PennAg
On Rail
The all-important question of theastern railroads are con
“ Engineering the Future of templating abandonments and
Northeastern Rail Service” will liquidations, our association feels
be the topic of discussion at a it is particularly timely to
PennAg Industries Association provide an informative meeting
meeting to be held July 25,1973 at on the subject’ ’, stated Eugene E.
the Treadway Inn, in Wilkes- Eby, President ot FennAg.
Barre, Penn, as an educational “Therefore”, he continued, “we
service to PennAg members. have arranged to have
PennAg is a state-wide representatives from the
association representing many railroads, P.U.C. and industry
different types of agribusiness participate in the program.”
firms. The Program Chairman, Paul
“At a time when the Nor- Smith, Traffic Manager of John
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"GROWING WITH OUR COMMUNITY"
W. Eshelman & Sons, a Lan
caster-based feed company, said,
“The program will cover sub
jects such as abandonment,
nationalization, subsidies,
mergers, service and rail
equipment.’’
“PennAg members, state
wide, are deeply concerned for
their communities and them
selves, about the rapid
deterioration of rail service and
abandonment proceedings”,
Smith went on. “The problems
that face feed and fertilizer
processors, which depend heavily
on rail service, are the same
problems that face rural com
munities and industries that are
located along branch trackage.”
Railroads in the Northeast
have been having financial
problems for years, but these are
now coming to a head rapidly.
Many communities on branch
trackage are faced with the loss
of rail service because rail
carriers maintain such trackage
is uneconomical and must be a
bandoned.
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1 Lancaster Farming, SatQfdafr, 1*973
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For Vegetable Growers
A statewide field day for
commercial vegetable growers
will be held September 12 at the
Horticultural Research Farm of
The Pennsylvania State
University, located 10 miles west
of the University Park campus on
route 45.
Of special interest to vegetable
growers will be machine har
vesting of cucumbers and c
abbage, variety and fertilizer
trials, genetic research with
vegetable crops and potatoes,
disease and insect studies, and
chemical weed control.
If growing conditions permit it,
field day visitors will have an
Federal Order
4 Milk Price Up
The June Federal Order 4
(Philadelphia) uniform price for
base milk increased one cent
from the previous month. Excess
milk showed an increase of 8
cents, according to Andrew D.
Marvin, Ephrata, local fieldman
for Interstate Milk Producers
Coop.
In comparison to June levels
one year ago base milk was up 70
cents and excess up 79 cents.
The weighted average price for
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A general world-wide demand
for food has had much to do with
changing food prices in the past
year.
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opportunity to sample Penn
State’s latest achievements in
developing high sugar sweet
corn. Researchers hope to have
some high sugar corn available
for visitors to eat at noontime
Tours of the various research
plots will start no later than 10
a.m.
“Vegetable growers should
find this vegetable field day both
profitable and interesting,”
states Charles J. Noll, field day
chairman from the department of
horticulture.
Lunch will be served at the
Horticultural Research Farm by
a local church group.
the market was $7.29, an increase
of 70 cents above June 1972.
A total of 373 million pounds of
producer milk was pooled in June
of which 60.59 percent was sold as
Class I, showing a decrease of
.072 percent of deliveries made in
May, and a decrease of 0.31
percent under June a year ago.
8109 Order No. 4 producers
provided 12.5 million pounds per
day to dealers during June,
averaging 1537 pounds per day
per farm. Total value of producer
milk was set at $27,330,390 for the
month.
The base milk price was $7,53,
the excess price was $5.65, and
the butter got differential was
$0.07.
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