PACMA reports gradual improvement at annual meeting
CAMP HILL Members ot the
Pennsylvania Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing
Association held their annual
meeting Monday at the Penn
Harris Motor Inn, Camp Hill.
In addition to electing ofticers,
members ot PAMCA were told
their financial position gradually is
improving
Three members were re-elected
to the board ot directors and one
new man was chosen for a _ sat
Arthur D. Hershey, Cochran
ville, was re-elected as directoi-at
large
Re-elected to represent Region I,
the Eastern part ot Pennsylvania,
was Glen Krum, Catawissa
Newly named as Region IV s
director is Scott Port, Clarion He
Fruit growers heard T Stacy Wood, general manager of the
Albion New York Cooperative talk about “brix, the real gold in
juice apples.”
will represent western Penn
sylvania
Commodity directoi tor the
coming term will by Guy F
Donaldson, Gettysburg Donaldson
currently is serving as president of
the PACMA board
Donaldson will be trying to lead
the organization out ( ot some
financially deep water '
PACMA concluded the past year
$50,000 m the red Despite its 1980
bottom line, the cooperative
showed some promising signs
For one, explained PACMA
Manager Marlin Miller, the co-op
has operated m the black during
five ot the past six months
Second, the co-op did pay its
members $4300 in cash dividends
which served to make the bottom
Current PACMA board of directors, in- f ro nt from left: Alton Hill; David J. Seiple;
eluding those chosen Monday are back row Robert A. Weaver: Vice President S Richard
from left Ronald H. Houtz; Glen Krum; Scott Moyer; and President Guy F. Donaldson.
Port; Arthur D. Hershey, and Eli H Rhodes;
line deficit look somewhat woise
Halt ot the total loss was
carryover trom the 1979 fiscal
year And another sizable chunk of
cash is going to payment ot an old
debt which traces back to the early
years ot the organization
Miller said he hopes PACMA can
increase its volume to generate
enough income to get the Co-op into
the black
He noted the new PACMA
structure has been in place tor only
one year Miller predicted it will
lake about tive years tor the
situation to be turned around
All of PACMA s programs, with
the exception of the export
program, are in operation Miller
said he does not expect the export
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program to be in lull swing until
about 1985
The programs include feeder
cattle, slaughter cattle, feeder
hogs, slaughter hogs spent hens,
seed potatoes, hay and gram,
processing apples, and a small
program on vegetable contracts
Miller said the directors have
indicated they intend to continue to
pay a cash dividend even though
the Co-op is operating in a deficit
situation
Under the current economy and
our 1980 operating conditions, I feel
we had a good year, Miller
maintained We explored several
new ideas and made a number of
good contacts ’
In addition to the business
meeting, PACMA members also
were able to attend several farm
and commodity sessions
Fruit growers heard T Stacy
Wood, general manager of the
Albion Cooperative, Albion, N Y.,
talk about brix, which he termed
the real gold in juice apples ”
Hog producers attended a film
program presented by Bruce
Baker, North Carolina Farm
Bureau
Cattlemen heard a talk by Elmer
White, vice president of the In
terstate Producers Livestock
Association, Peoria, 111
White told cattlemen Interstate
markets thousands of head of
cattle weekly, paying producers
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