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Show Page 28—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, August26, 1981 Agriculture Farm and garden news from local and national writers ‘fall Development Uses Farmland; Sheep Day Set at SUSC State, Local Action Needed WASHINGTON, D.C.—Migration to the countryside and increased housing construction in rural areas are among the leading causes of farm land conversion and the loss of U.S. agriculturalland, accone§.ao Agricultural Lands Study (N. Ina Patrslonaat final report, the study examines the causes of farm land conversion and recommends waysto curtail the loss. The highest rates of population growth, NALSpointsout, are occuring in the open countryside and unincorporated areas — a trend that is making severe inroads uj some of the nation’s most productive agricultural land. The study reveals that in the 1970's: + More than forty percentof all U.S. housing wasbuilt on ruralland, and at the same timethere was a twenty percentincrease in the number of households formed naticnwide; + In the top 100 counties ranked according to the value of their farm products, the population grew at nearly twice the national rate; + There was a surge in economic activity in rural America, especially new industrial plants, commercial distribution centers and processing facilities; + Simultaneously, there was an unmistakeable migrationof the U.S. population from urbanto rural areas, and from the North to theless densely settled South and West. Norman Berg, head of the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service (SCS), sees these demographic trends as a grave threat to U.S. agriculture. “Planned community growth is no longera luxury,” he said in a recentinterview. “‘It is an absolute necessity if we are to save our agricultural land.” Berg applauded farm landprotectionef- forts already underwayin severalstates, saying: ‘That is where the action should be — at the state andlocallevel.” But he cautioned against overoptimism, noting that many communitiesarestill uncertain about the most effective ways to protect their agricultural land. ‘‘Housing is only a part of the complex growth problem,” he said. ‘‘Homes lead to additional needs — new roads, shopping centers, the whole intricate web of community development.” A first step in directing development away from prime farm land andonto less productive acreslies in the use of prime and important farm land maps produced by the Soil Conservation Service in cooperation with state and county governments, Berg said. Robert Gray, former executive director of the recently completed NALS study, said that there must be no misunderstanding about the need and importanceof housing in rural America. it NALS Final Report does not pit houses against food,” he stressed. ‘There Stephens Gets Sheep Day is scheduled Sept. 2 at Southern Utah State College (SUSC) in Cedar City, according to Dr. W. Craig Burrell, Utah State University Extension Livestock Specialist Registration will take place from 8 to 9a.m. on the campus, followed by meetings from 9:30 to 12 noon never need be a polarization of these in- and from 1 to 4 p.m. featuring talks and demonstraterests. What we mustdois find ways to tions by key people in the sheep industry channel growth away from our highestquality food and wood-producing acres.” Items for include a succesNALSprojects that almost twelve mil- Sful range operation lambing management,pointsof lion new households will be added to non- nutrition and feed economics, how to get more and metropolitan areas by 1995, and that the better help for your sheep, stepsto insure selection conversion of highly productive of sound replacement animals for your breeding agriculturallandis likely to continue. Nhat specific steps does the study suggest that federal, state and local goveriiments take to encourage a shift of development to marginal rural acres? Highlights follow: PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Long-overlooked by American agriculture despite their importance State governments should assume anac- elsewhere dairy goats are now gaining attention tive leadership role in protecting from U.S.farmers andscientists. That was the mesagricultural land, NALS says. But sage heard recently during the first USDAmeanwhile, the federal government must sponsored dairy goat symposium held here at the get its own house in order. SDA Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC). Only two federal agencies — USDA and Membership in U.S. goat associations has inEPA — haveexplicit policies to consider the effects of their programs on increased sheep production A sheepherders supper will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the SUSC Valley Farm On the following day, demonstrations and workshops will cover such topics as pregnancy diagnosis, foot care, saving newborn lambs, sheep USUramtest, andfertility testing of rams and epididymitis. Workshops will include grading and preparing wool for profitable marketing, and planning and scheduling effective sheep health programs. creased 20-fold in two decades. A number ot researchinstitutions, including ERRCand the newly established International Dairy Goat Research Center in Prairie View, Texas are working to improve the goat’s value as a source of meat and milk products, said ERRC research leader and conference coordinator Virginia Holsinger. agricultural lands, And evenin these agencies, some programs have not yet incor- porated agricultural land reviews into their regulations and guidelines. To remedythis situation, NALS recommends that the President or the Congress issue a statement f policy on the importantance ofagricultural land. Positive incentives should be Gexlened within federal programs, NALS says, to encourage development onto land less suited for agriculture. Springville Youth Sheldon Phillips, Springville, State FFA vice Earl Reed Stephens, vocational agriculture instructor and FFA Advisor at Wasatch High School has been nominated to receive the FFA’s Honorary American Farmer Degree. Stephens was nominated for the Degree by the Utah FFA Association and the nomination was approved by the National FFA Board of Directors which recently met in Alexandria, Virginia. The Honorary American Farmer Degree is the highest honorary degree presented by the FFA. This year 72 teachersof vocational agriculture were nominated to receive the degree during the National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, November 12-14. Reed Stephens has been a vocational agriculture rene at Wasatch High School for over 20 years. that time he has had four students who the American Farmer Degree, 750 Students who received the State Farmer Degree, 25 plus students who earned state proficiency ieseveral state FFAofficers. celerated lambing, and managementof ranges for Dairy Goat Popularity Increases At National Meet FFA Degree flock, breeding ewe lambs for increased production, cross breeding for improved productivity, ac- president, was one of 100 FFAstate officers who received a surprise visit from President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush in special ceremonies at the White House Rose Garden last week. “You are going to have greater opportunities; you're going to see more; you're going to be able to live longer and be healthier. There isn’t anything wecan’t do if we set our mindsto it,”” Reagan told the officers. 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