:V0L27H*.44 This pair of Penn Springs entries topped the Open, Holstein competition at the Elizabethtown. Fair on Thursday. Holding the grand champion, at left, for Robert Kauffman, : Market hogs«topJs2% Feeders climb to $214 - Well,- it hap pehcfl-techpically, anyway. Markethogs, a few head of them, topped 170.00 a- hundredweight during the past week at Lancaster Stockyards. And feeder pigs, again a group of the small ones, climbed to a new high of 1214.00 a hundredweight. Now, market purists might say that the two price levels for the relatively few head involved such a small segment of the overall market that they should be con sidered separately. But the fact remains that the levels were reached during a month- August, 1982-that will go down as a "red-letter one” for the swineindustry. No,"* more appropriately, let’s make that a "Black-Letter Month.” The 70.00 barrier for hogs was reached last Saturday when five head ranged from 70.00 to 70.10. Four- different buyers were in volved in the bidding - all meat markets from Lancaster, York and Lycoming counties. Then, on Monday the price of a couple of head reached $70.50. But these couple were not mvolved in competitive bidding and were marked for someone who left a buy order. The new high in feeder pigs of 214.00 involved 90 head- weighing from 20 to 27 pounds. It topped a previous $95.00 high that had been reached at New Holland on August 18. Let’s just turn the market report pages back, a year for com-, panson’s sake. In late August, 1981, the high for Lancaster feeder pigs was 107.00 - exactly half of the record reached thus past Tuesday. . Market hog prices a year ago were hovering in the low to mid- Four Sections R 1 Elizabethtown, is Judy Zimmerman. At right is Steve Kauffman with hisjopen reserve grand champion and grand champion of the youth show. 50’s, after a long, gradual climb from levels that had been much lower. It isn’t hard to figure how .many more dollars of income per ‘ hiogiare involved at 12 to 15 cents higher propound on 200 pounds or more. . On the national scenejthis week, the hog market fell backa bit early and then recouped to around record levels on Wednesday and Thursday in the Midwest. - Well, August, 1982, answered two questions in the local swine in dustry. Will 70.00 hogs be. reached? And will feeders top 200.00? Although it might be a qualified and technical reply, the answer to both was yes. Now,' the big question: How long will it last? Only time will tell and your guess is as good as anyone. Inflation continues to lag BY SALLY BAIR Staff Correspondent LANCASTER - "Penn State agricultural economist Lou Moore " told a group of animal breeders this week that the year will end with'an inflation rate of not more than 7 percent, and “that’s good news:” Moore was speaking at the 36th annual convention of the National Association of Animal Breeders,, hosted by Atlantic Breeders •Cooperative at the Host Farm in -Lancaster. Over 500 persons attended the conference, including cooperative directors and employees of ar tificial breeding -organizations from afcross’ the United States, -' Lancaster Famine, Saturday, September 4,1982 PMMB begins Sunset review BY DONNA TOMMELLEO HARRISBURG - Although the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board istargeted for review, next year under the state’s Sunset Law,' leg&lative evaluation of the .regulatory agency already has begun. "We're being audited by the legislative Budget and -Finance Committee,” reported PMMB chief, Earl Fink, Jr. - The PMMB is one of 76. state agencies,targeted for evaluation and possibletermination. The committee’s performance audit, said Fink H will be followed, early next year, by review from a., standing committee, either from the House or Senate. Fink expressed confidence 'toward pending evaluations and said he anticipates the standing committee to call for at least one public hearing in 1983. Lancaster County represen tative Noah Wenger explained Animal breeders learn Canada and Israel. Moore beg n by telling the group he has some O ood news and some bad news, but couldn’t decide winch was which. But, the obvious good news was a slowing of Inflation which Moore called the nation’s biggest probieril over the last 30 years. Along with a slowing oi imitation,, however, Moore pointed out that last week there ' were 572 bankruptcies, the highestsmce the depression. This, combined with 9.8 .million unemployed and 35 percent fewer autos being sold, accounts for the bad news in the economy. Moore said that the economy is going to recover, ad ding the recovery may already be Father edges son in E-town dairy show BY DICK ANGLESTEIN ELIZABETHTOWN - Father edged son in the dairy show at the Elizabethtown Fair on Thursday. ■. Grand championship of the Holstein Open Show and Best of Show honors went to a five-year old aged cow shown by Robert Kauffman, of R 1 Elizabethtown. And in the runnernp spot in the open competition and the top spot in the Youth Show was a three year-oM shown by son, Steve, 20. In addition to looking smart and stylish in the show ring and cat ching the eye of judge Jeb Bashore, of New Cumberland, the pair of -Perai Springs entries also are outstanding production per formers Back on the farm. The aged cow, Homeburst Astronaut Winner (an appropriate name), set a state fat record of that, in compliance with the year old Sunset Law, an agency’s ter mination or continuance heavily depends on the recommendation of the standing committee. Wenger admitted that some gray area exists in guidelines for evaluation. "That’s the problem with the whole sunset concept,’’ Wenger noted. “What criteria do you use? ’’ Wenger explained that beginning in January a six-person leadership committee, comprised of the minority and majority leaders in the House and Senate plus the president of the senate and speaker of the House, will assign a r standing committee to each agency up for review. The Lancaster Co. represen-. tative pointed out that the assignment of a specific standing -committee can be critical in-the outcome of an agency’s evaluation. In the case of the PMMB, - the assignment of the Agricultural Committee or the Consumer Af- underway. The recovery has been bolstered by the July 1 tax cut and a change in business and consumer psychology. In his opinion, however, he said the Federal Reserve Board will not let a strong recovery take place because of inflation. Moore stated, "We are living in a new era.” There will be less in flation than we have been ac-~ customed to over the last 20 years, and the dollar will-be stronger. Farmland values have dropped after 20 years of steady rise, but nobody’s buying, he noted. He sums up the new era by saying, “It will be a highly uncertain future." Moore said, "There is a (Turn to Page A 27) $7.50 per year 1183 lbs. as a junior three-year-old in three-time milking. She holds milk records over 25,000 lbs. The younger member of the pair, -Penn Springs‘Milestone Ada, had over 23,000 lbs. of milk in 305 days as a two-year-old and is projected at about 25,000 lbs. this year. Last year, she finished in the top spot at the fair when competition was limited to youth exhibitors. This marked the firstyearof open competition, in addition to the traditional 4-H and FFA judging. And in the wings for quite a few years of more competition in both the youth and open' shows is ll year-old Tom McCauley, who showed his junior-yearling to the Reserve Grand' Championship of the youth show and the junior championship of the open show, (turn to Page A 26) fairs Committee could produce different results, speculated Wenger. By March 1, the standing committee will receive a report on the agency’s- performance audit from the legislative Budget and Finance Committee. The audits, explained Wenger, can be quite lengthy and incur an average cost of $12,000 to complete. The standing committee has until September 1, 1983 to offer its recommendation on the specific agency. Wenger noted that legislation may be necessary to either continue, terminate or continue but modify the agency. At this point, the standing committee has until November 1,1983 to draft and ' introduce the needed legislation. However, if the Sunset Act operates on slow legislative wheels, die Leadership committee has the authority to designate up to half of the agencies slated for 1983 review, an extension into 1984. Agencies and commissions also can be extended for sue additional years in the absence of commented Wenger. This option requires a resolution from the standing committee. The PMMB is an independent regulatory agency which conducts periodic public hearings.to set minimum prices which dealers pay dairy farmers and charge to consumers. The Board also in spects and audits milk dealers to insure timely and proper payments to producers. In ad dition, it administers the Milk Producers’ and Cooperative Security Fund which protects dairy producers from dealer bankruptcies. Meanwhile, representatives from dairy co-ops already have begun rallying behind the PMMB. Jim Fraher, assistant economist for Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative was one of several co (TurntoPage A 32)
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