A3&—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, lanuary 29,1983
Grumbine heads Farm-City Council
CAMP HILL - Dennis
Grumbine, Myerstown, president
of the Pennsylvania Cooperative
Swine Breeders Association, has
moved up to the chairmanship of
the Pennsylvania Farm-City
Council.
Lebanon County hog farmer and
equipment dealer, Grumbine
succeeds Emory Brown, of the
Penn State Extension staff, who
becomes a member of the
Executive Committee.
Elected vice-chairman this week
was Dalton Paul, of the Vo-Tech
staff and Farm-City Committee in
Franklin County.
Schuylkill holds winter
potato meetings
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN - The
Schuylkill County Winter Potato
meetings will be held on Tuesday,
Feb. 8,1983.
The Processing Potato Meeting
will be from 10 a.xn. to 12 noon in
the Community Room at the
Schuylkill Mall, Frackville. The
table stock potato meeting will be
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Federal
Land Bank - Production Credit
Building at Begins.
Speakers for the meeting will be
Richard Cole, Extension potato
production specialist; Robert
Leiby, Lehigh County potato
PMMB hearing
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cording to Mike Thomas, another
Main Hurdman representative,
are raw milk cost, processing cost
and container cost.
Raw milk, in the unit cost ac
counting, is treated as two
separate raw products, skim and
butterfat, each with its own value.
Shrinkage costs and bulk milk
costs are reflected in the cost of
raw milk to the dealer. It was
determined by the firm that
separation costs, while an integral
part of the production operation,
would be too costly to identify.
Sheldon Weiss, attorney for
Cumberland Farms, New Jersey,
questioned the source of the data
used for structuring the proposed
accounting practices. He noted
that efficiencies of operation were
not taken into account.
George Brumbaugh, chairman
of the Milk Marketing Board, said,
“The system makes no attempt to
address itself to the margin-only
to the cost information. Their (the
accounting firm’s) end product is
cost.”
There were other questions from
the audience specifically related to
the proposed forms. While there
was not outward disagreement
with the implementation of the unit
cost accounting system, privately
some dealers said the cost of
gathering some of the required
data would be a burden for smaller
dealers.
Questioned following the
hearing, Fink said, “Much of the
information that’s required is
already available. We figure that it
will require two man-days to work
through the forms.”
During the hearing Brumbaugh
also noted, “This is closer to
federal order accounting than
we’ve ever gone. We hope to have a
mechanism that will make annual
reports as submitted more
meaningful a tool.”
The ultimate use of the unit cost
information, of course, is in
establishing minimum retail price
on milk products. While no
hearings are scheduled in the
immediate future, the gathering of
this information will allow the
Board to use it in the future.
Honored at this week’s session
were Grumbine and Tom Em
swiler, of the PDA, for their In
dividual efforts on behalf of Farm-
City Week activities.
During the coming year, the
Council will concentrate activities
in two specific areas.
First, to expand Farm-City
awareness in the two big
population centers of Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, possibly through
the food expos held in those cities.
Second, to expand local
representation on the statewide
council.
specialist; George Holton, Mobay
Chemical representative. The
topics discussed will include weed
control, integrated pest
management scouting program,
and the outlook for Pennsylvania
potatoes in 1903.
All potato growers are invited to
attend the meetings sponsored by
the Schuylkill County Cooperative
Extension Service. For additional
information, contact George P.
Perry, Jr., county agent - hor
ticulture, P.O. Box 250, Schuylkill
Haven, PA 17972 or telephone
717/385-3431.
HARRISBURG A recent state
Supreme Court decision declared a
York County township subdivision
regulation unconstitutional, and
has township officials back at the
drawing board in designing far
mland preservation techniques.
Attorney and farmowner Ed
ward Golla, R 3, Stewartstown, had
challenged Hopewell Township’s
flat-scale subdivision ruling that
prevented him from deeding off
ten-acre tracts to his sons.
Under the township’s ordinance,
a total of five subdivisions were
allowed to any tract, regardless of
its size. Pour of those subdividions
were limited to one and one-half
acre size.
“What this decision says is that
if a man wants to make what some
might consider inefficient use of
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Fox to speak at DVC
DOYLESTOWN - Dr. Michael
W. Fox, director of the Institute for
the Study of Animal Problems of
the Humane Society of the United
States, will be the featured speaker
at Delaware Valley College on
Thursday, April 7, 1983. The
program is sponsored by the
Laboratory Animal Science Club
and is scheduled for 8 p.m.
The Institute has produced
numerous publications and
developed several technical
research programs which applied
scientific methods to the in
vestigation of the many uses of
animals, including laboratory,
companion, farm, and captive wild
animals, and using animals in
education.
Fox is a recognized advocate of
animal rights. His latest project is
an expose- of the inhumane in
tensive livestock raising practices
on factory farms, aiming to
his land, the government could not
prohibit in this way his doing so,”
says Atty. Golla. “It was deemed
unfair to allow a large landowner
the same number of lots as was
allowed the owner of a smaller
acreage.”
Several other York County
townships have varied forms of a
sliding scale, allowing an in
creasing number of subdivisions
based on file overall number of
acres in a tract
Attorney Gilbert Malone, who
has drawn up various municipal
subdividion regulations, believes
the court will uphold the sliding
scale philosophy.
Malone, a panelist at the York
Agri-Business seminar, spoke
briefly on the court’s decision on
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This program is open to all in
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Delaware Valley College is
located on Route 202, one mile west
ofDoylestown.
the set scale ruling and compared
farmland loss statistics from zoned
and un-zoned townships.
Hopewell, Codorus and North
Hopewell, all townships with
subdivision regulations, showed an
average seven percent increase in
farm parcels, at a period when
farm parcels across the county
were decreasing. Three townships
with no zoning, Dover, Conewago
and Hallan, saw a farm parcel loss
averaging about 12 percent.
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