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Show 1 ON CIRCULATING VUnericano -- Volume XIV Number 6 4L SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH June 1968 A. Mdpnhejrs Delegates and Board0Sis ' '' Called Vo Annual Pish Lake Meeting July 16-- UFB Waving i The annual summer conference of the Utah Farm Bureau will At the top of the agenda be held at Fish Lake, Utah, July 16-1of business will be a report to the board of directors and to the voting ddegates of a special committee of county presidents studying Farm 7. Bureau structure. A resolution adopted in November, 1966, called for a study of the organization's structure with a report to be given to the voting delegates. Subsequent action called for the report to be completed before the election of officers in November of this year. 17 The conference, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. on July 16th, will also feature a special presentation entitled, "Rights, Riots, and Poor Peoples' Marches." by Claude de St Paer, Assistant Director, Program Development Division, AFBF. Discussions of Farm Bureau services, including tires, twine, and insurance services are also scheduled for the conference. Those wanting to stay at Fish Lake Lodge will need to make advance reservations with the Fami Bureau office in Salt Lake City. All Farm Bureau members and interested observers are welcome to attend the meetings. Farm Bureau Auction Under Construction The Salina Marketing Service, a Farm Bureau affiliate organized to aid in marketing of livestock in southern Utah, has started construction of an auction sale complex in Salina. The auction will cost an estimated $175,000 to complete by the first part of September, when operation is expected to begin. The auction is being built on a mile southwest of Salina. plot of land containing 24.43 acres, one-hal- f The project began about two years ago when stockmen started discussing problems of livestock marketing in Farm Bureau policy development sessions. The livestock people recommended that an aucan auction tion be built in southern Utah to serve the entire area that would be controlled by the producers themselves. The suggestion was referred to a study committee who compared the recommendation with a recently completed study of livestock marketing in the eleven western states by the American Farm Bureau Federation. The report indicated that Utah livestock prices were low because we had too many small sales. A single large sale in southern Utah would help set higher prices. The recommendation then went to the UFB Board of Directors who gave the The project was then under the direction of the Utah Agricultural Marketing Association. To raise the money required, a corporation was formed. Known as the Salina Marketing Service, the corporation sold stock and debentures among the stockmen of southern Utah. Securities were sold in Sanpete, Sevier, Emery, Wayne, Piute, Garfield, Washington, Iron, Millard, Beaver and Juab counties. Major stockholder in the project is Farm Bureau itself to insure continuous direction by Farm people. Land for the auction project was provided by the people of Salina. go-ahea- d. asks HEW to delay ruling against antibiotics FB The choice of Salina for the auction was a logical one, since highway 89 goes through Salina linking Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, Garfield and Kane counties. Interstate 70, when it is completed, will also link both the eastern and western parts of the livestock country, bringing most of the area within a 2 hour drive of Salina. The two years of work done by the livestockmen of southern Utah have paid oft Construction of the auction facility is now under way. Bids were accepted and the construction contract was awarded to A & D Jensen Contractors of Richfield. The auction will be one of the most modem and convenient livestock sales facilities in the intermountain west The sales ring will be on a large platform scale which will register livestock weights on an electronic light board while the animals are being sold. Rather than sitting on hard benches, both buyers and sellers will be seated in comfortable theater-typ-e seats. The building will be air conditioned and heated and will include a modem lunchroom. The sales yard is designed not only for comfort and convenience but is specially designed for fast livestock handling with five loading and unloading chutes, modem sorting corrals, double checking and tagging chutes and plenty of room for trucks to maneuver plus acres of parking space. The day to day business of the auction will be handled by Producers Livestock Marketing Association under a lease agreement while the actual owners of the auction will be the men who bring their livestock to market at their own auction the stockholders who made the whole thing possible. The Food and Drug Administration announced on June 10 that it has extended for 60 from the announced The American Farm Bureau Federation has asked the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to extend the time for commenting on the Food and Drug Administrations proposed ruling which would forbid the use of all injectable streptomycin products and some penicillin preparations in days June animals. Before any such change is fully implemented, we believe that there should be substantial time to make certain that sound and adequate scientific data have been developed that would, in fact, prove that it is necessary to discontinue their present usage deadline the time for commenting on its proposed amendments regarding the use of antibiotics in animals. 1 1 food-produci- ng In a letter to HEW, Roger Fleming, AFBF secretary-treasurand director of the Washington office, asked that time for comments be extended Tor such a period that would give producers of livestock, swine, poultry, and dairy animals the opportunity to develop adequate scientific re- ; search and also a program of important part of American agri culture. It would involve an inproper safe usage. er We have studied carefully the proposed amendments, and we would like to ask that additional time be provided in order that we may more adequately comment on their full implications to livestock, swine, poultry, and dairy producers, Fleming said. The elimination of the use of antibiotics in animals as is pro- in these amendments would have a major effect upon this crease in farmers production costs at a time when they are already caught in a severe cost-prisqueeze. THE USE of these antibiotics has become an important part of our livestock, swine, poultry, and dairy producers program to improve animal health. The pro- d posed amendments would stantially change the use of anti- biotics in animals. ce sub-vide- pattern. Secondly, we feel that it would be possible to develop a program of proper use that would not necessitate the drastic elimination of these drugs. Fleming noted that Farm Bureau has a long record of involvement and interest in this particular area. has Bureau The Farm worked very closely with the U.S. . Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration in an effort not only to assure the safe use of these products, but also to obtain a better among governunderstanding ment agencies and the general public of our need for these products, he said. THE FARM BUREAU has had a long history of leadership in the field of encouraging the safe use of agricultural chemicals and drugs by conducting a continuing educational program among farmers. We have recognized that consumers have a vital interest in being certain that their health and welfare are protected by the safe use of these products. At the same time, we have recognized that modern agriculture cannot provide adequate quantities of high quality food and fiber at a relatively low cost without the safe use of agricultural chemicals and drugs. Any curtailment of these products would result in higher food prices to consumers. The AFBF officer concluded his request by expressing the organizations willingness to cooperate in any program that will both protect the public and provide for a continuing sound program of animal health. N O e z JC C3 3 2u Q Dv Z 23 X in 06 D af K-- V) Z H o u3 o N VO |