—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3, 1973
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Parity Studies Slated for Pa, Farms
Selected farms in three
Commonwealth counties will be
part of a nationwide survey to
determine more accurately the
Kreider Heads
Potato Council
Noah Kreider, Jr , R.D 3,
Manheim, has been elected
Chairman of the State Potato
Marketing Advisory Council
according to Secretary of
Agriculture Jim McHale George
Wolf, R D 1, Stewartstown. has
been elected Vice Chairman, and
James Watts. Berwick.
Secretary
Central 4-H Tractor Club
Holds Initial Meeting
The Central 4-H Tractor Club
held its first meeting on Tuesday,
January 21 at Landis Bros,
Manheim Pike, Lancaster. Mr
Jay Irwin, Associate Agricultural
Agent, had charge of the business
meeting and election of officers.
Elected on Tuesday night
were:
Darvin Nissley, Mt. Joy,
president, Dudley Rohrer,
Manheim, vice-president, Steve
Martin, Conestoga, secretary;
Dennis Shellenberger, Manheim,
treasurer, Arthur Reist, Lan
caster, 4-H County Council
Representative Alfred Resit,
Lancaster, news Chris
Brubaker and Richard
Bonholtzer, leaders.
There were 21 members
enrolled in the club.
At their second meeting on
Tuesday, January 30 reports
were given by Steve Martin,
Dennis Shellenberger, and Ar
thur Heist The club members
were divided into three groups
with Mr. Brubaker taking the
third and fourth year members,
TVIr Bonholtzer the second year
group, and Dudley Rohrer, first
year members The next meeting
will be held on Tuesday,
February 6 at Landis Bros.,
Manheim Pike, Lancaster
kinds, amounts and costs of goods
and services purchases to raise
crops and livestock.
The information will be used to
New members appointed to the
Council by Secretary McHale
were- William Baumgardner,
R D 1, Kunkletown; Robert
Brace, RD.I, Waterford; Paul
Krause, RD.I, Slatmgton; and
Fierro Lupini, R.D.I, Nescopeck.
Members reappointed to the
Council were Don Freeman,
Ulysses; Ivan Miller, R D. 3,
Corry; James Watts, 228 Rasley
Street, Berwick; and Roy
Wotring, R.D.I, Slatington.
The Potato Council, which
includes producers and
representatives of processors, is
one of nine commodity councils
appointed by the Secretary of
Agriculture The purpose of the
commodity council program is to
stimulate greater financial
returns to Pennsylvania
agriculture and related industry
and thereby enhance the overall
economy of the Commonwealth.
update the Index of Prices Paid
by farmers, an important in
dicator of the farm economy, and'
when related to the Index of
Prices Received by Farmers for
their production, the basis for
determining parity.
Parity is a measurement of
how farmers are actually faring
in the nation’s economy.
The three counties involved in
the survey are Bradford, Nor
thumberland, and Lebanon and
the surveys will be conducted by
the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service in the early months of
1973.
Full cooperation of those
selected for the survey is urged
because each farm has been
selected to represent an im
portant sector of the entire farm
economy. Individual farm in
formation is kept confidential
and will be used only to develop
regional and antional summaries
of the reported averages and
totals
An earlier study for weighting
the statistical input needs to be
modernized. An example is that
farmers buy considerably more
fuel, fertilizer and machinery but
less labor than several years ago.
However, the extent of this
substitution of capital for labor is
not adequately known.