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Show SPECIAL SECTION. LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES. February 17. 177. Page D 19 IF is a to mm ey to By CleonM. Hotter. Agri. Inform. Specialist Utah State University . . Have you met Ray Hanson Finch? He is a good guy to know. Many farm and ranch people in Box Elder County seek his advice on their farm management, marketing, dairy, poultry . and range Many over the state seek knowledge from him on how to deal with livestock market situations. Finch, a member of Utah crop-relate- State University faculty 1955, is county exten-seio- n agent serving one third time out of the extension office in the Tremonton Civic Center with others of the extension staff that serve the county. He is also state extension marketing specialist with an office in the Business Builds, ing at the University in of his Logan. Two-thirtime is devoted to that responsibility. Finch believes strongly that farmers must pool their forces to gain sufficient strength in the market. He was a main instigator in formation of the local lamb and wool marketing pools and the Bear River marketing association, that operates at the stockyard in Garland. These organizations have had a significant bearing on improving marketing for sheep and cattle producers in the county T" With other extension agri cultural economists over the ' country, he helps keep abreast of outlook situations on farm production and marketing. From such information he extracts and interprets that which has bearing on Utah farmers .. and ranchers. Following the last national outlook conference in Wash ington, D. C, he reported, The outlook for food supp-ie- s and prices indicates that large food supplies will continue to slow the rise in retail food prices during the first Jhalf of 1977. During that ..FARMER INTEREST is high as Dr. Wade G. Dewey. Utah State University plant breeder, explains winter wheat varieties at research field day held at Blue Creek Experimental Farm. v.:' management problems. since period, retail food prices, are expected to increase two to four percent - pushed up by demand expansion and increasing prices for coffee and restaurant meals and rising marketing costs. Larger food supplies are contributing to an increase in per capita food consumption. These larger food supp3 lies have resulted from a significant expansion in livestock and poultry and larger d inventories of foods that offset slightly smaller propduction of crop foods. All of this indicates that the consumer is fairing better than the farmer." Finch is a native of Spanish Fork, Utah, where he operated an irrigated farm and worked for a time with Ray Finch the Farmers' Home Administration and with the Nebo School District as superyouth programs; Jay Karr-evisor of veteran farm trainreplacing Jay Hall as ing and as vocational agri- "RC&D agent; Dorothy Kir-bcultural teacher. He joined secretary at Tremonton; the university faculty when and Norris Stenquist, livestock specialist for the Bear it was known as the Utah State Agricultural College, River area of northern Utah. These people strive to or as the AC to most people. His first extension assignmake the knowledge resourment was as Emery 'County ces of the entire university available to the people of Agent. Box Elder County. In turn, He obtained his bachelor of science degree in 1938 they help relate the research from the AC, majoring in and teaching done at the agricultural economics and university to real life problems and opportunities that agronomy. In 1967 he reexist in the county. ceived his master of science degree in agricultural economics at USU with emphasis in marketing. " Finch says that he and the other extension staff members, who use the Tremonton Extension office as their base of operation for serving the north and west part of the county, are happy to work with people on programs and problems that help to improve their farms, homes and families and communities. The others and their major assignll. ments are: Harold Lindsay, field crops, fruit, ornamentals, gardens and community; Jesse Eller, nutrition, r clothing, family life, youth and home management; Val frporfacntal fena Ekporfoiofitol farm provrdos r toors vrrti n, own loborotoiy y, The Utah State University Blue Creek Experimental Farm in Box Elder County is an important part of the Utah Agricultural station. The farm' was purchased 13 years ago by donations made and collected by farmers in the area. "They wanted a research station to provide them with data that was a little more directly related to their situation than that being acc umulated at the Nephi ex- periment farm," said Rex Nielsen, director. The land was purchased ' At the initial start of the farm a meeting was held with the local growers. "We said now we've got the farm, we're ready to go from Henry Schuman who was good enough to sell it for research use. "We took over a year to look at all the sites in the area that we thought would work best," Nielsen said. "The farmers said you pick the site you want and we'll buy it for you." into business. What would you like us to work on?" Nielsen said. "One of the first things they were concerned about was some tillage studies. Over a number of years, we have conducted a series of Cont'd on 1A ' Those of us at: SOUTOWICIC REALTY .... - 5 have enjoyed the fine association with the folks of our area for the past ten years & we appreciate our many friends so much!! 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