Scott to Address
PFA Convention
U. S. Senator Hugh Scott will
speak at the 23rd annual meeting
and convention of the Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association
(PFA) scheduled November 18-21
at the Penn Harris Motor Inn,
Camp Hill.
The purpose of the four-day
event will be to elect officers and
adopt policy positions which will
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guide the organization for the
year 1974.
The Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association is a general farm
organization with more than
17,200 family members. It has 52
county associations and it is
affiliated with the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
Senator Scott, minority leader
Phone (215) 484-4391
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in the U S. Senate, will address
the farmers at their annual
awards banquet Tuesday,
November 20, at 615 pm.
Awards for county programs will
be presented at that affair.
Senator Scott heads the list of
some eight speakers to appear
before the farm organization.
Jane Alexander, deputy
secretary, Pennsylvania
Agriculture Department, will
speak at the PFA women’s
conference Monday, November
19, at 9 a.m.
Another speaker Monday at 12
noon will be Dr. Russell Larson,
provost of Pennsylvania State
University, who will be keynofing
the convention Later at 2:30 pm.
Monday three marketing experts
will address members of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing
Association (PACMA), the PFA
marketing and bargaining af
filiate. These men include: J.
Ward Cooper, procurement
director, Knouse Foods
Cooperative; Paul Fleischer,
owner-manager, United Poultry
Company, and Carl Carlson,
general manager, Ezra W.
Martin Company.
John R. Pitzer of Aspers and
president of the state group will
make his annual report at 7 a.m.
Tuesday, November 20; while
Charles R. Ord, PFA ad
ministrative secretary, will
make his report at 11 am.
Tuesday
Dr C. William Swank,
executive vice president of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation,
will speak at the noon luncheon
Tuesday; Roger Fleming,
secretary-treasurer, American
Farm Bureau Federation, will
speak at the annual joint con
ference of Farm Management
and Business Analysis Service
and Farm Family Insurance
Company ; and J. S. Hanse, vice
president, Allied Lines, General
Tire and Rubber Co. will speak at
the annual meeting of the PFA
Supply Company another PFA
business affiliate.
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Record World Wheat
Crop Seen
World wheat production in 1973
is estimated at 349 million metric
tons, 5 percent over the 1972
outturn and 3 percent above the
previous record in 1971, ac
cording to a report from the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
World wheat area is estimated at
217 million hectares, up 5 percent
for the year and the largest since
1968.
Canadian wheat production is
estimated at 17 million tons, up 17
percent and the largest crop
since 1969. The United States
harvested a record 47 million-ton
crop, up 12 percent and 7 percent
above the 1971 high. The U. S.
area was 14 percent above 1972,
although 8 percent below the
record level of 1967.
The West European wheat
was off 3 percent, at 49.8
million tons. The EC crop
declined 2 percent at 40.6 million
tons. French production fell 5
percent to 17.2 million tons, as the
principal change.
Wheat production in Eastern
Europe is estimated moderately
above 1972 at 31 million tons. In
the Soviet Union, the crop is
estimated at 95 million tons, 11
percent above the poor 1972
outturn.
Beginning with the current
report, which is the first world
summary estimate for the 1973
world gram crop, production
estimates for the USSR are ex
pressed m terms of gross weight,
the same as official Soviet data.
African wheat production was
somewhat below the high level of
a year earlier. The harvest in
Asia is estimated at 78.2 million
tons, down 3 percent, with larger
crops in the People’s Republic of
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A good wheat crop is an
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percent increase in area.
Argentina, on the other hand, had
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seedmgs are off about one-fifth.
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