Speaking to the large crowd of egg
producers who attended the Northeast Egg
Marketing Association's conference at Cen
terville on Thursday were: from left, Al Pope,
NEMA meeting
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Two egg producers voiced their
concerns about foreign investment
in the U.S. during the panel
discussion.
Eugene Eisenbise, Lakeside
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concerned about large, integrated
operations being controlled by
foreign investors. He noted that
these types of situations could lead
to the industry being controlled by
firms that would not contribute to
new marketing schemes or new
product research because
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UEP president; John Ricca, Ml president;
Steve Kulla, UEP legislative director: Francis
Riley, UEP Board chairman; and Bill Rent,
NEMA general manager.
product” investment.
Eisenbise stated that in order to
stem overproduction in the egg
industry so that a profit could be
ensured, there should be no new
expansion permitted. Eisenbise,
himself, has only been in the egg
industry for three years.
Tom Trone, an egg producer and
marketer from East Berlin, em
phasized that “control of the
market place is the concern, not
foreign investment,” pointing out
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that 8-10 percent of the market is Trone noted foreign investment
represented in foreign holdings. is “only speeding up the trend for
the market to be controlled by
fewer and fewer companies.” He
Vm indicated that this trend was
\1 ■ started years ago by American
I businessmen.
“We should be concerned about
the future of family farmers and
small business,” said Trone, “not
foreign investors. Our greed for
monetary and material gams is
like a runaway locomotive. “We
should look at the trend of the
industry which is heading towards
the elimination of the little guy. We
can try to delay it, but we’re never
going to stop it.
“We’ve got to wake up and take
action to protect ourselves so that
our markets aren’t controlled by
anyone but ourselves,” be stated,
emphasizing the need for in
dependent and smaller producers
to join organizations such as
NEMA to protect them interests
and to represent them.
“The big guys aren’t buying
production,” Trone concluded.
I “They’re buying market control.
I Since they can withstand the lower
I prices longer than the little guys,
1 the small farmers finally go under
contract to the large firms.”
In other business of the day, Ai
Pope, president of United Egg
Producers spoke to the group on
what the organization is doing to
help producers during these tough
economic times.
“UEP can’t correct the problem
of adding more birds by hundreds
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