13®—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, August 25,1979
Commitment
READING-A serious
commitment to alcohol fuel
production should help
stabilize our motor fuel
juices and send a strong
signal to those suplying our
oil imports that we are not
totally at their mercy.
Berks County Farmers
Association President Jack
Kooker announced today
that these and other com*
merits were presented to the
House Agriculture Com
mittee in Wash. D.C., by
Poultry regulations dropped in urban areas
NEW YORK, N.Y, - The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture has dropped
regulations covering live
poultry handlers who
operate in six major
metropolitan centers
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Warren Lamm, Sinking
Spring, RD 5, a member of
the local association. The
testimony was presented to
urge support for an enact
ment of the National Alcohol
Fuel and Farm Commodity
Act of 1979. “The Berks
County Farmers Association
believe that the production
of alcohol fuel will reduce
our dependence on oil im
ports and Berks County,
Farmers are ready to play
an important role in this
because live-poultry
marketing in the areas has
become almost nonexistent.
Charles B. Jennings,
deputy administrator for the
packers and stockyards
1980
to alcohol
effort, “Kooker added. “We
do have the potential
agricultural products such
as sugar beets, potatoes,
sweet soybean and varying
quantities of sub-standard
grains which are unfit for
their normal use. In ad
dition, we also have con
siderable quantities of by
products from food
processing operations such
as potato chip plants which
result in culls and peels on a
year round basis and con-
program in the department’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service, said the rule change
will not result in any less
protection for persons in
volved in the production or
marketing of poultry.
Areas affected are:
Boston, Mass., and
surrounding area; New
ifork, N.Y., and northern
New Jersey, including
Jersey City; Newark, N.J.;
Philadelphia, Pa., and
surrounding area, including
Camden, N.J.; Chicago, HI.;
and St. Louis, Mo.
The rules which were
revoked were put into effect
in 1935 after Congress
amended the Packers and
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fuel production needed
siderable amounts of whey
from cheese plants which
are very effecient in the
production of alcohol fuel.”
Lamm commented that
“A great deal of research
has been done in the general
area of fuel production from
agricultural products. This
research should be con
solidated using the most
current facts available.” He
felt that the U.S. Dept, of
Agriculture should assume
Stockyards Act to require
licensing of all poultry
dealers and handlers
operating in the major
designated areas.
Jennings said the
department published rules
in 1971 which cover live
poultry dealers and handlers
operating throughout the
United States.
“These rules will be
retained. We believe they
are adequate to deal with
any unfair practices that
may occur in the marketing
of live poultry anywhere in
the nation,” Jennings said.
The rule change was
published in the Aug. 7
Federal Register.
the responsibility if making
this information available to
anyone seriously interested
in the production of fuel
alcohol from agricultrual
products.
“With the wide range of
resources available to us, we
should establish our own
goals to diminish our
dependence on oil imports.”
Lamm continued. This
should have serveral very
positive factorsfor us.
It would utilize resources
which presently are con
sidered to be either surplus
commodities or waste
products. It would provide a
continuing market for the
productive capabilities of
American Agriculture which
are not fully utilized at
present. Much of the residue
from the alcohol fuel
production is of considerable
value for our livestock in
dustry so there would be
little waste material.
Production of alcohol fuel
would also create a market
for agricultural com
modities where the
capability for production
exists but no market at
present. A good example of
such a crop for the Northeast
is shgar beets. This would
have the fringe benefit of
increased agricultural in
come and provde em
ployment.
“The evidence presently
available points to en
vironmental benefits from
the use of gasohol, an in
crease in miles per gallon
and improved engine per
formance,” Kooker con
cluded, “and farmers can
provide products for
production.”