State dairy program seeks federal order participant addresses
HARRISBURG - The Penn
sylvania Dairy Promotion
Program Advisory Board is
seeking addresses of federal order
dairy farmers who contribute to
the state program in order to send
them copies of the Board’s
newsletters, according to State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell, chairman of the
program’s Advisory Board.
“We feel it is important that
dairymen know and understand
how their 10 cent check-off is being
used to promote Pennsylvania
milk and dairy products,”
Hallowell said. “This newsletter is
a forum for the Pennsylvania
Dairy Promotion Program Ad
visory Board to inform and
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educate its financial suppdrters.”
However, Hallowell said that
names and addresses of federal
order dairymen who have ear
marked their 10 cents for the state
program are not available from
the federal order market ad
ministrators. He urged those
farmers who wish to receive the bi
monthly newsletter to contact the
state Department of Agriculture.
More than 2,500 farmers
received Hie newsletter’s first
mailing in late October. These
farmers contribute to the program
directly or through non-order
dealers who provide the Advisory
Board with .access to addresses,
Hallowell said.
Dairymen who wish to receive
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the newsletter should call or write
the Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Markets, 2301 N.
Cameron Street. Harrisburg, PA
17110-9408, telephone (717) 787-
4210. The producer should provide
full name, address, county and zip
code by November 25. The
producer does not have to identify
either the dealer or cooperative
where he ships his milk.
Hallowell said the second issue
of the newsletter is scheduled for
late November.
The Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program was created
under provisions of the National
Dairy Promotion Program.
Federal legislation passed in 1983
established a mandatory deduction
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