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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
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$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,
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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
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