—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 20, 1972
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AAcHale Attacks
High Meat Prices
Consumers have been deceived
if they think farmers have been
the cause of high meat prices,
said Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture McHale.
“The Price Commission should
put the heat on supermarket
chains and processors,” said
McHale, “and not threaten
controls on raw agricultural
products.”
McHale noted Price Com
mission Chairman C. Jackson
Grayson, Jr’s statement that
more than 1,000 large companies
have failed to meet a May 1
deadline for filing quarterly
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Paradise
West Willow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-9251
R. D. 3, Ephrata
profits reports with the com
mission.
“I want to see Grayson make
good on promises to scrutinize
profit margins and markups by
food companies,” said McHale.
The Secretary said the rise in
meat prices earlier this year
were completely out of propor
tion to prices received by the
livestock producer.
“In January, the price paid for
choice steers was about $2 per
hundred pounds over the level of
last August,” McHale recounted.
“This works out to about an
additional two cents a pound for
rotection
James High & Sons
Ph; 354-0301
GordonviUe
Wenger's Feed Mill
Inc.
Ph; 367-1195
Rheems
Ira B. Landis
Ph: 394-7912
1912 Creek Hill Rd., Lane.
Oraybill Speaks to
Advertising Club
Robert Graybill, president of
Pennfield Corporation, ad
dressed the monthly dinner
meeting of the Lancaster Ad
vertising Club last week at the
Lancaster County Riding and
Tennis Club. His subject was
Pennfield Corporation, which is
only one year old, having been
formed with the consolidation of
Miller & Bushong and D. E. Horn
in March, 1971.
He said, “Our roots are with
the farmers, working to supply
them with the best feeds at the
lowest cost and hdping them to
increase their production.”
Pennfield Corporation is
holding on to that tradition, he
explained, but is also expanding
and broadening the base of
operations to create greater
markets for the farmers
products.
He told the background story of
how Pennfield was created from
nine diversified companies which
made it possible for the new
the farmer, justifying perhaps
about a four cent increase for the
retail price of meat.
“Instead prices rose as much
as 20 cents a pound, which meant
that for every penny the livestock
producer received someone else
got an extra nickel.”
Further, said McHale, “The
supposed beef shortage is a sheer
myth created to explain higher
prices.”
He said per capita meat and
pork supplies will actually be
higher in 1972 than 1971.
McHale said the marketing
system since 1949 has increased
its per-pound margins on beef
from 19 cents to 36.8 cents and on
pork from 19 cents to 37.6 cents.
“The marketing system has
doubled its margins,” said
McHale, “while both farmers
and consumers are worse off.”
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producing and marketing of new
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“Shortly you will be seeing new
food items in local supermarkets
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He concluded that his com-
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increasing its capactiy to help
customers in changing times.”
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