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Show I September Utah Farm Bureau News 1973 esne farmer about two feet tall, he cultivated it and sidedressed at the same time with about 100 pounds of available nitrogen per acre. Since his best com yielded about 30 tons last year without the later fertilizer, he expects to top that this fall. Besides the com, hay and pasture, young Hicken maintains about 50 Hereford cows on his place in a cow-ca- lf operation. He doesnt keep any of the calves on the place and explains it this way: I dont think you can make money calf for at it. We can sell a cents or If a pound, 70 $280. you feed the calf to 800 pounds, you sell it for about 50 cents a pound or $400. And there's no way you can put that weight on for $120, with the cost of hay, insurance, doctoring and a few dying. Roger expects great things from a Simenthal bull he, his dad and brother bought this spring. Although no calves have been bom yet from the cross 400-poun- ie d breeding, the bull was big-16- 00 they bought it at two years old, and they have hopes for pounds-wh- en calves. With about 130 acres in com silage, about 340 in hay and most of the rest in pasture, the Hickens buy most of the grain for their dairy herd. Roger raises some oats on his place. The group plans to feed all their grain outside when they move the milking herd to Myton. Theyve and recently bought a mixer-grindwill buy dry barley and supplements for the grain feeding. When did Roger move onto the place where he lives now? The day after I got out of the Marines, he laughs. He graduated ahead of his wife Peggy from Wasatch high school in Heber-h- is dad was a dairyman when he was bom and grew up there. He commuted to Provo for one winter, attending vocational school there. Then he went to Utah State University for a semester, taking courses leading to veterinary medicine. Still not sure he wanted to farm, although he had won high school honors as State Farmer and good-size- d er Page 5 American Farmer in the Future Farmers of America (FFA), Roger went into the Marines. Problems with the ligaments in his knees led to early discharge after k years in service. He told his father he would be getting out soon, in the spring of 1967, and was ready to go back to farming. The place near Duchesne where the Hickens had bought hay for years was up for sale, so Roger had work to do the day he got home. After living in a trailer for a month, he married Peggy in July 1967-th- ey had been engaged while he was in service-a- nd they spent, a months honeymoon in a sheep camp until the former owner could move out of the house where they now live. It was kind of fun, Peggy muses as she recalls that first home. Roger and Peggy have three husky sons: Seth, 4; Clint, 3; and Hal, 2. Peggys pride and joy is raising quarterhorses, Hicken reveals. They have three registered mares. How can a young man get into farming these days? After pondering, they reply: The quickest way is to get somebody to back you for a loan to buy a farm, like Dad did here. But if i. All the Hickens enjoy farm life, from Roger and Peggy down through Hal (left), Gint and Seth. thats not possible, they suggest either leasing land or buying a little at a time. Sometimes an older farmer wanting to retire will help a young man get started on his place and gradually buy the farm. However a young man gets his start, farming is the life, this young family believes. And they're showing it with a high degree of success. Roundup Issues au Members I FARM EXPORTS With word that our balance of trade in farm exports reached $5.6 billion in fiscal 1973, and with a favorable overall balance of trade in the second in several years, quarter of 1973-fi- rst Farm Bureau is keeping a watchful eye on moves that might restrict farm exports. The Trade Reform Act of 1973 (H.R. 6767) is vital to future marketing of our farm products. Early versions had strong hints of protectionism, that would serve to limit our farm sales in other countries. Another bill, H.R. 8547, would give the President more authority to control exports. Farm Bureau is strongly opposed to this type of legislation. Past years work and expense in building foreign markets could be destroyed at the stroke of a pen if such restrictions are allowed. With four OSHA hearings on pesticide reentry standards for peach, apple and other orchards now past, no evidence was presented by that bureau on the need for an emergency ruling. Much testimony to the opposite was presented, such as these remarks made at the Boise hearing by Oregon farmer Rob Hukari: Our entire agricultural community is reeling in disbelief over the issuance of this temporary emergency standard for reentry to areas treated with pesticides. Williams-Steige- r Oc- cupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 provides for establishment of temporary standards where it is found that employees are exposed to grave danger. Those of us who have married and reared a healthy family, and who have seen sons and daughters of our employees marry and raise families while living in the midst of orchards treated with person-to-perso- First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. PESTICIDE HEARINGS The Their office is as often the hood of a pickup or someones corral fence, as it is a desk back at First Security. Because thats where the work is. When youre running a bank in the heart of an agricultural area, you'd better be almost as familiar with the problems and conditions as your customers are. And that takes being out in the field. Wes Dickerson, Senior Vice President and Supervisor of First Securitys Central Division, Verl Haslem, Uintah Basin Agricultural Representative, Kay Cloward, Manager in Duchesne, Bill Gibson, Manager of our Vernal office, and Kenneth Harris, Manager at Roosevelt, all fit that description like a glove. They and the rest of the managers of First Security Banks in Central Utah are agricultural experts. If they werent born and raised with cattle or farming, they adopted the life years ago. Stir in a lot of banking and financial expertise, and youve got the answer to almost any problem that mixes money and agriculture. All you have to do is ask, and one or the other will come running. n n Thats what banking is all about. And banking is what First Securitys all about. Give us a call. organophosphate pesticides since their inception. . . know that there is NO EMERGENCY! The issuance of this executive order seems terribly unjustifiable in view of the lack of documentation of grave danger in our region. person-to-perso- |