Mr Muldoon To Open Farmers’ Conference

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 10

Mr Muldoon To Open Farmers’ Conference

The Minister of Finance, Mr Muldoon, will give the opening address after the annual Lincoln College farmers’ conference opens at 9.30 a.m. next Wednesday. The emphasis will be very much on economic matters In the opening sessions of the conference with other speakers that morning including Professor B. P. Philpott, professor of agricultural economics at the college, and Dr G. B. Battersby, chairman of the Monetary and Economic Council.

Large scale farming is the theme for the afternoon with the Director General of Agriculture, Mr D. N. R. Webb, giving the first paper.

Other sessions of the main conference will be on sheep husbandry, Including a paper on the Wool Study Group’s report by Mr J. D. Fraser, general manager of the Wool Board, mixed cropping, a popular' subject these days when farmers are casting round for new avenues of production that may supplement their Incomes, and survival in farming—avoiding farm accidents and prevention of mental health problems. A field afternoon will be held at the Islington freezing works on Thursday afternoon Pig farmers will have their own conference this year and it will be held on the first day of the meeting on Wednesday, starting at 9.30 a.m. The programme will include the following range of subjects and speakers: Where the pig industry is heading by Mr R. Oliver, chairman of the New Zealand Pig Producers' Council; Lessons from [British experience in grain

Barker, Department of Agriculture, Hamilton; Lessons from Denmark In grain feeding of pigs by Mr E. Ktrkeby, chief technical officer of New Zealand Pig Producers’ Council; Ruakura work on grain feeding—pre-farrowlng by Dr M. Adam, Ruakura agricultural research centre; Massey work on grain feeding—postfarrowing by Mr A. Dunkin, reader in pig husbandry at Massey University; New Zealand Department of Agriculture survey on pig production costing by Mr A. Kearton, Department of Agriculture, Wellington; Lincoln work on pig production costing by Mr O. Kingma, research officer, feeding of pigs by Mr J. Lincoln College; Disease pre-