Fertilizer
Supply, price and tran
sportation, are the important
problems facing the fertilizer
industry today, Samuel C. Sherk,
director of services for PennAg
Industries Association, said
Tuesday.
Addressing the Pennsylvania
Inland Fertilizer Association at
their recent annual meeting in
Harrisburg, Sherk said that six
months ago OSHA, (Occupational
Safety and Health Act), was the
main topic of Association
meetings, whereas today huge
agricultural export deals and
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Problems
Mother Nature have made supply
and cost the main topic of
agribusiness concern. Industry is
conforming with OSHA
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have been established
“Supply is currently the
biggest headache in the fertilizer
industry”, he commented.
Sherk said the United States
Department of Agriculture has
stated it is watching the problem
of shortages in the fertilizer in
dustry closely.
The service director said that
fertilizer industry leaders are
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also watching the situation and
are worried about fertilizer
ingredient shortages, such as
phosphoric acid for phosphate
fertilizer The present shortage of
rail cars could be compounded
because of huge fertilizer exports
being considered. Canada has
already warned about rail car
shortages in the movement of
potash to the market place These
signs all point to a very critical
year in 1973
Sherk said that the outlook is
similar “to the present feed
ingredient problem”. PennAg
Industries Association is
recommending that huge export
contracts such as the one with the
Soviet Union be renegotiated and
an embargo be placed on gram
exports and rail equipment used
in exporting until the United
States can realistically absorb
the exports and slacken the strain
now placed on the country’s
transportation system.
The PennAg representative
said the effect of the rail
equipment shortage has been felt
mostly by small businesses
because the shippers find it more
economical to service the large
dealers Small shippers are
having a hard time receiving rail
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equipment, especially covered
hopper cars “The ICC does not
seem fully aware of the economic
hardship and marked dislocation
caused by inequitable car
distribution”, Sherk remarked
Sherk in his message also hit
upon the problem of rail aban
donment and its effects on
agribusiness not situated on
main railroad lines A com
munity or business that loses its
rail service, loses an important
economic factor PennAg is
vigorously opposed to rail
abandonment before real
alternatives are offered to small
businesses and communities
which rely on the railroads
Sherk concluded by stating that
the problems faced by Penn
sylvania’s agribusiness com
munity will not only effect the
businesses, but also their
customers and the general
public Only by working together
will the inequities of agricultural
and rail equipment supplies and
rail abandonment be contained
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Inter-State's
Honan Says
Crisis Looms
Phila , Pa , January 10,1973
“The sudden increase in the cost
of feed supplies, and the amount
of such increases severely
threatens both the short-term and
long-term future supply of milk
for this area,” according to Dr
James E Honan, general
manager of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative
Honan petitioned the US
Department of Agriculture for an
immediate emergency hearing to
consider a review of the Class I
price level in the Middle Atlantic
Milk Marketing Order No 4
“The major production areas
in the Northeast were already hit
hard by tropical storm Agnes,”
explained Honan “In addition,
early last summer an extremely
unfavorable harvest throughout
the entire hay-making season
occurred Not only were yields
reduced substantially, but recent
reports indicate that the quality
of silage and roughage are ex
tremely low ”
Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative’s 3000 members
have been frustrated with con
ditions that may result in
liquidation of dairy herds and
non-reversible withdrawal from
the dairy industry, according to
Honan
“Since there is a lag in official
data,” Honan told USDA of
ficials, “time does not permit
action through the regular
hearing process to give
assurances which are now
needed Action must be taken by
those in authority to counteract
these unfavorable conditions and
create some stability in the
future outlook for dairymen
shipping milk to the metropolitan
areas of Philadelphia, Baltimore
& Washington ”
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