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Farmers see
the future
RICHMOND — The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s 1992 Annual Convention will center around the idea that futuristic agriculture has already arrived in the Old Dominion.
From exotic herbs to hemoglobin in tobacco plants, “we’re looking at perhaps the reinvention of agriculture,” said Dr. G. Terry Sharrer, agriculture curator for the Smithsonian Institution, who is the keynote speaker during Commodity Appreciation Day, Nov. 30.
The Commodity Appreciation Day luncheon at the Richmond Marriott kicks off this year’s convention, which runs through Dec. 3.
During Sharrer’s talk, “Health in the Evolution of Farming,” he Will focus on how scientific discoveries in plant, animal and human health created “modem” agriculture a century ago and how they are recreating agriculture today.
Following Sharrers talk will be two panel discussions: “Opportunities in Non-Traditional Crops and Livestock” and “Will the Public Accept Genetically-Engineered Crops and Livestock?”
“Farm Bureau members should be informed about these futuristic things because people look to Farm Bureau members as leaders in the agricultural field,” says Spencer Neale Jr., assistant director of VFBF’s Commodity Marketing Department.
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