C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1930
lobby against mushroom
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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.
Each contestant had to fill
out a job application, write a
letter of application, and
have a personal interview.
Diane was mtt rviewed for
the job of horse groomer;
Brenda was interviewed for
a horse trainer.
Also winning were;
Melody Keller, Annville
Cleona, third; Kathi Zohn,
Lebanon, fourth; Robert
Hogeland, Elco, fifth.
imports
with cheap unports.”
Kimble cited USDA’s AID
program which “encouraged
Taiwan to get into tjje U.S.
mushroom market in an
important way” as another
topic for discussion between
the Pennsylvania
congressional delegation
and the farm group.
Kimble said anyone in
terested in participating in
the bus-m should call him at
215/932-9051.
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