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A group of grape growers braved
howling winds to watch Dr. Carl
Haesler, kneeling, give a pruning
demonstration in the young vineyard
of Robert Hummer, Manheim.
Grape Marketing Plan
Presented to Growers
By Dick Wanner
A marketing program to
encourage the use of Penn
sylvania wine grapes was
outlined Thursday afternoon
to about 30 grape growers
attending the annual Lan
caster County spring grape
meeting in the Farm and
Home Center.
Ray Reiter, a marketing
specialist with the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture, told the group
that Pennsylvania apple
growers have been operating
a program for the past seven
years, and the state’s red
cherry growers began a
similar one last year.
A former fruit grower
himself, Reiter outline*. the
steps the growers would
have to take if they wanted
to start a program with state
assistance. He noted that the
Haesler clipped and quipped his way
through a dozen vines before the
group moved to the Raymond Stoner
farm, just outside Lancaster, for a
look at some more mature vines.
red cherry growers started
their program after a
voluntary system of
collecting funds had failed.
Under the voluntary setup,
only 10 percent of the
growers had been con
tributing. Now all the
growers who send any
amount of cherries to
processors are in the
program.
Reiter said if the grape
growers wanted to start a
marketing program, they
would first have to decide
who should be included, how
many people they wanted on
their advisory board, how
much money they wanted to
collect, what they wanted to
use the money for, and how
the funds would be collected.
Under a marketing
program operated by the
department of agriculture,
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22, 1975
money collected from
growers can be used for
advertising and promotion,
research, or the
dissemination of marketing
information.
“When the red cherry
people were first talking
about this program,” Reiter
told the group, “they were
concerned that because state
collects the money, the state
would run the program. This
does not happen. All the
money goes into a special
account, and only the ad
visory board - which is
composed entirely of
producers - can get the
money out of the account.”
Last year the cherry
producers, Reiter noted,
collected some $ll,OOO. Most
of the money went to the
national red cherry
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Farmers Eyeing
Corn Cut Back
By Dick Wanner
Jon Wefald, Minnesota’s
fiery Commissioner of
Agriculture, is spearheading
a drive by Midwestern com
growers to cut back the
national com crop by 10 to 20
percent. Facing the Spectre
of $2 com, producers in the
Midwest are listening to
Wefald, and many of them
have signed pledges stating
that they will cut back.
Wefald spoke to a group of
lowa farmers at the
University of lowa in Ames
on Thursday. The crowd was
estimated at between 4000
and 5000 people. One of the
people at that meeting was
Robert Lounsberry, the lowa
Secretary of Agriculture.
Lounsberry told Lancaster
Farming on Friday morning
that many lowa farmers are
thinking about cutting back.
“But you’ve got to
remember, a lot of fellows
already have their fields
plowed and fertilized.
They’ve got the investment
in the ground, and it’s going
to be awfully tough to let it
sit idle.
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sales Register 63
Fanners Almanac 8
Classified Ads 29
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 45
Organic Living 51
Junior Cooking Edition 46
Farm Women Calendar 43
Sale Reports 71
ManheimFFA 52
Garden Spot FF A 63
Fay Stoner, 1051 Eden Rd., Lancaster, will be
leaving for Germany in June as an International Farm
Youth Exchange representative from Pennsylvania.
“I’m in favor of cutting
back on com, but I don’t
think we ought to reduce our
total food production,”
movement leaders would
still a lot of hungry people in
this world. If we take land
out of com, I think it ought to
go into legumes or some
other crop.”
Wefald was expected to
convene another massive
meeting of farmers
yesterday (Friday), at the
University of Minnesota.
One of the scheduled guests
for that meeting was Penn
sylvania Secretary of
Agriculture James A
McHale.
Pennsylvania farmers
have apparently not shown
much interest so far in
cutting back on com or
anything else. But there are
exceptions. One of those is
Eugene Sellers, a Lycoming
County dairyman who spent
half-an-hour last Friday
afternoon in McHale’s
Harrisburg office. Sellers
County Miss Selected
IF YE to Germany
Although Fay Stoner won’t
be leaving for Germany until
June, she is already
preparing for her role as an
International Farm Youth
Exchange representative
from the United States.
The Lancaster County
Miss was an active 4-H
member in the area until
beginning her college career
at Millersville State College,
$3.00 Per Year
told the secretary what he’d
like to see the state’s far
mers doing this year.
Sellers said he’d like to see
a 10 percent cutback in all
farm commodities, but
primarily in crops. He feels
20 percent of the land should
be taken out of production.
These two steps would be
supplemented by an
austerity program in which
fanners would apply only
absolutely necessary
amounts of lime and fer
tilizer and get by with the
machinery they have now.
The effect of a cutback on
farmers in the Keystone
state would be difficult to
assess. William Balderston,
one of the state’s biggest
corn producers, said he
hasn’t heard much at all
about cutting back. He said
he plans to plant 900 acres of
com again this year, about
the same as his 1974 crop, on
his rented ground near
Downingtown in Chester
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where she is presently a
junior majoring in
psychology. As a 4-Her, Fay
was a member of the Lan
caster County Wildlife Club
and the Lititz-Manheim 4-H
Community Club taking
strawberries, rabbits,
flowers and gardening as her
projects.
A graduate of Manheim
Township High School, Fay
was also active in the school
band, in gymnastics and also
in the ski club.
When asked how she had
become interested in the
EFYE program. Fay com
mented on her decision.
“A neighbor told me that
Lanca ter County was
searcl-ing for an IFYE
candidate and after some
thought, I decided to apply.”
“I wanted to loam another
language and thought that
the IFYE program would
offer a good opportunity
along with learning about
other people in the wo< Id.’’
Since Fay had taken
German in high school anc
also in college hei
preference naturally went tc
that country.
“I had German in Higl
School and in college am
thought that it would be of a
help to me. I was glad to be
accepted in that country.”
Fay applied for the IFYE
program in September and
following questionaires
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