USDA Acts to Improve
Markets for Five Crops
Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz has announced a series of
actions, ranging from possible
use of an electronic selling
system to development of quality
standards, to improve markets
for five crops.
The actions will be taken by
various U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) agencies to
help farmers develop and expand
markets for apples, eggs, can
ning peaches, pork and potatoes.
The actions were decided on after
a study of the findings of five
teams which last year in
vestigated marekting problems
for each crop.
One of the proposals, which will
receive further study, is an
electronic price negotiating
system to help farmers sell their
hogs. Farmers would have a
telephone number which they
could call and offer their hogs for
sale. The offer would be put on an
electronic communicating
system which would go into the
offices of meat packers. Every
State Apple
Expected U
The first Pennsylvania com
mercial apple production
forecast for the 1973 season in
dicates a 425 million pound crop
according to the Crop Reporting
Service. This would be 6 percent
above last year but 12 percent
below the 5-year (1968-72)
average production.
The Commonwealth’s peach
crop forecast at 81 million pounds
increased 3 million pounds from
last month’s forecast. Ample
moisture promoted good sizing of
the fruit and is responsible for
improved forecast. The peach
crop is still expected to begone-
FARM a
few seconds, the offering price
would be reduced a specified
amount. The first buyer to press
a button would get the hogs at the
selling price then indicated on the
machine, if the price was above
the minimum which the farmer
had indicated he would take.
Other actions which will be
taken include:
Pork-Increase research, into
ways to reduce the cost of
producing hogs by increasing the
number of pigs marketed per
sow. Get better data to farmers
on hog and pig production by
getting farrowing intentions from
more states (14 states rather than
the present 10). Develop a quality
pork grading system to improve
consumer acceptance of port.
Eggs-To conteract the
declining demand for eggs and
instability in egg production and
prices, there will be more
research on marketing costs and
returns, the effects of selling eggs
as “loss leaders” in super
markets, and the impact of
Production
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fifth below the 5-year average.
The state’s pear crop is ex
pected to total 2,800 tons, down
500 tons from last year and 900
tons below the 5-year average.
Spring freeze damage, winter
kill, unfavorable pollinating
weather, and severe hail storms
have kept the state’s fruit crops
below average.
The nation’s 1973 commercial
apple production is forecast at 6.1
billion pounds, 4 percent above
last year’s 5 8 billion pounds. In
the five leading apple states, a
larger crop than last year is
expepted in Washington and
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Apples--Send market
itelligence teams abroad to ex
pand and study potential foreign
markets. Develop quality
standards for frozen con
centrated apple juice. Cooperate
with industry on joint marketing
ventures, co-op mergers and
consolidations.
Peaches -Expand research on
new and improved peach
products and new methods of
processing. Develop an overseas
canned peach promotion
program.
Potatoes-Research to develop
new potato products and to cut
down on pollution from potato
processing. Provide more reports
grade and size of potato crops,
both during the growing season
and during initial storage.
Develop farm financial
management programs and
study bargaining as a possible
market alternative for potato
growers.
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Pennsylvania, but New York,
Virginia and Michigan expect
smaller crops.
The U. S. 1973 peach crop is
forecast at 2.6 billion pounds, a 10
percent increase over last year.
Total pear production in the U. S.
is forecast at 724,400 tons, up 18
percent from last year’s crop of
611,700 tons.
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Quarryville Bank Promotes Two
The board of directors of
Earners National Bank of
Quarryville has announced the
promotions of two bank staff
members.
Promoted to the position of
assistant cashier were Sarah M.
Douglas and Robert L. Keene.
Mrs. Douglas, a 1948 graduate
of Solanco High School, began
with the bank in 1951. In 1954, she
left to raise her two children, then
returned in 1962. She has worked
in the Bookkeeping Department,
and more recently as a teller.
Treasurer of the Grow n’ Show
Garden Club of Quarryville, the
Quarryville native is a member
of St. Paul’s United Church of
Christ.
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Keene, who will become the
assistant manager of the Far
mers National Penn Hill office
when it opens this fall, is a 1961
graduate of Solanco High. He has
completed a number of courses
given by the Lancaster chapter of
the American Institute of
Banking, as well as U. S. Army
personnel courses.
Prior to joining the bank in
August 1971, he worked for seven
years at the RCA plant in Lan
caster. He served three years in
the Army, 14 months of which
were spent in Korea.
The new assistant cashier was
born and raised in nearby
Georgetown, where he now lives.
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