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Show November, 1969 RC&D Area Agent Appointed in Utah Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) in northern Utah and southern Idaho will receive added public interest and educational emphasis through the appointment of Ben w. Lindsay as area agent for the Box Elder, Oneida and Cache RC&D Project, Reese Warburton of Grouse Creek, Utah, project president, announced this week. County chairmen, Marlon Olsen of Paradise, Cache County, and John Evans of Malad, Oneida County, Idaho, concurred. Mr. Warburton explained that in Mr. Lindsay is officed at 603 South Main, Brigham City, with Ken Searl, RC&D coordinator with the Soil Conservation Service which northern Utah, the RC&D program began three years ago in Box Elder County at the request of the people. Its success there in providing means for local and federal government agencies to work cooperatively together aroused Interest In adjacent counties and resulted in establishment of the area RC&D project. three-coun- ty As an employee of Utah State University Extension Services and the FederalExtenslonService,Mr. Lindsay's major function in the RC&D project is education. He will represent all commlttles and agencies involved as he works through mass media, committee meetings, public and local group meetings, Dr. William F. Farnsworth, USU district extension director for northern Utah, explained. He saldthid assignment is the first pilot project of Extension Service to work across state lines with an agent having specific responsibility In the resource conservation and development program. DOC HAS TAKEN Page 7 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS has been assigned program leadership. Mr. Lindsay had two years previous experience with USU Extension Services as agent for special extension programs emphasizing farm business and record keeping and then six years as extension agent for Uintah County where a number of successful programs were completed, in 1966 he resigned to go with the Deseret Livestock Company, one of the largest corporate agricultural enterprises engaged In production of sheep and cattle in the West. There he was assistant general manager responsible for the agronomic phase of the enterprise. He had owned and operated his own ranch of dairy cows and diversified farming four years at Heber, Utah at the time he went to school at Utah State University. At USU he majored in agricultural economics receiving a BS degree in 1957 and MS in .1959 OFF HIS HEARING AID AND ONE INTO A QUIET ROOM TO PRAY FOR THE ANSWER Control of inflation is essential, Fleming tells Florida FBF meeting Whether the Administration and the Congress will have the persistent courage required to check of the Amerinflation is an overriding question of the moment, Roger Fleming, secretary-treasurican Farm Bureau Federation, said in Panama City, Florida, on October 27. Inflation inevitably results when the supply of money and credit increases faster than the supply of goods and services, Fleming told the annual meeting of the Florida Farm Bureau Federaer tion,. Let there be no question about it, he told the meeting. Inflation is not caused by rising prices. Wet sidewalks don't cause rain. Instead, rising prices and wages reflect and measure the rate and extent of inflation. When some members of the Congress talk about the need for price controls, it is an indication of their desperate desire to divert attention away from their responsibility for feeding the fires of inflation by their votes on government spending. We cannot afford to let the advocates of more and more government spending distract us from our overriding interest in stabilization of the general price level. THE FARM BUREAU proposal, he said, would redirect government farm policy so that it helps rather than hinders fanners in their efforts to imfarm income. prove It is our job to convince members of the Congress that farmers are determined to make the transition to the market system, he said, adding: FARMERS in all parts of the country know that any policy which wrecks market prices and makes farmers dependent upon government handouts is an unreliable base for farm prosperity. Any industry which relies upon government for more than 20 percent of realized net income as agriculture does now is in real danger. If a flexible price system is not permitted to serve as the balance wheel of the farm economy or any other part of the economy for that matter a deadly blow is dealt our competitive system. -He pointed out that the Farm Bureau's farm program proposal would v phase out government compensatory payments over a five-yeperiod and that, effective with the 1975 crop, direct payments, acreage allotments, base acreages, and marketing be disconwould quota programs tinued for feed grains, wheat, and cotton. TO HELP ACHIEVE an orderly transition to the market system, he said, Farm Bureau emphasizes retirement of whole farms on a competitive bid basis. Our proposal provides for the retirement of at least 10 million acres a year for five successive years. The proposed farm program, he went on, also recognizes the important differences in the problems of those farmers who make their livelihood from., the land and those farmers. who for one reason or another suffer chronically from low farm income caused by low production. LOW PRODUCTION farm families, he said, would be helped by cropland retirement, grants, retraining assistance,' and loans. per-fami- ly - YlHA1 zAT p : ar Work is easier when you put a phone where you work! analysis Every that has been published indicates clearly that farmers and ranchers voted for a change. They did not vote for a continuation of the present costly and ineffective wheat, feed grain, and cotton programs. It is time everyone, including officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, got that message. post-electi- To order an extension phone for barn, stable, or shed, just call our Business Office. Mountain Bell on |