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up a cheese sale, but ran
afoul of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture's
Bureau of Weights and
Measures when some of the
packages were found to be
underweight.
The Thursday after the
sale, Gerald Charles, a
Perry County dairy farmer
who is NFO publicity
chairman for the area, told
Lancaster Farming that
they had learned a lot in the
two sales held so far, and
they were working on
another sale in the near
future. "At our next sale,
we’d like to sell cheese, meat
and potatoes," Charles said,
“we’d have to get a
truckload of potatoes from
Maine, and we’re not sure
yet how to go about setting it
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Swine producers who want
to learn more about raising
profitable hogs are invited to
two “Pigs Are Profitable”
meetings at the Lancaster
Farm and Home Center,
County Agent Max Smith
announced this week.
The first meeting, on
Monday, Feb. 17, will start at
7:30 p.m. and will feature
Dwight Younkin, livestock
extension specialist from
Penn State, talking about the
methods for calculating feed
costs and new returns. He
will be followed by extension
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One of the things they
teamed on Monday, Charles
said, was that they could
return more to their
members than they could
cam on the open market.
The NFO farmers who sold
their meat off the back of the
truck on Monday can expect
to get back 25- to 27-ccnts per
pound.
Out of the retail price, the
group had to pay butchering,
packaging and hauling
expenses. A few other costs,
though, most of them in
curred by the members who
helped set up the sale,
weren’t deducted. “At a
meeting the other night,”
Charles said Thursday, “one
of the fellows suggested that
the people who helped set up
veterinarian, Or. Sam Guss,
who’ll discuss diease control
in swine.
The second meeting will be
held on Tuesday, Feb. 25,
again beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The first speaker will be
Louis Moore, extension
marketing specialist, who
will talk about hedging on
the futures markets with
swine contracts. Then
Gerald Bodman, extension
agricultural engineer, will
discuss odor control and
swine waste management.
the sales should be reim
bursed for their expenses.
And the suggestion didn’t
come from one of the people
who had helped set it up, it
came from one of the
members who’d Just sent in
his cows. Wc did have some
expenses. I know my phone
calls alone for this one
project came to |73."
Putting on a sale like this
is a lot of work, Charles
pointed out, and said the
NFO doesn’t want to get into
retailing on a permanent
basis. “But we can hold a
sale every week or every day
of the week if we have to," he
said. “We’re going to keep on
working until we get better
prices for farmers.”
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bership in Pennsylvania is
growing faster than ever
before, and he hopes to sec
bigger increases in the
months ahead. "I’m sick and
tired of going to meetings
and listening to people talk
about the farmers’
problems," he said. “Wc
want to do something about
our problems, and the only
way to do that is in the
marketplace. You can't do
anything for farmers by
going to Washington.”
While NFO membership is
growing, it is still small.
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farmers in Pennsylvania,
and they think of milk
dumpings, calf slaughters
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of the NFO, we asked
Charles. "Those calf
slaughters in lowa were
opposed by the NFO
leadership," he replied.
"Our president, Orcn Lee
Staley, asked those people
not to shoot the calves, but
they went ahead anyway. In
a national movement like
this, you're bound to have
some people fly off the
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