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News
Chemical association
speaks out
on export process
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Leaders
of the agricultural chemicals in
dustry told Congiess recently that
export notification requirements
for unregistered pesticides could
be best carried out by transmitting
notices directly to regulatory of
ficials of importing countries.
Jack D. Early, president of the
National Agricultural Chemicals
Association, and Nicholas L.
Reding, of Monsanto Company and
chairman of NACA’s Board of
Directors, "also recommended that
notification .requirements be
confined only to pesticides which
contain an unregistered active
ingredient or for which there is no
registered formulation.
“The current system is bur
densome and time-consuming,”
Early told members of the House
Agriculture Subcommittee on
Department Operations, Research
and Foreign Agriculture during
oversight hearings on the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act
He and Reding said the NACA
proposal would ensure
notifications are put in the hands of
Semen book available
WATERTOWN, Wl. The rack ot up to ten units 01 semen, as
Semen Mart of Watertown, Wl. has location in the storage tank, and
introduced a new inventory record the date of breeding and iden
book tor frozen bull semen. The 6 titication of the cow on which each
J/4’ ’by 51/4’ ’ loose-leaf binder fits unit is used.
well in a shirt pocket or desk The vinyl covered book retails
drawer and eliminates the charts tor $7.95 and additional loose-leat
that usually hang in a dark and sheets are available For ad
dirty part o£ the barn. ditional information, contact The
Each page ot the miniature book Semen Mart, Box 354, Watertown,
provides records tor one cane or \V1.53094.
H>tigge£teb &eabtngs>
Small meat and
poultry processors
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Small meat
and poultry processing plants who
want to participate in the U.S.
Department ot Agriculture’s
quality control inspection system
can receive guidance from a new
USDA publication.
“Quality Control m Small Plants
A Guide For Meat and Poultry
Processors” provides information
on the concept of quality control
and how it relates to the USDA
inspection program.
The publication discusses
quality control in the entire plant
operation including receiving,
manufacturing, packaging and
labeling, shipping, general
sanitation and employee training.
Procedures for specific
operations are also discussed
including boning, cutting and
trimming; poultry cutting;
pumping and smoking or cooking;
canning; and formulation.
Meat and poultry processing
plants may voluntarily apply to
USDA for approval of their plant
quality control system. Approval is
appropriate officials in foreign
countries who would know how to
deal with the information. In ad
dition, they said -the recom
mendation would eliminate the
"serious negative effects” tor U.S.
exporters of requiring that they
secure a written statement from
their overseas customers while
non-U.S. suppliers make no similar
requests.
Under the present law, exporters
are required to submit a signed
acknowledgement letter from the
foreign consumer to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
tor transmittal To the importing
country. The law also requires that
EPA notify foreign governments
through the U.S. Department of
State of the cancellation or
suspension of a pesticide
registration.
NACA is a
Washington-based trade
association whose 115 members
make or formulate virtually all the
crop protection chemicals used in
the United States and a large
percentage used abroad.
based on assurance the system will
produce products m compliance
with wholesomeness and labelmg
requirements of the federal in
spection laws.
Quality control inspection is
available to processing plants
which produce, cut or package
such items as cooked, cured and
smoked meats, roast beef, ham
burger, frozen dinners, and soups
containing meat and poultry. It
does not apply to inspection of
animals in slaughtering
operations.
Copies of the guidebook
(Agriculture Handbook NO. 586)
are available from the Information
Division, US. Department of
Agriculture, 26 Federal Plaza,
Room 1653, New York, A Y . 10278
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American Eff Beard
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Viewing special ag exhibit in Washington,
D.C. are, from the left, Brooks McCormick,
retired IH chairman and chief executive
officer: John Block, Secretary of Agriculture;
IH displays
WASHINGTON, D.C. Lan- and their present-day modern
caster County is well represented counterparts. __
in a special agricultural exhibit at The exhibit uses large
the Smithsonian’s National photographic dioramas of modem-
Museum of American History in day technology in each of the four
the nation’s capital. seasons. These photo murals
The exhibit, sponsored by In- form a backdrop tor the early
temational Harvester, features a machines,
comparison of historical farm The exhibit is open until
machines that permanently November 1.
altered the course ot agriculture Among Lancaster County’s
HOLTWOOD - Paul Herr 1 , ot He wab honored with a
Hoitwood, an ABS representative certificate tor 35,000 recorded first
tor the past 23 years, has received services. 1 o date, Herr has over
from the National Association ot 44,000 recorded tirst services,
Aititicial Breeders (NAABj an which means he would have bred
award ot great merit. over 5 cows every day since 1958.
Livestock merchandising
KANSAS CITY, Mo. A session
by-session summary of Livestock
Marketing Congress ’Bl is now
available free of charge from
Livestock Merchandising In
stitute.
Single copies of the 13-page,
magazine style “Special Report”
can be obtained by writing the
Institute, 4900 Oak Street, Kansas
City, Mo., 64112.
This year’s Congress, held in
Minneapolis, had as its theme
“Competing For The Protein
Dollar.” Nearly 30 speakers and
panelists explored the growing
challenge to the livestock and red
meat industry from competing
protein sources.
Congress program sessions
looked at "Our Customer,” "Our
Competitors,” and ‘‘Our
Machinery Maintenance
MOLINE, 111. Deere and read. There are over 270
Company has ]ust published a illustrations and the language is
special kind ot book tor people who plain and bnet. People can learn
net,a a good, basic introduction to the basics and develop a good,
machinery and its care, according conscientious attitude about
to L.R Hathaway, managing maintenance and satety at the
editor at Deere and Company. same time.
Many young people who are
exposed to tarm machinery for the The book is priced at 55. Order
first time need to start with the number FMW-1010113, Machinery
basics, ami this 14i>-|>dge text will Maintenance, at Deere and
> * > ■ »>i Company, John Deere Road,
me noon is written so it's easy to Moline, 111., b!265.
at Smithsonian
Herr honored
Challenge.” The Report also in
cludes a summary of the script of
the opening audiovisual presen
tation, which subsequently has
been shown before a number of
industry groups.
Participants in the Congress
included Walter Heller, former
economic advisor to three
presidents; W. Wayne Talarzyk,
professor of marketing and con
sumer lifestyle specialist from
Ohio State University; consumer
advocate Ralph Nader, and
leading spokesman from virtually
every sector of the livestock and
meat industries.
Conducted since 1970 by the
Institute, the annual Congress has
emerged as the industry’s leading
conference on livestock
economics.
and Ben Warren, president of the company’s
Agricultural Equipment Group. The photo of
the combine at work in the background was
taken in Lancaster County.
ag history
contribution: 1
The large photo, which
the backdrop for the first reaper, p
shows an IH Axial-Flow combine K
harvesting Lancaster County E
wheat. The modern machine is«
owned by Ken Zurin, custom f|
combiner, of R 3, Mt. Joy. The*
large red and black combine is 'i
shown at work on the Hiram I
Stickler farm at R 3, Mt. Joy, \
which is worked by Floyd Kreider.
The photo, taken last harvest %
season, was arranged through t
local IH dealer, C.B. Hoober Son, ‘
Inc., of Intercourse. •
Other Lancaster County con-.,
tributions to the exhibit mclude
Huber steam traction engme,-
which was to the
Smithsonian in 1973’by The A.F./
Brandt family, of Bainbridge.
And another is an engineerings
drawing of a Landis Eclipsed
thresher, which was designed by a|
pair of Lancaster County brothers.
The exhibit also commemorates’
IH’s 150th anniversary and the'
dramatic progress of American'
agriculture since the first
mechanical reaper took to a grain
field in 1831.
Prominent is the world’s first
successful mechanical reaper,;
invented by Cyrus H. McCormick!
in 1831 His invention brought
mechanization to farming and
marked the beginning of In?
ternational Harvester, today £
worldwide producer of
agricultural equipment, trucks
and construction machinery. I
Before McCormick’s invention
■ rmers harvested grain by bans
using a cradle to cut about twf
acres per day. U S. farmers wer|
only able to produce enough food tfi
-feed four people. |
The McCormick reaper uir
creased the harvest to eight acres
a day. Today’s modern cousin
illustrated in the exhibit, the IS
Axial-Flow rotary combine!
harvests 100 acres of wheat, or 5p
acres of com, per day. Thif
enables the American farmer t£
produce enough food for 68
including 20 overseas citizens. _
Other displays in the exhibit
show improvements in plowing
and planting efficiency, the
changing farm tractor that
replaced the horse in the early
1900’s, and old and new cotton
pickers.. A final section contrasts
the dog-powered chum of an 1881
dairy operation with equipment in
a modem day factory. *
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