*3o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 24,1981
Egg exports need to focus on products versus
LANCASTER - John A.
Mowat, of Jiwa Overseas Ltd,
recently spoke to the Pennsylvania
Egg Marketing Association con
cerning the poultry industry and
marketing.
The southern Canadian told the
group he “would like to give a
guaranteed market at a guaran
teed profit, without quotas and
government interference,
eliminate the EEC subsidies to all
second and third countries, in
crease the per capita egg con
sumption to 400 eggs per person,
banish cholesterol, lower the in
terest rates, and increase the price
* PARK RIDGE Taxpayers
stand to recover a substantial
amount from federal grants paid
out in 1978 to affiliates of Cesar
Chavez’s United Farm Workers.
That prospect is spelled out in a
settlement anounced here today
that ends a long-standing lawsuit
brought against government
funding agencies by Farm Bureau
and a group of individual farmers
and farmworkers.
American Farm Bureau
Federation President Robert B.
Delano called it, “a one-of-a-kind
case in which the expectancy of
getting back some of the federal
spending from the federal spen
ders is absolutely unique.”
Terms of the settlement, worked
out ii. the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia, provide
that Farm Bureau will withdraw
its suit against the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor/CETA and the now
defunct .Community Services
Administration in view df the fact
that the two agencies will abide by
‘Dangerous’ bug
helps control
bad bugs
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Missouri
scientists are getting “good vibes"
about a bug they’ve selected to do
battle with the bad bugs in
greehouses.
Even the name is impressive:
insidious flower bug (Orius in
sidiosus). Insidious means
“characterized by Treachery;
dangerous ’
Recently, the bug - let’s call it
“Orius” for short was turned
loose on three common
greenhouses pests; thrips, two
spotted spider mites, and
greenhouse white flies.
The research was conducted by
Norman Marston, scientist at the
USDA’s Biological Control of In
sects Research Laboratory at the
University of Missouri-Columbia,
and Martha McCoy. UMC en
tomologystudent.
Onus did pretty well in their
tests.
The adult attacked and con
sumed an average of six adult
thrips In 24 hours. The “late'stage
nymph” (immature adult) con
’ sumed more than 10 a day.
Marston said other biological
agents are available to help the
insidious flower bug provide ef
fective control of greenhouse
pests. For example, a predatory
mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis,
provides reliable control of spider
mites, and a parasitic wasp, En
carsia formosa, reduces
populations of greenhouse white
flies.
of inedible eggs.”
That would be quite an un
dertaking, and Mowat confessed
he had a “snowball's chance of any
success" only with increasing, the
price ot inedible eggs, "and no
chance at all with any of the other
promises.
“The only way our situation can
be balanced is by export,” said
Mowat, “which revenue is, as we
all know, sorely needed to help our
country’s trade deficits.”
in pointing out the American
Board was created to merchandise
more eggs domestically, Mowat
questioned why a similar method
Farm Bureau action
$2 million for taxpayers
applicable law to challenge nearly
half of 1.5 million they disbursed to
UFW affiliates in grants which
Farm Bureau has charged were
intended to help UFW organize
farm workers in violation of the
law.
The settlement agreement
closely follows a 64 page audit
report from both agencies which
raises serious questions about how
the federal grants were used and
accounted for by UFW affiliates.
The report chaUenges $258,000, or
43 percent of initial funding of
$601,000 from the CSA to help
UFW’s National Farm Worker
Service Center build a mircowave
communications system; and
$144,333, or 83 percent of $174,557
from CSA to assist the union’s
credit union.
Also challenged by the audit is
$266,742, or 38 percent of $695,000
funded to UFW affiliates through
CETA to establish an English
language program, and to train
workers to staff UFW
“We see the insidious flower bug
as a general predator to com
plement the action of these specific
biocontrol agents,” Marston said.
“The' insidious flower bug’s
ability to kill 53 kinds of insects and
mites could allow growers to
maintain control of a broad
spectrum of minor pests at the
same time the major pests white
flies and spider mites are
suppressed by the specific
parasites and predators.
“We’ve had good vibes from
colleagues in England, the
Netherlands and Florida who have
reviewed our research with the
insidious flower bug. They agree
with me that we should probably
look for other general predators to
help the insidious flower bug dora
good job of biological control.
“One of our concerns is that
Orius could' go into diapause
(hibernation) in fall. If it does, it’s
no good in the greenhouse.
“We plan to look at the stilt bug,
another commonly found predator,
to help Orius do its job.
Marston said biological control
system for greenhouses are a
desirable way to help growers cope
with rising costs of pesticides.
He noted that studies have shown
that greenhouse pests develop
resistance to pesticides, and that
widespread use of chemical
controls “may pose safety and
health hazards to workers and
consumers.”
could not be legislated in order to
provide export incentive.
“Our surplus is caused by a 1 or 2
percent over production,” he
stated, “it wouldn't take too much
to move this out ot the country and
allow the other UK percent to be
profitable.
“We think of export in the
context of cases of eggs: This is a
sore point with me and 1 will argue
from here on that the bulk ot our
export should be in egg products,
frozen and dried.”
Mowat noted there is a potential
export increase ot 20,000 tons ot
eugs a year to Japan the
headquarters functions; and $3,654
or 35 percent of $10,528 disbursed
by CETA under a contract to help
the union study and develop an
apprenticeship program. The
contract called for a total ex
penditure of $120,000, most of
which was never actually funded
following Farm Bureau legal
challenges in 1979. In October of
that year UFW blamed “pressure”
from Farm Bureau for the ter
mination of CETA funding which
would have paid out over $1 million
more to UFW affiliates in 1980.
An injunction obtained by Farm
Bureau attorneys in January of
1981 also suspended funding of
$190,000 in CSA monies intended to
complete UFW’s credit union
funding. The funds had been routed
to UFW affiliates through Cam
pesinos Unidos, a California
migrant action agency. CSA
subsequently disallowed the
funding.
In aU, Farm Bureau legal ac
tion may have saved taxpayers
nearly two million dollars.
Delano noted that the goal of
Farm Bureau’s legal action all
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equivalent of 1.1 million cases of
eggs. He explamed how egg
producers need to look to egg
products for export in order to stay
competitive and reduce costs. ■
Frozen and dried eggs cut the
freight cost 550 cases of shell
eggs would equal 1,000 cases of
frozen equivalent or 4,000 cases ot
dried eggs. “Why pay out the
hundreds of thousands ot extra
dollars to transport the com
parative bulk of shell eggs,”
Mowat asked.'
He reported that during the tirst
five months of latti, the U.S. ex
ported 750,000 cases ot egg
saves
along was not punitive. “Whdt we
sought,” he said, “was the return
of the money to its nghtful owner
the taxpayer.” He said, “it now
appears that the two government
agencies will work towards this
purpose.”
Among discrepancies attributed
to UFW affiliates _in the audit
report are: incorrect and
misleading posting of ledgers,
failure to withold payroll taxes on
a consistent basis, unauthorized
salary increases, , unauthorized
purchase of vehicles, unauthorized
travel costs, inability to reach the
goals of the credit union grant, and
generally inadequate accounting
systems.
Also revealeji is an
inspection by the U .S. Department
of Labor’s Inspector General that
finds erroneous. Social Security
numbers or alien registration
cards for a number of participants
in the CETA-funded grant
programs, a figure adjudged to
“represent tocr high a percentage
to be clerical errors." The
Department of Labor investigation
into this finding continues.
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Japan.
. Muwat was quick to point out tie
did not advocate the sale of
products only, and stated he
realizes the need to continue to
export quality white and brown
eggs in the world market.
He cautioned the group to
evaluate their business attitude
toward foreign customers saying,
“We have, for 100 many years,
approached our potential foreign
customers with the attitude of *if
you don't like what we have to
otter, torget it.' On so many oc
cassions, even our trade missions
tour the customer countries with a
demanding attitude rather than
trying to sell our country, our
.people and our products. ”
Mowat stressed many people are
atraid of becoming involved in the
export business unnecessarily. He
tried UT assuage these fears by
stating all that’s needed to become
an exporter is a customer, an in
ternational banker and a tor
warding agent.
The speaker than told „ot his
companyls expansion efforts in the
inedible egg market, with ad
ditional driers located at severl
sites m the U.S. tor greater ef
ficiency. Cutting down tran
sportation costs could allow a
higher price to be paid to
producers for inedible eggs, he
said.
"New potentials for inedible
eggs keep coming up and 1 am
convinced that this source of
protein will be a continuing and
increasing 'process and will be
required in many areas other than
dog food,” he said. "For instance, I
recently have been involved in a
study to extract cholesterol from
eggs for pharmaceutical use and
utilize the remaining product in
our existing operations.
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