thursday, november 12, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 3
Farm executive says manufacturers will survive
By Tom Shelton
Emmett Barker, president of the Farm and Industrial
Equipment Institute, said Tuesday he doesn't believe farm
equipment manufacturers will go out of business.
Addressing an audience at the Nebraska Union, Barker
said that despite lower sales of farm equipment and the
laying off of thousands of employees nationwide, the
companies will do "what is necessary to survive.
Barker was chosen by the Nebraska Council on Public
Rebtions for Agriculture to talk about fears that mount
ing inventories, price cutting and other financial conces
sions are hurting the farming industry.
Reports from Roy Frederick, an agricultural economist
specializing in public policy, said one major manufacturer
of farm machinery already has laid off 8,000 workers as
the result of "the powerful one-two punches of soaring
interest rates and weak grain prices.
Barker handed out information to those attending the
dinner listing recent decreases in farm equipment. Com
bines, bailers, forage harvesters, mower conditioners and
farm wheel tractors were among the equipment listed.
Barker said farm equipment sales would be in an un
certain state, but said they should pick up.
"The machinery business still has two or three things
going for it," Barker said. "First, there are still going to be
farmers, and second, we will still have 340 million acres of
land in this country that still need to be farmed. We still
need productivity for the future recovery of the economy
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come. The Christian Science Organization will meet today at
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SU -v j, mflft The president of FIEI said it is impossible to say exact
yijl2)u Lj SftUl I v wen m increase in the sales or farm machinery will
take place, and that it will depend on commodity prices
and the world economy.
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As part of his presentation, Barker gave a slide presen
tation with some background information about FIEI. He
said the primary mission of FIEI is to provide an ongoing
organizational structure and staff resources. That staff en
ables manufacturers of farm and industrial equipment to
work together to have an effective voice in the decisions
of the public affecting their products, companies and industries.
Barker said FIEI will become even more important to
its members in providing an industry response to state and
federal governmental actions. He said FIEI programs such
as statistics, safety, product liability, engineering and pub
lic relations will also continue to be important.
FIEI consists of 227 active member companies and 208
associate companies. It functions with three divisions, 17
councils and more than 70 committees, and has about 250
industry meetings each year. Member companies of the or
ganization manufacture farm, field, farmstead, industrial,
construction and utility equipment.
Barker is an agricultural graduate of the University of
Tennessee. Prior to joining FIEI in August of 1973, he
was president of Agricultural Services Association, Inc.
Before that, he was public relations director for the Amer
ican Feed Manufacturer's Association.
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