—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1, 1972
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The Peace Corps hopes to find more
volunteers like Joe Danz of Lancaster, who
works as an extensionist in a Peace Corps
livestock program in Kenya. The Corps,
with the cooperation of County Agent Max
Smith, will be holding a meeting for
Purchase Program may Resume
Egg
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Richard E. Lyng
assured egg producers recently
that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture stands ready to
resume its egg purchase
program if prices to producers
take another downward dip after
Easter.
Mr. Lyng pointed out that even
though egg prices traditionally
rise in the period just before
Easter, this year they are still
below last year’s prices for this
period, and consumers are en-
joying an unprecedented good
buy.
After Easter, as demand
declines, egg prices traditionally
drop. If that pattern is followed
this year, producers could ex
perience real hardships. Egg
prices in March were the lowest
since 1968.
Since last July, Mr. Lyng
noted, USDA has bought 17.2
million pounds of egg mix for
distribution to needy families.
This is the equivalent of 22
million dozen eggs. The pur-
prospects on April 7, at 7:30 p.m., at the
Farm and Home Center, Lancaster. A
similar meeting will be held on April 6 at
7:30 p.m. at the Farm Credit Building,
York.
chase, which were discontinued
December 8,1971, are made with
funds authorized under Section
32, Public Law 84-320.
USDAalso lends support to the
sale of eggs by promoting them
through its Plentiful Foods
Program. Eggs are the featured
item on the list of Plentiful Foods
for April. They will also be on the
list for May. Including those
upcoming months, eggs will have
been on the USDA monthly list of
plentiful foods nine times since
last July.
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