—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25, 1977
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out, is the nation’s fifth
largest producing state in
the nation and ranks second
in the production of ice
cream and other frozen
dairy products.
“We know consumers have
problems,” Shelhamer
declared, “and we know
farmers have problems. The
job is to get these two groups
together and seek a mutual
level of understanding of
each other’s problems.”
Shelhamer’s remarks
were made during a panel
discussion of the basic role of
agriculture, and of its im
portance on state, national
and international levels.
He told 458 Grangers at
tending the session that one
of the primary needs in
Pennsylvania is “to help our
farmers make money and
keep their families on the
farm.”
Other panelists pin-pointed
the widening spread between
prices fanners get for their
products and prices con
sumers pay for food.
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David R. Lambert,
director of regulatory affairs
for the National Grange in
Washington, D. C., said the
idea of “cheap food” that
prevailed from the mid-30’s
was changed in the last
decade by the combined
impact of inflation,
worldwide drought and the
Arab oil embargo.
“The energy shortage is
not a myth/’ he warned,
“and we do not have enough
oil to run oui economy unless
we import it.” As a result, he
pointed out, the balance of
trade with foreign countries -
which had been favorable in
the past because of large
exports of agricultural
products - is running against
us. “American industry,” he
added, “is not competitive in
the world market today.’
The stage was set for their
comments by three Grange
members who discussed
operations and problems on
their own farms.
Donald Trostel, of
Bigleryille, an Adams
County fruit grower,
criticized government
controls, particularly rules
and regulations pertaining to
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migrant workers, as a major
factor in increasing
production costs.
He focused attention
especially on the widening
gap in prices, declaring that
“on the basis of what we get,
big retail outlets are
operating at markups of 50 to
120 per cent.”
He said that he had
recently checked apple
prices and discovered that
fruit he had sold for 30 cents
for a three-pound bag was
being retailed in Ohio stores
at $1.29 to $1.39 a bag.
A Washington County beef
producer, John M. Lindley of
Prosperity, declared that
“beef is a bargain on today’s
market, but the only one
gaining is the consumer.”,He
said that he is losing as much
as $6O a head on steer calves
produced on his farm, and
that feeders who buy 400-
pound calves and market
them at 1,000 pounds are
currently losing $2O or more
a head.
A Montgomery dairy
farmer, Charles E. Wismer,
Jr., of Collegeville, is
summing up the farm
situation and problem,
declared that “we must have
a steady income and a
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the cost of producting is
constantly on the rise.”
The panel moderator was
William Buffington, of
Chadds * Ford, Chester
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