DlG—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980
Officers of New Holland Local, District 8, Eastern Milk Producers for the
coming year include, from the left, Harvey Sauder, R 1 New Holland, alternate
delegate; Robert E. Martin, R 3 New Holland, president; Raymond Wenger,
Lititz, delegate: Daniel Martin, R 2 Quarryville, secretary; and Mervin Weaver,
Lltitz, vice president. Also named an officer at the Local's annual meeting held
on March 6 was Leroy Smoker, R 3 New Holland, treasurer.
Task force
mechanisation research
on
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland last Wednesday
announced the membership
of a special task force for
med to advise USDA on
current and future
mechanization research.
Bergland said the task
force will recommend
criteria and procedures for
objective evaluation of the
economic, social, en
vironmental and labor
displacement impacts of
current and future federaily
funded agricultural
mechanization research
projects.
He said USDA plans to
undertake the evaluations in
1980 and that the task force
will recommend how they
should be earned out. The
task force will also review
completed evaluations to see
if they meet the entena and
provide an objective basis
for use by research ad
ministration in making
decisions about
mechanization research
involving federal ex
penditures.
The task force will place a
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special emphasis on
mechanization research that
may result in large-scale
displacement of labor,
Bergland said. The results of
the group’s evaluation also
will be made available to
directors of agricultural
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Agricultural Stabilization
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Along with about thirty
other farmer-elected
committee members, Mark
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Rl, Bemville, Donald Lutz,
vice chairperson of Rl,
Mohrsville, and Lester
Gelsmger, regular member
of Rl, Robesoma, discussed
methods to better serve the
agricultural community
through the ASC Committee
system.
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public service through ef
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office; to increase com
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committee members’
problem-solving and
management skills and to
increase program par
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