C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1930 lobby against mushroom to NOTTINGHAM - The Pennsylvania Farmers Union will send a delegation of mushroom growers to Washington in an effort to reduce the impact of im-' ported mushrooms on farm income in Pennsylvania according to Richard King 0 f Nottingham, Chester County. King, a mushroom farmer, is chairman of the “bus-m” which will take place June 3rd through June sth. Noting that Pennsylvania is the foremost mushroom* producing state in the USDA NEW YORK, N.Y. - Public comments have been requested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the adequacy of existing U.S. gram standards for corn, soybeans and mixed grain. Leland E. Bartelt, ad ministrator of USDA’s Federal Grain Inspection Service, said the comments are being requested as part of a periodic review of all existing regulations. “We evaluate the existing standards regularly to determine whether they are still relevant to the needs of the industry, and to deter mine whether more ob jective methods of evaluating gram quality may be incorporated into the standards,” he said. Bartelt said research and other current information suggest that some grading factors offer little in formation about certain end use properties, and thus have limited value in determining grain quality and facilitating the Farmers nation, King said mushroom growers from Chester, Berks and Lancaster counties would leave the Oxford Shopping Mall at six p.m. Tuesday, June 3rd by bus for Washington where the delegation will “make every effort to convince our congressmen that the influx of foreign mushroom is dangerously close to causing economic disaster for Pennsylvania’s mushroom growers and processors. ” John Kimble, President of the Chester County Fanners Union, urged all area mushroom growers and to review several grain standards marketing of grain- Factors in question, in clude the usefulness of assigning a grade on the basis of moisture, broken corn and foreign material, and test weight in corn and foreign materials in soybeans. However, FGIS solicits comments from interested parties on any grading factor for com, soybeans, and mixed grain. It is the intent of FGIS, in keeping with recom mendations by Congress and an industry advisory Stoltzfus and Werner winners ELVERSON - Two members of the Twin Valley FFA were top winners held in the Berks - Lebanon - Schuylkill Area FFA in terview contest, held at Conrad Weiser High School. Diane Stoltzfus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Houck, Elverson R 2, placed first. Brenda Werner daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wemer, placed second. slate D.C. bus-in processors to join the delegation to “point up the fact that we just can’t fight the double attack of imports and the irroads being made on the Pennsylvania mushroom industry by huge corporations from other states.” Kimble said mushrooms from Taiwan and Korea now account for over fifty per cent of the market in the United States and added that in the recent past, nine of Pennsylvania’s sixteen mushroom processors have gone out of business because of their inability to “compete committee, to propose revision of standards of more accurately reflect end use properties using ob jective means, whenever possible, Bartelt said. The request for comments was published in the May 8 Federal Register. Written comments may be submitted by July 7 to the issuance and coordination staff, room 1127 Auditors bldg., USDA, Washington, D.C., 20250. All comments will be available for public inspection. 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