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Show Page K-T- HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, April HE 9, 1981 News of agriculture from the local and national scene Agriculture Farm Leader Claims ipment Invades U.S. Statement Inadequate MX leadership role in the free world. "But we must raise deep concern about the data, or the lack of it. in the MX draft invironmen-ta- l impact statement prepared by the Air Force The DEIS is not adequate." he "America's farmers and ranchers have prevented more wars than any military power will ever win," according to C. Booth Wallentine, executive vice resident of the Utah Farm Bureau f ederation. "To say that 30,000 acre feet of water is needed for construction of MX and something less than that for steady-statoperations completely ignores the indirect impact of the unquantified growth. If underground aquifers are pumped for this water, farmers and ranchers cannot take a two-- or three-yea- r vacation while nature e strengthening of America's defense system and regaining this country's - FORT COLLINS. Colo. (UPI) A Colorado Stato University agricultural engineer says foreign manufacturers are now making inroads in farm tractor sales as well as automobiles. Ralph Hansen said Saturday the Europeans and Japanese are cornering the market in small tractors, which he defined as those with less than 50 horsepower. "These small, efficient products are better suited for some uses than big American tractors." Hansen said The other uses, he explained, include chores such as cleaning pens or feeding livestock. "Small diesel engine technology is a foreign strength, and almost all farm tractors new are diesel - powered." Hansen said. He pointed out that Europeans and Japanese Wallentine Wallentine is a member of Utah's MX Review Committee appointed by Goveo-no- r Matheson. He said the committee s review of the DEIS concludes that the MX planners have grossly understated the importance of agriculture in Utah. "Federal money may buy water from farmers, but it will not put meat on the table." lie said. Wallentine added that the DEIS seems to be built upon the notion that an any problem can be solved by of money at it." "throwing a fist-fu- said. Wallentine made that statement as he testified during a U.S. Air Force hearing in Salt Lake City Friday on the MX missile system proposed for location in Utah and Nevada. The Farm Bureau official told hearing officers that farmers and ranchers favor a those aquifers." recharges said. ll Benson Institute Pushes Across Academic, International Boundaries Since its beginning five and He said one institute project, which has finished its first year successfully, was designed to demonstrate how a family of six could survive on a one and one-haacre farm, producing enough food to feed themselves and provide a small cash income. one-ha- lf years ago, the Ezra Taft Benson Agriculture and Food Institute has pushed across academic and international boundaries to bring agricultural research down to the people it can best serve, the institute's director said recently in a report at Brigham Young University. D. Delos Ellsworth spoke at the annual awards banquet of the College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences. He told the several hundred students, faculty members, administrators and friends of the university in attendance that his remarks were intended as a report on the institute's progress since its founding. The Benson Institute is one of several research institutes headquartered on campus. It is named for President Ezra Taft Benson of the LDS Church's Council of the Twelve. President Benson was U.S. secretary of agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ellsworth said the institute does not try to compete with land grant colleges in doing basic agricultural research but it does concern itself with putting the knowledge gained through research to work on a practical level. This practical approach takes the form of projects that can directly benefit individuals and families around the world. For example, the institute has focused much attention on small scale agriculture because in many countries farming a small plot of land means survival for a family, while money from crop sales is an incidental reward. Bingham Accepts New Post operations; dissemination of information about storing food: providing of scholarships for foreign students; serving as a resource organization for LDS Church units and members throughout the world; sponsoring practical research related to agriculture. BYU faculty member Dr. Don Snyder, for example, is working on developing an agriculture data base for a computer firm. Control Data Corp. Dr. John Hill has developed a diagnostic tool to help health personnel discover pressing nutritional problems among peoples of developing countries. agriculture research sponsored by the institute has been carried out in several countries, including Egypt, where BYU faculty members have been invited to join in a project in President Anwar Sadat's home village. The institute has also promoted extensive research on small-scal- e gardening to demonstrate how families can help provide some of their own food from small home plots. A pamphlet published by the institute, "Getting Along With Your Garden," has sold 70.000 copies in English. Spanish and Portuguese and is now in its third printing. It has been translated into French, but has not yet been printed in that language. Another of the Benson Institute's activities is a new international livestock laboratory that was recently announced. Its purpose will be to help livestock producers increase reproductive rates in their herds or flocks while maintaining or decreasing production costs. Dr. J. N. Wiltbank, an internationally known expert on livestock reproductive physiology who recently joined the BYU faculty, will head the laboratory. Ellsworth said other Benson Institute projects or activities include: the nuality assurance laboratory that Small-scal- e t - L'. from all the LDS Church's pructs welfare system food production lf -- ,J, tests A - J : A,. -S infestation should drop from 2 million acres last year to 800,000 acres this summer, thanks to one of the best control programs in the country, a University of Wyoming professor says. Over 1 million acres have been treated since 1977, entomology Professor Bob Pfadt said in a UW news release this week. "Wyoming has one of the best grasshopper control programs in the United States and probably the world," Pfadt said. "The Wyoming Department of Agriculture cooperates with county weed and pest control districts and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a costsharing program that makes it d of total possible for ranchers to pay only treatment costs." court-ordere- he said. OPEN DAILY f MOM, thru FRI. 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. 10 to 6 SUN. 12 to 6 SAT. Yomol n I I n I L Jul u ii f 4 ( tf f fIs of j I UFBF and all of its INTMDUCTORY insurance, and finance, marketing farm supply companies, according to C. Booth Wallentine, Farm Bureau executive vice president SAVE $30 sluSmr Bet llll VJ II ORTHO CROWN and secretary-treasureIn his new position. Bingham will direct the r. administrative services y functions of the serof family vices to Farm Bureau members. These duties include building management, personnel management, printing and graphics operations, and other related functions, Bingham will also assist in maintaining corporate records, financial disbursements, and minutes of meetings He will continue to direct the The Bureau of Land RICHFIELD, Utah (UPI) Management has proposed a 28 percent reduction in Mountain Valgrazing allocations on its 500,000-acr- e ley Planning area located primarily in Sanpete, Sevier and Piute counties. Small portions of the area are also located in Juab, Millard. Wayne, and Garfield counties. d The proposed reduction is the result of a environmental impact study. Since 1974, improvements to rangeland managed by the BLM throughout the nation have been curtailed pending detailed local environmental studies. There are 20 study areas in Utah and six of the impact statements have been completed, Terri Tunnel spokesman for the Richfield BLM District, said the livestock reductions aren't as severe as the 26 percent figure make them appear. She said the land involved represents only 2 percent of the cattle range and 7 percent of the sheep forage in the counties involved. Some areas of the state still have damaging numbers of grasshoppers: and ranchers in those areas should consider participation in the program, assistant r secretary-treasure- Plans Grazing Cuts BLM 4 Thomas E. Bingham, public policy director of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation for the past eight years, has been named than their American counterparts "Fuel always has been a major expense for farmers." Hansen said. "But in the last four to fivf years it has increased faster than other costs. Between 1976 and 1980, diesel fuel prices zoomed up approximately 155 percent." Hansen said foreign manufacturers show signs of tractors moving into the market for medium-sizeas well. "In many ways, the situation is similar to the challenge presented to the American auto industry," he said. "To compete successfully, American manufacturers will have to put much more emphasis on fuel efficiency " Wyoming Controls C - developed tractors to use on smaller farms. Foreign farmers have had to cope with high fuel costs longer one-thir- "We now have more projects and more demand on us than we have money to carry out projects." Ellsworth reported, noting that the institute must raise between $1 million and $1.5 million each year to carry out its work. Because the institute's scope and utility have grown, it is increasingly difficult to keep up with its many projects. But he said the Benson Institute is bsed on the premise, taught in LDS scripture, that earth's vital resources are plentiful enough to support its inhabitants. The institute aims to help people learn to use resources wisely and to be where possible. The result would be to make men and women proper stewards of what God has provided, he explained. " Farm d Foreign-Produce- hi Ml multi-compan- ; - ..! If 1 WiHD.fl.fl.S1M.95 v. EVERY ORTHO PRICES! 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