Welsh elected officer at Agri-Women convention
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
HERSHEY - The
American Agn-Women
convention became a special
treat for Emilie Welsh, one
of Penn’s Agri-Women, When
she was elected second vice
president of the national
organization, Tuesday
Welsh, East Berlin, will be
the first member of this state
to hold an'office for AAW
Other than serving as
publicity chairman, Welsh
has never held an official
position in Penn’s Agri-
Women, making the position
a double honor.
The American Agri-
Women attending the con
vention, 215 from 24 states,
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elected her at the Tuesday
business meeting
This will be tune well
spent for me. I don’t belong
to any farm women groups,
so I’m going to give all my
spare time to this position
Anything dealing with the
promotion of agriculture is
worthwhile to me,” Welsh
said.
Along with her husband
James and her four sons,
Gary, Tommy, Joey and
Mike, she resides in York
County on a dairy farm The
Welsh family owns nearly
250 milking cows
I got involved in Penn’s
Agri-Women two years ago
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and have enjoyed it very
much, she said
Welsh’s duties as second
vice president consist of
overseeing the Public
Relations chairman, the
regional communicators, the
Speakers bureau, and the
Newsletter.
She will receive written
reports from com
municators and the chair
man that she will be
required to submit to the
Executive board for ap
proval.’ She also will be
required to attend all
executive board meetings
with travel expenses
reimbursed
Other business at the
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Tuesday meeting included
adoptions of resolutions.
Some ot these were
that American Agri-
Women recommend that the
Department of Agriculture
concern itself with quality of
food at all levels, both
domestic and imported, with
transportation ot such foods
and with much needed
research for improving such
food distribution, rather
than recommendations for
diets for a healthj nation of
people of differing needs
that American Agri-
Women will support the
Green Thumb” program of
USDA weather service and
will encourage the States to
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 15,1980—C35
coordinator,
congratulates Emilie Welsh, left, for being elected
second vice president of American Agri-Women.
make the program known
and available.
that American Agri-
Women closely monitor
quanity and quality of all
dairy imports and strongly
oppose any trade
agreements which would
increase dairy imports and
depress the domestic
market
That AAW support
legislation which will allow
the parents or family ap
proved guardians- of men
tally or severly handicapped
to have control over their
future plans without court
procedure
that AAW advocate
privately held gram
reserves in lieu of govern
ment held reserves
Eastern sees better
spot milk sales
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Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative, says spot milk
sales to buyers who had not
made prior arrangements
for adequate supplies have
shown marked improvement
this fall season as a result of
what it calls “aggressive
marketing practices ”
According to Howard
McDonald, Eastern’s
General Manager, the
cooperative has also
- negotiated several new
annual sales contracts with
buyers throughout the New
York state and parts of New
England. With Eastern’s
new mozzarella cheese plant
not quite completed, the co
op had milk available and
was able to take advantage
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that AAW discourage the
use of agricultural products
as a foreign policy tool.
that AAW work to imporve
methods of transportation
and distribution of
agricultural products.
that AAW demand that the
1981 farm bill be thoroughly
researched and revised to
meet the needs of the
modern American family
farm system, and that a 1981
Farm Bill task force will
keep the executive board
and affiliated organizations
informed as to the content,
progress and timing of the
bill and that AAW and its
affiliated organizations will
respond according to the
needs of their membership
of the situation, he noted.
“Construction of the
Waveny plant” said Mc-
Donald “is now winding
down to the point where we
expect to be fully operational
by late November or early
December.”
Eastern expects the plant
will be able to operate at full
capacity during the
Christmas and New Year
holidays, which is
traditionally a heavy milk
surplus penod, he said.
McDonald observed the
new Waverly cheese facility
could be of extreme im
portance as. plans are
developed by Eastern to
assure that the effect of a
strike on its members will be
nun anal.