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Show December, 1969 Page 7 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEW'S1 WHO- - by Ed. A. Thomas To manage a farming operation one Is confronted continually with LeGrand Jarman presented the Travelling Trophy to Ed Boyer for Dist. 4. The trophy recognizes outstanding membership achievement. Largest percentage of membership growth in a district went to District 4. Here Don Allen receives the award from Elmo Hamilton. such questions as: How many acres of different crops to plant? Shall I Increase my livestock herd? Should I sell my feeder cattle or feed them out? Andy of course, many other questions confront us. Our sucess Is determined by how well we can answer these questions. It Is an accepted fact that to be successful In any business one must be well Informed on matters affecting his business. Where do we find the Information we need? Who knows? I am sure no one knows all the answers all the time, but there are several places we can get Information that will greatly help us In making decisions. One of these Is the Information published by Statistical Reporting Service of the Department of Agri- Those attending the UFB's recognition and awards breakfast were privileged to hear this diminutive violinist, 7 year old Peggy Bingham of Davis County. culture. who make It their Buyers business to buy also make It their business to get all the Information available and have It as current as possible. The larger corporations who purchase livestock, feed, fruits, and vegetables and other farm commodities hire the best possible help they can get to make studies, surveys and estimates to help them Gary Lewis kept the Recognition & Awards breakfast group alive with his stimulating hoop dance. make decisions. While no one knows all the answers I would venture to say Utah County, was recognized as county with greatest numerical growth. County president Eldon Money receives the award. that those who purchase our commodities are much better Informed than most of us who sell these commodities. For this reason the voting delegates of the American Farm Bureau passed a resolution asking that every State Farm Bureau appoint a committee to work with the U.S.D.A. Statistical Reporting Service to make their estimate and reports more meaningful to the American farmers. This committee has been appointed by the Utah Farm Bureau Board and some work has been done. They have found Mr. Grant Lee and his help In the Utah S.R.S. office very The chartered United flight for Washington, D.C., left at 8:00 a.m. December 6th and most of the group was ready to leave at 7:15 -anxious to get to Washington. cooperative. We need to know that probably the main source of Information the S.R.S. has Is from farmers themselves so we can make the service as valuable as we want to. The most common complaint Is that government estimates Inform buyers of what Is In the country so they can use the Information to cut farm prices; that U.S.D.A. estimates help the buyer. It does help the buyer but It also helps the seller If he will take advantage of the Information. If this program was to be discontinued It would be the farmer left in the dark, not the buyer. What farmers really need Is not for the U.S.D.A. to quit making estimates, but to make better ones. By cooperating with the Statistical Reporting Service, we Nixon praises nation s farmers in greeting AFBF convention President Richard M. Nixon paid a surprise visit to the Golden Anniversary Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, D.C., on Monday, December 8, and told the assembled farmers "no nation can long be great without a sound, strong agricultural base." "We look at the great agricultural community of this country and what do we find: only five percent actually engaged in agriculture and, of course, you know and you have heard that because you are only five percent that your political influence is not as great as it maybe once was," the President said in an impromptu address to the annual meeting. "If I were a farmer in America today," he declared, "I would be proud of it; proud because of what you are producing and what you are achieving and proud because of what you add to America in terms of character and strength." can make that come true. Duchesne County was recognized as attaining highest percentage of growth for a county. Roger Hicken, county organization director, receives the award. Whatever you get, get Carl Loveless was recognized as the insurance agent bringing in the highest number of Farm Bureau memberships. Vice President Agnew calls ' ' agriculture indispensable unannounced in- sight. (Prov. 4:7). ' With our every breath we make a decision. Every breath affirms life. Decisions are so much an integral part of us that we hardly recognize the fact that we are making them. With Cods help we can build good judgment from within. We by prayerful thoughts, establish a pattern of procedure from which we are motivated. This becomes the truth about us, and we find we are alight with the light of Christ. j In an appearance before the Golden AnniverCelebration the at Washington Hilton Hotel on Tuesday sary Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said that evening, December 9, "the American farmer is all too often the whipping boy for many of our problems all too often penalized for his productivity. It doesn't make good sense to me to criticize anyoody for doing a good job," he said. "In the 50 years that the American Farm Bureau Federation . has been in existence, we have seen profound and positive changes in the country. You have been a prime contributor in making this country healthier and wealthier. Since the times of Thomas Jefferson, we have respected the independent farmer as the foundation of the American system. Time has not altered our confidence in you. It .has only brought the farmer closer to JMOCTitry," Vice President Agnew told the more than 6,000 ffrm Bureau members. |