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Local horse racks up
blue at Penn National
lgf ’s Pennsylvania
■tonal Hoifee Show wraps
■today with |lO,OOO Grand
mt De Perth National. This
Ee concludes a nine-day
pit packed with com
iltion between some at the
pen’s finest horses and
IT number of local
luestrians will be coming
me with numerous ribbons
Un this prestigious show,
inging home a blue ribbon
the Amateur Five-Gaited
ddte Horse class is Jean
unsay, Lancaster.
In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Dairylea, 15; Guernsey
xiplets, 17; Last dairyman in county, 26; Franklin beef,
19; Thomasvllle to reopen, 32j Lancaster beef tour, 34.
SECTION B: Swine operation, 2; 20th forage con
erence, 4; Ephrata FFA, 6; Farm equipment outlook,
; Reading Fair family, 9; The Milk Check, 11.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Home mi the Range,
; Joyce Bupp’s column, 10; Apple Qiieen USA, 22;
lerks swine club, 28; York Holstein meeting, 32; Del.
armland program, 36.
SECTION D; Tennessee Walkers, 2; Dauphin DHIA,
; Upper Susquehanna DHIA, 10; Sheila’s Shorts, 16;
tsk the VMD, 17; Farm Talk, 19.
Milk plan draft in final stages
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
HARRISBURG - The
iitial draft of Penn
rtvama’s proposed milk
larketing promotional
•ogram is expected to be
sady for distribution during
■e coming week.
“The draft is in its final
reparation and is being
mewed by department
ficials,” according to
imes Sumner, Director,
ireau of Markets, State
spartment of Agriculture.
The draft will be
stributed to represen
tives of various co-ops,
■dependent producers and
tatewide farm
Animal rights movement disrupts barnyard
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
I Farmers already must deal with a
small army of state and federal inspectors sticking their
neaas into their bulk tanks and milking machines,
win li* 16 < * ay “•y not be far away when inspectors
1 be more concerned about healthy conditions for
than for people.
* Mw ®ove*nent in the UJS. now known as the
Rights Movement
at first it was the basis for a lot of good jokes
we best being the one about chickens marching around
tow picket signs it no longer can be described as
trouble for poultry and
jt b « growing problem for which producers
n, £jto fa* answers.
j*J*«uch gatberingtook place last Monday night at the
twucay inn ia lancaster. Ninety-one poultry servicemen
Aboard her 7-year-old
American Saddlebred
gelding, Grand Larceny,
Jean rode to the top of her
class, out-showing a field of
15 outstanding competitors
on Thursday evening.
This is not the first win for
Bamsay's horse, called
Rufus. He was pinned the
champion American Sad
dlebred 5-Gaited Horse in
two other states, Ohio and
New Jersey. And, be also
was tagged champion at the
recent Fall Show held at
Quentin, Lancaster County.
Ramsay said she has been
riding horses for 30 years
organizations who met late
last month as an informal
committee to begin work on
the proposed program.
Following receipt of the
draft, the different groups
will review the various
proposals in preparation for
a second meeting of the
informal committee. This
second meeting, at which
groups will offer comments
on the program and consider
«tny additions, deletions or
revisions, is expected to’ be
held in the first week of
November.
Several co-ops have been
in contact with the PDA
since the first committee
Humans squawk for better barn conditions
Lancaster Farabi, Saturday, October 25,1M0
and she emphatically stated
she’s always been aboard
American Saddlebreds.
Currently in her stable at
Windridge Farm, Jean has
two of her favorite breed of
horses Grand Larceny 7 ,
and an A-year-old pleasure
mare, Hazel Gemini.
Ramsay, who works as a
secretary in Lancaster
General Hospital’s Durg and
Alcohol Clinic, said she is on
the show road from April
through November. The last
show for her this year is the
November 4-9 show at
Madison Square Gardens in
New York City. She men
tioned she is quite excited
about going to this show
because she is one out of 35 of
die nation’s top horses and
riders selected to compete.
Li the Thursday afternoon
show, Ramsay rode another
local horse to third place
honors in the ESHBA
American Saddlebred
Three-Gaited,, Pleasure
Horse Class. She was astride
A Lovely Decision, a 6-year
old mare owned by Melanie
Lipensky of Lebanon.
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meeting to amplify their
positions on the proposed
program, Sumner said.
Their positions have not
appreciably changed from
those expressed at the first
meeting held on Sepetmber
30.
Following the completion
of a final draft, the PDA
would give notice of a public
hearing on the proposed
program.
The actual referendum
vote among producers is not
expected to be leld until
about late-January of 1981,
with the final tally of votes
not being made until ap
proximately March.
and farmers grouped to discuss the critical influence such
supporters of animal rights may have.
Or. Dale Schwindaman, senior staff veterinarian of
Veterinary Service, USDA in Hyattsville, Md., spoke to
the group on exactly what it is the supporters of animal
welfare want to change.
Pam Wunderlich, Lebanon, and her American Saddlebred mare Genius Jane
brought home honors during competition at the Pennsylvania National Horse
Show, held October 17 totodaypt the Farm Show Complex.
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Carter mushroom tariff
surprises area growers
BY CURT HAULER
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
President Jimmy Carter’s
decision last week to impose
stronger tariffs on imported
mushrooms has caught
fanners by surprise.
While a number of farm
groups sought relief from
foreign imports for
mushroom growers, most
had asked for import quotas.
The stepped-up tariffs
caught most producers by
surprise.
Tariffs currently are 13
percent of the sale price of
mushrooms. They will in
crease to 33 percent next
year, decreasing to 28
percent and then 23 percent
in the following tjro years.
Carter rejected quotas.
The tariffs apply to
mushrooms canned, frozen
or in jars. Fresh or dried
mushrooms are not in
cluded.
The actual base tariff of
3.2 cents remains.
As ol November 1, the
current 10 percent ad
valorum tax, imposed on the
invoice value of product, will
jump to 30 percent plus the
base 3.2 ceqts. The ad
valorum tax drops to 25
percent the next year and 20
percent the last year of the
tariff. -
Most fanners and fanner
groups, used to thinking in
terms of pounds of
mushrooms and quotas were
taken back by the tariff idea.
No one was able to say
exactly what the increased
tariff would to do import
volume. While the tariff
represents a significant
increase over the existing
tariff, there is no assurance
that a 20 percent boost in
tariff rates will mean a 20
percent* drop in foreign
mushrooms entering the
country—or any drop m
imports at all.
Pennsylvania Fanners
Union noted the tariff was
What concerns welfarists most is the intensive con
finement production of farm animals. Crowding livestock
and poultry in pens leads to unnatural behavior and to
distressfor these animals, they daim.
The movement is centered in the Institute for the Study
of Animal Problems, in Washington D.C., and is directed
by Dr. Michael Fox, the head of the Institute, which is a
division of the Humane Society of the United States.
This organization is against many agricultural prac
tices. The first few, which are of great concern to the
poultry producers, are commercial egg production cage
management systems, feeding and watering procedures,
broiler production units, debeaking and poor ventilation.
Other practices the organization Would like to see
changed are: tail docking, total confinement and
farrowing pens for hogs, veal calf husbandly and feed lot
finishing of beef
$7.50 Per Year
unrelated to the domestic
cost of production or any
parity index in mushrooms.
Also disturbing to PFU
was the idea of having all
revenues from the tariff go
to the U.S. Treasury and
none to helping domestic
producers.
But Farmers Union said it
was glad the President did
something, pointing out
President Gaiter was not
obliged to do anything at all.
Farmers Union said it is
difficult to know what effect
the tariff will have, adding
the group hopes the ad
ministration imposed the
tariff knowning what the
outcome would be.
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association was not so op
timistic. *
“We don’t think it will
solve the problem. If they
have a lot of mushrooms
over there why not pay some
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