WASHINGTON, D.C. - Food prices, food safety, human nutrition and food aid will be important public issues, in 1979, said Economist Thomas A. Stucker-of the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture. - “The price of food is of primary concern to con sumers. The rapid rise of retail food prices, averaging 1.4 per cent per month in early 1978, outpaced average price rises of O.S per cent for all times. By year end, food price increases will still be greater than for prices generally. Meat products are the largest single contributor to consumer food costs. They account for more than 32 per cent of the overall food-at home price index. A large food grain harvest in 1978 Krill provide moderately priced food for livestock and poultry production in 1979. The expected result will be larger broiler supplies and a large increase 'in pork supplies, he said. SIWMBL “ENERGY-PAK” ★ *WHAT IS AIM "EIMERGY-PAK" OXYGEN CONTROLLED FEED STORAGE SYSTEM? The "Energy-Pak” “Oxygen Controlled" s Storage System includes a solid, steel reinforced concrete wall with a tough epoxy coating on the inside wall and a cone shaped concrete roof All access openings to the Silage Storage area are round and fitted with air-tight gaskets These round openings are easily clamped tight These features help to control and limit the amount of oxygen that comes in contact with the feed - In operating an “Energy-Pak". prime importance is placed on closing the silo after each filling and feeding operation Proper use of this system significantly reduces the oxygen content in the silo and results in a more ideal condition for maintaining the quality of the feed put into it Detach and mail to: WEAVER STAR SILO, CO. RD4 Myerstown, PA 17067 S&MSs. ALLEGHENY STAR Jackson Center, Pa 16133 412-662-2883 NORTHERN STAR Watsontown. Pa 17777 717-649-5151 WEAVER STAR Myerstown, Pa 17067 717-866-5708 I AM INTERESTED IN STORAGE FOR Corn silage Haylage High moisture corn Manure Gunite repairs (High strength concrete sprayed on surfaces) □ Please have salesman call Name Address City County L USD A considers 1979 food policies Beef prices are expected to increase again m 1979. Reduced supplies will again be the primary reason unless the breeding herdls^reduced further than expected, which would lead to even tighter supplies later. “But commodity prices are only pari of the food price picture,” Stucker said. “The remaining 6 per cent of retail food - costs are at tributable to marketing costs for processing and distribution. The ad ministration’s wage and price guidelines may help hold marketing cost in creases to lower levels than would otherwise be the' case.” These factors point to smaller food price increases in 1979 unless unfavorable weather conditions reduce agricultural commodity production, as happened in early 1978. The forecast is for food prices to average VA per cent higher, he said. “Food safety will continue to be an important policy IS OXYGEN CONTROLLED of PA. FqED EASY Silo unloaders Conveyors Feed-mixer wagon Feed transit wagon Feeders .State Zi| ’hone issue in 1979. Scientific evidence linking food and feed additives to human health conditions is growing. . As a result, proposals to ban or otherwise regulate use of these chemicals will con tinue to emerge. “The federal government is also addressing food availability and food quality as they relate to human nutrition. Funding for nutrition research and education has increased. The -impacts of these in creases will be felt far beyond 1979.” Four HARRISBURG - Four Pennsylvania men and a meat plant were fined a total of $3500 by a U.S. District Court in Harrisburg" for using sodium sulfite to make meat look fresh, a violation of the Federal Meat In spection Act. Shaffer’s Abattoir, Inc., was fined $lOOO, and Arthur Engineered for Convenience And PependnbilHf See Us At Keystone Pork Congress, Feb. 16, Hershey Motor Lodge. Stucker said nutrition education must now be provided for all participants “The country realized in the growing supplemental another major food program food program for women, change in 1979,” said infants and children. A Stucker. “The food stamp department mass media - program’s purchase nutrition experiment will requirement was eliminated test effectiveness of by the Food Stamp Act of television for nutrition 1977. As of January 1, 1979, education of children, and participants were no longer the national school lunch required to purchase a program provides day-to- portion of their stamp day examples of nutritious allotment. The value of meals. The department is stamps received will be developing and testing equal to what were formerly guidelines to help schools the free stamps, or the Pa. men and meat firm Shaffer, Jr., and Larry D.E. Shaffer, its vice presidents, were fined $250 each. In addition, Robert _O. Nor nhold, owner of Robert Nornhold Butcher Shop, Middleburg, was fined $500; while Robert J. Potteiger, owner of Potteiger Meats, New Kingston, was fined $l5OO. The sentences were Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1979 reduce salt, sugar and fat content m meals. imposed by District Court Judge R. Dixon Herman. All had pleaded guilty to charges of preparing and selling adultered meat products with intent to defraud. Sodium sulfite, a chemical which can mask the normal discoloration of aging and spoiling meat, is an difference between the amount paid by participants and the value of stamps received.” Eliminating the purchase requirement gives par ticipants more latitude in food purchasing, said Stacker, since they are no longer have to tie up income in stamps redeemable only for food. The result may be a decrease in food purchases of participants, but the department estimates that participation will increase under new program rules. fined adulterant and its use on meats is not permitted under federal law. About 2000 pounds of cubed steak and ground beef were involved and is being held by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food inspectors until destroyed by. the owners. The. Federal Meat In spection Act, administered by the USDA’s Food Safety and Quality Service, requires that meat products prepared and sold in in terstate commerce be wholesome, unadulterated, and properly packaged and labeled. Seed violation settled NEW YORK,. N.Y. - Fredoaia Seed Co., Fredonia, N.Y., has paid $3,075 to settle a case in volving alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act. The act, adminstered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials, is a truth in-labeling law designed to protect fanners and con sumers who buy seed. Clyde R. Edwards, seed official with the depart ment’s Agricultural Meeting Service (AMS), said the firm, in agreeing to the settlement, neither admitted nor denied the charges. The case involved 11 shipments of lettuce, tomato, and onion seed to Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia from 1975 through 1978. Alleged violations, while not the same for all shipments, were failure to test seed within five months before shipment, failure to keep required records, and failure to label low ger mination vegetable seed as being “Below Standard.” 43
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