B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3, 1973
Feeding Regulations Proposed
Proposed changes in the
regulations governing the
operations of food service in
summer recreational programs
were announced by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
These changes are designed to
help sponsors of summer feeding
programs to better plan and
carry out the feeding of needy
youngsters during the summer
months when school cafeteria are
closed
The President’s budget, sub
mitted to Congress on Jan 29,
provides $5O 6 million the same
level as was available last year
The changes are based on the
operating experience gained
since the program’s inception in
1969 and emphasize the use of
school foodservice facilities to
(he maximum extent possible
They clarify responsibilities at
all levels of program operations,
provide greater flexibility in
the type of meal served, and
provide improved guidelines for
the selection of food service sites
to insure safe and sanitary
service of meals to eligible
children
The proposals require State
Agencies to set standards for
determining if a service in
stitution has the ability to operate
.1 summer program-such as
adequate personnel and capacity
for financial and administrative
operation of a complex quantity
food service program for large
groups of children
In selecting food service sites,
consideration must be given to
controlling success to meals so
that only eligible children con
sume meals on the site, to having
arrangements for protective food
storage and holding facilities,
and to having adequate
arrangements for food service
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during inclement weather. In the
absence of food storage facilities,
the regulations also provide for a
“summer meal” as an alter
native to a complete lunch when
problems of food safety in
transportation and food storage
arise The regulations delete all
references to breakfasts and
lunches for the summer program
to allow flexibility in the time of
day when the meal is served.
Initiated in 1969, the program
last summer reached 1.4 million
youngsters from low-income
neighborhoods with nutritious
lunches and snacks at school
sites, playgrounds, and
recreation areas. Planning for
the summer program must get
underway soon. USDA’s Food
and Nutrition Service will also
issue handbooks for service in
stitutions and on-site supervisors
as well as assist in conducting
training sessions at the .Regional
Office and State Agency level.
Other changes
Make the standards of
eligibility for this program the
same as those applied to
youngsters during the school
year,
Waive individual free meal
determinations when sponsors
have evidence that all children to
be served will come from low
economic areas;
Specify monitoring
requirments for sponsors for this
year with a parallel State-level
responsibility provided for in the
1974 program
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DAIRY SANITIZERS AND DETERGENTS
OTHER PRODUCTS
- Udder Supports . Milk Fever Aid Bolues
- Rubbers and Boots, all sizes
* TROJAN HOG WATERERS
* MAES INFLATIONS
* MINERAL BOWLS
* 10 PERCENT OFF ON ALL SNOW SHOVELS
AARON S. GROFF
Farm & Dairy Store
R.D.Ephrata, Pa. 17542 (Hinkletown) Phone 354-0744
Store Hours 7 A.M. to 9 P.M.
Closed Tues. & Sat. at's:3o P.M.
Fewer Farms
Seen by 1985
US. agriculture by 1985 is
likely to consist of about 2.1
million farms, some 700,000 less
than this year, according to a
report presented at the recent
USDA National Agricultural
Outlook Conference in
Washington, D.C.
John Lee, director of the Farm
Production Economics Division
of USDA’s Economic Research
Service (ERS), said that by 1985,
farms with gross sales of $20,000
or more will account for more
than 90 percent of the cash
receipts from farm products.
He joined other EFtS
economists in reporting on the
future structure of agricultural
production and marketing to 1985
at the Conference.
On the domestic front, David
W. Culver, economist, projected
that farm income to 1985 will
trend upward, and that farmers’
prices will rise gradually,
perhaps at the rate of two to three
percent annually. Farmers will
produce more and get better
prices in most years.
William Manley, director,
Marketing Economics Divison,
ERS, predicted that by 1985 in
ternal control of the U S. food
system “will rest in those
market-oriented agencies with
the most direct access to mass
markets.”
Agricultural production, he said,
will likely be dilated by market
requirements rather than market
choices being governed by what
is produced.
In foreign trade, Joseph
Willett, director, Foreign
HALES 0 HUNTER CO.
Franklin & High St.
For a long time we've been taught that the
most economical way to buy protein is to
determine the cost per point of protein, then
buy the cheapest. This would be fine if all
protein from all sources behaved in the same
way. Fact is, it don't. From some sources the
protein is more or less digestable. How much of
the protein that is used by a cow depends on
how fast the rumen bugs can use the ammonia
that is released from the protein.
For instance we found out that because the
ammonia from conventional urea molasses
liquid supplements is released much faster
than the bugs can use it, 0n1y37%0f the protein
nitrogen is retained by the animal. By contrast
over 49% of the nitrogen fed as natural protein
and Cargill's new controlled release liquid
supplement was retained.
There are many other similarities between soy
and controlled release supplement. There's
also a big difference, about $125 per ton big.
KINDA MAKES A BODY WONDER,
DON'T IT?
® ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading at Good’s Feed Mill
Specializing in DAIRY & HOG FEEDS
New Providence, Pa.
Phone 786-2500
SINCE 1870
Demand and Competition
Division, ERS, said the growth in
world demand for animal
products will be reflected in
continued growth in demand for
high protein feeds. There is
considerable potential, he said,
for expansion of soybean meal
exports in the years ahead.
Ph. 717-838-1338
FEED LETTER
Palmyra, Pa. 17078