D2B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 12,1983
WASHINGTON, D.C. - at a cost of $3O million.
Secretary of Agriculture John R. The donation will include 20,000
Block recently announced the tons of nonfat dry milk, 6,460 tons
United States has signed an of butteroil, 2,000 tons of processed
agreement with Mexico to donate American cheese and 2,000 tons of
more than 30,000 tons of Com- cheddar cheese to be delivered
raodity Credit Corporation dairy from March through December
products to Mexico to assist the thisyear.
needy. The products were acquired Block said the dairy products
Computer simplifies
crop insurance risk
WASHINGTON, D.C. - minutes.
Weighing the benefits of crop m- Fanners for a
surance is easy with new single insured unit on a planted
microcomputer software per-aere basis,
programs called ARCIE, short for ARCIE was designed and tested
All-Risk Crop Insurance by the Cooperative Extension
Evaluation. Services at Texas A&M University
These programs help and Michigan State University, in
producers assess their individual cooperation with the USOA crop
crop production risks and evaluate insurance agency
how crop insurance would work for
their farms,” said Merritt W.
Sprague, manager of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Federal Crop Insurance Cor
poration.
Sprague said ARCIE is available
in two forms. One is a detailed
program that takes about 45
minutes to run; the other is a mini
program that takes about 10
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will be used primarily in school
breakfast and lunch programs, as
dietary supplements for pregnant
women and infants, and at special
centers for the elderly, han
dicapped and mentally ill.
The Mexican government
agency responsible for family
assistance and social programs
will carry out the distribution
program for the commodities in
Mexico, Block said. ,'
He said that the U.S. products
donated to Mexico under this
program will not displace diary
products that woukMrormally be
purchased on the commercial
market for the intended recipients.
This is the sixth donation under
recent legislation which amended
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Credit Corporation to donate its
surplus dairy products to help
needy people overseas. The Act
also authorized domestic donations
of these dairy products to help
needy Americans.
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County Agent John Shearer, left, presents awards to
Franklin County's top alfalfa grower, Grant Gayman, center,
and top corn-silage producer, Walter Ocker for 1982. The
awards were presented at the Franklin County soils and
Forage Day held recently at Lemasters. Gayman,
representing Gaymere Farms, Wayesboro, accepted the
award for producing 7.3 tons of hay per acre in the Penn
sylvania Alfalfa Grower's Program - the highest of eight,
Franklin County participants. Ocker, tops out of six in the
Franklin County Corn Silage Club, produced 30.3 tons of corn
silage per acre, utilizing the hybrid, Gutwein 2620.
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