Producer-paid promotion continues
HARRISBURG - With billions
of dollars spent nationally each
year for “non-agriculture” type
foods, Pennsylvania producers are
making head way, promoting their
own products to retain their place
on consumers’ tables.
According to State Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell,
Pennsylvania’s dairy industry,
apple, peach, cherry, vegetable,
egg, potatoes, beef and pork in
dustries have organized over the
past several years to develop
different types of marketing order
and producer check-off systems.
“These systems allow producers
to channel their monies to ad
vertise Pennsylvania products at
their own discretion with professional
guidance, to maintain
their place in the market area.
Through producer contributions
we are beginning to see increased
consumer awareness in the way
they buy, and the foods they
prepare,” he said.
One of the first Pennsylvania
industries to begin voluntary
producer contributions was the
apple industry. The Agriculture
Marketing Commodity Act was
passed in 1968, at the request of
agriculture organizations and
apple producers. Through a
referendum, the apple industry
began a legislatively mandated
check-off for all producers. The
program’s 1984 budget has grown
to an impressive $400,000, which is
used in television, and radio ad
vertising, print, buyer incentive
promotions, and many other
promotional programs.
Several other producer groups
have voted favorably on the
Agriculture Commodities
Marketing Act including a
marketing program for cherries
and research programs for
potatoes, vegetables and this
spring, peaches and nectarines.
The vegetables research
program, only two years old, is
now bringing vegetable growers
$30,000 from the assessment of
$1.30 per acre for 10 acres plus.
“On the voluntary side, pork'*'
producers, through excellent
organization, have accomplished a
check-off system which began in
Pennsylvania in 1969. Ap
proximately 70 percent of the
state’s pork production is volun
tarily checked-off at 20 cents per
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tn. -
Plans to build a multi-million
dollar animal nutrition research
center were announced recently by
the Eastman Chemicals Division
of Eastman Kodak Company.
When completed in the summer
of 1986, the research facility will
include laboratary space and
accommodations for a variety of
farm animals, including 100 dairy
cows, as well as a feed mill and a
feedlot to accommodate 500 beef
cattle.
Toy F. Reid, a Kodak executive
vice president and general
manager of the Eastman
Chemicals Division (ECD), said
construction is expected to begin
early next year at a 200-acre site in
Washington County, Tn.
“Eastman made known its in
tention to enter the animal
nutrition market when we an
nounced plans to test-market
EASTMAN IsoPlus Nutritional
Supplement in Michigan this fall,”
said Dr. James Chitwood, Kodak
vice president and ECD director of
Research and Development.
IsoPlus is an animal nutrition
product which, during feeding
trials on dairy cows, has generally
resulted in a 10 percent increase in
milk production. Chitwood said
IsoPlus should be commercially
available by the time the research
center is completed.
“The purpose of the research
center, to be called Valleybrook
Farm, is to conduct nutritional
research to benefit animal
production,” said Chitwood. Ap
proximately 30 scientists will
eventually be employed at the
farm. Scientific personnel will
include animal nutritionists,
physiologists, endocrinologists,
microbiologists and veterinarians.
Chitwood expects about an equal
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Kodak to build animal
nutrition research center
$40,000 for their own state-wide
promotions. The total contribution
realized from participating states
in 1983 at NPPC was $9.75 million.
In September, 1983, the Penn
sylvania Beef Council initiated a
voluntary program at 25 cents per
head. To date this voluntary cheek-
number of support personnel to be
required in addition to the scien
tists employed at the research
facility.
Chitwood said Eastman has had
a pioneering research effort in
animal nutrition since the late
19605. He said the company now
has a technical base that draws
upon Eastman proprietary
positions in raw materials, patents
and processing techniques.
Chitwood described those factors
as an appropriate base for entering
a major new growth market in the
animal nutrition business.
Md. grain
producers meet
CENTREVILLE, Md. - The
annual meeting of the Maryland
Grain Producers Association was
held on Thursday, at the Queen
Anne’s County 4-H Park near
Centreville.
Early arrivals could have their
grain moisture meters tested and
tour some nearby corn test plots.
Formal sessions got under way
at 1 p.m. with panel discussions
covering such topics as “The
Situation With Baltimore Export of
Grain,” “Checkoff Programs
An Investment Opportunity,”
“Costly Corn Critters Quarantine”
(addressing the subject of the com
cyst nemaiode), and, “Farming In
Partnership With The Bay. ”
Featured speaker for the day
was Barry Flinchbaugh, Professor
of Agricultural Extension
Economics and Public Policy at
Kansas State University, who
discussed “agricultural policies.”
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promotion, while the remainder is growing rapidly in the promotion
channeled into state-wide of our state’s food products,”
promotion, educational and Haiiowell said. “This is a credit to
research activities. the increased efforts and concerns
Pennsylvania s dairy industry 0 f o ur state’s producers, and tneir
has a tremendous potential to willingness to work together, to
channel more than $1 million accomplish more.”
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