Poultry Federation Elects Officers and Endorses Check-Off
At its annual business meet
ing Wednesday, the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation board of di
rectors elected oficers and went
on record favoring the concept of
a voluntary check-off for indus
' try promotions.
The following officers wefe
elected: Robert Shelly, presi
dent; Kenneth Longacre, first
vice president, Warren Elf rank,
second vice president, Hendrik
Wentmk, secretary, and Samuel
IBerenson, treasurer.
Other mebers of the executive
committee are: Fred Slezak, Tom
Skortly after being announced winner of the “Allied
Industryman Man of the Year” award, Glenn Bressler re
ceives his first congratulations, a kiss from his wife.
Among leaders of the Pennsylvania ducers Pride, Lebanon County, president;
Poultry Federation chosen at the annual Kenneth Longacre, Franconia, first vice
meeting this week are: left to right, Hen- president, and Homer Bicksler, executive
drik Wcntink, of Pennfield Corp., secre- secretary,
tary; Robert Shelly, manager of Pro-
Speakers See 'Recycled Nutrients' as Solution
ecology laws which are being needed, he indicated,
try. and a special note on the f opted today “can have pro- Chumney. who noted that New
importance of regulations in the found influence on the future of Jersey is the nation’s most dense
industry agriculture and the poultry in- 1/ populated state, said the agri-
He said the Industry must find dustr y ” industry there has work
ways to work with regulatory He emphasized that talking ed closely with regulatory of
people to get them to under- with regulatory people is “not ficials and legislators and that
stand the industry’s problem and the same as talking to ourselves, this has paid big dividends,
to understand theirs which we do so frequently ” Chumney said he has always
Pollution control must be con- He also said that agricultural been impressed with the poul
sidered a cost of doing business, people must go back to legisla- try industry’s leadership in mov
jjg. said tors who helped create some of mg into new areas Stating that
At the same time the industry the problems that faimers now a challenge invariably equals an
must ScfSe offensive on see- find themselves in and tell them opportunity,” he added
ine that laws which are develop- they must help provide the tech- /How we could have lived all
ed will be practical and work- nology with which to solve the time without recycling, I
«We. ’He emphasized that some problems. Research is very much don’t know.”
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Trone, Richard Moyer, James
Price, William Robinson, Wil
liam Myer, Paul Osborne, and
Dale Weavei
The .Federation’s action to en
dorse check-off was in the form
ol approval of proposed federal
legislation that would allow
poultrymen to vote on whether
or not they want to contribute at
the rate of four cents per hen
for advertihing, research, and
promotion of eggs and egg prod
ucts
It was emphasized that the
legislation would apply only to
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pioducers with 4,000 hens or
raoie and that production con
trols would not be tied to the
legislation
It was also emphasized that
the legislation would not auto
matically result in the check off,
but pioducers themselves would
have to vote for it, A two
thirds vote of all producers and
51 per cent of the volume of
pioduction would be required to
enact the check-off
Discussion of the need for the
check-ofi particularly centered
aiound recent TV programs
which have been veiy critical of
eggs and, according to some
poultrymen, have been followed
by drops m sales of 15 to 25 per
cent in some retail outlets
At four cents per hen, it was
indicated that a $lO to $l3 mil
lion annual budget would be
i aised nationally and it was indi
cated that this amount would be
sufficient to protect and piomote
the industry
In other action, it was icport
ed that a poultry research house
at Penn State University has
been idle for a year because of
lack of equipment. Even though
various industry firms would
have donated the equipment, it
was reported that this couldn’t
be done with state facilities A
resolution was adopted that the
equipment be bought
Discussion was held on pos
sible merger of the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation and the
Pennsylvania Millers and Feed
Dealers Association It was in
dicated that both organizations
are in sound economic condition
and that this isn’t the reason for
merger. The merger would be
primarily a means of giving
more effective services to the,
industry, particularly in the leg
islative area, it was reported.
Donald Horn, a former Poul
try Federation president, report
ed that the Federation has been
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 19,1971 —9
Glenn Bressler, well known in the Pennsylvania Poul
try Industry for his research at Penn State involving slop- 1
ing wire floors and manure drying and other projects, is
shown accepting the “Allied Industryman of the Year”
award at the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation banquet
this week. In the background are Bressler’s wife and
Thomas E. Moncnef who received the award in 1961.
able to get several persons of ert R. Paiks, Altoona poultiy
high caliber to serve on the breedei.
board. Federation approved m- Glenn Bressler, Penn State le
cieasing the executive board searcher, received the “Allied
from 11 to 13 members. Industryman of the Year” award.
Later, at the Federation’s Lancaster County received spe
banquet, Horn received a plaque cial recognition for the local
for his services to the Federa- poultiy industry’s placemat pio
t.on, along with Fred Slezak. gram Some 111,000 placemats
The Federation’s “Poultryman promoting eggs have been sold
of the Year” award went to Rob- to local restaurants