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Show August, Utah Farm Bureau News Page 6 First meeting board sets up committee to research resolutions and ranchers, round out the com- mittee. According to Booth Wallentine, executive vice president of the UFBF, The board of directors sincerely believes this change will sharply enhance our ability to prepare meaningful resolution reflecting the desires of our members and which will strengthen our ability to influence the legislature, the Congress and regulatory agencies with whom we work. The committees specific assignment is to study issues identified by committee. One member from each of the seven districts in the state, plus a member representing Farm Bureau yromen and one speaking for young farmers persons attending the midyear conference, meeting with experts in various fields such as taxation and Hard at work is the new resolutions research committee established by the Utah Farm Bureau board of directors recently. They are shown here in their first meeting, discussing policy issues identified by farm leaders who attended the Mid-YeConference at B.Y.U. ar hear Policy group to Eleven experts in various fields of public policy will meet with the Utah Farm Bureau resolutions research committee August 15, 1973, to give testimony on various policy matters. Starting at 9 a.m., the group will hear state and national authorities speak on topics of interest to Utah farmers. The schedule has been arranged by LeGrand Jarman, UFBF public policy director. Speakers and their subjects are: Glen Cassey, Environment assistant state statistician Land use planning George Smeath, professional planner Uniform probate and inheritance -'10-memb- - er - - of representative state bar association Farm labor laws - Ross Thorson, labor relations counsellor - Agricultural inspection John Gillman and inspection department staff, Utah Department of Agriculture Predators Dr. Darwin Nielsen, associate professor of agricultural economics, Utah State University Wildlife Jack programs Berryman, chief, Wildlife Division, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington D.C. Rural fire protection - Robert Tanner, Utah state fire marshal - natural experts Taxes and fiscal responsibility Jack Olson, manager, Utah Taxpayers Association Douglas Taylor, Property tax commissioner tax state vehicles Ted Tuttle, of chief boating and recreational vehicles, state division of parks and recreation. - - Off-highw- ay during the for attention by the 35 issues, were listed conference committee. Members of the committee and the area they represent are: resources, then draft proposed resolutions for study by the state resolutions committee. The latter group includes county presidents and state board members. They meet the day before the state convention to review resolutions later considered by the voting delegates from all counties. District 1 - Rulon Smoot, Corinne District 2 - Wayne Gibson, Ogden District 3 - Ray Staley, S.L.C. District 4 - Glade Gillman, Orem District 5 - Carl Oldaker, Vernal District 6 - Jack Madsen, Gunnison District 7 - David Reusch, Hurricane Women - Cumorah Holdaway, Provo YF&R - Robert Johnson, Randolph THINK METRIC Driving will be no harder Driving a car within the speed limit wont be any harder under the metric system than it is now. When the United States converts to the same system of weights and measures now used by almost the entire world, speed limit signs will be posted in Kilometers per hour. (A mile contains 1.6 kilos.) But the speedometer of your car will also be marked in kilometers per hour. Youll go through the same process you do now of checking your cars speed against the posted limit. The easy way to convert to metrics will be to learn to think in the metric units. Then it wont be necessary to figure how many kilometers in a mile. Track men are already running metric races in this country and abroad. The race is a little shorter than the mile run, and times are a little faster. When we convert from quarts to liters (the basic metric unit of volume), well see about the same container. A liter holds just a little more than a quart (about 1.06 1500-met- 1 1 of the resolutions research group was immediately after the recent midyear conference. Some IF Utah Farm Bureau members have a; new procedure available for preparing policy resolutions for this state. Recently approved by the state board of directors, the newplan establishes a resolutions research committee of nine members plus a chairman. Because the state Farm Bureau vice president has responsibility for policy development, S. Jay Child, who holds that office, is chairman of the 1973 er quarts). Where the advantage of the metric system will show up is in figuring larger volumes. We have to multiply quarts times 4 now to figure gallons. With metrics based on the decimal system, well multiply liters by 10, 100 and so on, an easy operation. It will be a little hard to convert recipes to the metric system. But during the years of changeover proposed by supporters metric system-includi- ng of the Farm will probably be in printed both systems for a while. In the end, cooks will get rid of the unhandy figures of 16 tablespoons per cup, two cups per pint, and so Bureau-recip- es on. Farming efficiency reaches peak American farmers reached their e high in efficiency in using production inputs last year, a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals. Although the nations farmers used the same amounts of land, labor, machinery, fertilizer and other imputs as in 1971, the previous all-tim- record year, they produced 11 percent over the base year of 1967. But inputs ran only 2 percent over five years ago. Winter cruise lures delegates Farm Bureau members planning to attend the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation this winter have an optional cruise of the Caribbean available for a pleasant break. Held in in past the convention shifts to years, 1974, in Atlantic City, January New Jersey. The later date, convention delegates and their families to take part in the cruise. Three options have been arranged by Beehive Tours & Travel. One permits attendance only at the convention, with a four-da- y stay in the Motor Inn and a direct flight Pageant back to Salt Lake City Thursday, 10-d-ay post-conventio- n mid-Decemb- er 13-1- 7, January passengers directly to San Juan, Puerto Rico, by air after the convention. There the travellers will board the SS Amerikanis for a cruise to South America and several Caribbean islands. Third option is for people who cannot attend the Farm Bureau convention to fly to Puerto Rico on January 17, join the cruise, then fly back to Utah January 26. A series of agricultural programs and tours throughout the cruise will permit both farmers and their wives to claim tax deduction for the trip. Besides a stop at Caracas in South America, the cruise ship will put in at several islands : Grenada, Barbados, Guadalupe and picturesque St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. On each island, tour participants will be able to inspect farming operations as well as shop and sightsee. 17. Another program would take cruise Classified Ads RAISE HYDROPONIC TOMATOES, green beans, cucumbers, peppers, and other vegetables.. year round for the wholesale market in the amazing Greenhouses. 9 Everlovin Mini-farhours per week and modest investment for 22xlOO fully automated greenhouse earns you big returns. Training, installation, financing and first crop planted, all in0 cluded. 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