A 38—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27,1981
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. The
national Holstein Association, the
nation’s largest breed
organization, reports it had a year
in 1980 unlike any other in its
history.
Located here, the Association
implemented a number of major
expansion programs last year
including a major step forward in
the computerization ot tf>'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a
letter to Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Administrator,
Anne M. Gorsuch, Congressman
Bob Walker, Lancaster County,
requested that no action be taken
to license IU Conversion Systems
Inc.’s proposed hazardous waste
dump site in Narvon, until a full
Environmental Impact Statement
USDA offers grain weighing
NEW YORK, N.Y. - On June 8,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
gram inspectors started to provide
a new supervision of weighing
service on request for gram
coming into export elevators at
port locations.
The service—Class Y— iS
available on request for inbound
rail, truck and intra-company
barge receipts and outbound
domestic shipments of grain, said
Kenneth A. Gilles, administrator
of USDA’s Federal Gram In
spection Service. The service is
also available at interior locations.
Class Y weighing is limited
supervision of elevator employees
who weigh gram that is excempt
from official weighing.
Official weighing—Class X—by
USDA or delegated states, will still
be required for all export gram
shipped from export elevators and
inbound inter-company barge
receipts. ,
New addition to
‘People on Farm’ series
available from USDA
“People on the Farm: Raising
Beef Cattle,” is the latest in a
series of slide and filmstrip
presentations about farm people
now available from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The 129-frame, 16-minute
presentation shows how the Gene
Ritschard family of Kremmlmg,
Colo., and the Herbert Schutte
family of Kahoka, Mo., raise and
tend beef cattle.
“People on the Farm. Raising
Beef Cattle” may be purchased
from USDA for $21.50 as a filmstrip
or $29.50 as a slide set. The prices
include one copy of an illustrated
narrative guide, one copy of a
companion publication and a
cassette soundtrack. The cassette
has inaudible 50 Hz and 1,000 Hz
pulses for automatic slide
changing with the propei equip
ment.
This presentation is the tifth in
the “People on the Farm” senes ot
slide sets and filmstrips. Others
are “Dairying,” "Broiler
Growing,” “Corn and Hog Far
ming” and “Growing Oranges.”
USDA prepares the sets to aid
urban students and others who are
unfamiliar with farming
operations.
Order the slide sets and film
strips from: Photography Center,
Office of Governmental and Public
Affairs, USDA, Washington, D.C.,
20250, phone (2021447-6632.
Holstein Assn, reports big year
organization. And, at the same
tune, the Association had a
dramatic increase in the number
of purebred cattle registered.
“While expenses increased, it is
significant that for the first year in
many years, mcome grew faster
than did expense,”* Executive
Secretary Zane Akins said of the
Association’s financial vear. Akins
Walker asks EPA
has been completed and “without
adequate opportunity for public
hearing at which time my con
stituents and I might convey our
concerns to the appropriate
authorities.”
“Inasmuch as the En
vironmental Protection Agency
has federal jurisdiction over such
matters I am taking this op-
service at export
Gilles said the action follows
legislation which eliminated the
requirement for mandatory
weighing or most gram coming
mto export elevators.
“The legislation resulted m a
void m the kind of weighing ser
vices available at export
elevators,” Gilles said. “With this
action, we will be able to provide a
weighing service where and when
needed by the gram elevators.”
Gilles said members of several
trade groups and managers of
export elevators have asked FGIS
to provide the Class Y service.
Charges for the Class Y weighing
service at export locations will be
$5 per barge; 81 each for boxcars,
hopper cars and each car m a unit
tram; and 50-cents each for trucks
or trailers.
Charges for Class Y services at
all other locations will be $lO for
barges, 83.50 each for boxcars,
hopper cars and each car of a unit
said he believes that the more
critical the economic crunch, the
more need farmers will have to use
the Association’s services.
Therefore it has to grow to meet
those needs.
The Holstein Association now
has files oh more than twelve
million cattle, including lineage,
and performance records. In 1980,
more than 350,000 I! 1 feins were
to study dump
portunity to call this situation to
your immediate attention and to
request your careful review,”
Walker said in his letter.
Walker says the agreement by
EPA officials to conduct such a
study would most likely involve
many months of research and
would likely prohibit any further
tram, and $2.50-each for trucks of
trailers.
Gilles said USDA can provide
Class Y weighing at less cost at
export elevators because, in many
cases, . trained employees will
already be on hand at those
locations performing official in
spection and weighing services for
grain going into export.
Requests for Class Y weighing
services must be made for a
minimum of three months for all
truck, rail car and barge ship
ments at either export or ulterior
locations, or for selected individual
unit trains.
Comments should be sent by
Aug. 5 to': Issuance and Coor
dination Staffi Rm. 1127 Auditors
Bldg., USDA-FGIS, Washington,
D.C. 20250. For more information,
contact: George T. Lipscomb,
Weighing Director, Rm. 3117
Auditors Bldg., USDA-FGIS,
Washington, D.C. 20250. Phone;
202/382-1731.
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registered a record year, Akins
said. New totals were set for
animals registered and identified,
herds, classified, new members
enrolled and corrective mating
programs completed.
Last year, the southern Vermont
headquarters branched out across
the country. Five new regional
offices, each with its own manager
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action by IU Conversion Systems
until the investigation was com
pleted.
The 16th District Congressman
contacted EPA on behalf of several
hundred constituents who have
expressed grave concerns about
the proposed establishment of a
hazardous waste site- in their
community.
“Officials of the three townships
involved, Caernarvon, East Earl,
and Salisbury, have indicated that
their zoning boards are not likely
to grant IU Conversion Systems’
request to relocate its present
waste treatment and disposal
facility at Lanchester to the
Narvon mine site, approximately
two miles away. Subsequently, the
company officials announced their
intention to take the matter into
court,” Walker' explained in his
letter to Gorsuch.
“Such blatant disrespect for
local decision-making officials is
highly objectionable in my view,
particularly when the health and
safety of area residents appears to
be threatened. There is a' great
deal of controversy about this
situation in tyarvon and
surrounding communities and I
find the attitude of IU Conversions
Systems to be extremely distur
bing,” he charged.
“The continued health and
safety of area" residents js of the
utmost concern to me,” Walker’s
letter stated in summation, “and
your cooperation in assuring that
health and safety standards are
maintained will be extremely
helpful.”
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and staff of consultants and
specialists, were organized to offer
better coordination of the field
services. The new offices are in
Fresno, CA; Kansas City, MO;
Eau Claire, WI; Shelbyville, KY;
and Harrisburg.
"We are now closer to the cen
ters* ot the cattle population,”
Akins said.
While the Association is moving
closer to the cattle centers in the
United States, its marketing ef
forts are branching out to all parts
of the world. The Association has
exported purebred
cattle to more thap 50 countries.
Last year the Association was
invited to present a Holstein
exhibit at the first U.S. National
Economic and Trade Exhibition in
Beijing, China, where Chinese
dairy producers became
acquainted with the genetic
qualities of the U.S. Holstein cow.
The exhibition provided the initial
step toward establishing a
relationship between the Chinese
people and U.S. dairy cooperators.
Technical assistance programs
were signed in a half dozen
countries in Europe and South
America with further prospects
likely m 1981, Akins reported. The
dairy cattle breeding and
management skills programs are
geared for three to five
assistance. A breeding and
management program in
Hungary, for example, has-more
than doubled milk production and'
made the country self-sufficient in
dairy products.
- "And this organization did it,”
Akins said.
U.S. Holstein breeders who sell
to private and state farms
throughout the world often use the
Holstein Association as the agent
to transact the sales. The cattle are
actually shipped through Holstem-
Friesian Services Inc., a sub
sidiary of the Association. The.
company acts as an agent between
the member and buyer, making all
the arrangements fot the shipment
of the animals. In early January,
two 747’s filled with 750 cattle were
shipped to Chile, Akins cited as an
example of the service.
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