ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland
Secretary of Agriculture, Wayne
A. Cawley, Jr., met last week with
Governor Harry Hughes, members
of the Southern Maryland
delegation to the General
Assembly and Farm Bureau of
ficials concerning this year’s
chaotic tobacco market conditions.
“We are faced with an ex
traordinary problem due to last
year’s drought on one hand and
supply and demand factors on the
other”, Cawley reported to the
group. The combination of these
problems bearing down at one time
may be more than individual
farmers in Southern Maryland can
deal with on their own this year”,
he said.
A possible marketing alternative
designed to improve the situation
was suggested by Cawley. It would
consist primarily of a self-help
program operated by the industry
itself in which tobacco not sold in
the market would be placed in a
pool for marketing at a later date.
The program would be presided
over by a group representing
producers who would take charge
of tobacco which fanners did not
sell because of low bids or lack of
bids on the auction floor.
Managers of the program, in
cooperation with warehousemen
and tobacco packers located in the
state would implement a system
for placing certain grades of
tobacco into a pool which would
work in the following manner.
Tobacco passed over by buyers
or receiving bids deemed too low
could then be placed in the pool
holding area of the warehouse.
At the time a farmer voluntarily
consigns his tobacco to the pool he
would surrender outright control of
it.
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On a regular basis, pool tobacco
would be moved from the
warehouses to a cooperating
packer’s plant where it would be
officially graded by USDA per
sonnel and packed into large (800-
1,000 pound) containers and then
moved to holding storage at ap
proved locations.
Pool tobacco would then be of
LEESPOH'i - The Goatherders
organization of Berks County has
announced its activities for April
as well as important dales to
remember for the coming months.
For starters, the Goatherders
received an invitation from the
Delaware Valley Milk Goal
Assocalion to attend a meeting
April 8, at 1 p.m., at the Boyerlown
Borough Hall in Boyertown. The
program's topic is "Dairy Goal
Nutrition, Current Research and
Practical Applications,” which
will be given by George F. Haelein
of the University of Delaware. A
question and answer period and
refreshments will follow
The Goalherders next meeting is
scheduled for April 18, at 7.30 p.m.,
ai the Berks County Agricultural
Center. Berks County extension
agent Clyde Myers will provide an
update on mastils
Upcoming events include pai
ucipalion m Ag Day, an annual
event held on Fenn Square,
planned for Aug 30 and 31 The
event is sponsored by the Farm-
City Council, with Clyde Myers as
secretary
Goalherders membeh Mary
Lllen Spoils was invited to attend
the committee's March 2b
J farming
Md. tobacco pool suggested
Goatherders plan events
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fered for sale with anyone eligible
to find qualified buyers in the
United States or abroad. Tenders
from would-be buyers would be
brought to the managing group
which would consider them and
accept or reject them.
As tobacco was sold from the
pool, farmers with leaf in the pool
would be pf’’' 1 on a pro basis.
meeting, along with Myeis
Members are asked to present any
ideas concerning the type of
display which the club should use
during the April meeting.
Spoils also planned to allend a
meeting March JO with
lepresenlalives from the Berks,
Montgomery, Lehigh and Bucks
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Potato stocks decrease
HARRISBURG Total stocks of
potatoes stored in Pennsylvania on
March 1 were 1,350,000 hun
dredweight (cwt.), 36 percent less
than a year ago, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service. Of this amoung, 825,000
cwt. was stored in processors’
facilites, representing 61 percent
of the total stocks.
Stocks are defined as the
quantity remaining in storage for
all purposes and uses, including
shrinkage and waste and other
losses that occur after the date of
each report. Stocks may also in
clude potatoes produced in other
states. Sales of fall potatoes for all
purposes generally account for
about 90 percent of the total fall
production. Shrinkage, loss and
£egtoresl
P.O. Box 366, Lititz, PA 17543
Phone
717-626-1164 or 394-3047
All efforts would be made to keep
overhead expenses involved in
receiving, grading, packing and
storing at low levels, helped,
perhaps, by the volume involved.
Interested parties are requested
to consider this suggestion and
communicate their views to five
Southern Maryland Farm Bureau
nrociH»rit<! Mr. Stuart Carr of the
concerning me spring goat urn-
terence
Ooatbeidei Anne Kutb planned
iwu club trips On May 5, members
aie invited to visit Anne and Halpb
Bulb s raw milk dairy. A visit to
Donna Kennedy and Debbie
Mikulak s wool piocessing
opetation is planned toi June 2 '
home use account for the
remaining ten percent.
March 1 potato stocks totaled an
estimated 108 million cwt. for the
15 states in the stocks program,
down 11 percent from a year ago
and three percent below the March
1, 1982 stocks. The storage total
accounted for 39 percent of fall
potato production compared with
41 percent a year ago.
Maryland State Tobacco
Authority, or Mr. Bradley H.
Powers, Chief of MDA’s Marketing
Services Section as soon as
possible.
“By no means is this a perfect
plan and much needs to be worked
out. That’s why industry is
needed,” concluded Mr. Cawley.
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NEWARK, Del. Each year
more farmers and gardeners start
U-pick operations to market
seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Though this is generally a fast,
economical way to sell fresh
produce, success depends very
much on skillful management.
The Delaware Cooperative
Extension Service publication,
“Management of Pick-Your-Own
Marketing Operations, ” covers all
aspects of running a U-pick
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The 66-page booklet includes tips
on planning, organizing,
publicizing and operating this type
of venture. It tells how to identify
and reach potential customers,
schedule production and lay out
fields, design facilities such as
parking and check-out systems, set
prices, deal with customers and
employees, and reduce the risk of
accidents.
Individual copies are available
for $l. To order, write: Mail Room,
Townsend Hall, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE19717-1303.
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