HARRISBURG - The 15 Penn
sylvania food companies
represented at the U.S. In
ternational Food Show in New
York April 15-18 all returned home
with dozens of new leads for
domestic and international trade,
according to State Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell.
“USIFS was a success for
Pennsylvania,” he stated. “After
four days of showing and selling
Pennsylvania’s agricultural and
food products, these companies
have substantially increased their
business contacts. Each company
produced well over 20 new leads
for both domestic and foreign
trade sales.”
Nearly 500 exhibitors and 15,000
buyers were registered for the
show, which is sponsored by the
Eastern United States Agriculture
and Food Export Council, which
Hallowell serves as president.
Hallowell was in New York to open
the trade show, along with Daniel
Amstutz, Undersecretary for
International Affairs for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and
the Right Honorable Edward
Seaga, Prime Minister of Jamaica.
Amstutz noted, “The purpose of
the show is not simply to market
food products, but to serve as a
truly international relations event
of major significance.” Seaga
noted his nation’s presence as
exhibitor and buyer, and called the
international marketplace “a
source of unique and quality
agricultural products.”
Hallowell said he hoped to ex
plore new possibilities in Carib
bean trade with Seaga and other
island nations in the near future.
The show was both a sales tool
and a learning experience for the
exhibitors, buyers and even
visitors. Several Pennsylvania
exhibitors were at a show of this
kind for the first time and were
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Pa, exhibit is success at food show
enthusiastic about their results.
John Newlin of the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Producers In
ternational, which represents
25,800 farmers, said response to
their exhibit was excellent. “We
are feeling our way here,” he said,
“but we are receiving good ex
posure and we’ve been busy. Now
it is a question of confirming and
following up.”
Other firms were equally
pleased with the results. Richard
Harlan of E.W. Knauss & Son, Inc.,
said the show “benefitted us even
before itopened. We are really just
beginning team the potential* nf
UNIVERSITY PARK - Harry
F. Roth, Landisville, has been
named the 1984 Distinguished
Alumnus in Dairy Science at Penn
State. Roth is being honored today
during “Show Day” of the 59th
Annual Dairy Exposition at Penn
State.
Upon graduation from Penn
State, Roth joined the Cooperative
Extension Service as an assistant
county agent in York County. After
a year and a half he accepted a
position as fieldman for the
Western Pennsylvania Artificial
Breeders Cooperative (WPABC) in
Clarion. He later became sire
analyst and in 1960 was named
manager of WPABC.
In 1964, WPABC joined
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ar
tificial Breeders Cooperative to
form Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative (ABC). Roth was
named breed programs director
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these shows for expanding into
export trade.”
Hallowell said the Pennsylvania
pavillion, which featured all 15
firms situated around a Penn
sylvania Dutch buggy owned by
Christian Bieler of Nine Points,
drew a lot of attention from
buyers. “I was extremely pleased
with the reception of our products,
and with the cooperative effort
shown by our Pennsylvania
firms,” Hallowell said. “Many of
our companies actually combined
efforts at sales and continually
referred buyers o/mrApc of
Roth receives
for ABC and still holds that
position in addition to being
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Harry F. Roth
Pennsylvania food products. The
net effect was that Pennsylvania
put on a united front and showed
success at USIFS.”
The Agriculture Secretary said
that other visitors to the show
included members and staff of the
Pennsylvania House and Senate
Committees on Agriculture and
Rural Affairs and state farm
organizations. Senators Noah
Wenger (Lancaster County),
Michael O’Pake (Berks County),
Patrick Stapleton (Indiana
County), and Representative Paul
Wass (Indiana County) attended
dairy science
operations manager where he is
responsible for production,
processing, and distribution of all
semen.
He has served the artificial in
semination industry in many
capacities. He has been a member
of the National Association of
Animal Breeders (NAAB)
research committee, the dairy sire
evaluation and identification
committees, was a member of the
NAAB board of directors, and
served as NAAB president in 1982-
83.
He is a state and nationally
approved dairy cattle judge and
has contributed much to the youth
of the industry. He has served as
chairman of the Pennsylvania All-
American Invitational Youth
Dairy Judging contest and as an
official at the 4-H National Dairy
Cattle Judging Contest. He’s also a
member of Dairy Shrine and
Gamma Sigma Delta honor
society. He served as a member of
the Penn State Ag Arena com
mittee and has served the Grace
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 28,1984—A19
the show on Monday, April 16.
The Pennsylvania exhibitors at
the New York show included
Colonial Beef Company; E.B.
Evans Corporation; Empire
Kosher Poultry, Inc.; Ina Clark,
Inc.; Penn Best (PFA); Reist Seed
Company; Charles G. Summers,
Jr./Hanover Brands, Inc.;
Supergreen, Inc.; Universal
Trading Company; Winmix, Inc.;
E.W. Knauss St Son, Inc.; Simson
Candy Company; S Sc F Honey
Company; Pennsylvania Dutch
Birch Beer; and Penn Dutch
Cookie Company.
Church of the Brethren in Lan
caster m several offices and as a
member of the board of deacons.
Harry Roth and wife Ruth have
three daughters - Ann, a graduate
of Lankenau School of Nursing;
Sarah, a graduate of Mansfield
State University and the
University of Pittsburgh; and
Mary Ellen, recently graduated
from Millersville University.
Roth was raised on a Holstein
dairy farm in Northampton
County. He attended school in
Nazareth, Pa. and graduated from
Penn State with a bachelor of
science degree in dairy science in
1954. As an undergraduate, Roth
was a member of the Dairy
Science Club and was chairman
and show manager of the Dairy
Exposition. He was also a member
of the Ag Hill Society, Coaly
Society and the Delta Theta Sigma
fraternity.
Distinguished alumni in dairy
science at Penn State are chosen
by the faculty within the Depart
ment of Dairy and Animal Science.