C42—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 20,1980
Grangers meet to prepare legislative policies
BYCURTHARLER
UNGLESTOWN - The
Pennsylvania State Grange
legislative committee met
Monday and Tuesday to get
imput for policy formation at
the annual sessions next
month.
Among speakers at the
meeting were George
Brumbaugh, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board; Paul
Hand, Inter-State Co-op’s
economist; Fred Fox of
Department of En
vironmental Resources;
Luther Cook, president of the
Rural Letter Carriers
Association; and Lancaster
County farm preservation
activist Amos Funk.
Brumbaugh outlined five
areas of concern in the dairy
business. He included
discount scheduling, tolling,
bracketing of dealer prices,
formula pricing, and the new
milk security fund.
He said some dealers have
offered letters of credit,
some have posted bonds and
others have asked to be
included id the dairy
security fund.
So far, only one. dairy
cooperative has asked to be
excused from the ' milk
security fund provisions. i
Brumbaugh also said hej
would like to see a shor-l
tening of the period between
milk pickup and payment.
He said be would Idee to see
payment by the 18th day of
the month following pickup.
Inter-State’s Paul Hand
outlined Co-op policy on the
dairy referendum.
He said money collected
Charolais sale
slated during
American Royal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For
the second consecutive year,
The Charolais Sale will be
one of the main events
during the American Royal
Livestock Show, November 7
through November 9.
Last year’s sale average
was the highest of all breeds
at the American Royal at
14063. This was also the
highest average for a
Charolais sale for the entire
year of 1979.
Along with the sale, the
American International
Charolais Association will be
holding its annual meeting
on November 7 and 8 at the
Radisson Muehlebach Hotel
m downtown Kansas City.
One of the highlights of the
meetings will be the
selection of Miss Charolais
USA.
The Charolais Sate II will
begin on Saturday,
November 8 at 5 p.m. There
will be 45 head of top cattle
crossing the auction block,
representing 33 breeders
from 21 states.
Wrapping up the three day
event will be the Roll of
Excellence Show of
Charolais breeding cattle,
taking place at 9 a.m. in the
mam arena of the American
Royal. Chuck Drum,
manager of Canada Coal
Charolais, Morehead,
should follow the milk to
market. In other words,'he
maintained that money
collected in a particular
Area and Zone should go
toward promotion in that
area. s
Tie said he wanted
representation on the
committee proportional to
dairymen represented.
He said Inter-State favors
a checkoff of three-fourths of
one percent. He said that
would generate a $7 million
dollar fund.
Hand also said there
should be no -ask-out for
producers who don’t want to
support the fund.
Fred Fox, DER’s
legislative laision, told
Grangers that DER is not
trying to condemn land nor
control land which would be
put in the Scenic Rivers
program. ""
Fox said he expects 2000 to
3000 miles of waterways to
go into the system.
The Grangers restated
their position that they
would work against eminent
domain in any potential
scenic river area and would
push for a pastoral
designation, one which in
cludes farming as a
legitimate land use along
scenic rivers.
Fox also told Grangers
that hazardous wastes will
continue to be a problem in
rural Pennsylvania.'
Pennsylvania is the fourth
largest producer of such
waste in die nation.
Fox said the Com
monwealth needs at least
Kentucky will be the official
judge.
For more information,
contact Buzz Garey, Garey
Cattle Sales, Inc., 100 Walnut
Lane, Morrisville, PA 19067.
Cover dairy, mail, hazardous waste
three more sites for disposal
of hazardous materials. He
noted that if the dumping
could not be done at private
sites it c6uld reluctantly be
placed on state owned land.
Luther Cook, president of
the Rural Letter Carriers
Association, told the Gar
ngers that efforts toward a
five day rural delivery
system temporarily have
been stopped.
He said there is a federal
bill, HB 7337 which would
change the U.S. code and
require there be no less than
six day mail service.
Pennsylvania has the
largest number of rural mail
routes m the nation. Cook
noted delivery along those
routes could be cut to four
days on weeks when there
was a holiday.
Amos Funk, a prime
mover in Lancaster County
farmland preservation,
outlined the deed restriction
program now being con
sidered in the county.
He gave a chronological'
outline of what has happened
in the land preservation
movement over the past
seven years.
National Grange
Legislative Director Bob
Frederick, told the Penn
sylvania Grangers that the
Community Nutrition In
stitute proposal to revamp
the Federal Milk Marketing
Order system seems to be
dead for the moment.
He said he did not think
USDA would make any
decision on the matter until
after the Novemeber elec
tions. But, he added, after
that it is anyone’s guess as to
what will happen.
He said USDA had
received over 8000 com
ments from fanners against
the CNI proposal and added
that he doubted CNI has that
kind of influence with USDA.
Legislative committee
members also tossed around
a number of resolutions.
Among them were measures
dealing with the Fedeial
Order base building period,
landfills, trapping, Three
Mile Island, Grade A milk
pricing formulae, and rural
mail.
Members proposed
rick,. ;tionat Grange Legislative Director, outlined the situation in
Washington, D.C. for members of the local legislative committee. Among other
topics, Frederick talked about the CNI proposal to disband federal milk
marketing orders.
looking m to the possibility of
having butterfat testing done
by independent sources.
Some farmers are seeing
two to five point differences
in butterfat tests between
dairy records and DHIA
reports. At 15 cents a point, it
is a major financial con
sideration.
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Charles Wismer said he had
learned a lot from'- the
meetings and termed the
two-day session “very
successful.”
If the meetings had a the State Grange- annual
theme it probably could be sessions to see that does not
summed up in the remark of happen. The meetings will
one committee member who run October 27 through
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