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Show Moving Farming's Mountains FARMER TO CONSUMER REPORT BY SPERRY NEW HOLLAND It requires the moving of mountains of sorts to keep supermarket shelves and other food sources filled. Consider only the beginning begin-ning of the food cycle, the farm, which now rivals construction con-struction or warehousing in amounts of materials handled. han-dled. As an example, there's the dairyman. A modern, efficient effi-cient family dairy farm now can produce some one million mil-lion pounds of milk a year. But to produce that amount of milk, the family dairy farm operation might handle han-dle something like 3.000 tons of materials, like feed, seed, fertilizer, animal bedding and wastes. Is it any wonder that mechanization has moved from farm fields to areas in and around barns and other '.V "i r; L central buildings to handle such large amounts of materials. mate-rials. The modern workhorse J( on the typical family farm is becoming the skid-steer loader, which handles the fj inputs and byproducts of agricultural operations, I which start the basic forms of food and fibre on their way from fields to families. And that's only the initial "mountain" moved in the continuing farmer-to-con- T sumer relationship. |