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Pacific Northwest Farm Forum (1978 : Spokane, Wash.)
Pacific Northwest Farm Forum Taped Addresses
1978
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Audio recordings of addresses from the 25th annual Pacific Northwest Farm Forum, held in Spokane, WA, January 18-19, 1978.
Collection materials are inEnglish
The 25th annual Pacific Northwest Farm Forum was held January 18-19, 1978 in Spokane, WA at the Opera House and Sheraton Hotel under the sponsorship of the Agricultural Bureau of the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce.
This collection consists of twelve audiocassette recordings of events, addresses, and sessions at the 1978 Pacific Northwest Farm Forum. There are no recordings of the speeches given by Dr. Arthur V. Douglas, Jack E. Johnson, Representative Tom Foley, or Robert Liebenow. Jim Herman was replaced by Dr. Sue Hayes. For further reference, a program from the Forum is kept with the print version of this finding aid.
The recordings are in the same order as the events, addresses, and sessions they document.
(MASC STAFF USE): range 3-4.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description]
Pacific Northwest Farm Forum Taped Addresses, 1978
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections,
Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
These audiocassette recordings of the proceedings of the 1978 Pacific Northwest Farm Forum held in Spokane, Washington were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in March 1978 by KCLX Radio of Colfax, Washington through A. DeVries.
Margot Knight abstracted these audio recordings in July 1979.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Agriculture -- Northwest, Pacific -- Congresses.
Oral Histories
Series 3/1: Ron Bair; G. Burton Wood,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 18, 1978
Length of Interview: 30 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/22/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-4
Pledge of Allegiance. Opening remarks by
Ron Bair, Mayor of Spokane.
Dr. G. Burton Wood--"The Past is
Prologue".
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 4-8
Reminiscence of the first Pacific
Northwest Farm Forum in 1954. Changes in agriculture over the last
25 years.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 8-12
Agriculture as a cyclical business.
World food supplies.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 12-18
Increase of efficiency of resource use
in agriculture. Human resource development.
Series 3/2: Forest L. Goetsch; Richard Lyng,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 18, 1978
Length of Interview: 40 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/22/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-2
Introduction by Don Jacobson.
Forest L. Goetsch---"Ag Prospects
'78"
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 2-7
Decline of farm and ranch profits-.
Farmers' demands for cost of production or 100 percent of parity.
Problems with parity. Export production.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 7-15
Trends in assets and debts for U.S.
farms. Increasing mortgage on land can provide working capital for
farmers. Present U.S. farm policy--advantages and disadvantages.
Cattle prices and beef market. Hog prices. Dairy
farmers.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 15-21
Grain prices. Wheat production. Feed
grains. Barley. Dry bean market. Potato stocks.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 21-30
Profits and risks in agriculture. New
land used for crops throughout the world. Agricultural development
in underdeveloped nations. Encouraging new competition.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-2
Repeat of end of SIDE A.
Richard Lyng--"Update on
Meat".
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 2-4
Necessity for an agriculture advocate
in Washington, D.C.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 4-8
Nitrites in processed meat. Banning
nitrates would be disasterous. The burden is being put on the meat
industry by the Department of Agriculture.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 8-9
Problems in American
agriculture.
Series 3/3: B.L. Hauenstein,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 18, 1978
Length of Interview: 17 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/22/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-2
Blank
B.L. Hauenstein---"Money, Management &
Methods of Agricultural Financing".
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 2-9
Problems of high operating expenses
and inflation. Land expansion. Pressure to expand
production.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-14
Rate of increase for interest rates.
Uncertainty among farmers and financiers. Particular problems with
surviving in the cattle business-. Using market futures.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 14-17
Franchise food business. Financing
suppliers to fast food outlets. New developments in the cattle
business.
Series 3/4: Bob Bergland,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 17, 1978
Length of Interview: 37 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/25/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Bob Bergland--Press
Conference.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-4
Major farm bill legislation--crop
insurance. Farmer's Home Administration.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 4-6
Price consumers pay for bread. Cost of
food processing. The consumers demand oven-ready-foods.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 6-7
Demonstrations go with his
job.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 7-9
Explosions in grain elevators.
Supplies of U.S. wheat
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-10
More about prevention of grain
elevator explosions.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 10-12
Use o£ pesticides.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 12-16
The wheat market. Export development.
Food aid as an economic developing tool as opposed to a surplus
dumping device.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 16-19
Problems with the cattle business.
Changing import policy so it is more market oriented.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 19-20
Parity.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 20-23
Importance of an international wheat
agreement.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 23-28
More on the parity problem and the
American Agricultural movement. Financing graineries on farms.
Orderly marketing by farmers.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 28-30
Trade with Japan.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-1
Repeat of the end of SIDE
A
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 1-2
More about the trade with Japan.
Getting Japan to buy more American manufactured goods. Trade deficit
with Japan.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 2-7
Food for Peace Program. Food aid
programs. The example of Malaysia. Identifying needs of developing
countries.
Series 3/5: Bob Bergland,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 18, 1978
Length of Interview: 44 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/25/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-9
Introductions for Evening
Banquet
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-12
Tom Foley talks about Eugene F. Whelan,
Canadian Minister of Agriculture.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 12-16
Foley introduces Bob Bergland, U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture.
Bob Bergland--Address.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 16-30
His appointment by Jimmy Carter. Why
he decided to accept the appointment.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-4
More about how he feels about the role
of his position.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 4-14
Where agriculture is headed in the
U.S. and the world. Keeping the global market in mind. Building a
stable agricultural policy. Expanding export markets.
Series 3/6: Bob Bergland,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 18, 1978
Length of Interview: 33 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/25/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Bob Bergland--continuation of evening
address.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-2
Financing graineries- on
farms.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 2-5
Government's- role in parity.
Various-problems with 100 percent parity.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 5-6
Establishing an international wheat
agreement.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 6-9
Carol Foreman's consumer advocacy.
Food policies.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-11
Establishing a wheat cartel. Problems-
establishing a good farm policy.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 11-12
Set-aside program.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 12-14
160 acre reclamation laws.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 14-15
Subsidies for tobacco growers.
Economics should not be mixed with health
considerations.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 15-18
USDA crop production figures. Private
surveys.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 18-21
Grain reserve program.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 21-22
Separation of various departments
within USDA. Streamlining the government bureaucracy. Abstractor:-
Date: Time: Margot H. Knight 6/25/79 18 mins.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 22-24
Problems with dairy
surpluses.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 24-26
Gasahol.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 26-28
Economic problems with human rights
policy.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 28-30
Bushel marketing quotas.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-1
Repeat of end of SIDE A
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 1-3
Why beef is imported when cattle
production in the U.S. is low. Cyclical importation.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 3-8
Food stamp program. Multi-national
wheat agreement and the free market. Russia's wheat
needs.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 8-10
Establishing a higher price of wheat.
Oil prices and land prices and their relation to
agriculture.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 10-13
Disaster payments. Disaster loans.
Crop insurance. FHA credit.
Series 3/7: Bob Nicholson; Eileen Zielinski;
Kay Wilson, 1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 35 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/25/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Bob Nicholson, Washington State Director
of Agriculture.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-7
Opportunities for women in
agriculture. Role of the woman on the farm. Economics of farming.
Importance of preservation of agricultural land. How to keep young
people in the farming community.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 7-8
Introductions of
panel-members.
Eileen Zielinski.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 8-20
The decline of the family farmer.
Unknown problems in agriculture. Energy. Mismanagement of the food
system. Trade policies. Farmers must unify. Unneeded
regulations-about farming from OSHA. What the Oregon Women for
Agriculture are doing.
Kay Wilson.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 20-30
Women are more active than ever in
agriculture and politics. What the California Women for Agriculture
are doing. Urban consumers- don't understand the complexities of
farming.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-5
Involvement in legislation,
environmental issue, American Agriwomen, religion, academic areas,
and the Consumer Task Force. Telling agriculture's
story.
Series 3/8: Janet Allison,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 20 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/25/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Janet Allison.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-12
Undeveloped talents of farm women.
OSHARs regulations. What the Washington Women for the Survival of
Agriculture are doing. Emergency pesticide regulations. Educating
the general public about agriculture. Agriculture leadership
programs.
Question and Answer Session
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 12-16
Protecting the land from urban
sprawl.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 16-20
Job opportunities for women in farming
other than as farm wives.
Series 3/9: Ronald D. Knutson; Sue Hayes,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 39 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/26/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Dr. Ronald D. Knutson--"Our Marketing
Potentials".
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-4
Role of government in pricing in
agriculture. The status of the family farm.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 4-7
Farming as a tax relief for
non-farming investors. Contemporary government policies-. Trend
toward bigness in agriculture.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 7-14
How to preserve the family farm.
Marketing strategies must be able to compete with the larger
companies. The grain export business. The beef industry. What
producers can do.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 14-20
What can the government do to preserve
the family farm.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 20-23
Conclusions about the importance of
the family farm.
Sue Hayes--"Agriculture Looks at
Labor"
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 23-30
Relationship of agriculture to labor.
Value differences.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-5
Agricultural labor--2/3 by farm
families and farmers. Migrant workers are not in the
majority.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 5-8
More about transient workers in
various areas of the U.S. Low wages for farm workers. Many farmers
don't make minimum wage.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 8-9
How hired labor affects the family
farmer.
Series 3/10: Sue Hayes; G. Burton Wood,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 34 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/26/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Dr. Sue Hayes--"Agriculture Looks-at
Labor".
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-10
Labor Union movement in agriculture.
Seasonal agriculture. Unionization does not necessarily mean higher
prices for consumers. Sometimes producers-move when labor costs
increase. Decisions generally go in favor of the worker.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 10-17
Advantages- and disadvantages of union
contracts for farmers. Mechanization. Future of agricultural
unions.
Dr. G. Burton Wood--"Food for
Thought".
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 17-22
Introductions. Opening
remarks.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 22-30
Importance of the Pacific Northwest
Farm Forum. Expanding involvement in the politics of agriculture.
Expanding markets and market penetration.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-4
Export markets. More on importance of
Farm Forum.
Series 3/11: Eugene F. Whelan,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 43 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/26/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Eugene F. Whelan-Luncheon
Address.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-2
Introduction.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 2-6
Relationship with Bob Bergland,
Playing hockey.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 6-9
Agriculture from the Canadian
perspective. Similarities between beef farmers. Problems between
beef producers on both sides of the border.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-16
Beef and veal imports and exports. His
activities with farm organizations. Marketing quotas-for dairy
products. Shared programs.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 16-22
Differences between America and Canada
with regards to agriculture. Concept of an international wheat
agreement. Canadian Wheat Program.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 22-30
Egg production and export. Imported
agricultural products, Canadians spend less of their income on food
than Americans.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-6
Canadian marketing co-ops-. Stability
of domestic market is their primary concern. Voluntary crop
insurance funds.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 6-9
Competition for markets between U.S.
and Canada. Canadian potatoes. Canadian apples-.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 9-13
Tariffs the U.S. levies interfere with
free market and open trade for many Canadian- products. Canadian soy
beans. Example of corn market in U.S. and Canada.
Series 3/12: Eugene F. Whelan,
1978-1979
Location of Interview: Spokane, WA
Date of Interview: January 19, 1978
Length of Interview: 38 minutes
Abstractor: Margot H. Knight
Date of Abstraction: 6/26/1979
Release: Yes
Restrictions: No
Eugene F. Whelan--Press
Conference.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 0-6
Introductory remarks. A general
feeling that Canada and Canadians are taken for granted. Problems-in
the trading of beef.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 6-9
Effect of American farmers' strikes on
Canadian farmers. New Food Strategy now being implemented in
Canada.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 9-11
Price controls.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 11-13
Progress on an international wheat
agreement.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 13-16
Disease problems in the U.S. among
cattle.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 16-19
Discussions with Bob Bergland. He
doesn't have as much power as Bergland does.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 19-22
Possibility of a wheat
cartel.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 22-26
Present administration of U.S. agrees
with many of Canada's agricultural policies.- Competition between
Canada and the U.S. for grain markets. Domestic price of wheat is
stable in Canada.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 26-28
Prediction of Canada's wheat
crop.
1, side A
Minutes (approx.): 28-30
He, too, was once a farm organizer and
understands the position of the striking farmers in the
U.S.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 0-3
More about what Canada can do to help
American striking farmers to understand the Canadian agricultural
system.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 3-5
The Canadian Wheat Board and their
pooling system. Feed grain sold off the board.
1, side B
Minutes (approx.): 5-8
Competition between the U.S. and
Canada for foreign wheat markets. Policies of the Canadian Wheat
Board and their priorities.