago A 36)
be properly armed with the resour
ces to best serve our industry. This
year, all the necessary factors came
together, and we will do our best to
manage those resorces well.**
To keep agriculture strong in
Pennsylvania, Hayes said we need
to preserve our natural resource
base of farmland and water. Cur
rently, Pennsylvania as a matter of
public policy, is preserving more
farmland than any other state. State
farmland preservation recently
reached a milestone of 100,000
acres in the preservation programs.
Hayes said the recent research
symposium was conducted to see
what can be done for current prob
lems facing agriculture. He said
that research programs need to be
relative to the issues being faced by
the men and women in agriculture.
And there needs to be a degree of
transferability from the research
site to the user site. There must be a
chance for profit from the research,
and it must have a cost effective
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Agricultural odors may be the
most pressing of research topics. “I
am quite sure a good bit of our
problem could be avoided if there
were a way to suppress agricultural
odors,” Hayes said. “This is prob
ably the first thing that brings peo
ple together against our agriculture
operations. After they get together,
they talk about a lot of other things,
but odors drive them together.
“We need to find ways to bring
harmony with ourselves and those
who live around us. It’s a very
ambitious undertaking, but if we
want to maintain agriculture in a
very robust way and be sure agri
culture stays here in Pennsylvania,
we need to address these societal
problems.”
The next Ag Issues Forum is
scheduled back in Lancaster Coun
ty on July 9,1998. The subject is
Tax Reform. For more information
you may call Brubaker at (717)
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Ayrshire Breeders To Hold Convention
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. Se
veral hundred breeders of regis
tered Ayrshire dairy cattle will be
on hand in Cedar Rapids. lowa,
June 24-27, bringing bovines to
the Five Seasons Center down
town as they conduct business and
enjoy events surrounding the Ayr
shire Breeders’ Association an
nual convention.
Those attending will be in
volved in a variety of events, in
cluding a cruise on the Mississippi
Belle, tours of the Amana Colon
ies and visits to eastern lowa dairy
farms.
“We’re promising these people
they’ll enjoy lowa and have fun
with lots of different activities,”
said Shirley Newell, one of the co
chairs of die meeting. The lowa
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association is
host for the convention, which is
held in a different part of the o
try each year.
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ids, outstanding cattle Of
the breed will be dis
played at the Five Sea
sons Center, and on the
concluding day they
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nual Grant National
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from dairymen of other
breeds for their profit
ability and grazing abili
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the public.
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Kruse of Dyersville;
Gerry, Mary Ann, Da
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Business during the convention
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