But Conditions Can Change Fast
USDA Reports World Pork Shortage
Pork was m short supply in
1969 thioughout most of the
world The situation
continues in 1970, producing
some strange twists in world
8 Local Youths Named
To Summer Institute
Eight local boys and girls
have been selected to represent
this area at the Pennsylvania
Association of Fai mer Coopera
tives Summer Institute at
Bloomsburg State College July
1216
The eight aie the winners of
the Youth Institute on Coopera
tive Business piogram at the
Farm and Home Center April
14 The cooperative education
program was sponsoied by the
Lancaster Council of Faimei
Cooperatives
Those chosen to attend the
Institute are Ruth Brubaker,
New Holland RD2; Gerald Mai
tm, Lititz RDI, Janice Weaver, Pennsylvania State University
New Holland RDI, Jeff Risser, students won third place iccent-
Leola RDI, Clark Stauffer, Eph- i y m the National Intercollegiate
rata RDI; Clair Witwer, 617 Flower Judging Contest at
Strasburg Pike, Lancaster, Blacksburg, Virginia
Kenneth Grube, 917 Pine Hill This marked me fourth time
Road Lititz, and Nelson Weay-.jhat p en n State placed ampng
er, New Holland RDI. the top three teams in the past
Winners were selected on the seven years Teams from Umver
basis of a quiz on the coopera- sity Park were the champions in
tive way of doing business and 1966 and 1968 and placed second
an activities report filled out by m 1964
the participants identifying National champion at Blacks
them with School, community, burg was Michael Mackiewicz of
church, and youth organiza- Philadelphia, semoi in floncul
tlons - tore Mackiewicz scored 1836 out
Judging the activities reports of a possible 2000 points Penn
were Henry Givler, Vocational State team membeis have been
Agriculture Consultant, Jay W individual national champions
liwin, Associate County Agent, in 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, and
Robert Barger and C P Brant- again this yeai
ly, Cooperative Council Offic- The team included Alice Ann
® IS Roemei of Tamaqua and Geoige
Irwm will accompany the M Albught, Ji , of Camp Hill,
young leaders to Bloomsburg both seniors in floncultme The
and act as chaperone and re alternate was Nancy N Cheiok
source person for the delega of Bentleyville, a junioi in flon
tion. cultuie
Massachusetts Poultrymen
Inspect Lancaster Farms
By Jay W. Irwin
Associate Agricultural Agent
Two poultry specialists from
the Univeisity of Massachusetts
and 10 poultiymen flora the
Worcester, Massachusetts aiea
recently visited thiee poultiy
farms and a poultiy piocessing
plant m Lancaster County
Louis Ruggles, specialist and
leader of the gioun said tlmv
chose Lancaster County be
cause of the large poultry in
dustry, the piogiessive tauntis
and the diffeient types of hom
ing used in the county The V ’
visited a cage opeiation wheie
hand and belt gathering aie
used, a sloping vuie flooi house
with buds at 5 squaie toot pe,
biia, and a cage opeiation using
an automatic cleaning and diy
mg system
They weie interested in mak
ing comparisons of the efficien
cies of each type of housing
They were most interested in
the automatic cleaning and dry-
poik trade, accoiding to the US-
D.Vs Foieign Agiicultural Sei
vice
Denmaik, the world’s leading
expoitei, was caught so short
that it was foieed to turn down
atti active outlets
The British bacon impoit quo
ta, laigest block of poik in woild
ti ade and noimally heavily ovei
subscubed, went unfilled loi the
fiist time in yeais
Japan, noimally self-sufficient,
bought about 60 million pounds
from the United States, plus all
it could find in Koiea, Taiwan,
and Austialia
Even Poland, lenowned foi its
canned hams and othei po k pro
duct expoits went shopping for
poik to impoit
World Outlet Stable
World poik production foi
Penn State Third
in Flower Judging
ing system to help destroy the
odor pioducmg bacteua in
poultiy maniue
This system was developed by
Dr Glenn Bresslei, Pi ofessor of
Poultiy Science, Penn State
Umvei sity
The theoiy invoices the cu
culation of warm an, heated by
the bodies of the buds, over the
maniue pit Oidmaiy fans, un
der the cages, circulate the an
as an agitator poweied by elec
tricity, stns the contents and
shoves a portion out one end of
the building
The heated an i educes the
moisture content oi the mania o
to about 30 pei cent and m the
piocms kills the odoi making
organism s : Chicken dioppings
aie about 75 pei cent moistiue
Mi Huggles and his gioup
vine with the clean,
neat and well kept faim bidd
ings They could easily see why
tomists aie attracted to the
Lancaster County fanning com
munity.
1970 is not expected to change
much fiom the 50 5 billion esti
mated foi 1969
The woild’s poik tiadeis cau
ght laigely wnpiepaied b> the
ciurent shoitage. offer vanous
explanations for its occunenee
Some obseiveis call it a noi
mal situation the histoucal
cyclical tiend that has exis f ed
tlnoughout livestock histoi > and
still leoccms despite man’s tech
meal advances in animal husban
dly
Some Shortage Factors
Otheis point to moie cm lent
reasons foi the poik shoitage
distuibanccs >n bleeding pro
giams caused by the seveie win
tet of 1968 69 in the United Stat
es and Emope, high feed costs
in the European Community
foicmg hog pioduceis out of
business, lack of faim laboi in
the United States, the high cost
of capital, animal disease prob
lems. and othei factois
Whatevei the i eason, the short
age has caused some cunous dis
ruptions in the traditional world
pork trade pattern
The United Kingdom normally
buys 650,000 tons of pork a yeai
under its Bacon Market-Sharing
Undei standing, designed to ap
portion this top market fairly
among exporters Neither the
Netherlands nor Denmark, the
puncipal suppliers, could fill its
quota in 1969
Denmark Embarrassed
Denmaik found itself in a par
ticulaily embanassmg situation
since it had cut back pork pio
duction foi 1969 following sevei
al yeais of difficulty finding ex
port outlets Theie weie many
attractive outlets in 1969 which
it could not supply
Japan's tight domestic poik sit
tuition began in late 1968 and led
to wide-ianging pin chases, in
cluding 5,000 tons fiom Australia
which seldom expoits poik Ja
pan’s domestic poik situation has
now impioved and it expects no
significant imports in 1970
Canada, which is noimally self
sufficient and has a small expoit
able suiplus, also turned up
shoit in 1969 and bought moie
than 60 million pounds fiom the
United States
Canada expects to turn some of
its giant suiplus of feedgiains
and wheat into poik in 1970 and
dm mg the last half of the yeai
will be on an expoit basis
U.S. Pork Impoits Diop
The United States, noimally a
ret impoitei of poik m a latio
ol about 4 to 1. chopped to a 2
to 1 net inipoit latxo in 1969
E\pOi .s jumped substantially
hugely as the lesult of sales to
Japan and Canada
Impoits of canned hams and
P'cnics nom Denma’k the Xe
theilands Poland, end Yugoslav
ia, which Uadhionain incite
at the late of about 10 pc-i cent
a yeai leveled off in 1969
The Em opcnn Commuivt *,
v'hich noi malty produces about
105 per cent ol its cwn poik
needs, was baiely selfsufficicnt
last year Vvhth the aid of a large
export subsidy, xt maintained ex-
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May 9,1970
SECOND SECTION
ports at about the 1968 level, but
shorted the domestic market The
result, of course, was an advance
in puces
The situation in Eastern Eiu
ope is particularly mtei esting
self sufficient in poik pioduction
This aiea is ordinarily about
and is well known foi its expoits
ot specialty items Notably these
come fiom Poland and Yugoslav
ia, with Romania and Hungaiy
aspumg to ioin them
Cunently, the whole East Eui
opean aiea appeals to be shoi t of
meat, including pork.
Russia Imports Pork
To the smpiise of the world
pork tiade, the Soviet Union, foi
instance, iccently made a poik
puichase in the United Kingdom,
a transaction which led the Unit
ed Kingdom to place poik undei
expoit licensing effective Febui
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The piesent situation can of
couise, change rapidly, since the
time from breeding tluough far
rowing and fattening is only
about nine months
How soon it does, in fact,
change depends basically on how
woild farmers lespond to the
seveial stimuli that influence a
pioducei to enter hog produc
tion or expand operations
Traditionally, strong prices
with favorable prospects for pi fl
ats have been the prime induce
ment However, this situation has
not yet provided the expected re
sponse in the United States
The total level of trade in pork
products for 1970 is not expected
State Offers
Penn
Pesticide Course
Much of the an, soil, and second and thud teims is used
watei pollution caused by pesi as on-the-job training
cides is initiated by misuse of A brochure desciibing the
appioved chemicals or the use piogram, individual courses,
of wnong chemicls This has costs, and othei pertinent infor
lesulted in vanous lules and mation can be seemed from the
legulatxons by local, state and Dnector of Shoit Courses, 208
fedeial governments, in an at- Armsby Building, College of
tempt to conect the situation Agncultuie, Pennsylvania State
In some states, laws aie being Umveisity, Umveisity Park,
pioposed which restuct the use Pennsylvania 16802
of ceitain ciiemicais to mdivi
duals who aie licensed by the
state
The College of Agncultuie,
Pennsylvania State Universilv,
has offeied the Pest Contiol
Technicians Wintei Comse
since 1964
Giaduates of the piogiam ’e
ceive mfoxmation in the idenn
fication of insects and diseases
selection of pesticides, and ap
plication of pesticides Thev a' c
qualified for employment b\
commeici.il pest conti ol opeiu
tois by regulatoiy agencies ci
local and state government and
commeicial mdustnes p,ovn'
ire ugiicuhuie with pcsticid :s
oi conducting counteiacl insect
and disease coi.tiol foi fannai s
Anv individual who has gia
duated fiom high school is eli
gible to enioll
The couise consists of two
eight week teims a yeui in each
of two years The six month
summer period between the
to be affected greatlj by the low
ei le\els of pork production be
cause tiade is centered around
speciality items bacon, can
ned hams, and shoulders It is
possible, howeier, that trade in
fiesh, chilled, 01 frozen pork vrill
be down from the 1969 levels.
Japan Imports
More U.S. Pork
The growing Japanese appe
tite foi meat has meant a very
shaip rise in po'k exports from
the United States to that country
In 1968, pressed by demand foi
more red meat from consumers
with expanding billfolds, Japan
laised its impoit quota for pork
What was the lesult’
In 1969, U S pork shipments to
Japan leaped 11-fold to an all
time high, Januaiy-July, of 33.4
million pounds fiom 2 7 million
pounds in those months a year
earlier according to the USDA.
Shipments to Japan accounted
for over one-thud of all U.S.
pork exports in the first 8 mon
ths of 1969, and shipments were
expected to remain high througk
the year.
Total U S meat exports were
two and a half times more than
they were foi a like period of
1968 Pork exports alone doubl
ed, January-August, over those
months of 1968 and represented
four-fifths of all i ed meat exports
in that period
Manbeck Sees Pesticide
Law Being Enacted Soon
Commenting on nioposed state
faim legislation. State Senator
Claionce F Manoeck, vice chair
man of the senate aguculture
committee, said this week that
the most impoitant farm legisla
tion befoie the committee this
>eai is the ‘clean stieams” pro
posal which ‘ tnc conservation
ists a e lealh pushing to control
pesticides and urecticides ”
L’ndu the pirposal, he said, ft
1 uinoi could bo u osecuted if ft
heave uun washed soil that con
u nod pesticides into the stieam.
"Vlai beck expects the clean
stieams meastn ' io be adopted
shoitly with some amend
ments
‘3m sine’ that faimers will
V able u) live With the final ver
s.on he pi omised
Jianbcck lepiesents the 48th
Senaloi lal d.sti ict, which includ
es Lebanon County and a section
of northern Lancastei County.
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