Al2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6,1982
Block appoints cost
of production
review
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block today named eleven
members to the National
Agricultural Cost of Production
Standards Review Board,
established by the 1981 Agriculture
and Food Act.
The board is responsible for
advising the secretary of
agriculture on the methods used by
USDA to estimate the costs of
producing major farm com
modities and for reviewing parity
calculations.
Legislation requires that seven
board members by commercial
farmers and three others have
expertise in cost of production
methodology. The eleventh
member must be a USDA em
ployee.
Block said the board’s chairman
will be William Turrentine, a
farmer from Garden City, Kans.,
CCC drops interest rate
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Com
modity and farm storage loans
disbursed in November by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Commodity Credit Corporation
will carry a 9.75 percent interest
rate, according to CCC Executive
Vice President Everett Rank.
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board
who raises wheat, sorghum and
alfalfa. The vice chairman will be
Carol Hallett, a nonfarmer
representative from Atascadero,
Calif., who serves on the
agriculture committee of the
California State Assembly.
The other farmer members are
Oren Childers, Cordele, Ga.;
James Milton Devers, Jr., Nichols,
S.C.; Lawrence V. Gray, Nampa,
Idaho; Timothy N. Hartsock,
Chihcothe, Ohio; Milton J. Hertz,
Mott, N.D.; and John H. Kautz,
Lodi, Calif.
Other nonfarmer members are
Marvin R. Duncan, assistant vice
president and economist with the
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City, and Bobby H. Robinson,
professor of agricultural
economics and rural sociology.
Clemson Univesity.
The USDA member is George
Hoffman, deputy administrator of
the Economic Research Service.
The new rate, down from ll
percent, reflects the interest rate
charged CCC by the U.S. Treasury
in November, Rank said. It is the
lowest' mterest rate charged by
CCC since the 1979 crop when the
rate was 9 percent, Rank said.
Farm Calendar
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Bradford Western L»HIA, 7:45
p.m., Troy Sr. High School.
Lancaster County 4-H Capon
Exhibit, 9:30 a.m., Andy’s
Catering Service, 1106
Millersviile Pike. ~
Stockholder’s meeting, York PCA
FLBA, Embers Quality Inn,
Carlisle.
Wednesday, Nov. 10
Md. Agricultural Outlook reports,
10 a.m., Calvert County Ex
tension Office, Prince
Frederick, Md.
Bradford Lamb Pool, 9-11 a.m.,
Wyoming Sales Barn.
Stockholders’ meeting, York PCA
FLBA, Sheraton Inn, Get
tysburg, 7 p.m.
Pa. Rural Electric Assn, annual
meeting. Hotel Hershey.
Dairy Technology Conference, 9:30
a.m., Center of Adult
Education, University of Md.
Thursday, Nov. 11
Inter-State annual meeting,
continues through Friday, Host
Farm.
Wayne County Milkers’ School, 10
a.m.-3:30 p.m., Belmont Fire
Hall, Pleasant Mount.
Bucks County Honey Show, 8 p.m.,
Mandell Hall . Auditorium,
Delaware Valley College,
Doylestown.
Friday, Nov. 12
Md. Agricultural Outlook Reports,
10 a.m., Frederick County
Extension Office, Frederick,
Md.
Sheep Breeding & Production
Conference, continues through
Saturday, Penn State Keller
Conference Center.
Farm-City Week annual kick-off
luncheon, noon, Quality Inn, Rt.
72, Lebanon.
PEMA meeting, Sheraton, Lan
caster, 6:30 p.m.
Lancaster County 4-H Sheep
Roundup, 6 p.m., Manheim Fair
Grounds
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AND OTHER OPINIONS
First to use and foster
We whole heartedly concur
Joyce Bupp’s “Farmwife” column
of Sept. 25.
Dairy farmers should certainly
be the first to use and foster the use
of “Natures most nearly perfect
fc 1.” There are so many op
portunities when dairymen fail to
promote.
For starters, insist that those
preparing banquet meals use real
Hairy products. Someone assumes the
responsibility ot selecting the
menu be it chicken or roast beef.
That’s the time to say we want the
REAL thing.
Are we, as producers, good
consumers? Be sure we use real
dairy products in our own homes.
Accept the opportunity to take
cows to shopping malls tor milking
contests. That’a a great place to
promote. Even ask the mall
manager-for a place to show off
your local Dairy Princess, some
calves pass out dairy recipes,
information on the REAL seal, etc.
If we were to visit the offices of
the Coca-Cola Co. or attend their
Saturday, Nov. 13
Southeast District 4-H Beef Show &
Sale, morning judging, sale at
1:30 p.m.. New Holland. (
Pa. State Beekeepers Association
annual meeting, Green Gables
Motor Inn, Lewistown.
1982 Rodeo, Farm Show Complex,
Harrisburg.
Pa. Farm and Power Equipment
Association annual convention,
Hershey Convention Center,
continues through Wednesday.
banquets, would they be serving
Pepsi?
The Armacosts of Hickory Hill
Upperco, Md.
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expansion underway. Hog
producers are, however, still
cutting production.
They have 12 percent fewer hogs
on farms than a year ago, and
breeding numbers are down 13
percent. Producers intend to cut
December 1982-February 1983
farrowing 4 percent below the low
level of a year ago. The
business should be profitable for J
another year reports Chester D.
Hughes, Extension Livestock
Agent.
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