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
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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
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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.
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ally. Since the 19505, Japan has
raised demand for meat prod
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is becoming more developed,
more westernized, and its
demand for meat products has
more than doubled in the past
eight years. In a country with 22
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CUT 1 CUT 2 CUT 3 CUTS TOTAL
BARIDANA 5419 3707 3326 2003 14454
Niva 5336 3677 3318 2040
Pizza 2015 4014 3303 1846
Warrior 5015 3819 3147 2190
Potomac 4522 4073 3296 2145
Mobile 4701 4335 3236 1689
8511 4440 3842 3176 2369
WX9-400 4626 3767 3371 2011
Haymate 4567 3819 3386 1988
Mean 4849 3895 3284 2031
LSD (005) 143? 410 417 326 1358
(pendray Farms, Sideny, BC Canada, 1994 Forage yeild in pounds/acre)
percent of the world’s popula
tion, two to four billion people
eat two to three times as much
meat but only have seven per
cent of the world’s arable land.
Importantly for western pro
ducers, China will be hard-
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