AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24,1981
Packer faces
FLEETVILLE - A
Fleetville meat packing firm
and its president have been
charged by the U S
Department of Agriculture
with violating trust
requirements of the Packers
and Stockyards Act by
dissipating some $247,000
held in trust for the unpaid
cash sellers of livestock
Named in the complaint
are R&D Investments, Inc.,
doing business as Edwards
Bros Packing Co , and John
W Edwards, the firm’s
president.
Under Edwards’ direction,
the firm bought livestock for
the purposes of slaughter
Firm names corn champions
MUNCY - Harold
Kramer, Fenelton, was
honored along with other
farmers last week at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show
for his high yielding corn.
Kramer won the Muncy
Chief 25 Acre corn growing
contest with a yield of 254.7
bushel Munch Chief 5X662
dry shelled corn to the acre.
Kramer’s planting
practices this past year were
as follows
The corn was planted on
fields that were rented for
two years Having taken off
hay the first year his one
field was 15 acres and the
other 10 acres and both
planted in Muncy Chief
5X662
He plowed under a good
three year alfalfa and grass
sod and used 200 pounds urea
for plow down and no
manure. Also, he used in the
com planter 400 pounds of 15-
15-15 fertilizer.
It should be noted that 200
pounds of 10-20-20 would be
close to Penn State
recommendations, as high
nitrogen and potash could
injure the germination of the
seed.
Kramer used 2*/z to 3
pounds of Atrazme, along
with IVa quarts of Lasso;
and, sprayed one of two days
after planting. He had very
good weed control
The crop is being used as
high moisture ear corn for
his dairy herd. Kramer
principally from Penn
sylvania, New York, New
Jersey, and Virginia The
firm no longer is operating
In the administrative
complaint, USDA charges
Edwards and his firm with
ignoring statutory trust
interests which totalled
some $247,000 and
dissipating those funds
which were required to be
held in trust for the unpaid
cash sellers of livestock
Edwards and his firm also
are charged with a breach of
their fiduciary respon
sibilities as statutory trustee
in that they denied all
plants approximately 200
acres to corn in his
operation
Also, on the same farm
Tom Kramer, his son, won
the five acre contest with
Muncy Chief SX66O and had
a bushel yield of 243.6.
Another son, Charles
Kramer had a yield of 258 6
with Muncy Chief 5X662 and
was planted no-till He won
the National co
championship one acre
contest with West Virginia
This was a three acre field,
also rented away from the
farm.
It had been seeded to hay
and grass sod He used no
manure but applied 200
pounds of urea and then
planted no-till with a John
Deere Maxi planter Charles
had good germination and a
good stand.
He used 500 pounds 15-15-15
fertilizer and it should be
noted that this is higher than
recommended for nitrogen
and potash in the row.
The spray program on this
no-till field was one quart of
paraquat, I l * pounds
Atrazme, and 2te po'inds
Bladex with 77 Sticker. This
was applied ten days before
planting and he had ex
cellent weed control
In New York State,
Charles LaFluer, Memphis,
New York and Roden
Brothers, Weedsport, New
York shared the five acre
Championship. Charles
charges of dissipating trust fund
a hearing could be assessed civil by USDA’s Agricultural
If the charges in the penalties of up to $lO,OOO for Marketing Service It
complaint are proved. Smith each of the 27 separate aa °Pu 1 0
added, Edwards and his firm violations of the P&S Act competition in the
would be placed under a The P&S Act is a fair trade marketing of livestock, meat
cease and desist order and practices law administered <*n pou ry.
Dauphin welcomes new director
knowledge of the use or final
expenditure of the dissipated
funds and otherwise im
peded efforts to obtain
payment for livestock sales
subject to the statutory
trust
James L. Smith, P&S
official, said the alleged
trust violations occured in
1977 and 1978, but the
complaint was delayed
both to allow for pending
litigation and to prevent any
interference with attempts
to negotiate settlements for
the injured parties
Edwards and his firm,
Smith said, have the right to
LaFluer harvested Muncy
Chief 5X777 at 183.3 bushel
per acre and Roden Brothers
used Muncy Chief 5X777 to
make 182.4 bushel per acre.
The one acre contest was
won by James Freeman,
Albion, New York with
Muncy Chief 5X552 at 226.5
bushel per acre.
In New Jersey, the one
acre contest was won by Bob
Bullock, who used Muncy
Chief 5X777 to harvest 214 7
bushel per acre His dad,
Clarence, used Muncy Chief
SXB7B to get 218.5 bushel per
acre in the five acre contest.
It was also noted that in
West Virginia, the Co
champion with Charles
Kramer was Marshall
Nestor, St. Georges, West
Virginia. He planted Muncy
Chief 5X777 and had a top
yield of 258.9 bushel of
shelled corn to the acre
Rayiynn Carr, who has
many good yields in the past,
grew 184 2 bushel per acre to
win the West Virginia five
acre corn contest with
Muncy Chief 5X777
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Losers to plant disease
were the people of Ireland
in the 1840 s and of Cali
fornia in the 19605, among
many others In Ireland, a
million people died of starv
ation and malnutrition be
cause of potato blight In
California in 1965, brown
rot disease caused peach
growers to lose some $55
million
Dau, unty mservation District Chairman Morris Lebo, left, of
Millersburg welcomes Dauphin County Commissioner Norman P. Hetrick to the
Conservation District Board of Directors for 1981. Hetrick replaces County
Commissioner Stephen R. Reed who held this office during 1980.
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