This Your Card? During the POTATO EXPO KickOff Reception, a jester entertains with a card trick.
Another jester juggled while rolling across the
tradeshow floor on a big plastic ball.
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spoke at length on the outlook for crop
inputs, taxes, trade and land prices.
He recalled what Earl Butz, former
Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, used to
say: "The best cure for low prices is low
prices, because low prices do two things:
they cause producers to cut back and
they cause consumers to consume more."
Conversely, he used to say, "The best cure
for high prices is high prices, because high
prices will discourage consumption and
encourage production."
"That's what we're seeing with the
explosion of commodity prices since 2008,"
Manternach says.
The final general session of the EXPO
featured USPB Past Chair Todd Michael
moderating a panel discussion on how new
or improved varieties offer huge potential
to address current challenges, such as
sustainability, obesity and acrylamide.
During the National Potato Council's
Annual Meeting, following the EXPO,
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