24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8, 1972
Ken Groff, left, of Garden Spot High School, was recently
named winner of a steer awarded by Penn Jersey Har
vestore. Groff wrote an essay, which was judged best among
several entered. With him is Bill Fisher, herdsman of Stauffer
Homestead Farms, East Earl RD2, where the animal was
selected.
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FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS
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Earl Fisher, manager of Stauffer
Homestead Farm, admires the farm’s 550-
pound Charolais which Harvestore
McHole Considers Promotion
The preponderance of
testimony presented at a public
hearing held in Harrisburg,
October 28 and 29 favored a milk
marketing program and a
producer assessment for
promoting the use of milk, the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture reported recently
The hearing, requested by a
group of milk producers con
cerned by a steady decline in
milk consumption, attracted
more than 150 milk producers
Irom various parts of the state
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Favoring the milk marketing
program and assessment were
the Pennsylvania State Grange,
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association, National Farmers’
Union and these cooperatives*
Allied, Dairylea, Farmers’
Union, Inter-State, Lehigh
Valley, Milk Inc and Northeast
Dairy Federation.
Opposition came from Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative and
several individual dairy farmers
Assessment recommendations
made at the hearing ranged from
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awarded this week to essay contest winner
Ken Groff.
Ph. 653-1451
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Referendum
two to five cents a hun
dredweight A five-cent
assessment would raise $3.5
million
State Agriculture Secretary
Jim McHale has the task of
evaluating many thousands of
words of testimony and deter
mining whether to call a
referendum on the proposed
program and assessment He
said he will seek the advice of a
number of producers before
arriving at a decision