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PennAg outlines
EPHRATA, Pa. - Energy
and environmental
regulations are the two
biggest challenges facing the
businesses that supply
Pennsylvania’s farmers,
according to W, H. Andrews,
Jr., the incoming president
of PennAg Industries
Association. Andrews is
president of H. 0. Andrews &
Sons, Inc., a feed firm in
Mapleton Depot. PennAg is a
trade organization of some
400 agribusiness firms in
Pennsylvania.
Andrews said feed dealers
and other small businesses
were hard hit this year by a
rate increase granted to one
of the state’s largest power
companies in July. The
Public Utilities Commission
made the rate increase
retroactive to July, 1975.
Electric power is a
significant factor in the cost
of manufacturing feed,
Andrews said. “There was
no way feed dealers could go
back to their customers to
make up for the added ex
pense. We couldn’t tell
fanners that we just didn’t
charge them enough for the
feed they’d bought the year
before.”
Agribusiness is very
dependent on the welfare of
the farmer, Andrews noted,
and the competition for his
No-till meeting set
GETTYSBURG, Pa. - The third annual Mid-Atlantic No-
Tillage Growers Convention will be held here Friday, Jan. 7,
at the Sheraton Inn. The event is sponsored by the
Cooperative Extension Services of Delaware, Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, in cooperation with
agri-business industries.
The program begins at 9:50 a.m. and adjourns at 3:30 p.m.
Subjects to be covered during the morning session include:
cover crops for no-till com production; the no-till forage
program in Ohio; no-tilling small grains; and a look at no-till
equipment used throughout the world. In the afternoon there
will be presentations on economic and safety considerations
in grain drying, storage and handling on the farm; plus cost
comparisons of no-tillage, minimum tillage and conventional
tillage systems. There will also be a grower panel discussing
problems encountered in no-till fanning.
A free lunch will be provided, courtesy of sponsoring agri
business firms. Delaware growers interested in attending the
convention should contact their county agent in Newark,
Dover or Georgetown for tickets. If there is sufficient in
terest, it may be possible to provide bus service to the
meeting.
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business is very spirited. An
unexpected increase in the
cost of doing business,
especially a retroactive
increase in such a basic need
as electric power, could
make agribusiness firms
more cautious in their
pricing policies.
“That means more money
out of the farmer’s pocket,”
Andrews said, “and even
tually higher food costs.”
Environmental regulation
has much the same effect,
Andrews feels. While
recognizing the need for
clean air and water, he
opposes rules requiring the
installation of expensive
equipment which has little or
no impact on environmental
quality.
Farmers, Andrews added,
can be especially harmed by
too-stringent regulations
affecting their farm
operations.
In the coming year, An
drews said PennAg mem
bers will be kept informed of
energy and environmental
developments as well as
other areas relating to
agriculture and their
•businesses. A number of
educational seminars have
been planned, as well as the
yearly grain meeting and the
annual convention.
Andrews said his personal
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goal as Penn Ag’s new because the agribusiness
president will be to do what dealers want it to exist and
he can to increase and because it does a good job for
maintain the organization’s those -dealers and for
membership. “There are a agriculture in general,
lot of good programs here, “We have a lotbf excellent
but many dealers don’t know support for PennAg, and I’d
enough about them,” An- like to see that support
drews said. “PennAg exists continue.”
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