A3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 17,1983
Independent
(Continued from Page AI)
Master, vowed that efforts would
be pushed on both the state and
federal levels to attempt to get
some help.
Wistner listed a number of things
that could and should be done:
- Pennsylvania take action
immediately against foreign in
vestment and the federal govern
ment change tax laws that permit
corporate investment as a tax
shelter.
-Eggs and poultry be included in
the Packers and Stockyards Act to
force prompt payment to
producers.
Eggs be Included in the Farm
Commodities Agreement Act so
that supply-management
referendums can be held.
-Pennsylvania pass stricter
laws protecting egg producers and
other (arm commodity producers.
-Government grain be made
available to poultry producers and
other livestock producers at the
92.91 support price and not the PK
and drought-inflated market price.
-The Farmers Home Ad
ministration make lower interest
loans available to poultry
producers with 200,000 birds or
less.
-Electric rates, which increased
“unmercifully” for poultry
operations, be rolled back for the
remainder of 1985 and the first nine
months of 1984. Wlsmer pointed
directly to the Adams County
Rural Electric Coop.
Foreign investment - Japanese
and West German primarily - was
cited by the Independent egg
producers as a primary factor in
their plight.
egg producer
Foreign investment is putting
new birds in faster than the in
dependent producer is going broke,
it was explained.
Japanese auto money was cited
as behind the installation of some
15 million birds in Pennsylvania
and surrounding states. And, of
course, there’s the huge West
German complex in Ohio. Adams
County has a West German in
stallation, too.
These foreign investors only
need to make money in six out of
their first 12 years, the egg
producers maintained.
“Independent producers all over
the country want supply
management,” Jay Greider said.
“But if a decision is not made
soon, the foreign investors will be
able to control the vote if
referendums are conducted on the
number of birds owned.”
“independent egg producers are
on the edge and if the banks don’t
continue to carry them, you’re
going to see a lot of bankruptcies.”
John Hoffman, executive
director of the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation, questioned the
need (or putting poultry under the
Packers and Stockyards Act.
He said he knew of only one
processor contract for birds -
Mandata - that didn’t include time
limits for payment. (Mandata
recently declared bankruptcy.)
“I’ll show a half-dozen different
contracts that don’t have any time
limits for payment,” replied Jim
Aurand, of Lewistown.
But, in any event, if birds are
included in the Packers and
Stockyards Act (and it’s
questioned how well it is enforced),
eggs are not.
Dorothy Sterner and Wismer
directly challenged the attending
legislators and Ag Sec. Hallowell
to get the legislature to limit
foreign investment in the egg in
dustry.
State law now prohibits foreign
investors from owning more than
100 acres of farmland. But that
requirement is meaningless when
you’re talking about putting up
huge egg complexes, the producers
pointed out.
“We need to get that act
amended now,” Wismer said.
Pennsylvania was called the last
stronghold of the independent
family farm egg producer.
And, the producers point out, it
may end up being Just that - the
last.
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