Lancaster Farmers 9 Association slates Spring meeting
LANCASTER The an- The dinner meeting will available for $6 from
nual Spring Meeting of the begin at 7 p.m at the Youth Association board members.
Lancaster Farmers’ for Christ Center on the New LFA also is trying to enlist a
Association will be held Danville Pike, Lancaster. number of youth to help out
Tuesday, March 25. Tickets for the event are as waiters and waitresses at
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Officers of the Lancaster County Farmers’ Association for 1980 include: front,
Esther Stoltzfus, treasurer; Earl Newcomer, president; back row, Linda Kreider,
secretary; Rebecca Wivell, womens’ committee chairperson; Charles Rohrer,
vice president; and Donald Ranck, membership chairman
the dinner. tion Farm Management and
Scheduled speaker at the Business Analysis Service,
meeting is Richard E. At the Lancaster Associa-
Denison, manager of Penn- tion’s board meeting held
sylvama Farmers’ Associa- Tuesday night, lively debate
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 8,1980—C33
centered around a PFA pro
posal asking the local board
to approve a PACMA stock
sale amounting to $300,000.
It was pomted out that
Lancaster County is for
tunate to have good livestock
markets today but that that
happy situation may not last
forever. PACMA may offer a
future outlet, supporters
said.
In addition, they pomted
out there are numerous
other counties which do not
have the markets today. In
such areas, the PACMA pro
gram may present the only
way farmers can hope to get
better pnces for livestock.
But the question was rais
ed about the likelihood of so
meone going around the co
op to make an extra dollar.
Also, there was feeling
that the only way a
marketing co-op would be
successful is if there were
more government interven
tion in farmers’ affairs, a
situation similar to that ex
isting today in dairy
marketing.
The stock sale finally was
approved by the board with
one dissenting vote.
The board also entertained
the possibility of
establishing more advisory
councils m Lancaster Coun
ty.
Although advisory coun
cils are one of the better
vehicles foi getmg rank and
file membership mvolved in
association activities, Lan
caster today has no more
than four such groups in the
County.
There was feeling on the
board that a county with
membership the size of Lan
caster’s could justify as
many as 20 advisory coun
cils, and that there should be
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