Officers named at
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -
Three Pennsylvania
residents will be part of the
slate of officers and board of
directors who head up the
Northeastern Poultry
Producers Council (NEPP
CO) and the Northeast Egg
Marketing Association
(NEMA), it was announced
recently after a joint
NEPPCONEMA convention
held here. Hendnk Wentink,
Wyomissing, is treasurer for
NEPPCO for the upcoming
year. Tom Trone, East
Berlin, and A 1 Wenger,
Bheems, will-hold positions
in NEMA. During an election
at the convention, Trone was
named to the board of
directors and Wenger was
named second vice president
of the organization.
At the convention, stan
ding-room-only crowds
gathered to leam the art of
hedging m the egg market,
clever management tips, a
variety of promotional
finances
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NEPPCO-NEMA convention
gimmicks to boost retail egg
sales, innovative marketing
techniques and the forecast
for feed and eggs.
It marked the 47th annual
convention for NEPPCO and
its first in conjunction with
NEMA.
Completing the slate of
officers to head up NEPPCO
for the coming year will be
Richard Stark, Walpole,
N.H., president; Frank
Baber, Cartersville, Va ,
vice president; and David L.
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Shetzich, Silver Spring, Md.,
secretary. Joining NEPP
CO's board of directors are
Isaac “Ike” Risser,
Harrisonburg, Va., and
Harry J. Muller, Syracuse,
N.Y., both newly-elected to
serve at-large.
NEPPCO’s pension
committee reported an
earned interest rate of 9.3
per cent during the past
year, far exceeding ex
pectations.
NEMA’s directors,
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Millions of tons of meat,
grain, fruits, melons, berries,
other crops that move from
the farm, ranch, or orchard
into storage, processing and
marketing by farmer
cooperatives. We're the
Production Credit Associations, and
Federal Land Banks.
Owned by and operated
for the benefit
of farmers
and growers.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Sept. 11,1976
meeting separately, placed a
renewed emphasis on the
objectives of United Egg
Producers and on a fresh
drive to increase its own
membership in the New
England and Mid Atlantic
states.
Elections were held filling
five seats on the
association’s board of
directors. Directors who will
succeed themselves are Jack
DeCoster, Turner, Maine;
Johnßicca, Billerica, Mass.,
and David Wagner,
Woodridge, N.Y. Besides
Trone, there was one other
newly elected member to the
Board - Frank Dilanna,
Cranston, R. I.
Other new officers of the
association are Hank Simp
son, Winthrop, Maine,
president; Jack Decoster,
Turner, Maine, second vice
president; Morris Cohen,
Hollis Center, Maine,
treasurer; and C. A.
O’Reilly, Hightstown, N. J.,
secretary.
The hundreds of producers
and allied industrymen
congregating from
throughout the northeastern
U.S. and eastern Canada, in
addition to viewing the latest
in poultry equipment and
products, were given a
variety of advice.
“Pseudo-science in place
of research is generating
costly and needless con
sumer and regulatory
pressures on agriculture,”
the group was told by
keynoter Allan Grant,
president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
He decried “a national
epidemic of idiocy stemming
from the consumerist
movement, regulatory
overreaction, the additive
issue, the Delaney amend
ment, the flap over
cholesterol and most
recently, action by the
Federal Trade Commission
on egg advertising.”
Triple
winners
at Buck
THE BUCK - Deutz 9006
tractors and Lester Houck,
piloting a modified
Cockshutt powered by two
440 Dodge engines, came
away with all but one of the
first places in seven classes
of competition at the Buck
Tractor Pulls, here, last
Saturday.
The Deutz 9006 tractors,
driven by Mark and Tim
Stauffer of Ephrata, won the
5000, 7000, and 9000 pound
super stock classes while
Houck guided his rig to
victories in the 7000 pound
modified class, and both
open classes. Following is a
run-down of the results:
7000 super stock
1. Mark Stauffer, 2. Marlin
Brubaker, 3. Tim Stauffer.
7000 modified
1. Les Houck, 2. Daniel
Becker, 3. Greg Manners.
9000 super stock
1. Mark Stauffer, 2. Robert
Riggs, 3. Marlin Brubaker.
5000 super stock
1. Tim Stauffer, 2. Jim
Brubaker, 3. Dale Smoker
9000 open
1. Les Houck, 2. Galen
Spickler, 3. Greg Manners.
5000 modified
1. Gary Mills, 2. David
Becker, 3. Coleman
Wheatley.
12,000 open
1. Les Houck, 2. Thomas
Bedgar, 3. Robert Riggs.
There are about 270 million
laying hens in America,
including about 20 million
which lay for breeding
purposes. (There were 274
million last year.) All these
hens, even the heavier hens
that supply Boston with the
brown eggs preferred 3,
and some strain •’
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