Chairman's Report - 73
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Rice Research Board Chairman, Carroll W. High
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Problems galore in seventy-four! So goes the world. And a share of those problems will undoubtedly fall to us. Foreseeably: energy problems ... supply problems ... environmental problems.
We should have confidence that we can handle them. After all, consider our record: aren't we the industry that looked ahead and invested in knowledge to solve earlier problems and to prepare ourselves for the future as we foresaw it? Last year our report emphasized the accumulated results of your Comprehensive Rice Research Program. It gave a thorough rundown on progress to date . . . pointing with understandable pride to the higher-yielding varieties already being released, the new technologies being developed to meet new standards for air and water quality, the extra million dollars a year already added to rice farm income by research answers, and so on. This year we revert to the emphasis of previous reports: the NEW findings and progress of the year - some immediately applicable . . . and some of interest principally as developments shaping the future technology of our continually unfolding and progressing industry. We rice growers keep solving our own problems - through individual efforts, through the activities of the California Co-operative Rice Research Foundation, through research in the University of California, USDA, and industry, and through statewide continuing tests by Agricultural Extension. Thus, growers, researchers, and industry make a great team. This report presents the highlights of what the team has come up with in the past year. You may want further details on some of these highly condensed items. If so, get in touch with your local rice farm advisor at your local Agricultural Extension office; or your local Rice Research Board representative; or manager Mel Androus at Yuba City, telephone (916) 673-6247. A check mark þ indicates items that apply NOW - in 1974. Other items give the newest research findings on the shape of future developments designed to keep the California rice grower economically healthy. RM1 and similar indications at section and paragraph ends indicate the research project and personnel involved, as listed at the end of this annual report. CCRRF indicates work of the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation.
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