Vol. 21 No. 4fit-uA
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USDA praised and criticized
By DIETER KRIEG
LITITZ, Pa. - USDA
policies were praised and
scorned last week when this
writer asked a number of
farmers how they felt about
U.S. agricultural policies at
home and abroad. ■.
A sizable segment'<jf the
farm population gave USDA
Policy debate highlights annual banquet
By JOYCE BUPP
York County Reporter,
DOVER, Pa. - Spirited
policy debate and voting
were highlights of the recent
annual banquet held by the
York County Farmers
Association.
.Dover Fire Dali hoatecl the ;
meeting, Attended ’by 175 6f
the .Association’s , farm
Young Farmers discuss ag outlook
By SALLY BAIR
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. -
Dairymen can look forward
to another year of Class I
prices ‘ averaging over $11;
the worst is over as far as
livestock prices are con
cerned; and there will be no
upward trend in the hog
market for several months.
Edwin D. Eshleman honored at banquet
By JOANNE SPAHR
INTERCOURSE, Pa. -
“You’re a lobby group, but
lobbying is not a dirty
word,” Congressman Edwin
D. Eshleman told a group of
Lancaster County Farmers’
Association members at
YORK, Pa. - Joyce Bupp,
Seven Valleys R 2, has joined
the staff of Lancaster
Farming as the York County
news correspondent. Mrs.
Bupp and her husband,
Leroy, own and operate
Bupplynn Farms, a 400 acre
farming operation com
prised of com, hay, grain,
and 120 milking cows in two
herds. The Bupps also have a
total of 300 head of livestock
including a custom
slaughtered beef feedlot.
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Joyce Bupp joins newspaper staff
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 16,1976
favorable marks, others
gave it a mere passing
grade, while a few said they
hope to see significant
changes soon.
W, Max Bossert of Beech
Creek R 1 in Clinton County is
of the opinion that USDA
policies for the past several
years have been favorable
family members, on October
7.
The policy session, chaired
by Association Vice-
President Roger Perry,
determined issues which the
county board will recom
mend to the Pennsylvania
.Farmers;? Association ~ at v its
upcoming state-wide annual
The picture for grains is
still fuzzy, but with the
harvest drawing to a close
there is evidence that higher
com prices than previously
expected will prevail.
These were a few of the
predictions put before
members of the Garden Spot
Young Farmers Association
their annual banquet, here,
last week. Eshleman, who is
retiring from office after 22
years of serving the public,
also made it clear to those
present that their political
tactics are exemplary of
good pressure group tactics.
Mrs. Bupp is a 1963
graduate of Dallastown Area
High School and has training
as a secretary-bookkeeper.
Her farm-related activities
include being a member of
the women’s committee,
York County Farmers
Association; treasurer, York
County Dairy Princess
committee; national public
relations committee,
American Agri-Women;
secretary of the 1976 Penn
sylvania People to People
for farmers-large or small.
A former state legislator,
Bossert farms 200 acres and
keeps 40 head of beef cattle.
He commented that the Ford
Administration has done a
“terrific job in every
department, especially
agriculture.” His main
reason is free enterprise.
meeting in Gettysburg,
November 9-11.
Overwhelmingly adopted
was the recommendation
that public utilities be for
bidden to bill retroactively.
Another' widely supported
directive was that Congress
review on a bi-annual basis
regulatory agencies, suchas ■
OSHA and DER, to deter
at their agricultural outlook
meeting this week.
Firm predictions were
hard to come by, but
panelists representing dairy,
livestock, grains and a local
brokerage firm all tried to
give accurate assessments
of the factors affecting their
spheres of interest.
“If the public would sit in
on our meetings, they would
find out what lobbying really
is,’he emphasized.
This brief speech came
after the Association
presented him with a wall
Delegation; reporter and
advertising coordinator,
York County Holstein
Association; and member of
Farm Calendar 10
Life on the farm 10
Homestead Notes 50
Home on the Range 52
Ida’s Notebook 53
Junior Cooking Edition 54
Ifye Newsletter 55
Ladies Have You Heard? 56
Craft Feature 58
Women’s Calendar 60
AMat.
Kenneth MUmmert,
Chambersburg R 2, owns 125
acres in Franklin County and
rents an additional 425. “I
don’t think agriculture has
been in as good a position
before as it has in the last
eight years in relation to the
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mine their usefulness and
responsiveness.
Import laws came under
fire with the membership
voting that “free ports,” a
loop-hole through which.*
Australian beef is entering
this country without duty, be
eliminated. Dairy farm
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The brightest story came
from Jim Sumner,
representing Inter-State
Milk Producers Cooperative.
Calling 1976 one of the “more
successful years in the dairy
industry,” he predicted that
1977 will be just as good.
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clock for his many years of
service.
Helen Wivell, state
women’s committee, later
recognized Mrs. Eshleman’s
efforts through the years
[Continued on Page 18)
State Holstein promotion
committee.
Mrs. Bupp also serves as
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In this issue
Lancaster Co. PFA
promotion 63
York Co. Achievement
Day 64
Farm Women Feature 69
Unionville Fair Feature 72
Dairying in Germany -
Feature - • 89 .
Public Sale Register 99 *
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