D2B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 6,1982
Cumberland Extension holds annual meeting
BY BETH HEMMINGER
Staff Correspondent
CARLISLE The Cumberland
County Extension Association
could retire this year at their 65th
Annual Meeting and Banquet, but
President Robert Berkheimer
said, “We hope to keep the
Association working for another 65
years.”
Duane Duncan, county agent,
presented awards to several
Extension Association members
who have given years of their time,
leadership and services to the
county’s agriculture and home
economics programs.
The leadership and service
awards were presented to Mr. and
Mrs. William Otto and Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Snoke.
Mr. Otto has been a 4-H Leader
for 44 years, helping to train, raise
and assist 4-H’era with over 1,760
baby beef. Otto served on the
Extension Board of Directors from
1956 to 1963. While on the Board, he
served as president from 1962 to
1963 at winch time Otto was in
strumental in revising the Board’s
by-laws. Duncan noted that these
by-laws are still in use in the
organization.
Mrs. Snoke has been a 4-H
nothing Leader for over 30 years.
She has worked in all facets of the
4-H program from camping, to
crafts, to round-ups. Mrs. Snoke
has served on the Extension Board
for a number of years, also.
Mr. Snoke has also been a
prominent figure in agriculture
programs in the county. Duncan
said, “Charles and Janet Snoke
have been great friends to Ex
tension.”
Duncan told the Extension
Association of Donald Overdorff’s
resignation and presented him
with an attache case before the
group. Overdorff served as county
agent and agronomy specialist for
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Marion Deppen, assistant
director of the Penn State Ex
tension Service, spoke to the
group. Deppen remarked, “We at
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year 1981 was a disaster for the
nation's cattle industry. It was a
year when profits were expected to
return to producers as production
was anticipated to drop.
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Deppen said that few other
universities in the country, “share
the cooperation we at the
University share with the Ex
tension Services like Cumberland
County’s.
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Moore, Penn State Extension
agricultural economist.
The appearance of another
recession cut consumer pur
chasing power and meat sales
dropped. Producers marketed
more, rather than fewer cattle,
aggravating a supply problem. In
the first 11 months of 1981, the
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supply of beef was up 3 percent
over 1980. During the late fall the
price of market cattle averaged
about $5 per hundredweight less
than a year earlier.
Early 1982 prospects do not look
much brighter for the cattle in
dustry, Moore says. There is much
uncertainty in the economy as
unemployment approaches 9
percent. It is certain that con
sumer spending cuts have spread
beyond housing and automobiles.
Demand for red meats is expected
to remain weak at least through
spring.
Cow-calf operators with
adequate feed supplies should
probably keep their calves until
late spring as feeder cattle prices
have been severely depressed in
recent months, Moore recom
mends. Late in December, 400-500
pound feeders were moving at
about $l4 per hundredweight less
than a year earlier. Feedlot
operators have not been
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week’s Cumberland County Agriculture and Home Economics
Extension Banquet. The couple received the annual Ex
tension Leadership and Service Award.
“Cumberland County was one of
the early counties in the state to
initiate this program of informal
education as a service to its
citizens and the success of this
system has been followed by other
counties and states,” saidDeppen.
Deppen added, “I hope you can
keep up the excellent work for
another 65 years.”
Five new directors have been
appointed to the Board for 1982.
They are: Frances Mains, Richard
Muster, Margaret Smith, Mabel
Strock and Philip McLane.
cattle because of the uncertainity
in the economy and the memories
of more than 2 % years of con
sistent losses in cattle feeding.
Supplies of beef will continue
abundant in 1982 as production is
expected to increase 2 to 4 percent.
The supplies of other meats, ex
cept pork, will increase in 1982, too,
Moore predicts.
Some improvements in beef
profit prospects could come, at"
mid-year if the economy begins a
recovery, he forecasts. This would
make consumers more optimistic
buyers of nondurables at about the
same time the 10 percent tax cut
takes effect next July 1. Con
tinuation of low feed prices and a
further decline in interest rates
would help hold down production
costs.
It will take such a combination of
events to bring profits back to the
cattle industry. In the meantime,
producers must keep costs to a
bare minimum, Moore concludes.
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