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By JOYCE BUPP how come the cost of a pound Bacon, Red Lion RDI,
York Co. Reporter of potato chips at the president of the York County
YORK, Pa. - "Our yields supermarket keeps going up Potato Growers Association,
are down; our price is down; and up?” questions Vemard Growers who raise the raw
Upcoming fairs listed
Aug. 18-20
Aug. 21-27
Aug. 21-27
Aug. 21-27
Aug. 22-26
Aug. 22-27
Aug. 22-27
Aug. 22-27
Aug. 23-27
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Aug. 25-27
Aug. 26 - Sept. 1
Aug. 29 - Sept. 3
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Aug. 30 - Sept. 3
Aug. 30 - Sept. 5
Aug. 31 - Sept. 3
Aug. 31 - Sept. 5
Sept. 1-5
Sept. 3-10
Sept. 5-10
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Sept. 15-17
Sept. 18-22
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Sept. 26-29
Sept. 26 - Oct. 1
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Sept. 28-Oct. 1
Sept. 29 - Oct. 2
Oct. 3-6
Oct. 4-7
Oct. 5-8
Oct. 20-22
Nov. 25-27
Saturday, August S. 1977
Middletown Grange Fair, Wrightstown
Franklin County Fair, Chambersburg
Somerset County Fair, Meyersdale
Westmoreland County Fair, Greensburg
Harford Fair, Harford
Crawford County Fair, Meadville
Bullskin Township Fair, Wooddale
Fulton County Fair, McConnelsburg
Hookstown Fair, Hookstown
Transfer Harvest Home Fair, Transfer
Blue Valley Farm Show, Bangor
Perry County Fair, Newport
Mount Nebo Grange Fair, Sewickley
Centre County Fair, Centre Hall
Wattsburg Fair, Wattsburg
West End Fair, Gilbert
Sullivan County Fair, Forksville
Greene-Dreher-Sterling Fair, Newfoundland
Big Knob Grange Fair, Rochester
Great Stoneboro Fair, Stoneboro
Bear Lake Community Fair, Bear Lake
Juniata County Fair, Port Royal
South Mountain Fair, Arendtsville
Cambria County Fair, Ebensburg
Waterford Community Fair, Waterford
Ox Hill Community Fair, Home
Spartansburg Community Fair, Spartansburg
Pymatuning Community Fair, Jamestown
Dallas Area Fair, Dallas
York Inter-State Fair, York
Peliwood Antis Farm Show, Bellwood
Green Township Community Fair, Commodore
Greenfield Township Community Fair, Claysburg
Southern Lancaster County Fair, Quarryville
Albion Area Fair, Albion '
West Alexander Fair, West Alexander
Berlin Brothersvalley Fair, Berlin
Oley Valley Fair, Oley
North East Community Fair, North East
Beaver Community Fair, Beaver Springs
Gratz Fair, Gratz
Ephrata Fair, Ephrata
Bucks
Franklin
Somerset
Westmoreland
Susquehanna
Crawford
Fayette
Fulton
Beaver
Mercer
Northampton
Perry
Allegheny
Centre
Erie
Monroe
Sullivan
Wayne
Beaver
Mercer
Warren
Juniata
Adams
Cambria
Erie
Indiana
Crawford
Mercer
Luzerne
York
Blair
Indiana
Blair
Lancaster
Erie
Washington
Somerset
Berks
Erie
Snyder
Dauphin
Lancaster
Blair
Clearfield
Blair
Sinking Valley Com. Farm Show,.Sinking Valley
Harmoney Grange Fair, Westover
Williamsburg Community Fair, Williamsburg
Bloomsburg Fair, Bloomsburg
Elizabethtown Marketplace Fair, Elizabethtown
Morrison Cove Community Fair, Martinsburg
West Lampeter Community Fair, Lampeter
New Holland Fair, New Holland
Tri Valley Community Fair, Begins
Hollidaysburg Community Fair, Hollidaysburg
Manheim Community Fair, Manheim
Unionville Community Fair, Unionville
Dillsburg Community Fair, Dillsburg
Uniontown Poul. & Farm Prod. Show, Uniontown
Columbia
Lancaster
Blair
Lancaster
Lancaster
Schuylkill
Blair
Lancaster
Chester
York
Fayette
mastqrials for the crunchy
chips are unhappy with the
.price being paid for the
spuds, which are just now
beginning to come out of the
ground.
York County potatoes are
expected to be of excellent
chipping quality this year,
because of the dry growing
conditions. The dryness
causes a solid, low-moisture
flesh which will yield greater
volumes of chips after the
flying process. One grower
has reported that area
potatoes are producing 25
pounds of finished chips for
each hundred pounds of
potatoes used.
Egg report
available
PARK RIDGE, HI. - A
definite interest in U.S. eggs
has been reported by con
sultants to the American
Egg Board after visiting
Egypt and Teheran, Iran.
The purpose of the trip,
which included exhibiting at
Mideast Trade Fairs, was to
learn and report on export
problems and possibilities
for U.S. eggs and spent fowl.
The main limiting factor in
the exportation of eggs,
according to the report, is
the freight rates. Transit
time was not expected to be a
problem.
The consultants reported
that the market is
predominantly for white
eggs with little interest in
dried egg products or canned
poultry products.
Interested organizations
may receive a copy of the
complete, report and be
placed on a mailing list for
export information by
contacting: American Egg
Board, Export Development
Committee, 205 Touhy, Park
Ridge, HI. 60068.
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BEACHLEY-HARDY •
Southern states and
Eastern Shore potatoes,
though, are cutting into the
local markets. And, while
area growers are reporting
record costs of anywhere
from to $l2OO per acre of
delivered potatoes, buyers
are paying only $3.50 per
hundredweight. That’s
already down 50 cents from
last year’s early season
price.
“Prices are set by supply
"and demand,” stated
Francis Shive, potato buyer
fotLElGe Potato Chip Co.,
Inc., of York, when
questioned by growers about
price-setting policies.
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FIELD and GRASS SEEDS
Shiremanstown, Pa. 17091
will accept a truckload of
potatoes for processing, the
grower must bring a-sample
of the crop to be tested lor'
specific gravity, which in
dicates potato moisture.
There is no price differential
offered for varying grades of
potato quality.
If potatoes will not “chip,”
the other alternative is to sell
them to a food processing
plant for “french frying.”
“And the price you get for
those depends on just how
badly a fellow wants to get
rid of that truckload of
potatoes; they might give
you $2.00 per hun
dredweight,” wryly con
cluded Bacon.
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