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Glenn Kime is new Poultry Federation president
By DIETER KRIEG
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is today, declares Glenn
Kime, the newly elected
president of the Penn
sylvania Poultry
Federation.
Kime, an Adams County
poultryman with more than
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a half century of experience
in the business, was named
president of PPF during the
organization’s recent
meeting in Lancaster. One of
his chief goals during the
coming year will be to in
crease membership in PPF,
which once boasted more
than 800 members but has
only some 360 today. There
are fewer but larger poultrry
operations today, explained
the new chief of the Penn
sylvania Poultry
Federation.
A year ago, Kime was
chosen as the Outstanding
Turkey Industry man of the
Year by the PPF. He is a
former president of the
turkey division of PPF and
served as vice president of
the whole organization prior
to his advancement as
president this year. A man
who is very much involved
with many phases of the
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poultry business, Kime has
been a PPF member since
1937. He has never missed an
annual meeting since then.
The new PPF president
operates a 150-acre farm
near here, with more than 60
acres devoted to fruit trees,
and most of the balance in
com. He owns 17,000 laying
hens, and raises 12,500
turkeys and 6000 capons
annually. In addition, he
does most of his own
processing in facilities which
were built in 1970.
Although Kime is in the
forefront when it comes to
leadership of the Penn
sylvania Poultry
Federation, he is one of a
diminishing group of
producers who have con
tinued to operate mdepently.
Kime explains that the in
dependent route is the only
one he ever knew and if he
were to work for someone
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 1,1978—95
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kime of Adams County have
worked with poultry on their Adams County farm
since 1947.
else, he’d choose a job which
would take just eight hours
per day. “That’s instead of
18 to 22 and even 24 hours per
day,” his wife, Evelyn,
added. The couple has two
grown children.
As an independent
poultryman, Kime takes
care of all of his own
marketing. Eggs are sold to
local stores, restaurants and
schools. Processed turkeys
and capons go to retail
market vendors, some
restaurants, and a few in
dividual buyers. Kime keeps
turkeys on hand, throughout
the year although his turkey
bams are only in use during
warmer ~ months. Cold
storage facilities allow for
year-around marketing.
Capons, on the other band,
are marketed only during
holiday seasons.
Thanksgiving, Christmas,
and Easter are the chief
marketing times for Kime’s
capons.
In business for himself
since 1947, Kime had
previously worked with
poultry for more than a
decade. He looks forward to
a good future in Penn
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sylvama, but relucltantly
adds that the outlook for
independent producers
appears to be getting
rougher all the time.
Kime claims it costs the
average poultry producer 42
cents to produce a dozen
eggs. With the current
average price per dozen
being 10 cents below that
figure, he emphasizes that
egg producers are having an
especially rough time of it.
The situation is clarified
further by industry
newletters and noted
economists:
United Egg Producers
(UEP), said recently in its
“United Volce«”that “Egg
producers are suffering
from a double whammy
again. Not only are egg
prices not moving up with
other protein foods, but feed
prices are. Fowl slaughter
during May was 8.4 per cent
below year earlier levels.
The reasons are many as to
why this may be; i.e. the
young age of the laying flock
or perhaps the number of
birds put into molt after
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