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Show September 1969 UTAH Page 3 FARM BUREAU By George Doup, 1 Ray Frisbie, president of Kansas Farm Bureau, has asked Secretary of Agriculture Gifford M. Hardin to use the power of his office' to tell consumers the true facts about the current retail price of beef and live cattle prices. In a telegram to the Secretary, Frisbie, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation, referred to a wire service news story about the housewives beef boycott in Long Island, New York. The story included a Bureau of Labor Statistics table showing price in- Natural Resources Dean Named at USU New creases in retail beef cuts from the inference January to June being, Frisbie said, that this was due to the recent rise in live cattle prices, which is far from Dr. Thaddis W. Box will become dean of the college of Natural Resources at Utah State University January 1, 1970, according to Dr. Glen L. Taggart, USU fact THE FACTS, according to Frisbies telegram, are these: The live cattle price for January, 1969, in Kansas was $26.50 per hundredweight while on the same date the price of round steak was $1.05 per pound. The live cattle price for June, 1969, again in Kansas, was $31.89 per hundred pounds while on the same date the price of round steak was $1.20 per pound. He then referred to the Kansas prices for live cattle and round steak during comparable months in 1951. The live cattle price in January, 1951, was $31.50 per hundred, and round steak was 91 cents per pound. In June, 1951, the live cattle price was $32.80 per hundredweight, and round steak was 97 cents per pound. He organized and taught the Short Course in Range Management for USAID at Utah State in 1960, and has lectured at universities and first International institutes in Latin America. He is a member of a committee to advise the President of the United States on ways to involve the private sector in foreign agricul- tural development. round steak for this same period Frisbie increased 15 percent, said. Likewise, live cattle prices in Jane, 1951, and June, 1969, were almost identical yet for this nunc period we had an increase in round steak prices of 23 per- cent Family Farm Is Result of Cooperation (Continued from Page 1) Mrs. Wangsgard has also served in many farm and local organizations. She has been chairman of the Huntsville Farm Bureau. She is currently chairman of the Weber County Farm Bureau Women's Committee and is presently serving on the board of directors of the county Farm Bureau. The outstanding feature of this farm is that it has been built and maintained entirely by the family - they have worked together to acquire what they have, and the boys plan to continue on in the dairy Industry. The Wangsgards, who are members of the Utah Farm Bureau, say that they feel that all dairymen should belong to an organization such as the Farm Bureau which represents all of the needs and wishes of the farmers in the state. His memberships include the Society of Range Management Education Council, The Wildlife Society, Ecological Society of America, Soil Conservation Society of America, American Association for Advancement of Science and American Association of University Professors. He is listed in American Men of Science, Whos Who in American Education, Who's Who in the Southwest, Whos Who in Texas today, and World Who's Who of Science. Dr. Box is 40, married and the father of four children. He was graduated from Southwest Texas State College, and has masters and doctors degrees from Texas University. American SIGNIFICANCE of these figures is that we had a drop in live cattle prices from January, 1951, to January, 1969, of 16 percent while the price of Im sure, Mr. Secretary, you are familiar with this information, but I respectfully request that you will use the power of your office to get this information widely distributed. I think it most imperative that you do this, because the livestock industry is the one hope we have to get us out of our grain production problems in this country. Therefore, any misinformation that gets the wide distribution this most recent news story received, needs to be corrected or irreparable harm will result, Frisbie concluded. He has also completed a draft of a book on range resources of North America, written in cooperation with Dr. Neil E. West, of assistant professor range science at USU, and a Colorado professor. He lectured on natural resources, studied education programs and met students in nine Australian universities. Every research station in the arid portion of the country was visited, and he served as a consultant to the Rangelands Research Program there. THE ' Dr. Box's appontment to the key position in the USU administration has been approved by the universitys Institutional Council, President Taggart said. The new dean will succeed J. Whitney Floyd, who has reached retirement age. "We are very pleased to have Dr. Box join the staff as dean and be able to continue the tradition at Utah State where the College of Natural Resources is considered one of the best in the country, President Taggart stated in making the announcement. He is a man of unusual talents, a very dynamic leader and a person who has become a recognized international authority in his field. His specialty is arid land development and utilization. This complements what we are doing ai Utah State in becoming an interthe national center in this field, President added. Dr. Box was a member of the faculty in range science at Utah State from 1959 to 1962, when he left to join the faculty of Texas Technological College Lubbock. Since 1967, he has been director of the International Center for L and Studies Arid and Semi-Ari- d President, Indiana Farm Bureau, and member, AFBF Board of Directors Again, the Congress debates the agricultural commodity checkoff question. This time, its potatoes. Before, it was wool and then it was cotton. Compulsory commodity checkoff legislation is a frustrating issue for Congress. Its also frustrating to farmers. It's decidedly a several sided issue. No one really questions the need for funds for commodity check-of- f research and promotion. Farmers and Farm Bureau have long supported such voluntary check-o- ff programs for dairy products, red meats, poultry products, and other commodities. But the horse changes color when these programs are made compulsory by an act of Congress. They become involuntary, they raise enormous sums of money, all of which may not be wisely spent, and they put an agency of government into some control over who spends the money and how and where it is spent. (Continued on page 5) District Seven Women Meet (Continued from Page 1) farmers would be join a union to which they don't to compelled sign contracts with want to belong. the union providing that workers Or consider the question raised must join the union - - despite by the Rochester (N.Y.) Times the fact that workers have volunUnion: "If so many grape pickers tarily chosen not to join the do not want a union, why should If grape growers union. can housewives boycott grapes - - and be compelled to force theirwork-er- s thus deny the pickers their liveliinto a union it can happen to hood - - simply to support a drive beef for union power and union dues by producers, grain produca union they have rejected. ers, milk producers or the producer of any farm commodity! If they succeed in Delano, they The grape boycott flourishes in wont stop until they have cona climate of misunderstanding and tracts with every farmer who misinformation. The union claims employs labor. In the meanthe workers are underpaid and time, they keep your product off the market whether you employ poorly housed. In truth a worker who can not earn $2.25-$2.5- 0 laborers or not, simply because it of farmers an hour or more harvesting grapes is not working very hard. Most grape harvest workers earn $100 a week and more. Most of the grape workers InDelano, California, where the strkke and boycott originated, live in the area where they work. They are not migrants. They live in permanent homes and drive their own cars to work. California agricultural regula- provide more benefits for farm workers than any other state in the nation, so why are they trying to organize farm workers in California? This question was ansered by the Detroit Free Press: "The boycott is not a campaign to raise wages, show concern for migrant workers, or get more protection legislation for farm workers. What it is solely, is a drive to force grape pickers to tions is the product that is being boycotted. The unions, with Imported strikers, by the use of violence, real and threatened, have forced many food chains to remove grapes from the shelves. Tomorrow it could be peaches, pears, apples, beet sugar, strawberries, plums, beef, lamb, eggs or anything. If they win you can rest assured they will move into these other items. Asked what we can do, Mr. Olsen pointed out three things to concentrate on. 1. Tell the facts to everyone we can. 2. Ask for grapes in our local stores. 3. Try to get equitable legislation on a state and national level to outlaw such unfair practices as these. ? 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In addition to his teaching and research at Utah State and Texas Tech, he has been a rancher and farm director, an has been a factory-to-custom- professional consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Ford Foundation, Texas Board ' of Realtors, National Association of Real Estate Appraisers, Welder Wildlife Foundation, and numerous ranch- O Farm Machinery O Hay Stacks O Silage Trucks p O O Trailers ing operations, law firms, insurand others. ance .companies His honors have Included being selected as a Danforth Associate in 1960, and receiving the Harris Harbison Award, given on a national basis by the Danforth Foundation in cooperation wth the American Council on Education for distinguished teaching. He was the first in the biological sciences to receive the award. It provided for him to spend a year in travel and study abroad. Most of the year was spent in Australia, with stops in India, Africa and Europe as well. During his year in Australia, Dr. Box completed a draft of a book on arid lands of that nation. on Check-u- p Kansas FB president asks Hardin to tell true facts on beef prices Pick-u- fiOTWM, IMIJIO CD(3QC)U 2138 South 11th East Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Phone 486-72- 37 er |