GLICKMAN TO SPEAK AT USDA EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
  
                                       Release No.  0181.98
                                                             
  Media Advisory
  
  
                               Roger Salazar (202) 720-4623
                                     roger.salazar@usda.gov
                                  Dave White (202) 720-3210
                                        dave.white@usda.gov
                                                             
  
  GLICKMAN TO SPEAK AT USDA EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
  
     WASHINGTON, April 21, 1998--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
  will be one of the featured speakers during tomorrow's Earth Day
  celebration called "Agriculture and the Environment:  A Growing
  Partnership."  
  
     He will thank the agricultural community for its public
  rededication to conserving and protecting the more than 1 billion acres
  of land used for producing food and natural fiber in the United States. 
  He will also announce the release of a new Backyard Conservation
  campaign, led by the Department's Natural Resources Conservation
  Service.
  
     This is the first time the agricultural community--led by the
  National Council of Farmer Cooperatives--has come together to officially
  celebrate Earth Day in the Nation's capital.  Other speakers at the
  celebration include U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur; Richard Rominger,
  USDA Deputy Secretary; Pearlie Reed, Chief, NRCS; David Graves,
  President, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Dean Kleckner,
  President, American Farm Bureau Federation; and Amber Miller, Southern
  Region Vice President, Future Farmers of America.
  
     Scheduled events will be on the patio at USDA's Jamie L. Whitten
  Building at 14th and Independence Ave. SW:
  April 22     8 a.m.- 5 p.m.      exhibits 
          9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.     short program
          10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.     traditional farmers' market on the
                                     Mall side of the Jamie L. Whitten
                                     Building
                               
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