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July 15 field day has been sche
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certified organic dairy operation,
■s well as provide educational
workshops on grazing and herd
health.
URBANA, 111. Global Soy
Forum *99. a worldwide salute to
the soybean, is shaping up to be a
milestone in food industry history.
Expected to draw 1,200 at
tendees, the Forum is rapidly lur
ing international registrants.
Farmers, dietitians, foreign secre
taries of agriculture, and myriad
scientists are expected to converge
in Chicago for the Aug. 4-7 con
ference.
Event headliners include ABC
News 20/20 correspondent John
Stossel, who will discuss health is
sues and worldwide food produc
tion partnerships. Cesar Belloso, a
large-scale Argentine farmer, will
address soybean production in the
Americas, and scientists from the
United States, Brazil, and Canada
will tackle the global dilemma of
soybean disease management.
“Global Soy Forum offers a
program that is unmatched in its
diversity,” said Mary Auth, direc
tor for Global Soy Forum ’99. “At
the same time, conferences com
prising the Forum will allow
everyone attending to delve into
their area of expertise.”
International audiences are re
sponding, with , enthusiasm. To
date, about 30 percent of regis
trants hail from outside the United
States, Auth said. Among the most
notable, Lianzheng Wang, repre
senting China’s Ministry of Agri
culture; Dr. R.S. Paroda, secretary
of the Indian Ministry of Agricul
ture, and Jorge Hector Larteche,
head of INTA, the Argentine ag
department’s research arm.
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Natural Dairy Expo To Praise Those Who Graze
Billed as the Natural Dairy
Expo: Improving Profits and the
Environment, it has been sche
duled to be held from 10 ajn. to 4
p.m. at Spring Wood Farm, near
Kinzers.
There is to be no registration;
anyone desiring to attend is
Global Soy Forum
’99 Offers Diversity
dent of Brazil’s EMBRAPA (Bra
zilian Corporation of Agricultural
Research), will offer the unique
perspective of a public-private re
search venture. Vice President A 1
Gore and U.S. Secretary of Agri
culture Dan Glickman have been
invited to join these dignitaries.
“We’ve never before seen such
a diverse and studied group of
minds come together to discuss
soybean research, markets and
production,” Auth said. “I think
farmers will be amazed to witness
firsthand the complexity of their
industry and the reach of their
crop.”
The Forum’s Midwest Soybean
Conference will target those farm
ers, offering presentations on
technology, production efficiency,
marketing and global trade. Dr.
Steve Sonka, director of the Na
tional Soybean Research La bora
tray, will discuss future oil and
protein demand, and site-specific
management expert Harold Reetz
will present Cyberfarm, an agri
culture informaiton management
program.
In addition, nearly 600 scient
ists attending the Sixth World
Soybean Research Conference
wifi consider issues of soybean
processing, utilization and crop
improvement. Academia, feed
formulators and livestock nutri
tionists will gather at the soy in
animal nutrition portion of the
Forum to study soybean protein’s
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invited.
A lunch is to be made available.
Cosponsored by farm owner
Roman Stoltzfoos, a long-time
advocate of the success and health
ful aspects of certified organic
fanning and grazing, the Pennsyl
vania Association for Sustainable
Agriculture, and several busincs-
role in livestock diets. And, a spe
cial. invitation-only food program
will target health editors and dieti
tians, and feature Dr. Bob Amot,
NBC chief medical correspondent
for Dateline and Today.
Global Soy Forum ’99’s diver
sity is rooted in the soybean crop’s
varied uses. The protein- and oil
rich soybean has countless appli
cations in human food and animal
feed, and in industries from plas
tics to fuel, adhesives, coatings
and paints. An extensive exhibit
hall will help represent this cornu
copia of soybean products, Audi
said.
Global Soy Forum ’99 is being
coordinated through the Soybean
Research and Development Coun
cil and the National Soybean Re
search Laboratory at the Univer
sity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham
paign.
Registration fees are $395. A
discounted registration rate is
available for farmers at $195.
For registration information,
write Global Soy Forum ’99,
1101 W. Peabody, Room 165,
Urbana, IL 61801, or call (217)
244-7384. Registrations are also
being accepted on-line at
www.gsf99.uiuc.edu
ses, the Geld day event is the Gist
of the year at Stoltzfoos’s Spring
Wood Farm, located near Kinzers.
Business and related sponsors
include Midwestern Bio-Ag, Agri-
Dynamics, Pennsylvania Certified
Organic, Daily Network Partner
ship, and Acres USA.
Stoltzfoos said the event pro
vides the opportunity to view a
working grass farm, one that is tot
ally organic.
According to Stoltzfoos, even if
the farming practices he uses ate
not compatible with practices on
another farm, attendees should be
able to take something from the
event
“No two farms are alike," Stolt
zfoos said. “You have to leant to
make decisions based on your own
circumstances, experiences, and
the strengths and weaknesses of
your farm."
He said that in his opinion, one
problem with pasture walk events
is that people who attend them
attempt to duplicate the farming
operation they’ve visited
Stoltzfus explained that very
few things on a farm, or any other
operations, can be copied exactly
and work the same.
However, he said such events
ran provide a wealth of new infor
mation and inspiration for ideas on
how to apply concepts and prac
tices and adapt them into a farming
operation.
Two heads are better than
one,” Stoltzfoos said, “even if one
is a cabbage head."
On a serious note, he said that
milk can be produced more cheap
ly than die current industry stan
dard, and that it will become even
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more important to do so in light of
widespread agricultural commodi
ty pricing problems.
He said it is becoming apparent
that the entire crop production sys
tem of the Mid Western states is
breaking down because of specula
tive planting of crops that are being
overproduced and for most people,
don’t provide a return on
investment
He predicts that agriculture
there will switch to low-cost dairy
ing and that change will put even
greater pressure on dairy farmers
in the East to lower their costs of
production.
Spring Wood Farm, owned and
operated tty Stoltzfoos, his wife
Lucy, and other family members,
has 280 acres in grass.
No com is raised, grain is occas
sionally used for pasture re
seeding.
They milk a mixed herd of 100
dairy cattle; about 30 percent
Dutch Belted
They also compost manure and
have implemented a pasture irriga
tion program in conjunction with
barnyard nutrient management
practices.
The six educational workshops
include: Economics of Dairy Graz
ing (to include actual financial
data); Minerariizcd, Energized
Forages; Healthy Soils; Health
From the Hedgerow; Using Home
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and Treatment in Dairy Cattle;
Protecting Water Quality by
Improving Barnyard Nutrient
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representatives, at (814) 349-9856
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