York women plan for Agri- Women convention
YORK York County
farm women are organizing
to join farm women from
across the nation as they
converge in Kansas City,
Mo., November 14-17 for the
American Agri-Women
National Convention and
Exhibits. In the northern tier
of the county Mrs. Harold
Gross, Manchester R 2, is
collecting reservations; m
the southern tier, Mrs. Paul
McPherson, New Park.
“Working Together Within
and Among all our Com
modities The End
Product is Unity and Suc
cess” is the theme with the
four P’s (Problems,
Progress, Promotion, and
WE DO. The Farm Credit
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operated for the benefit of
farmers, ranchers, and growers.
We help farmers buy and
improve acres that produce
millions of bushels of grain,
cases of eggs, crates of oranges,
gallons of milk, board feet of
Potential) forming the
guidelines for the com
modity sessions to develop a
“working together” view.
Commodity sessions for
the convention are now being
developed to include
producers of dairy,
livestock, poultry, fruit,
vegetables, grain and
specialty crops. The first day
of the convention will find
women discussing the 4 P’s
in each of the commodity
areas, and the end of the
convention on Wednesday
will include an evaluation
and analysis of action to take
in promoting items in each
area.
The convention is open to
who finances
acres, bushels, cases,
crates, kilowatts,
gallons, board feet, tons,
head, bales,
and lugs?
lumber, tons of hay, countless
head of livestock, bales of
cotton, lugs of peaches. And all
other kinds of products of
American Agriculture.
There's more. We provide
money for feed, seed, fertilizer,
feeder calves, baby chicks,
machinery, and all the other
supplies to operate a modern
farm.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
YOUR LOCAL COUNTY OFFICE.
all women interested in
agriculture. Farm Women’s
organizations or individuals
who are not affiliated with
AAW are welcome to attend.
Recently confirmed
speakers include Gordon
Leith, Executive Vice
President of Farmland
Industries and a past
president of the National
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives who will ad
dress the women on
“Threats to Cooperatives.”
Director of the National
Consumers Congress and
Laura Heuser, farm wife and
noted speaker from
Michigan Women for Sur
vival of Agriculture, will be
participants in the Tuesday
afternoon session on
“Working Together with
other Consumers.”
Tom Hendrix, regional
director of the National
Labor Relations Board will
join Harry Kubo, president
and founder of the Nisei
Farmers League, Calif., in a
presentation entitled
“Exploring Solutions for
Farm Labor Legislation.”
Kansas City Board of
Trade specialist Roderick
Turnbull and Michigan State
University Director of
Experiment Stations Dr.
Sylvan Wittwer will make
valuable contributions to a
very nitty-gritty “how to and
It’s our job to gather the most
important crop of all - capital.
Money for all the things it takes
to keep agriculture at full
capacity, able to feed and help
clothe the other 95 percent of
our population ... plus untold
millions in other lands.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 7,1976 —
what to do” program for
farm women, according to
Mrs. Gross.
Registration materials
and information are
available from Mrs. Mc-
Pherson; Mrs. Gross is
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