Dauphin sets dairy meeting
MIDDLETOWN - Ronald
Buffington of Select Sires,
Inc., Plain City, Ohio, will be
guest speaker for the
Dauphin County Holstein
Twilight meeting (Hi Mon
day, July 7,1980, at 7:30 p.m.
according to John P. Harris,
Dauphin County Ag Agent.
The meeting will be held at
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A judging contest will be
held with Ron Buffington as
the official judge. Buffington
will follow with a discussion
on corrective mating of
dairy cattle.
This meeting is open to the
public.
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PACA
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ficiency, was set up by the
law in 1930.
“Licenses help en
forcement since a licensee
can lose eligibility to operate
in the interstate or foreign
produce business for a
pattern of violations,” he
said. “A film has to clear up
its undesirable business
activities if it wishes to stay
in or re-enter the produce
industry.”
About 16,000 commission
merchants, dealers, and
brokers are currently
licensed, and the fees pay
the cost of administering the
PACA program. Smith said
farmers who sell only
produce they have raised
Jui. l need a license, but they
are free to file complaints as
others may do when they
have been unfairly treated in
a contract agreement.
Smith said the PACA
representatives encourage
written contracts to avoid
the risk of later disputes.
“It’s also wise for anyone
to check the buyer’s
financial status and
reputation before agreeing
to ship produce to the person
and to keep a record of all
transactions,” he said. “And
it’s important to have the
produce checked by federal
state inspectors to insure
that it meets the quality
specified in the contract. ”
Like farming itself, the
business side of produce will
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always have its share of
risks. But Smith said the
PACA Act has served well in
reducing the risks and
taking the $5O billion produce
industry a long way since
legislators a half century
ago used words like “un
scrupulous, exploitation, and
robbery” to H » t;or ihe con-
Seven ag apprentices
named in
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Seven young Marylanders
will have the chance to be
involved in real university
research this summer under
the University of Maryland
College of Agriculture
Research Apprenticeship
Program for Minority High
School Students.
Each of the students has
been identified by the school
guidance counselor as
having an interest m science
and being in the upper fourth
of the junior class at Eleanor
Roosevelt High School in
Greenbelt. This school is the
science and technology
center for qualified students
throughout Pnnce George’s
County.
Each of the students will
be involved in scientific
research projects going on at
the University of Maryland
Agricultural Experiment
Station in College Park.
The program is scheduled
to cover the ten week period
of June 23 to August 28, and
the program supervisor will
check frequently to make
sure that the learning ob
jectives are being met. At an
assembly on the first day,
the students will have an
opportunity to meet Dr. Earl
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RED ROSE
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QUARRYVILLE. PA
PHONE:
(717) 786-7361
ditions before PACA was
enacted.
The Eastern states PACA
hotlines are: New York,
N.Y. - (212) 732-3193 (long
distance) or 264-1118 (local).
Washington, D.C. (202)
737-4118 (long distance) or
447-3212 (local).
Maryland
Brown, dean of the College of
Agriculture and other of
ficers on the College Park
Campus.
The seven students and
their areas of research in
terest are: Michael Black,
agronomy; John Austin,
animal science; John
Jackson, dairy science; Paul
Young, entomology;
Patricia Hsiao, food science;
Lenora Roberts, hor
ticulture; and Adrienne
Twyman, poultry science.