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PMMB: Pros & Cons
BY LAURA ENGLAND
HARRISBURG Testifying
before a group of senators in
Harrisburg Wednesday during the
sunset review of the Pa. Milk
Marketing Board, PMMB chair
man George Brumbaugh said the
absence of the board would have a
negative effect on the welfare of
the commonwealth.
“The absence of Milk Marketing
Board activities of regulating the
price paid to producers, providing
financial security to producers and
enforcing the provisions of the
Milk Marketing Law would have a
negative impact on the public
health and welfare,” Brumbaugh
said in reference to the findings of
the Legislative Budget and
Finance Committee.
Supporting the committee’s
findings, executive director
Richard Dario said that, while the
Keith W. Eckel
National milk promotion:
area men and their ideas
LANCASTER - Two Penn
sylvanians and one Marylander
were appointed to represent
Region 11 on the National Dairy
Promotion Board, Secretary of
Agriculture John Block announced
recently.
The three appointees, leaders in
their respective organizations, are
Keith Eckel, president of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association; Earl R. Forwood,
president of Eastern Milk
Producers Cooperative; and
Walter Martz, president of the
Maryland and Virgina Milk
Things to look for:
This Week Soil Stewardship Week
What does it mean? See the A Section.
Next Week The Future What
does it hold? See the Dairy Issue June 2.
Four Sections
committee supports the basic
function of PMMB to maintain
economic stability, it doesn’t
believe that deregulation of milk
prices would have a negative effect
on the health and welfare of the
public.
“We determined that the Penn
sylvania Milk Marketing Law
appears to contain an overly
restrictive provision in
establishing minimum milk
wholesale and retail prices,” Dario
said, recommeding that con
sideration be given to the
discontinuation of mandatory milk
price setting.
The comments made by
Brumbaugh and Dario were part of
a hearing stemming from the
Sunset Law. The law provides for
an audit by the Legislative Budget
and Finance Committee of each
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Walter Martz
Producers Association. The three
will represent Region 11, an area
encompassing Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland and New
Jersey.
For selections to the National
Dairy Promotion Board, the nation
was divided into 13 geographical
regions with each region having
one to six board members. This
number was dependent on the
volume of milk production
represented in each region. A total
of 36 members were appointed to
the board.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 26,1984
These lambs, owned by Lucy and Lou Rosen of Oxford, were the victims of two free
roaming dogs that found their way into the Rosen’s barn during the early morning hours
on May 9. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Chase, Chester County Press.)
Dogs and coyotes on the prowl
BY JACK HURLEY
OXFORD Lucy Rosen had no
way of knowing what she was
about to find during her early
morning inspection of the sheep
barn on May 9. It was 2:45 a.m.
when she decided to check on a
ram that she suspected might have
overeaten the day before.
“That was a wet, rainy night,
and the first thing I noticed were
the large dog tracks in the mud,”
Rosen recalls.
“When I neared the bam and
heard no sounds coming from the
lamb pen, I knew something was
wrong,” she continues. “It was a
very eerie sensation.”
Only a few days earlier, Lucy
and her husband Lou had returned
from the Maryland Sheep and Wool
Festival where five of their
Romney lambs had placed well in
competition.
Stolen semen
sold in Pa.
BALTIMORE - A Federal
Grand Jury this week handed down
indictments against two men from
New Jersey and Lancaster County
concerning the theft of $300,000 in
bull semen from farms in
Maryland and New Jersey, which
was sold to customers in Penn
sylvania.
The indictments were returned
on Tuesday but announced on
Thursday by the U.S. Attorneys
Office, Baltimore, against Jack J.
Kelly Jr., 27, Atlantic Highlands,
N.J. and Harry B. Zimmerman, 34,
of Ronks, Lancaster County.
The indictments included counts
of conspiracy, receiving stolen
goods and the distribution of stolen
goods in interstate commerce.
The semen included $265,000
worth taken in Maryland and
$50,000 in New Jersey.
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Several flocks raided
But the two German Shepherd
type dogs that Lucy was about to
catch in the act of butchering
Butternut Farm’s sheep were
hardly impressed with the lambs’
credentials. Of the six lambs in the
pen, two lay dead, and the
remaining four had all been in
jured.
Lucy ran to the house for help,
and together with her husband,
managed to coral one of the dogs.
With no license or other clues
Donald Lutz, Berks County farmer, brings two potted
thistles to Noxious Weed meeting at Harrisburg.
Pa. updating ‘weed hit list’
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
HARRISBURG Farmers are
fed up with troublesome weeds in
Pennsylvania.
And, farmers are also fed up
with the lack of bureaucratic
cooperation between some state
agencies in, not only failing to
control such weeds, but in
disregarding responsibility for
their introduction in sections of the
state
$7.50 per Year
concerning the animal's rightful
owner, the dog was later destroyed.
Of the four injured lambs, one
died the same day, and a second
animal was put to sleep two days
later. The final death toll; four
sheep and one stray dog.
Living on their three-acre far
mette west of Oxford in Chester
County, the Rosens are no
strangers to dog-sheep con
frontations. Only six weeks before
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These twm observations became
apparent on Tuesday at a meeting
of the Pa. Noxious Weed Com
mittee - one of the first since the
Commonwealth legislated an of
ficial “horticultural hit list’ - about
a year ago.
Purpose of this week's meeting,
attended by only two of the five
members of the committee, was to
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