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Show j Mr. Simpson said the conference, confer-ence, which will be held in the Newhouse Hotel, is .expected to draw several hundred farmers. He said it would provide an "excellent "excel-lent opportunity for them to meet, put their ideas together, and come up with recommendations for an adquate agricultural policy." Mr. Brannan, the nation's farm chief under the Truman administration, administ-ration, Gov. Clyde, and Mr. Baker Ba-ker will speak to the conference during morning sessions. Sen Wat-, kins will deliver the afternoon ad-! dress. . Agricultural leaders from across Utah will participate in the November Nov-ember 16 meeting. Registration will be at 9 a.m. in the Newhouse Hotel. Farmers Union Continued from front page ion, said Gov. George D. Clyde, former Secretary of Agriculture .Charles F. Brannan, National Far-: Far-: ' mers Union Legislative Director, John A. Baker and Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah). will deliver principal addresses at the one-day ' meet. "In our opinion, the conference will undoubtedly be the most important im-portant farm meeting held in Utah Ut-ah this year," Mr. Simpson said. "We are calling these meetings in all of the states for the purpose : of developing a new national farm ' program which, when completed, will be presented to the 1958 session ses-sion of Congress," he said He said he believed "if any farm program is passed by Congress, Con-gress, it will, in a major part, be the program we are attempting to develop." Mr. Simpson emphasized that the conference is open to all farmers far-mers in the state, regardless of which farm organization they re affiliated with. Utah's conference will be divided divid-ed into seven separate workshops. The Utah Farmers Union chief ..said farmers may attend the ses-. ses-. sion of their choice from the following fol-lowing agricultural commodity groups: cattle, wool, poultry, grain hay and seeds, dairy, canning can-ning crops and fruit, and sugar beets. |