VOL 27 Ha. 16
‘Milkerendum’ hearings answer producers’ queries
by, sheila miller
LANCASTER —Farmers across
the state met at five regional
meetings this week to voice their
concerns and sentiments coo*'
cerning the , proposed ' Penn
sylvania dairy promotion order,
commonly referred to as the
Milkerendum.
rA crowd of 125 fanners and farm
organization- ' representatives
Columns
Editorials; Now is the time,
A 10; On being a farm wife, B 5;
Ladies have you heard? BIS; Ida’s
Notebook, Bid; Farming’s
Futures, B 19; Farm Talk, Dl2;
Brackett's Ag Advice, 018.
Dairy
Franklin OHIA, B 41; Cum
berland DHM, 010; Dauphin
DHIA,DI3; Perry DHIA, 020.
Inside
This
Week’s...
Dairy farmers from Blair and Bedford counties earn “milking
degrees". See page...A2o.
At Pennfield’s dairy day, Thursday, dairy farmers learned the
key to dairy profit ability for the next few years. Interested? See
page...A2l. t
During the York Baby Beef awards banquet, Bill and Pat
Holloway won the 1982 Citation Award for serving as leaders,
judges and coaches for over twenty years! ...826.
Want to meet the 1982 All-American Pork Producer? He's
from Kenton, Del., and his story appears on page... 830.
A 9-month-old Elevation daughter out of an
Excellent Kingpin, topped the Maryland
Holstein Convention Safe, Wednesday. Oak
- Ridge Farms, of Ontario Canada paid $B,BOO
turned out here at the Farm and
Home Coder on Tuesday af
ternoon to hear what Secretary of
Agriculture Penrose Hallowell and
his marketing assistant James
Sumner and Deputy Secretary
. , Luther Snyder had to say about the
proposal. Of that group, 30 people
presented testimonies.
The meeting in what Hallowell
termed the “heartland of the
state’s dairy industry” turned out
to be a welcome relief for the PDA
representatives after having beard
from a more uproarious crowd at
last Friday evening’s meeting in
/ Scranton. The meeting here
Home and Youth
Home on the 'Range, BO;
Homestead Notes, B 2; FWS
calendar, B 5; Kid's Komer, BIO; 4-
H news, B 20; Estate planning,
B 12; Red Rose livestock banquet,
B 16; Hiring underage help? 832.
for Kents-Reserve Elevation Cherl-ET, the
consignment of Marion F. Andrew, Centerville,
Md.
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Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, February 13,1982
proceeded in an orderly fashion,
with no uncontrolled outbursts
from those assembled.
Laying the groundwork for the
session, Snyder and Sumner
reviewed the provisions of the milk
referendum which was requested
years ago by the Keystone Milk
Marketing Council, Inc.
The proposal 'for a milk
marketing order falls under the
provisions of the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Commodities
Marketing Act of 1968, which
establishes procedures for
developing and operating
marketing programs for generic
promotion of Pennsylvania farm
FmHA pledges financial aid
HARRISBURG - "Although
many farmers are facing financial
difficulty because of today’s cost
price squeeze, the Farmers Home
Administration intendato do all it
can to help it borrowers, stay in
farmings” announced Penn
sylvania’s FmHA State Director
D. Elmer Hawbaker on Monday.
iWe' recognize there are
probfemswith high interest rates,
inflation, a grain embargo, ad
verse weather and other causes,’’
he said. "And these have been
mtesified by overall bumper crops
that have affected prices.
"As Secretary of Agriculture
John Block said recently, our farm
economy is in a valley right now
and needs seme help to move on up
the hill on the other side.”
Hawbaker’s remarks come at a
tune when this rural credit agency
products. The current law
specifically outlines that this
promotion and advertising
program must not be brand
oriented, and could only be
changed through * legislative
amendment.
Snyder pointed out that Penn
sylvania already has three existing
marketing programs under the act
apples since 1967, red
cherries since 1974, and potatoes
since 1976 v
After receiving the request for a
referendum from Keystone,
Hallowell appointed a 23-member
Dairy Promotion • Advisory
Committee' in September 1986,
Nine borrowers in trouble
is under fire from farm
organizations and other groups for
supposedly helping to put the
squeeze on fanners by forcing
foreclosures.
The FmHA chief in Penn
sylvania terms these accusations
as erroneous, at - least in the
Keystone state, and cites only 9
farm cases that are in serious
trouble.
"We have a total of 62,000 far
mers in Pennsylvania,” stated
Hawbaker. "And of that total,
FmHA services 2,947 of these
farmers financially that’s 4.34
percent of all the farmers in the
state and these are the people who
can’t get credit anywhere else.”
Hawbaker stated that the 9
serious cases' in Pennsylvania
were pending "acceleration” of
their loans. That is, the borrowers
Open heifer tops
Md. Holstein Sale
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
WEST FRIENDSHIP, Md. - An
Elevation daughter commanded
$B,BOO, Wednesday, during the
Maryland Holstein Convention
sale, which closed out the two-day
18th Annual Maryland Holstein
Convention.
The $B,BOO price tag tor Kents-
Reserve Elevation Cherl-ET was
one ot the highest paid tor an open
heiter in the history ot the
Maryland convention sale, said a
spokesperson trom Remsburg Sale
Service. Wednesday’s tallies
showed 52 head averaging $2,188
tor a gross ot $113,560.
Consigned by Marion F. Andrew
ot Centreville, Md., the 9-month
old heiter was purchased by Oak
Ridge Farm ot Ontario, Canada.
The tancy Black and White is out
ot an Excellent Kingpin daughter
with a lop record as a 4-y ear-old ot
24,070 pounds ot milk and 786
pounds ot tat. Her second dam, a
3E 92 Excellent Astronaut, carries
an impressive 26,000 pounds ot
milk and 1,068 pounds ot tat as a 5-
year-old. Third dam, Wmtacres
Dean Charlene, is also a 3E 92 with
$7.50 ptr year
making his selections from a list of
names submitted by farm
organizations, dairy cooperatives,
and independent producers. Since
then, the -committee has been
meeting and redrafting the
statewide milk marketing order
proposal which was given tentative
approval a year ago and was
finalized this past December.
The referendum is tentatively
scheduled for a vote sometime
during March, unless testimonies
received at the 5 public hearings
would warrant a rewrite of the
proposal.
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were notified that there loans
would have to be settled by a
certain date. This is accomplished
through liquidating assets and
paying all debts, or by conveying
all the assets to the government
which then resells land, equip
ment, cattle, etc. to clear the loans,
he explained.
Hawbaker stressed there has
been "no actual foreclosures'* in
the state recently and none are
scheduled. He termed the "ac
clerated” method of clearing debts
as “voluntary liquidations.” If a
farmer doesn't voluntarily
liquidate, however, FmHA can
take possession, he explained.
Although the 9 serious loan cases
all involve real estate mortgages,
FmHA also lends money for
operating and emergency costs to
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a lifetime production ot 186,800
pounds ot milk and 6,845 pounds ot
tat.
A 3-year-old Astronaut daughter,
consigned by William Schrader ot
Earleville, Md., brought the sale’s
second lop price ot $5,300. Wil-O-
Mar Astro Pearl was purchased by
Holmacres Holstein Farms ot
Northheld, Minnesota.
Out ot an Elevation daughter,
the Pearl cow finished her tirst
lactation with more than 16.200
pounds ot milk and 570 pounds ot
tat. She is due to calve in March to
Kopies Chiet Butt.
The University ot Maryland
consigned the third-high seller,
which brought a $3,500 price tag.
Terrapin Elevation 1261, pur
chased by Hoodstead Farms,
Middletown, Md., is sired by
Elevation and out ot a Very Good
Simpson Apollo Rebel daughter.
The 3-year-old cow finished her
tirst record with more than 17,800
pounds ot milk and 610 pounds ot
tat.
Elesabelh Ingall Gillel ot
Taney town, Md., paid 3,000 tor a
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