024—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8,1983
Dairy situation dominates Berks Farmers Assn.
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
LEESPORT The Berks Coun
ty Farmers Association held
its 33rd Annual Meeting Sept. 28
and approved proposed policy
changes for 1983. All resolutions
approved at this meeting will be
presented at the state meeting for
further consideration.
Presented to the membership at
the meeting by Vice President
Wilbur Lutz and explained and
defined by President John Koch
with the help of the committee
chairmen, the following
resolutions were approved.
1. We recommend that Act 195
(School teachers tenure) should be
reviewed and overhauled.
2. We recommend a full deposit
system for the bottle container bill.
At Berks Farmers Association annual meeting, Don
Mismer, right, presents certificate for outstanding mem
bership to John Koch, president.
3. We recommend that a slurry
pipeline not be built, (too costly,
pollution problems, land
destruction, and wasted water)
Although President Koch stated
that this was already defeated, by
the railroads, farmers wanted to
go on the record as against it.
4. We recommend that we return
to the old meat grading system.
5. We recommend that a cor
poration loss in beef, poultry, or
feed not be used as a tax write-off.
6. We recommend Support Bill
1449 (price supports) on dairy and
should have an alternate verbal
agreement between state voting
delegates.
7. We recommend the im
plementation of the Wisconsin
Trusteeship method to supplement
the milk security fund program.
The 1984 directors of the jrks County Farmers Association include, from the left,
Earl Hafer, Wilson Rohrbach, Harry Shaak, Gertrude Moore. John Koch. Wilbut Lutz and
Ralph Banner.
(When the dealer’s liability goes
down to a certain point, goes into
trusteeship and the farmer gets
paid first.)
8. We recommend to initiate a
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national emergency feed grain
program for drought stricken
areas.
9. We recommend in any future
milk referendums provisions be
and make all their efforts
pay off.”
made for brand advertising with
matching funds by dairy or co-ops,
and this is to be used for ad
vertising only dairy products.
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Ron Feister. V P.
Agn-Loan Department
Promoting Pennsylvania Products
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For a number of years, we’ve done an
nual promotions focusing on one prod
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dairy; in 1983, pork. We plan to con
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years to come.
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