*l2-Linca»ttf Farming, Saturday, October 13,1984
HARRISBURG - Three top
Pennsylvania companies have
been nominated for the 1984
Governor’s Export Award for
Agriculture, according to State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell. The award will be
presented Monday, Oct. 22, during
the Pennsylvania International
Trade Conference at the Hyatt
Hotel in Pittsburgh.
The three firms vying for the
award are International
Agricultural Associates of
Nazareth, Northampton County;
Matson Wood Products of
Brookville, Jefferson County; and
Sire Power, Inc. of T-j-khann^'-k,
CAMP HILL Pennsylvania
Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Association (PACMA),
the marketing cooperative of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association, completed its first
ever export sale Thursday with the
loading of 60 feeder pigs aboard a
cargo ship in Port Elizabeth, N.J.
Brooks End sale reported
BEAVERTOWN - Brooks End
and Par Kay Farms held their
annual Fall Sail on Oct. 5. The sale
totaled $59,030.00 for 174 head. The
average per hog was $339.
The top-selling animal was a
Yorkshire Boar RTB4 Paramount
14-8 at $1700.00, purchased by Sam
Lane, Dover, N.C. The top-selling
Yorkshire Bred Gilt was Lot 16
purchased by Hanna Etzler
Beavertown, for $450.00 The top
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3 firms vie for Pa. ag
Wyoming County.
The Governor’s Export Award
recognizes Pennsylvania com
panies which have achieved ex
cellence in international trade.
Awards are made in three
categories: agriculture,
manufacturing and service.
“ Exporting agricultural
products has helped America
become the largest producer of
goods and services in the world.
Agriculture, the number one in
dustry in Pennsylvania and the
nation, plays a key role in main
taining the country’s leadership in
international trade and com-
Pa. pigs sold to Bermuda
for a three-day voyage to Ber- ~ , . , ~
muda effort, in breaking ground in mis
PACMA president, S. Richard f rea - We feel f P orts "[ill give
Moyer of Winfield, said, “The fa ™ e ” exp « , ma / ke i t °?'
shipment is relatively small, but P°rtunities. PACMA s first sale
numbers are unimportant right Jl as a , earaln B experience,
now. What is significant, not only a * we ve been successful,
for PACMA but all Pennsylvania w . e re , 00^ln ® forward to corn
farmers, is that we’ve finally Pf e f ln B larger sales in the future
succeeded, after a lot of time and lnvo vln ® a wl( * e range of farm
selling Landrace Boar was Lot 131
purchased by James Young,
Wellsboro, for $325.00. The top
sellilng Landrace Bred Gilt was
Lot 63 purchased by Norman
Watson Cornish, Maine for $450.00.
Averages include 31 head of
Yorkshire Bred Gilts, $360; 40 head
of Yorkshire Boars, $567 ; 71 head
of Yorkshires, $477.
31 head of Landrace Bred Gilts,
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merce,” Hallowell said.
The State Department of
Agriculture encourages Penn
sylvania agribusinesses to expand
services into the international
sector. The Governor’s Export
Award is one way to recognize
those agribusinesses that have
done so successfully.
International Agricultural
Associates derives 100 percent of
its income from exported goods as
it is organized exclusively to ex
port a broad range of agricultural
commodities. These commodities
include feedstuffs and hay,
vegetable and forage seeds,
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$342; 4 head of Landrace Boars,
$309; 35 head of Landrace, $338.
6 head of Commercial Bred
Gilts, $328 ; 62 head of Comm. Open
Gilts, $183; 68 head of Comm. Gilts,
$196.
This sale offering sold into 8
different states. Much of this sale
offering featured imported
bloodlines. Next sale will be held at
the farm Jan. 18.
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215/696-5483
export award
agricultural chemicals, livestock
equipment and supplies, as well as
live cattle.
In 1983 the company had total
sales of $647,500. The firm employs
two people and reports that sales
for the first quarter of 1984 were 30
percent greater than the same
period in 1983.
Matson Wood Products, the
hardwoods and lumber subsidiary
of Matson Lumber Company, had
sales of $l2 million in 1983, and 59
percent of those sales were ex
ported products. The firm’s export
sales have more than doubled in
the last five years. Those in-
commodities.”
PACMA arranged the sale by
finding a supplier to fill an order
received by INAGRA, Inc., an
export company headquartered in
Nazareth, Pa. The order, for what
is believed to be the first feeder pig
export to Bermuda, was placed by
Raymond White, for use at the
Horse and Buggy Restaurant on
the island.
The pigs were supplied by John
C. Wagner, a PACMA member and
operator of White Oak Mills,
Lancaster Couny. The shipment
was made from the Genesis
Farrowing Unit, an 800-sow
operation near Carlisle.
PACMA is a farmer-owned and
controlled cooperative which buys
and sells feed, feed ingredients and
livestock for members. It .also
provides other services including
forward contracting, spent hen
marketing and processing apple
bargaining.
creased sales meant 30 new jobs at
Matson Wood Products.
Sire Power is an artificial in
semination cooperative, one of the
oldest animal breeding
organizations in the world. In 1983,
24 percent of the firm’s $6.3 million
sales were of exported products.
However, this figure accounts tor
35 percent of the company’s sales
volume.
Sire Power reports it has entered
a previously closed market,
Canada. To do so, the company
met strict health requirements
imposed specifically by that
market. The company exports to a
variety of countries, including
Canada, Chile, Mexico and
Uruguay.
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cover crops such as rye, what, or
barley. All of these are not toxic
when frozen and usually do not
present any bloating problems
However, the legumes such as
clover and alfalfa should be grazed
carefully. They are not toxic, after
being frosted, but will cause severe
bloating if consumed while the
frost is on the leaves. Allow the
frost to thaw, and the plants to dry
off, before turning in the herd or
flock.
Also, any of the sudan grasses or
sorghum hybrids should not be
grazed for at least a week after
being frozen.
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