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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 8,1979
HARRISBURG - Senate
Bill 1011, already approved
by the Senate, was passed by
the House on Tuesday and
sent to Governor Thorn
burgh’s office for his
signature.
If it is signed into law, the
bill would provide for the
payment of a $25 license fee
Appalachian apple market
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Here’s good news for local
fruit growers as well as for
people who enjoy eating
fresh apples. A study by
economists at Penn State
indicates food buyers would
like more fresh apples
available in spring and early
summer, of the quality
maintained in controlled
atmosphere winter storage.
Such increased
availability of high quality
locally grown apples will
require expanded capacity
for controlled atmosphere
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Gasohol bill
by farmers producing ethyl
alcohol for on-farm use.
Lebanon County represen
tative Nick Moehlmann,
chairman of the finance sub
committee on gasohol, said
he doesn’t expect any real passed because there was a
problem in getting Thom- need for immediate action,
burgh’s signature. “Pennsylvania Liquor
But he said there will be Control Board regulations
flush for springtime
storage, and larger
marketing operations than
now existing, says Milton C.
Hallberg, agricultural
economist at Penn State.
In recent years, about 45
percent of all apples grown
in the Appalachian states
have been sold on the fresh
market. Normally, Hallbert
noted, controlled at
mosphere storage contains
less than the 21 percent
oxygen and more than the
0.03 percent carbon dioxide
found m air.
legislative roundup
ready for Governor’s signature
other gasohol bills emerging require any distiller of
in the months ahead from alcohol to pay $2500 license
the legislature. fee. This bill will remove
“We weren’t really happy that restriction from far
with the bill as it stood,” mers, but that’s about all it
Moehlmann said, “but it will do,” he said
The present marketing
situation, as fruit growers in
Appalachia well know, is
intense competition from the
states of the Pacific Nor
thwest -- Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho
The Appalachian fruit belt
includes the states of Penn
sylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, and North
Carolina.
“An organized market,
under a federal marketing
order or by cooperatives,
would have the ability to sell
in large volumes and
promote the product,”
Hall berg affirmed.
“Cooperation of growers
would be needed for a
consistently high quality
pack of apples, especially if
the fruit carries a common
label and gains high level
acceptance to replace apples
grown elsewhere,” he ad
ded.
And he indicated that
growers in Washington,
Moehlmann noted that the
bill would restrict the use of
gasohol to the farm where it
was produced, and to the
Oregon, and Idaho expanded
their controlled atmosphere
storage capacity several
years ago. Thus, they have
been holding large volumes
of fresh apples for sale in the
east and elsewhere during
the sprang and summer
months.
In contrast, apple growers
in the rest of the country
have traditionally sold
apples from storage during
the early part of the year, a
few months after harvest.
The new approach, it was
pointed out, would require
larger than usual volume
operations at storing,
packing, and marketing.
Controlled atmosphere
storage facilities mean large
investments and large
volume operations.
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Farm-grown alcohol may
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