Fitzpatrick to head
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block has named Martin F. Fitz
patrick as director of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Of
fice of Transportation.
Fitzpatrick had been legislative
director for Senator Roger Jepsen
(R-lowa)smce 1979.
USDA’s Office of Transportation
coordinates the activities of
researchers, economists,
engineers, rural development and
export marketing specialists and
traffic managers.
“1 feel it is essential for agencies
of government to work with each
other and with the affected public
Yearling heifer
brings $2OOO
FREDERICK - A yearling Farms in iMyersville.
heifer, sired by Mucho Galant out At the sale, which followed the
of an Extra daughter, topped the annual meeting of the Maryland
seventh annual Free State In- Simmental Association, 20
vitational Simmental Sale at the purebred females sold for an
Frederick Fairgrounds, recently. average of $1,072. Fifteen three
quarter Simmental females sold
Richard Swan of Cumberland, for an average of $Bl3, 10 half-
Md., paid $2OOO for the heifer. She Simmentals for an average of $702
was consigned by Clyde and seven bulls for an average of
Grossnickle of Middle Creek $BlO.
Legislative Roundup
(Continued from Page A3O) level positions at the U.S.
elimination of stamps for boar- Department of Agriculture,
ders, and more effective measures The three are Prank W. Naylor
for recovering improperly issued r, > 33 Under Secretary for Small
stamps. ' Community and Rural Develop
— Program benefits prorated pn ment; Mary C. Jarratt, Assistant
a daily basis so that persons in the Secretary of Agriculture for Food
program for only a few days would- uud Consumer Services; and A.
get benefits only for thatamount ol * .•[‘ General Counsel
time rather than the full month.
—An overall “cap” on spending The Committee s recom
for the program of $lO.B billion for mendation now goes to the full
fiscal 1982. " Senate for a vote.
A block grant for Puerto Rico * nominee, Kenneth A.
at 75 percent of current costs, GiUes Admmistrator-d«signate of
effective April 1,1982. - , * e , Federal ? ral \JfP^ on
The Senate Committee on Service, was ab scheduled for
Agriculture. Nutrition, and 'Consideration but was unavoidably
Forestry also recommended ap-. J*"™* 0 " business,
proval of three nominees for top- be held at a later
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to achieve their mutual goals,"
Fitzpatrick said. "This agency,
which I view as the voice of rural
and agricultural transportation in
the federal government, will do
just that.”
Fitzpatrick joined Jepsen’s staff
in Jaunary, 1979, as legislative
director and assistant for
agricultural committee work. He
organized transportation hearings
in lowa, and helped establish the
lowa-Houston Gram Transporta
tion Committee to facilitate
transportation of gram to export
ports.
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was organizational director for the
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Representative George O’Brien
(R-Iil,), focusing on agricultural
matters.
LMA tells task
marketing reform needed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Livestock
Marketing Association is sub
mitting its case for marketing law
reform to the Presidential Task
Force on Regulatory Relief.
LMA also called for
Congressional passage of its
Livestock Marketing Reform Act
in a recent letter to Task Force
Executive Director Dr. James C.
Miller, 111. _
The Task Force, chaired by Vice
President George Bush, was
formed in February to reform
federal regulation. The business
community was asked to provide
the Task Force with specific
examples of regulations that could LEBANON The Lebanon
be changed tolerease benefits or °°^ y Agricultural Stabduation
Hwreas* costs and Conservation Service-Office is
It is LMA's position, General J' ec * lving 1981 t cr ?P fr <«?
Manager C.T. ‘Tad’ Sanders, cc T ty T fa ™ e f S fad
wrote, “that the layers of 3 *?J me 15 ;' 19 * 1 and
regulations and decisionL.under (°”P nng seeded crops to August
the Packers and Stockyards Act , ..
require action of the United States 0 P roducer » “P™ 1 reporting
Congress, in the reform of a ac ?^ e ? oi e ? m ’ r i ey
‘Livestock Marketmg Reform 311(1 sor^hunl ’ lB * or
Ac j> .> a support loans, reserve program
The passage of this bill is i oa^,s, P™ crop
necessary, Seders continued, “to kf tory md cowwge on
cut through (these) regulations ~ acres seeded for harvest,
and decisions to meet the needs D,C '^ r * h a iblUty mcludes cro PS
Potato stocks down 78
HARRISBURG Potatoes
stored in Pennsylvania on May 1
totaled 130,000 "hundredweight
(cwt.), 78 percent less than a year
ago according to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service. Current
total stocks are three percent of
this year’s production of 4,180,000
cwt. compared with ten percent on
hand a year ago.
In the 15 major fall potato
producing states, potato stocks on
May 1 estimated at 40.2 million
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 23,1981—A31
Fitzpatrick was bom m Joliet, Il
linois, in 1952, and attended Drake
University, Des Moines, lowa,
where he majored in public policy
management. He was selected for
inclusion in “Who’s Who in
and serve the public interest in the current stockyards section of
relation to the role of the livestock the P&S Act with legislation better
marketing sector of the industry.” geared to current marketing
practices. The measure also
Sanders provided Miller with a provides for strict financial
chronological summary of the safeguards for livestock
nationwide campaign on behalf of producers, and criminal penalties
the proposed legislation. A draft of for a variety of marketing frauds,
the measure is being circulated in LMA represents over 1,700
Congress pnor to its introduction. businesses in the marketing sector
The proposed bill would replace throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
Lebanon ASCS takes
crop acreages
cwt., down 33 percent from a year
earlier and 38 percent less than two
years algo.'ln the three eastern
states, estimated holdings are 3.79
million cwt., 55 percent below a
year ago and 33 percent less than
in 1979. Maine’s stocks are
estimated at 3.50 million cwt., 55
percent below a year earlier. ’
Disappearance to May 1 m the 15
major fall states totaled 214 million
cwt., five percent below the same
period a year ago. Total disap
American Universities,” and was
active in student government and
' fraternity affairs,
Fitzpatrick lives in Alexandria,
Virginia.
force
which are.fully or not covered by
Federal Crop insurance Cor
poration.
The office will receive reports on
weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(closed May 25th) and on Friday,
June 5 and Friday, June 12 from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. Heidelberg
producers may file their report at
the Heidelberg Township Building,
Schaefferstown on Wednesday,
May 27 from Ba.m. tosp.m.
John Stick, chairperson, urges
all farm operators to report their
acreages.
percent
pearance to date includes 22.6
million cwt. of potatoes dumped
during grading, fed to livestock on
potato farms, discarded without
grading, and lost to shrinkage
(moisture loss). April disap
pearance totaled 28.2 million cwt.
compared with 33.0 million cwt. for
April 1980.
Rotates processed to May 1 in the
seven major states totaled 82.6
million cwt., four percent below
the same period last year.
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