022— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nowwbcr 14,1981
Bradford Holstein club holds annual meeting
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
EAST TROY George Page,
Jr., Robert Whipple and Leigh
Sturdevant were reelected for a
three-year term as directors of the
Bradford County Holstein Club at
the annual dinner meeting held
November 4, at the East Troy
Baptist Church Eighty were in
attendance.
Richard Kingsley, president,
conducted the business meeting
and introduced Orville Yoder,
County Extension agent, who
congratulated member William
Brown for having the highest black
and white Holstein herd average in
the state with 29 cows, 23,437
pounds of milk, and 903 pounds of
fat. A red and white Holstein herd
from Bradford County owned by
Bill and Gmny Davis also placed
Double-standard drug use not tolerated, testifies NPPC
DES MOINES, la. - “The
double standard of food safety
permitted by the current
regulations governing the im
portation of meats should not be
tolerated by U.S. livestock
producers,” stated John Saunders,
president of the National Pork
Producers Council. A precedent
setting position was taken by the
Council in backing legislation
requiring uniform safety
requirements for all meats,
foreign and domestic.
“We believe the same standard
of safety should apply to the
consumer’s entire food supply,
whether it is produced
domestically or in a foreign
country,” said Saunders following
a meeting of the Council’s
Executive Committee.
Members of the committee
expressed their support for the
Farm Bill amendment proposed by
Congressman Glenn English, (D
-OK), or a compromise between the
highest in the state for that breed
with 66 cows, 17,101 pounds of milk,
and 639 pounds of fat.
Yoder also announced that the
Linda Hulslander Memorial will be
a new 4-H building located on the
Troy Fair Grounds. Donations *
may be sent to Lavetta Comstock,
at the Bradford County Extension
office in Towanda.
Jean Sheeley, Bradford County
Dairy Princess, was recognized.
She told about the REAL seal
promoted by the American Dairy
Association to be stamped on dairy
products so the consumer can tell
the mutation from the real thing.
She praised her alternates, Laurie
Hollenback, and Carol Berger for
helping her during a busy year of
appearances and parades.
Douglas Hershey, State Holstein
Association fieldman, spoke
English amendment and a similar,
but more restrictive amendment,
proposed by Senator John
Melcher, (D-MT).
The English amendment would
prohibit the importation of meat
from livestock produced with the
use of drugs or chemical sub
stances prohibited from use in this
country. The amendment also
provides for a one year phase-in of
the order, and allows the President
to notify Congress he will set aside
the restrictions if he determines it
will cause serious damage to the
exportation of U.S. agricultural
products.
Melcber’s amendment would
prohibit the importation of meat
from livestock produced with any
drugs and chemicals other than
those approved for use in this
country.
Saunders emphasized that
consumer safety was the Council’s
primary objective. “If a drug or
chemical is recognized by the U.S.
briefly asking for consignments to
be sold at the Ag Arena Sale,
December 11. He announced that
the state convention will be
February 25, 26, 27, and the state
calf and heifer sale will be March
31.
Hershey also encouraged that
memberships be paid early for
rebate from the State Association.
Kingsley introduced his brother
in-law, Austin Noble, from Auburn,
New York, who narrated a slide
picture show about big game
hunting in the Yukon. Prize
trophies taken were moose,
caribou, white ram, and elk.
Membership in the Bradford
County Holstein dub is currently
317. Other directors are John
Macafee, James Howard, William
Brown, Ben Jackson, Lynn Miller,
and Richard Kingsley.
government as being unsafe and is
prohibited from entering the food
supply, then consumers are en
titled to the same protection from
unsafe substances currently en
tering the food supply from im
ported meats.
“As long as the ban exists for
U.S. producers, all other meat
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Holstein Club at last Wednesday's meeting.
suppliers should also be forced to
comply,” added Saunders.
As a part of the discussion
currently taking place on the Farm
Bill, these two amendments are in
Conference Committee where
compromise wording, acceptable
to the Bouse and senate, is being
developed.
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