!o—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. October 2Q,> 1973
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Twin Valley Representative
Attends FFA Convention
Robert Stoltzfus, vice
president of the Twin Valley FFA
Chapter, attended the National
FFA Convention in Kansas City,
Mo. last week as a representative
of the Twin Valley FFA Chapter.
Also attending the National
Convention was Nevin Mast,
State FFA sentinel and former
Twin Valley FFA member. He
attended the Convention in his
capacity as a State officer.
Mast and Stoltzfus traveled
with the other State officers and
Chapter representatives on buses
chartered by the State
association.
Robert Stoltzfus
County Farmers
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will be fully aware of the far
mer’s position.
One of the meeting highlights
was a speech by J. Troy Barton,
poultry manager of the American
Agricultural Marketing
Association. Barton, a nationally
recognized authority on
agricultural marketing, said
farmers are going to have to
change. The farm organizations
that have done the job in the past
aren’t going to be good enough for
the challenges of the future, he
said. “You’re going to have to do
a lot more. Everytime you get
into a favorable position, you’re
going to have to defend it. The
day’s over when the consumers
are going to picket the A&P when
they don’t like food prices.
They’re going to start picking on
you, the farmer.”
Talking about the consumer
boycotts some months ago,
Barton said he feels farmers
gained from the boycotts and
consumers lost. “We’ve learned
that consumers are going to eat,
and they’re going to pay fair
prices for their food. They may
gripe, but we’ve learned that we
can live with their gripes.”
Barton added that farmers
should never apologize for
making a profit. “You’re either
for a free market, or you’re
against it. There’s no in bet
ween.”
Marketing organizations got a
plug from Barton when he said
that profits today are made in
buying and selling. “The
American farmer has learned to
produce,” he said, “but he
doesn’t know what to do with the
stuff once he’s got it. The in
dividual has very little impact on
the market place But when these
individuals band together for
buying and selling, they can
carry a lot of clout. We’ve shown
that in our fowl marketing
program, which is getting far
mers better prices for spent hens
than they ever thought possible.”
Barton closed his speech by
touching briefly on some of the
problems that will be facing
farmers in the years ahead. Land
use was one thing Barton men
tioned, OSHA regulations were
another. He also mentioned the
national debt and the question of
who is going to control agric
ulture.
Before the close of the meeting,
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the results of an election for
directors were announced. There
are 13 Association directors, each
serving a two year term. Each
year, either seven or six directors
are elected to fill the vacated
seats. Four directors were
reelected this year. They are
Robert H. Kauffman,
Elizabethtown RDI; Donald L.
Hershey, Manheim RD2; James
Shertzer, Millport Road, Lan-
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Reid Wissler, Ephrata RD2, and
Robert Wagner, Quarryville
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Three committees were also
appointed. They were; Livestock
- Roger Thome, Harold Rohrer
and Noah Wenger; Dairy -
Robert Kauffman, James
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Poultry - Ervin Denlinger and
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