A32—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 24,1981
National Peach
MARTINSBURG, WV -
As National Peach Council
Chairman Bob Kemp sees it,
“The Phoenix convention
offers broad appeal to the
grower delegate? with
thought provoking sessions
to broaden view points and
help growers affect change
in the ever widening spec
trum of government
regulation that touches their
livelihoods.”
The central theme of
Government Regulation
flows well throughout the
February 17 to 19 program
with first a look at Govern
ment’s Role & Influence on
the Peach Industry,
Government’s Perception of
Its Own Role, How Gover
nment Regulations Affect
Peach Growers, How
Growers Can Effect Change,
and finally Projected
Changes in Agriculture.
Taking a look at different
concepts that are dealt with
at the state meetings, NPC
will be offering new material
and speakers not leadily
accessible to local groups.
“Let’s face it,” states first
Vice President Kemp,
“there aren’t many peach
growers out there who aren’t
doing a good job of
production. What they need
is a stronger voice in for
mulating and fighting many
of the policies that make it
increasingly difficult to do
business; and access to the
newest, revolutionary
techniques that will enable
them to continue producing
the best products possible.”
After the keynote
breakfast featuring R. G
Chilcott on “The Freedom to
be Enterprising,” H Allen
Brock, Deputy Ad
ministrator of Farmers
Home Administration will
address the topic Govern
ment’s Perception of Its Own
Role with a look at FmHA
loan programs that could be
used for peach producers
and processors.
The career federal service
employee will put that in
perspective with the overall
policy and general
characteristics on loan
making and servicing
From the Department of
Labor, David 0. Williams,
Admmstrator of the U.S.
Employment Service, will
take up Recruitment and
Placement of Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers.
Following loans and labor
regulation, Barry R.
Flamm, Director of USDA’s
Environmental Quality
Service, represents a strong
mandate to initiate, coor
dinate and monitor USDA
programs related to the
protecton of environmental
quality and natural
resources
His office is specifically
responsible for USDA’s
implementation of the
National Envirnomental
Policy Act. to develop and
monitor procedures to im
plement cultural resource
laws and regulations;
monitor USDA im
plementation of land use
policies; coordinate and
monitor the department’s
integrated pest management
program; and implement
USDA activities related to
the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act, among other things.
Tuesday afternoon
spotlights the particular
regulations that affect peach
growers and puts the agency
bureaucrat face to face to an
industry rep that regulation
directly affects
Zeroing in on the impact
and implications for
agriculture of the Capper-
Volstead Act will be Kenneth
R Farrell, Administrator,
USDA Economics and
Statistics Service. The Act is
enabling legislation for
agricultural cooperatives.
Since this Act has been
attacked m recent years, a
response to these attacks
will be the concern of
Sunkist’s William K
Quarles.
As Vice President,
Government Affairs,
Quarles will "place the
activity and motives for this
attack in perspective ” He
has been m Sunkist’s law
division since 1970, and the
government affairs section
since 1974.
A debate on peach grades
and standards regulations
finds Eddie F. Kimbrell,
Commodity Services, Food
Safety and Quality Service,
USDA facing Tony Rubmo,
President of Blue Goose
Growers, Inc.
Kimbrell is responsible for
directing and coordinating
Local farmer to
Convention to run in February
USDA food grading and
standardization programs,
for the procurement of foods
purchased by USDA for
school lunch and other
feeding programs. He at
tended discussions earlier on
internal problems with
peaches and possible grade
revisions for them.
Rubmo, in his position as
president of a nationwide
marketing service
organization for food
producers and processors,
and manager of Blue Goose
Growers, the company’s
marketing division, is a NPC
director and member of the
council’s Grade Revisions
Committee currently
working with USDA per
sonnel on problems con
cerning the peach grade
regulations
Labor analysis rests with
Herbert J. Cohen, Assistant
Administrator, Wage and
Hour Division, USDL, and
Keith Eckles, farmer from
Clarks Summit, who is a
member of the Pennsylvania
Governor’s Seasonal Farm
Labor Committee.
Cohen will delineate the
Farm Labor Contractor
Registration Act with
particular application to
peach growers, while Eckles
presents his personal ex
periences contesting the
infringement ot FLCRA on
his operation.
Cohen will use significant
court decisions which have
been handed down recently
and significant in
terpretations adopted by
Wage and Hour Division as
well as enforcement policy
and procedures followed
during a typical in
vestigation under the
FLCRA.
Eckles holds the distinc
tion to have been one of a few
growers who have stood up
to DDL challenging both
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The Wednesday mormng
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