BY JUDY HULL
Staff Correspondent
GETTYSBURG - Concerns
about preserving the small family
farmer and maintaining a voice in
the decision making process were
discussed Wednesday at a meeting
of representatives of the poultry
industry in Adams County where
the United Egg Producers’
proposed marketing order for eggs
was reviewed.
John Hoffman, executive
director of the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation, told the group
he is certain there will be problems
getting producers involved in the
marketing order at the national
level. He guaranteed them,
however, that producers will not be
shut out.
“A marketing order is con
trolling production,” he said.
“This is right down your alley.”
In reviewing the proposed order,
the group expressed concern about
the 18-person board which could
administer the marketing order.
They questioned the nominating
process and asked about the power
of the secretary of agriculture to
appoint members to the board.
Discussion was held on the
voting procedure that could be
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Egg marketing order discussed
used to adopt the marketing order.
The present proposal would
require two-thirds of the producers
voting to pass, or 51 percent of the
producers voting with two-thirds of
the volume. Such a stipulation
could, according to the group,
result in the small producer having
no say. The concensus was, one
producer, one vote.
Under the research and
promotion section of the proposed
order one possible provision calls
for the assessment on producers of
one cent per dozen of eggs, with the
money to go for research and
promotion.. Those attending
Wednesday’s meeting stated they
felt one cent to be too high.
“What are they going to do with
all of that money,” more than one
person asked. They also
questioned whether research and
promotion even need to be included
in the marketing order,' smce,
according to the group, the
American Egg Board already has
a national referendum on research
and promotion.
Proposed sections on surplus
removal and quantity control were
debated at length. The consensus
was that egg and hen removal
should be tied together under
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surplus removal and that par
ticipation in the removal program
should be mandatory and not
voluntary, as the proposed order
states.
However, the big question in
discussing these two areas was,
what is going to preserve the small
family farmer, surplus removal or
quantity control.
Bill Murray, Adams County
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HONESDALE Judges for the
agricultural exhibits at the Wayne
County Fair have been announced
by the Agricultural Extension
Service. Judging junior and open
class vegetables on Tuesday,
August 7 will be Alfred Skala,
County Agricultural Agent,
Luzerne County; William Kleiner,
County Agent, Lackawanna
County; and Paul Craig, County
Agricultural Agent, Monroe
County.
Ralph Sands, Holstein breeder
from Wyoming County will judge
the Junior Dairy Show on Wed
nesday, Auguest 8, beginning at
9:30 a.m. At 1:00 p.m. the same
day Tim Livingston, beef breeder
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is asking poultrymen to choose one
area. “Surplus removal gives you
the flexibility to add birds as long
as there is no surplus. Under
quantity control you can’t do that,
” he said.
Hoffman added that quantity
control protects the family farmer,
but said he feels it is the one sec
tion everyone will reject on the
question of base. “What year do
base it o” ” he asked.
Wayne judges announced
from Dover, Pa., York County will
judge the Junior Beef Show.
On Thursday, August 9 Clyde
Meyers, County Agricultural
Agent from Berks County will
judge the Junior Swine Show
beginning at 9 a.m. and the Open
Beef Show at 1 p.m. At 10 a.m. on
August 9 James Diamond,
Assistant Professor of Agricultural
pointed out. “I think a policy that
guarantees everyone success is
bad for agriculture. We still need a
safety n**t hut not a guarantee. ”
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The group also expressed con
cern about the short amount of
time poultrymen have been given
to comment on the proposed order.
According to Murray, UEP hopes
to have the document submitted to
USDA by early fall. The group
decided that a united effort must
be made by local agricultural
groups if their concerns are to be
heard at the national level.
Extension Education at Penn State
will judge the Junior Sheep Show.
Dennis Wolff, of Penn Cole
farms, Columbia County will judge
the Open Dairy Show at 9:30 a.m.
on Friday, August 10 while at the
same time Clyde Brubaker, sheep
breeder from Lancaster County
will judge the Open Sheep Show.
Farm Bill
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How will the Farm Bill affect
dairy operations in the Northeast?
“I think a system of annually
adjustable price supports will
provide a fairly stable dairy in
dustry,” Durando said. “But we’ve
still got to eliminate a million
cows, and down the road we’ll need
fewer and fewer cows as higher
yielding animals come on board.”
Going one step further, Eckel
asserted that the necessary
reduction in cows will also mean
• the loss of some dairy farmers. But
due to Pennsylvania’s advantages
in terms of location and production
efficiency, Eckel predicted that
the number of Keystone State
dairymen would remain relatively
stable.
Durando then pointed out that
price supports aren’t always a
necessary evil.
“About one-half of production
agriculture receives no direct
price assistance,” Durando stated.
“And in spite of this, we have no
shortage of commodities such as
beef, hogs, fruits and vegetables,
nor of producers of these com
modities.”
Turning to the subject of grains,
Durando called for loan rates that
are “market clearing in nature,
and relative to world price.”
Eckel underscored the im
portance of exports to the
American farmer, emphasizing
that we cannot develop more
markets without being competitive
on the world market. He remarked
that a sufficient number of
markets exist for American
products, but, as yet, many of
them still don’t have the ability to
pay.
“If we want to really improve
the picture, we might find it more
comfortable to support aid
programs to underdeveloped
nations,” the PFA president said.
“The demand is there, and
eventhough the ability to pay is not
there right now, sometime it will
happen. Perhaps a very
aggressive ag policy would be to
support those nations.”
Though much of the discussion
centered on dairy farming in the
Northeast, Durando /pointed out
that all farm programs are in
terrelated and that all farmers
have a very important stake in the
making of the bill.
Stressing the importance of
input from all sectors of
agriculture, PFA administrative
secretary Richard Newpher ob
served that, in the past, the Nor
theast has not been active enough
politically in structuring a farm
bill prior to its passage.
“Certainly it’s going to be a
compromise, but the Northeast has
a stake, and we have to remember
that this bill will be the primary
rule for agriculture foi the next
four years,” Newpher said.