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Concluding remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Bob Bergland
Bob Bergland
Affiliation:
Executive Vice President and General Manager, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.
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Much has been said here about misplaced priorities. I would like to add an example from my own experience. When I was Secretary, I visited the University of California at Davis to review federally funded research. The researchers there showed off a very expensive new piece of machinery developed largely by federal research funds. The machine was designed to pick square, green tomatoes. When I asked “What in the world is this all about?” they explained that we needed to find new ways to eliminate labor. Back in Washington, I asked the same question, and got the same answer.

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Papers from the 10th Annual Conference of the Wallace Institute, “Alternative Agriculture Policy: A New Time to Choose,” Washington, D.C., March 1,1993
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 160 - 161
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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