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Pennsylvania Agriculture
Secretary Jim McHale last
week -urged the Penn
sylvania Grocers
Association to go along with
an appeal from the National
Association of Food Chains
to make meat a bargain for
consumers.
McHale, addressing a
convention of the Penn-,
sylvania Grocers
Association at.the Taminent
Resort and Country Club in
Taminent, said slumping
consumer demand for high
priced meat has caused a
backlog in the live beef
markets, threatening to put
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many cattlemen out of
business/
“The national spotlight is
on you,” McHale told the
retailers. “Cattle producers
have been receiving lower
prices for their live beef for
the past several months and
they are now at the point
where they are losing $lOO to
$2OO a head for each steer
slaughtered. But retail beef
prices have remained high,
discouraging consumer
purchases. You can help
both producer and consumer
by promoting the sale of
meat with lower prices."
, McHale said he “was not
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here to pull any punches with
the Grocers Association. I
have been on record many
times as saying there is too
much fat in the middle
between farmers and con*
sumers. It is up to you to
prove me wrong by letting
your retail prices reflect the
drop in sliding live beef
prices.”
McHale noted that
nationally caglemen have
reported losses totaling
billion since prices began&tfe
slide early this'year. :
According to a
States Department -'laß
Agriculture study,' Mcl&le •
pointed out, the price spread
between farm retail prices
widened 16 percent between
April, 1973, and April, 1974.
“Either you people are
receiving excessive profits
or yon should take lessons in
efficiency from family
fanners,” McHale told the
gathering'of retailers.
McHale further noted, that
a survey of prices in Selected "
stores across the country,
conducted by the American
National Cattlemen’s '
Association, showed that in
the month ended June 10
retail prices of five cuts of
beef had averaged about the
same as those of the
preceding month. During
that period, cattle prices
were dropping about $5 a
hundredweight.
Recently Clarence G. I
Adamy, president of the
National Association of Food
Chains, after a meeting with
White House officials, an
nounced he was sending
telegrams to members of the
association in an effort to
move “excessive supplies of
beef and pork into con-
sumption.”
- McHale said he hoped this
meant lower prices to
“That'
consumers.
most effective way I can see
of promoting sales,” he said.
Glass is made mainly of
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Victor F. Weaver, right, receiving
the . Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation’s award for Poultryman of
the year. Presenting the award is Bill
Carlin of Agway and a member, of the
Board of Directors.
Weaver is President of Victor F.
Weaver, Inc., a poultry and egg
processing plant located in New
Holland, Pennsylvania. Weaver was
honored for his outstanding ability as
an innovator in the poultry
production, processing and
m
VAN DALE
is the
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marketing business and for en
visioning three decades ago the
future popularity for prepared food
products. He was also cited for
creating a corporate atmosphere
where new ideas could be
and developed.
The Award was presented at the
Annual Banquet of the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation recently at the
Sheraton Inn, Harrisburg, Penn
sylvania.
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