A g WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowell testified Monday before the United States International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Pennsylvania canned mushroom industry. Hallowell’s testimony was in support of a petition by the American Mushroom In stitute calling on the USITC for a tariff adiustment for imported canned mushrooms. Best name in BOTTOM UNLOADERS PENN DUTCH FARM SYSTEMS INC. Specializes in LAIDIG BOTTOM UNLOADER INSTALLATION AND SERVICE. ★ If You Are Building A New Structure or Replacing An Old Unloader, CALL US FIRST PENH DUTCH FARM SYSTEMS, INC. I I 1730 Highway 72 North MSIHIU I Lebanon, PA 17042 L 717-273-9324 WE ARE THE SEALSTOR PEOPLE MAKE ME A BULK MILK COOLER THAT HAS EVERYTHING! Secretary testifies for mushroom growers Hallowell noted that Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh has directed him to express “our concerns over serious declines in production in the industry.” He told the Commission, “I strongly recommend that this Commission recognize the importance of the survival of the mushroom industry, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and to the nation as a whole, by QUEEN ROAD REFRIGERATION recommending to the President effective and timely relief. “Serious injury has been done to the domestic canned mushroom industry. Over one-third of all domestic plants have closed in the last ten years,” Hallowell said. “Serious injury has been done to the 50 percent of the work force who have lost their jobs. These factors are clear evidence that the mushroom industry is being injured and deserves relief.” Pennsylvania dominates national production with Berwick co-op to hold BERWICK - The Berwick Vegetable Cooperative will host its membership and area farm leaders on the occasion of its Twenty- Seventh Annual Dinner Meeting, June 14,1980, at the Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech School, R 5, Bloomsburg. The Cooperative’s guest speaker of the evening will be Ruth Hand, home economist, Schuylkill County Extension Service. Hand earned a B.S. Degree in Home Economics from Mansfield State College. She taught a course in Home Economics in the High Schools of Schuylkill County prior to her present responsibility with the Extension Service. 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However, since 1967, unports have doubled their share of the national canned mushroom market, from 25 percent to more than 50 percent. Imports of mushrooms relative to domestic production have jumped from 65 percent to 139 percent in just four years (1975-1979). Employment in the domestic canned mushroom industry has dropped from meeting National Association of Extension Home Economists. The evening’s activities will begin with Registration at 6 p.m., Dinner at 6:30 p.m., and Hand’s address entitled “The Upbeat At titude” at 8 p.ra. Berwick Vegetable Cooperative was founded twenty-seven years ago to provide a produce marketing service and a farm supply purchasing service to the vegetable and potato growers of several counties surrounding Ber wick. BVC now services producers m 22 counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania and three counties of Western Pennsylvania. This annual event attracts many State Legislatures, Cooperatives Extension Service dignitaries, and agri-business leaders of Northeastern Pennsylvania. 500 Gai. Milkeeper 1000 Gai. Milkeeper 400 Gal. Jamesway 500 Gal. Jamesway 500 Gai. Dari-Kool 1,780 in 1970 to ap proximately 900 in 1979, one half of the total mushroom processing work force. Likewise, the number of domestic mushroom canners has declined from 35 com panies to 22 in the past ten years. An inability to operate at a reasonable level of profit has forced many of these compames out of business. Three canners m Penn sylvania were forced to shut down in 1979, two of which were located m Chester County. Adams farmers (Continued from Page B 6) yet released for use by the practitioner.” So what can the farmers of the Adams County area do to solve their anaplasmosis problems? As one veterinarian commented, “It’s facetious to think we can control the disease by controlling the vectors.” With the deer herd population on the National Park Battlefield holdings, even if all the domestic herds were free of anaplasma margmale, the flies and ticks could still carry the disease from in fected deer populations to healthy cattle, goats, and sheep. The spread of the disease through human error can be stopped if farmers practice sanitary techniques when using hypodermic needles and other instruments on their livestock. Needles THE MUELLER MODELS OH ( MHL, AND MW WITH HIPERFORM MAKE ALL OTHER BULK MILK COOLERS OBSOLETE SEE THE MUELLER NEW MODELS ★ 500 MW ★ 600 MW The “MW" is one of the Lowest pouring Height Bulk tanks. Check with us all the new features on the "MW" bulk tank. If you are in the market for a bulk milk cooler and you don’t check all the advantages of the Mueller "OH” "MHL", and "MW" you may be buying an obsolete cooler. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 14,19C0—87 —tt 400 Gal. Dari-Kool 425 Gal. Esco 500 Gal. Esco 1500 Gal. “0” Mueller Hallowell told the USITC that the effect of the loss of production capability cannot be measured on the coun tless other businesses, from farm supply companies to banks and restaurants, that deal directly or indirectly with the mushroom industry. He told the Commissioners that the resultant loss of jobs will continue to have an adverse effect on surrounding communities unless some relief can be granted to offset the troubles in the mushroom canning industry. should not be used on more than one animal if there is a possibility of a reactor in the herd, and other equipment should be carefully disin fected after each use. If an animal has been positively diagnosed as having anaplasmosis, it can be treated, under a veterinarian's supervision, with tetracycline. Vaccinating the herd is another possibility that will require the farmer’s in vestment of time, money, and production loss. In summing up the current feelings on anaplasmosis, one veterinarian said, “It seems the feeling in Harrisburg is that this is not too serious a problem—it only involves primarily Adams County. But once cattlemen and associations lose enough animals and raise enough hell, they’ll get more research and money spent.” 03 & «v^ n: * J X J 24 HOUR SERVICE
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