Unity Rally Draws Attention
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strictions on and challenges in
agriculture, and will probably
not become a fanner.
Majority Chairman, Senate
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee Michael Waugh,
told participants that “today is a
day well spent. It’s extremely
important to your business and
to your future to be here today.”
He urged producers to “work
together. We’re more diverse
today than ever before in agri
culture. We’re specializing and
incorporating and becoming
more than a family farm. More
than ever it is important to orga
nize, be united, and be involved.
“Learn how to work with the
media and politicians,” he said.
“We need all who are involved
in agriculture to speak together
and be united.”
Michael O’Pake, minority
chairman, Senate Agriculture
and Rural Affairs Committee,
noted that “agriculture remains
this country’s number one in
dustry.” Pennsylvania is the top
producer of mushrooms, potato
chips, pretzels, and processed
chocolate and cocoa, “a sam
pling of Pennsylvania agricul
ture’s impressive resume,” he
said.
O’Pake also emphasized the
importance of speaking with one
voice. “Without this unity, I
would be discussing the vagaries
of ‘what if,’ but today I’m dis
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ence public policy by relating
with those representatives who
make legislative decisions,” said
Raymond Bunt, majority chair
man, House Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Committee.
Legislators without a vested
interest in an issue look to repre
sentatives who have committee
appointments for information,
he said. “Creating an organized
approach does make a differ
ence. We are interested in seeing
that ail sectors of agriculture be
profitable,” said Bunt.
Peter Daley, minority chair
man, House Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Committee, asked
the crowd to imagine what
would happen in Pennsylvania
“if we ail got together and an
nounced that the producers of
Pennsylvania were going on
strike.
“You will never see an an
nouncement by farmers of Penn
sylvania that they are going on
strike,” he said. “You will never
see children without milk at the
breakfast table. Farmers made,
and continue to make, Pennsyl
vania what it is.”
Agriculture Secretary Sam
Hayes also spoke at the event.
Hayes reviewed several of the
commonwealth’s industries that
“are remnants of what was
much larger.
“When this country started,
agriculture was number one. It
had to be number one by neces
sity. They knew they had to feed
themselves. Whatever they were
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pressing need of food produc
tion, said Hayes.
“Agriculture has continued to
be on the center stage economi
cally, politically, and socially,”
he said. “Today it stands as
number one and we’re proud of
it. Our mission is... to be sure
that agriculture in the 21st cen
tury doesn’t become but a rem
nant of what it was in the 20th
century or in earlier days.”
Hayes also warned about forc
ing agriculture “off-shore by
public policies that would cause
frustration or alienation.”
In keeping with the recent ag
riculture week’s theme, “Har
mony in the World,” Hayes said
that “there cannot be harmony
without strong agriculture.
There is no harmony if men and
women do not have the requisite
food, clothing, and shelter that
agriculture products provide.
“We have to give full recogni
tion that one of our strategic
strengths is our agriculture in
dustry. We must continue to
produce food in sufficient qual
ity and quantities” to keep
America from relying on foreign
agriculture.
“When we are dependent on
others, we have to make deci
sions we would not normally
make. With agriculture as
number one we are not compro
mised.”
The rally was conducted in
conjunction with Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau’s state legislative
conference. The conference con
cluded with a banquet Tuesday
evening.
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Villagers learned how to uti
lize the manure to produce
better crops. They constructed a
milking shed. Sule said that in
tropical climates such as West
Africa, calves need to be kept
with the mother to enable her
“to let down milk.”
Fencing also prevented cattle
from eating a neighbor’s grain.
“It brought peace to our com
munity,” Sule said of the in
fighting that often had resulted
when a neighbors cow ate anoth
er’s crop.
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Muslim village with seeds
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program.
The African government was
very supportive of the new way
of raising cattle because it
helped solved the grazing con
flict that had plagued the coun
try for generations.
“HI calls this informal train
ing, but I call it “formal educa
tion,” Sule said of the
agricultural methods that help
his community better itself.
Unexpectedly, the Oklahoma
City bombing caused an addi
tional benefit to the West Afri
can village.
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