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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Dec 14, 1974
Area
Delegates
Attend
Conference
Delegates to the National
Fanners Organization’s 1974
annual convention at
Memphis, Tenn., returned
home last weekend to start
preparations for par
ticipating in a nationwide
drive to enroll enough farm
production in NFO
bargaining blocks to ef
fectively set prices on them.
The convention set a goal
of getting 30 percent of all
farm production moving
through NFO’s bargaining,
collection and delivery
system.
“When farmers put
enough of their production in
to blocks so that handlers
must have that production to
meet their requirements,
then we can price them just
as auto makers, machinery
manufacturers, oil, fertilizer
and other industries do,”
President Oren Lee Staley
told the convention. “Our
members now have the
livestock collection points,
the grain handling facilities,
barge points, milk reload
stations and facilities
necessary to handle the
products. Now we must get it
together.”
The delegates voted to go
for 30 percent. When it is
achieved, there will be 10-
county meetings at 160
places or more across the
nation to agree on prices
reflecting cost of production
plus a reasonable profit.
Products in the NFO blocks
will be offered at those
Congratulations to . . .
PURCHASED TOP
COW AT LOCAL
SHOW SALE
*5500
PREO AT 20.350 M 700 F 3050
FRESH 3 MONTHS -
MILKING 84 LBS. FOR TESTER
She was the top selling animal at
Eastern New York Club sale
Libby Ekdahl Wins 4-H Award
Elizabeth Ekdahi, 1751 W.
Strasburg Road, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, state winner of the 4-H
photography award, was honored at
the National 4-H Congress by the
project sponsor, Eastman Kodak
Company. Her award-winning 4-H
project was supervised by the
Chester County Extension Service.
Miss Ekdahi is shown here
prices and, if they aren’t
met, held on farms until they
are.
President Staley pointed
out that supplies of meat in
the pipeline to consumers
will last about 7 days and
milk for about 3 days.
“NFO is getting an early
start this winter on its
enrollment drive,” Staley
said. “The facilities from
coast to coast and from
receiving congratulations from Phillip
T. Foss, director, Kodak’s Midwestern
region, at an opening day “get
acquainted” party in the Conrad
Hilton Hotel. She also received a
Kodak pocket Instamatic camera and
will be provided with film and flash
cubes for her photographic record of
the Congress.
Canada to the Gulf are ready
to handle the volume
necessary. This is an all-out
drive to commit enough
production for bargaining to
make it fully effective.”
Delegates to the con
vention from York & Chester
county included: Leland
Stanford, Dillsburg RDI,
Pa.; Winfield Trego, Glen
Moore RDI, Pa.; William
Farrell, Uwchland, Pa..
JAMES L. HIGH
2243 South View Road Lane., Pa.
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BLACK & WHITE HOLSTEIN FARM
Holiday shopping will
mclude trips to the super
market to get all of the
foodstuffs necessary for
Christmas dinner. There are
more than 200,000 food stores
across the U.S. and Canada.
That means employment for
millions of workers. And it
all starts on the farm.
EUBANK ADMIRAL IVAN JANE (EX)
CHARLES C. MYERS
TRY A CLASSIFIED AD
SALE TOPPER
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