A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 8, 2000 Analyst: Tell City People You’re Saving The Planet ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff GRANTVILLE (Dauphin Co.) High-production agri culture, by its very nature, allows wildlife habitats to stay intact, according to one industry analyst. Alex Avery, director of educa tion and research for the Hudson Institute In Church ville, Va., pointed to the title of his speech at this week’s Penn sylvania Poultry Sales and Ser vice Conference. When speaking to city people, tell them “we’re saving the planet,” he said. Literally. Avery, who spoke to about 135 poultry sales and service professionals in addition to other agri-industry representa tives, said the area of North America, Central America, Brazil, and half of Europe equals the amount of wildlife habitat that’s been saved by high yield, progressive, western-style agriculture. Avery, speaking Tuesday during the first of a the two-day conference at the Grantville Holiday Inn, noted that if farm ers would adopt the low-input, low-yield techniques prevalent in agriculture in the 19605, it would take an additional six Forages For Profits \tsttt la&b Perennial White Clover Barenbrug BG-34 A superb blend of late maturing, winter hardy diploid perennial ryegrass vanetes noted for their persis tence, disease resistance and high digestibility This blend is the rage of the Netherlands for beef and dairy pasture grazing All the ingredients of Barenbrug’s BG-34 have been rated by the Netherlands government as achieving the maximum rat ings in tests and trials BG-34 is a very heavy producer under high fertility and moisture Long leaves, short stem Easy to mow and chop Winter hardy Endophyte free BG-34 is late maturing, perfect for farms with heavy Spring wet soils BG-34 is the best the Netherlands has to offer its cattle farmers It's high digestibility increases milk and meat production BG-34 lllimos - November • - DM 18% - Protein 28 5% -ADF 169% - NDF 36 6% -TDN 83 5 - Nel 1 93 MCAL/kg - RFV 192 6 Source Dry Forage Testing Lab Ithaca N V BARENBRUG BARENBRUG Northeast Tel: (800) 435-5296 Fax: (973) 209-0977 BARENBRUG Southeast Tel: (800) 753-7333 Fax; (703) 968-2668 More products from Barenbrug - FORAGE GRASSES, ALFALFA and LEGUMES: BG-34, BG-14, BG-16, Tetra-Plus, Moy Perennial Ryegrass, Green Spirit Italian Ryegrass, Telragold Annual Ryegrass,Barcel, Dovey, TF-33 Tall Fescue, Cambria Orchardgrass, Stockmaster and Horsemaster Pasture Blend, Baralfa 54, Baralfa 32 IQ, Baralfa 85, Baralfa 92 Alfalfa, Alice, Barbian, Tripoli, Southern Cross White Clover, Start Red Clover, Matua Brome/Prainegrass, Barkant Forage turnips, Barnapoli and Rangiora Forage Rape, Forage Feast and Puna Chicory, Buckskin Wildlife Mix, Timothy Barliza, Bart barne adforagm moo million square miles of tillable land to produce the food re quired by the 6 billion people in the world. Son of Dennis Avery, also of the institute who spoke at the state crops conference in Camp Hill in early February, Alex noted that marketing the posi tive aspects of high-production agriculture will be increasingly necessary to stem the increasing ignorance of the nonfarm public. “Marketing today is not about product,” said Avery. “It’s about image and holistic mes sage and everything except the product.” Organic producers market not their product, but the “image, the lifestyle not the food,” Avery said. Agriculture has to promote itself in ways other than reveal ing the benefits of cheap food. In the next several decades, the world’s population will soar to about 9.5 billion. Essentially, ag output will have to double but how can it if ag doesn’t adopt biotechnology and high yield ways of thinking? The third world will continue to become more developed and more affluent, noted the insti tute director of education and research. More affluent people become better educated and Lab analysis BG-34 New York - June -DM 19 5% - Protein 25 7% -ADF 196% - NDF 34 9% -TDN 73 - Nel 1 69 MCAL/kg -RFV 196 Great in Grass, choose to have fewer children. At the same time, with addi tional money comes changes in diet and that diet includes high amounts of animal protein. Asian rim countries, includ ing Japan, have increased their demands for meats dramatic Speakers at the Pennsylvania Poultry Sales and Service Conference, from left, Dr. Robert Elkin, professor and head of Penn State Poultry Science; Dennis McCartin, Penn State Management Development Programs and Services; Dr. Milt Madison, ag econo mist, USDA-FSA; Paul Hann Sr., manager of poultry business development, Purina Mills, Inc.; and Dr. Michael Elliot, director of technical services, Wenger Feeds. ALICE White Clover The grass really ben efits from the Nitrogen being fixed and released by the ALICE White Clover It is estimated that the ALICE White Clover fixes up to 200 units of Nitrogen per acre Another remarkable thing is noted by the above photo the strips without the ALICE White Clover do have some spots with some volunteer white clover At those spots the grass does not show increased production at all, and the cows don’t even like it This proves the point that improved varieties like ALICE White Clover fix much more Nitrogen than the traditional white clovers and that it is more palatable The picture also shows that cows really love the grass with the white clover, giving a new meaning to the work ‘stripgrazing' Characteristics of ALICE White Clover; Very palatable • High Nitrogen fixation • Good winter hardiness • Large leaves • Tall vigorous growth • Performs extremely well under grazing management ally. 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Importantly for western pro ducers, China will be hard- (Turn to Page A 25)
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