Carson
BY SHEILA MILLER
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HERSHEY - Penn-
apple, vegetable,
and wine grape growers met
in Hershey from Tuesday
until Thursday of this past
week to catch up on methods
of farming, marketing, and
legislation.
These farmers met, in
conjunction with their
counterparts from New
Jersey and Maryland, to
hold the 121st State Hor
ticultural Association
meeting, 1980 Vegetable
Conference, and 12th Pa
Wine Conference.
The participants listened
in earnest to Jan Carson,
from the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association. Her
topic, current labor
regulations, was a subject
near and dear to most of the
growers.
Honey production
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania honey production
during 1979 totaled 3,034,000
pounds, up 25 percent from
1978 according to the Crop
Reporting Service.
The yield per colony
averaged 41 pounds, up ten
pounds from the previous
year. The number of colomes
however, dropped five
percent to 74,000.
Beeswax production for
1979 was 58,000 pounds, up 23
percent from 1978.
The average price
received all honey in Penn
sylvania m 1979 was 64.3
cents per pound, one cent
below the 1978 once of 65.3
YOU’VE HEARD
THE TALK.
There’s a better way to dry gram. It’s called
CHILLCURING ™ because it means CURING
without heat. Here’s what the talk is all
about.
THE GRAIN
Every kernel of grain is alive when it comes out of the field
It is a seed, able to grow because it has the ability to take on
moisture Likewise, it can be kept in a state of preservation by
removing the moisture already in it
But by heating the gram to dry it, the seed life is destroyed
By removing heat and moisture from the gram, it becomes
dormant, and stays alive Then it can ripen to full weight,
losing only water while keeping valuable protein, starches
and sugar.
THE SYSTEM
It’s simple. Gram goes from the field right to the bin. With
the unique AIRFRAME'" and AIRFLOOR " the gram rests on a
solid bed that allows maximum ventilation
Clean dry air is the best curing medium for the gram.
GRAINLAMPS'" provide electric sunshine, cleaning and
drying the air beneath the floor, before it passes through the
gram
Fans force air under the floor. Rising through the gram, this
dry outside air carries away moisture and heat.
At the peak of the bin a jumbo 40” turbine, the
WHIRLCOOLER", puts nature to work for you. Wind and
rising air keeps it turning, venting the system naturally
A special HARVESTAT" Control System monitors the
curing process. A simple setting controls the GRAINLAMPS ™
to make use of free, natural air
gives up-date on labor regs
Carson stressed that the
growers become familiar
with the proposed
regulations printed in the
January 11 issue of the
Federal Register.
Under the wing of the U.S.
Department of Labor, these
proposed regs would
mandate who and how many
people the states’ em
ployment services could hire
to administer their
programs.
The PFA spokesperson
stressed these proposals will
create problems in the civil
service standards currently
used in Pennsylvania to fiU
employment positions
She also pointed out that
the persons hired under
these new regs would have to
conform to the number of
minorities served by the
up 25%
cents per pound. The price of
all extracted honey sold
wholesale in 1979 averaged
56 cents per pound, up two
cents from the previous
year.
The price of extracted,
processed and packaged
honey sold retail averaging
91 cents per pound in 1979, up
three cents from 1978.
The average retail price
per pound for all chunk and
comb honey was 95 cents and
$1.15 respectively.
The price of beeswax m
Pennsylvania averaged $1.91
per pound, an increase of 19
cents over 1978.
agency For instance, if the
state employment agency
serves an 80 per cent
Spanish-speaking clientele
in Adams County, then 80 per
cent of those hired to ad
minister the program must
be Spanish-speaking
Originally, Carson stated,
the Richie order of the mid
-1970’s provided for an
outreach to migrant labor.
She explained that if a farm
worker walked into an
employment agency, this
order provided insurance
that the person would not
automatically be channelled
back into a “degrading”
farm job.
Judge Richie’s ruling
created the environment for
fair treatment within the
state employment service
for migrant workers, and
provided the dollars to tram
these people for other jobs.
But, here m Pennsylvania,
Carson explained, the
Outreach program has been
run m consultation with the
CETA 303 program.
“Unfortunately, there
have been three different
CETA 303 programs in the
last three years,” Carson
said.
“The programs wer#
mcompetent and were not
properly managed, and
there may even be a question
of fraud and abuse of funds,”
she said.
She added that the new
proposed federal regulations
set up the CETA agency,
under the Pa. Department of
Labor, as an advocate of
labor.
Rather, she said, the
CETA department and the
State departments should be
2. has been tried and proven in 17 states on
over 3000 farms. The research is in: CHILLCURING™ WORKS I
3. The CHILLCURING™ system uses only the electricity to
power fans and lights, using about V/z KW hrs. per
Compare that cost to other systems that use increasing
expensive fuels' to get disappointing results.
4. The gram goes from the field to the bin and stays there till
you need it. Save time and money at harvest with the one step
HARVESTALL CHILLCURING™ and storage system.
5. If you’re in the market for gram storage, you owe it to
yourself to look further into HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING™
Check With Us For Our Early Season Discounts
Over 400 people attended the vegetable, apple, and wine meetings held at the
Hershey Convention Center last week. Commercial exhibitors displayed the
latest in seed stock varieties and equipment.
there only to complement
the relationship between the
farmers and the laborers in
emergency situations, and
areas involving social
welfare and health.
She related a case where
the CETA 303 people
recruited 24 farm workers
out of the field in a two week
period, and the farmer’s
tomato crop spoiled.
Other areas of legislation
touched on by Carson in
cluded Act 93, the Seasonal
Farm Labor Act, which PFA
will move to amend.
She also brought the
growers up-to-date con
cerning the 12 to 14 cases
pending between the U.S.
Department of Labor and
farmers for FLCRA
Advanced Ag Products
RD 2 Box 174 Elverson, Pa. 19520
215-286-9118
THE FACTS
l.You can’t beat Nature. HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING'" uses the same elements that ripen and
preserve grain if left to itself: free flowing air and infra red rays
(sunshine)
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violations. She reminded
them of the recent ruling
made by Judge R. Dixon
Herman where the
Department of Labor’s
ruling was not upheld and
was reversed in favor of the
farmer.
“The Department of Labor
is playing a harassment
game,” she said, “in hopes
that the farmers will back
down and accept their fmes.
But, DDL knows that if the.
farmers appeal the ruling, a
similar case has already
been ruled on by the same
judge that will hear their
eases and the judge ruled
against DDL.”
Carson also mentioned the
H-2 program which she said
will give total farm labor
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control to the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor.
This program, she said, is
for the employment of
temporary workers, called
documented or legal aliens,
and has strict guidelines for
the farmers to follow
regarding the employees’
housing, transportation, and
food.
Carson said she was
skeptical of the H-2 program
and the “benefits” it would
provide to farmers, citing
instances in other states
where it actually cost the
farmers thousands of
dollars.
“The Department of Labor
is the greatest enemy of the
farmer today,” she con
cluded.
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