—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1,1978
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Agricultural Safety
Council horn
UNTVERISTY PARK -
“Too often, we think of farm
risks in terms of marketing,
production, costs, crop
failures, and natural
disasters. Many farmers are
less able to cope with a farm
accident than with a flood or
a prolonged drought. There
is no excuse for thinking
more of the safety of our
crops and livestock than we
do our own safety,” Kent D.
SBelhamer, Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture,
told participants at the
organizational meeting of
the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Safety Council.
The conference took place
March 20 on the University
Park campus of The Penn
sylvania State University.
“In 1976, agriculture,
which makes up only four
per cent of the national work
force, accounted for one
sixth of the work-related
accidental deaths. The
accident fatality rate in
agriculture is nearly four
times the national average
for all industries.
“A major factor in the
decline of work-related
injuries in our manufac
turing and trade industries
has been the effort of those
industries themselves to
promote good safety habits
and practices.
“It’s best that we, as
farmers, begin to deal with
the farm safety problem
ourselves, rather than wait
to be told how to operate by
the federal government.
“The people and their
organizations represented
Mandatory
meat grading
opposed
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -
American farmers and
ranchers have made great
progress in improving meat
quality without a com
pulsory meat grading
system, and the voluntary
system should not be
abandoned, a Farm Bureau
spokesman said here last
month.
Arizona beef producer
Cecil Miller, Jr. told a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
field hearing that “Farm
Bureau has supported the
voluntary USDA meat
grading program since it
was organized and believes
the voluntary approach is
preferable to compulsion.”
Miller is president of the
Arizona Farm Bureau
Federation and a member of
the board of directors of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation. The field
hearing was called to hear,
comments on proposed
changes in the meat grading
program.
Miller said one of the
proposed changes opposed
by Farm Bureau would
require the use of the term
“U.S. Ungraded” on beef,
calf, veal, mutton and lamb
that is not graded by federal
graders.
He said this “would
downgrade the quality of this
meat in the minds of the
consumer by indicating an
inferior product.”
Chatting during a break in the recent organizational meeting of Pennsylvania
Agricultural Safety Council are, left to right: J. Robert Peifer, executive vice
president, Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Kent D.
Shelhamer, secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; and Dennis J.
Murphy, safety specialist, Cooperative Extension Service. The meeting was held
recently on Penn State’s University Park Campus. Shelhamer addressed the
new safety group. Peifer was elected president while Murphy was elected a
member of the Council’s Board of Directors.
here today are a strong
foundation for an effective
program of farm safety
education. For the sake and
safety of the farmers of
Pennsylvania, I wish us all
well in our new un
dertaking,” added Secretary
Shelhamer.
President of the Council
for the coming year will be J.
Robert Peifer, executive
vice-president, Penn
sylvania Association of
Mutual Insurance Com
panies. Dr. William
Williams, assistant
professor of agricultural
education at Penn State, was
elected vice-president. John
Frey, insurance manager,
Sperry-New Holland Cor
poration, was elected
treasurer; and Elaine
Benner, past chairperson,
Discussing farm accident data during a break in the recent organizational
meeting of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Safety Council are, left to right; Jay W.
Irwin, Lancaster County Extension agent; James H. Summer, editor and
business manager, Inter-state Milk Producers Cooperative; N. Gale Moore,
secretary, Pennsylvania State Grange: and Donald L. Mincemoyer, instructor,
Department of Agricultural Education, Penn State. The group met on Penn
State’s University Park Campus to organize elect officers, and discuss an
educational safety program to reduce costly accidents and injuries among the
state’s farm and rural population,
State Women’s Committee,
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, was elected
secretary.
The board of directors
are: Robert H. Williams,
editor. The Pennsylvania
Farmer; Barry Wanbaugh,
district sales manager,
Agway, Inc.; Dr. Neil R.
Buss, executive deputy
secretary, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture;
N. Gale Moore, secretary,
Pennsylvania State Grange;
Marion R. Deppen, assistant
director, Cooperative Ex
tension Service; and Dennis
J. Murphy, safety specialist,
Cooperative Extension
Service.
The new Agricultural
Safety Council will be the
only state-wide organization
dedicated solely to the
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prevention of accidents in
farm and rural com
munities. Its general aim is
to promote farm and rural
safety education in Penn
sylvania, says Dennis J.
Murphy, Extension safety
specialist at Penn State.
Dr. Thomas B. King,
associate director,
Cooperative Extension
Service, in welcoming the
group, expressed his ap
preciation to the individuals
and organizations
represented for promoting
and supporting educational
safety programs in Penn
sylvania.
For further information
of the
Ag Safety Council, write
PASC, 204 Agricultural
Engineering Bldg.,
University Park, Pa. 16802.
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