Cabbage Research Development Program Awards $35,400 For 2001
GENEVA, N.Y. Michael
Riner, president of the New York
State Cabbage Research and De
velopment Program’s advisory
board, announced $35,400 in
funding for eight cabbage re
search proposals during the New
York State Vegetable Conference
in Syracuse in early February.
“The proposed research proj
ects were excellent,” he said.
He announced that the R&D
assessment would increase to $3
per acre in 2001.
“The Empire State ranks first
in total cabbage acreage in the
U.S., which includes fresh mar
ket and kraut cabbage,” said
Cornell University vegetable hor
ticulturist Stephen Reiners, who
NFU Urges Access To
Affordable Credit For Farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
National Farmers Union (NFU)
recently urged Congress to en
sure equitable access to farm
credit programs and reempha
sized credit as an important risk
management tool to help farmers
and rural communities during a
time of economic instability in
agriculture.
Dave Carter, president of the
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union,
told members of the Senate Agri
culture Committee that family
farmers depend on access to ade
quate and reasonably priced
credit and that credit must be
made available to all producers
regardless of race, gender or op
erating scale.
“Since the farm crisis of the
1980 s, both farming and agricul
tural lending have undergone
significant restructuring and
consolidation,” Carter said.
“Though we do not see the
rash of bankruptcies we saw dur
ing the previous farm crisis, the
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works at the New York State Ag
ricultural Experiment Station, in
Geneva. New York’s 2000 cab
bage crop was worth more than
$BO million.
The Cabbage Research and
Development Program Advisory
Board met Feb. 8 at the Experi
ment Station to consider the cab
bage research proposals they
would fund with the money they
raised under the $2.50 per acre
research and development fund
assessment in 2000. Last year
was the first season the assess
ment was in effect.
Nine research proposals were
received, requesting $60,000 in
funds. Among them were propos
als from Cornell University re-
underlying problem is much the
same as then.
“While access to credit and
other risk management programs
will not, by themselves, replace
the need for sound agriculture
policy, it is imperative that fami
ly farmers have the same access
to credit as large operations and
that lending institutions compete
in order to achieve fairly priced
credit.”
The Farmers Union recom
mendations would assure access
to credit in a timely fashion to all
producers who meet eligibility re
quirements and would provide
the agriculture secretary broader
flexibility to transfer funds be
tween programs and states in
order to ensure timely availabili
ty of credit.
The policy calls for assessment
of the impact on the access, cost
and credit terms for smaller pro
ducers of the growing consolida
tion in the farm lending industry.
NFU recommends expansion
searchers Helene Dillard, Phil
Griffiths, Tony Shelton, Lisa
Earle, John Roberts, Steve
Reiners, A 1 Taylor, and others.
Projects funded included re
search in weed management,
controlling altemaria leaf spot,
breeding improved varieties, con
trolling pests such as Diamond
back moth and cabbage maggots,
the effects of hot water treat
ments on cabbage seed quality,
processing, and storage.
‘Cabbage usually ranks near
potatoes and onions in value
among vegetables in New York,”
said Reiners. “Since it is impor
tant to such a large segment of
the industry, cabbage researchers
at Cornell need to keep the in
of the Farm Service Agency loan
guarantee program to include
loans to finance producer-owned,
value-added enterprises that are
becoming increasingly important
to beginning, socially disadvan
taged and smaller producers.
The recommendations also
urge the extension of Chapter 12
bankruptcy, at least through
June 30, 2002, or until the provi
sions are made a permanent part
of the bankruptcy code.
" Lancaster Farm Markets
highlight Grower & Marketer
Familiar Lancaster County farm markets grace a special pull-out
poster created by Lancaster Farming staff in this issue.
The poster page, starting in the Grower & Marketer section on
page 2, can be mounted on the wall, courtesy of Lancaster Farming.
Market operators are identified on the cover of Section A. b «
dustry up to date on sill aspects
of production-pest management,
culture, post harvest, etc. The in
dustry usually wants to see re
search on topics that will benefit
them in the short term-things
like how they’ll control thrips or
rot next year, or what they can
use to control weeds.”
Reiners noted that, in the past,
the New York State Cabbage Re
search Association (the former
industry funding group com
prised only of kraut growers and
processors) had been quite good
about funding projerts more
long-term in nature.
“Perhaps the best example is
breeding,” said Reiners. “They
know that a new and better vari
ety may not be available in a sin
gle year but realize that an in
vestment in breeding will pay
long term dividends.”
Moyer Joins
American-International
Charolais Association
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Tay
lor Charles Moyer of Whiting,
Vt. has recently joined the Amer
ican-International Charolais As
sociation (AICA), a purebred
beef cattle association, according
to Mr. J. Neil Orth, executive
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 19,2001-A29
Reiners expects cabbage pro
duction in New York to maintain
current levels. “One encouraging
note is that some of our compet
itors Texas, Georgia and Flori
da - have reduced acreage over
the past two years,” he said.
“That coupled with extreme cold
this winter in those same areas
has led to better prices for our
growers who sell storage cabbage
throughout the winter.”
Cabbage is one of the true
stars in terms of nutritional value
and anti-cancer compounds, and
more and more Americans are
consuming it for this reason. Be
cause of its nutritional value,
Reiners expects to see greater use
of cabbage in prepackaged salad
mixes “a use that would di
rectly benefit the New York in
dustry,” he said.
vice president of the internation
al organization with headquar
ters in Kansas City, Mo.
The AICA is the official beef
cattle registry of the Charolais
breed with more than 5,500 ac
tive and junior members. The as
sociation maintains the pedigree,
performance, and carcass in
formation on individual animals
for its members.
These computerized records
are used to calculate the most ac
curate and up-to-date EPD to
promote the use of Charolais ge
netics to all profit minded pure
bred and commercial cattle.
For more information about
the Charolais breed, call (816)
464-5977 or visit the AICA Web
site at www.charolaisusa.com.
The AICA is the official breed
registry for Charolais and Char
bray cattle in the U.S.
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