Iowa Agriculturist College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Spring 1971 Iowa Agriculturist 72.01 Carla Beeler Iowa State University John Byrnes Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowaagriculturist Part of the Agriculture Commons Recommended Citation Beeler, Carla and Byrnes, John, "Iowa Agriculturist 72.01" (1971). Iowa Agriculturist. 68. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowaagriculturist/68 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa Agriculturist by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Corner Commenl Recently I had the privilege of spending some time with the students on the Iowa State University campus. I lived in the dormitory and attended classes with them. It was a thoroughly rewarding and interesting experience. I found the students courteous, interested in my views as a legislator, and willing to present and listen to a lively exchange of ideas. The majority of the young people on our campuses today represent the finest this country has ever had to offer. They are going to have to take over when this present generation is gone, therefore, we must be able to communicate with each other effectively. I find that the lines of communication are not gone, merely unused. I came away with a better understanding of the students' point of view and, conversely, I felt that the students with whom I visited discovered that as a legislator, I am truly interested that the quality of education in this state remain on the high level we have always had. I tried to make it abundantly clear as we ·talked that the impatience many young people demonstrate to "fix the mess" this generation has left them must be tempered with judgment so that change will be for the better and not just a different set of problems. I welcomed the opportunity to have this in­ timate contact with college people and returned to the Capitol with the feeling that as a legis­ lator, they deserve my best effort. They'll get it. • Francis Messerly 2 Iowa Agriculturist IOWAAgriculturist Vol. 72 Spring, 1971 No. 1 EDITORIAL: 4 USDA Reorganization Carla Beeler . Co-editor 8 Discover Kenny Fulk John Byrnes ................ Co-editor 10 Farm Op at Iowa State Bill Tubbs . Staff 12 The Corn Blight Menace Tom Hayes .......... ... .... Staff 14 A Chance for Escape Jerry Conner . ... .. .. ... Staff 16 Spring Fever Steve Boyt . Staff 18 Hilton's ·Dream Comes True 20 Veishea: A Thing of the Present Jack Felton ................. ... Staff 22 A B.S., then . • . Glenn Moravek . Staff 24 Aggies in Action Jerry Youde .. ... ... ..... Staff 26 Ecology Goes to the Feedlot Dale Johnson . Staff 27 Over the Brew 29 Fresh Ideas for Farm Backing 30 Behind the Shed BUSINESS: Gene Johnston ..•...... Bus. Manager Jim Schipper •..•.• Asst. Bus. Manager Don Schlichte . Circulation Spring has arrived and brought back green grass and This maga1ine is supported in part leaves, riverbank keggers and by the Government of the Student . little girls and boys. Body. PHOTO AND ART CREDITS Julie Anderson: Cover; Info Service: 2, 18; Wallace's Farmer: 9; Bob Gunnels: 11; Chuck Benn: 13; Clifford Frank: 15; Bill St. Clair: 16, 17; Lan· nis Marquart: 21; Steve Boyt: 22, 23. The content of this magazine represents the individual expressions of the authors or editors and does not necessarily reflect the views or attitudes of the student body or the University Administration. Publication Board: K. 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Spring, 1971 The New Cabinet: THE PRESIDENT I I I 1 DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF OF OF OF STATE TREASURY DEFENSE JUSTICE I I I DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT' OF OF OF OF NATURAL HUMAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT Includes the following Includes the following Includes the following Includes the following elements: elements: elements: elements: LAND HW111 SERVIQS FOOD & COMMODITIES COMMUNITY & DEVROPMENT RKRllTIOll INCOME MAINTENANCE DOMESTIC & (including rural) - & INTERNATIONAL - WATER- RESOURCES SECURITY- COMMfRCf- HOUSING- DIERGY &MINERAL EDUCATION SCIENCE &TECHNOl.OGl METROPOl.ITAN RESOURCES - DEVELOPMENT MANPOWER LABOR RRATIONS &REtlWAl MARINE RESOURCES & STANDARDS SOCIAL & TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY' RfHABILITA TION STATISTICAL SERVICES - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- TRANSPORTATION 4 Iowa Agriculturist No Ag Department? by Bill Tubbs The U.S. Department of Agri­ .. "Under my proposed reorgani­ ment station would continue but culture, the traditional focal point zation, four cabinet secretaries­ possibly with its headquarters in used by farm leaders to air their half of the cabinet-will be a different department. gripes, may come to its end speaking for the farmer when his One farm group that has ex­ shortly. diverse interests are at stake. I pressed opposition to the plan is If President Nixon's executive submit that this is not less repre­ the National Farmers Organiza­ reorganization plan passes Con­ sentation, but more-it is more tion (NFO). NFO President Oren gress, agencies from seven cabinet effective representation, because Staley says, "So far as agriculture departments will be jostled into the rural interest of America will is concerned, the President's 'revo­ four new departments-and the be represented wherever decisions lutionary' plan to abolish the De­ 109 year old USDA will be left are being made that affect that partment of Agriculture and out. interest." transfer farmers' price support In his .January 26 State of the Thatcher felt he would have a and economic programs to a new Union message, Nixon stated his hard time buying the fact that Department of Economic Devel­ position: four cabinet positions might offer opment, built on the present De­ "I propose that the Depart­ more representation than one. partment of Commerce, is a plan ments of State, Treasury, Defense The effect of the new proposal on to move power away from farm and Justice remain, but that all Iowa depends on whether those people to the food and fiber pro­ the other departments be con­ who understand agriculture are cessors, suppliers and distributors. solidated into four: Human Re­ still in command in Washington, The Department of Commerce is sources, Community Develop­ he said. Under the present sys­ big business and large corpora­ ment, Natural Resources, and tem, people at least know where tion oriented and directed." Economic Development." to go for action. Reaction to the proposal has No Appeal been varied. Much of the com­ Personal Ties ment expresses uncertainty as to Staley added that "the prospects details. Dr. Floyd Andre, Iowa State's for obliteration of the Depart­ ag college dean, feels comfortable ment of Agriculture and down "No Stand" Policy under the present system, too. grading agriculture into a new Andre and Secretary of Agricul­ Department of Economic Devel­ The American Farm Bureau ture Hardin have personal ties. opment has no appeal for farm­ has declared an official "no stand" Both have similar backgrounds ers-for it certainly does not move policy because its not sure what and have come up through the either power or standing in their might happen. According to Ken ranks holding similar positions. direction." Thatcher, secretary of the Iowa Hardin was agriculture dean at Staley fears, and the skepticism Farm Bureau, the organization the University of Nebraska before of other ag leaders, may all be for may never take a position. moving to Washington with the naught. One thing nearly every­ How much voice will agricul­ Nixon administration. body agrees on is that the reor­ ture have under the new system? "The Secretary of Agriculture ganization plan will have a tough The lack of the name "agricul­ is easy to talk to," Andre com­ time in Congress. "It doesn't ture" is a concern to Farm Bureau mented. "We understand each have a ghost of a chance to pass leaders around Iowa, Thatcher re­ other well." Andre served as the 92nd Congress," Dr. Ross Tal­ lated. Even if the new plan is ex­ USDA experiment station admin­ bot, political science, said. actly what's needed, farmers may istrator in Washington from 1940- have a hard time getting used. to 46. Plan Might Pass it, he said. Andre isn't exactly sure how Nixon's plan would have some the change would effect Iowa, but Talbot feels the plan may have of the ag agencies in each of the he thinks those agencies with a chance if Nixon is re-elected new departments. While speaking long histories probably would re­ and has a Republican Congress. to the Iowa Legislature March 1, main much the same. He thinks In spite of the fact that the pro- Nixon defended the plan: the operation of the ag experi- ( continued on page 6) Spring, 1971 5 (continued from page 5) ination of the House and Senate Hardin thinks the farmer can posals are offered "in a biparti­ agriculture committees. Many of actually gain strength through re­ san spirit," Talbot feels party the key decisions affecting agri· alignment of agencies. If the pro­ politics will play an important culture now are made in these posal is enacted, "farmers accus­ role in their fate. committees. If cabinet reform tomed to working with a particu­ Dr. Paul Yarbrough, sociology, happens, Talbot feels the com· lar agency or with certain people agrees with Talbot. There are mittees would change, too. will find themselves still working 120,000 employees in the USDA Even if the plan fails Congress, with those same people after re­ alone, and the reorganization in­ it may be successful because it organization," he said.