E24-Uncastw Farming, Saturday, Fabruary 16,1985
UNIVERSITY PARK - A.
Kermit Birth retired Jan. 1 as
professor emeritus of Agricultural
Economics Extension at Penn
State University. After 36 years as
a poultry and egg marketing
specialist, Birth plans to stay
active and continue to write ar
ticles for the industry. “My most
frustrating experience during
retirement will be what not to do,”
Birth says.
During his career, Birth has
developed and conducted
numerous educational programs
for poultry producers,
wholesalers, retailers and con
sumers. He has studied the
marketing of eggs and poultry
products with an emphasis on
improving quality, such as
reducing shell damage. Birth has
been instrumental in developing a
classification system for iden
tifying causes of egg shell damage.
He has also assisted in
developing a computerized broiler
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management information system
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and marketing businesses to help
management in the changing
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Early in his career, Birth
created a poultry merchandising
program for retail meat
managers. For 36 years, he has
helped develop educational poultry
exhibits for the Pennsylvania
Farm Show. Birth has published a
Poultry Marketing Information
newsletter for 35 years, em
phasizing economics in the m-
LEESPORT - To assure far
mers that they are in complaince
with the 1985 acreage reduction
requirements and eligible for farm
program benefits, the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service provides pre
measurement and other land
measurement services.
At the request of the producer,
the agency will stake and measure
any type of acreage, or portions
thereof. “To be certain that
program requirements are met,
farmers are required to plant
within the stakes that are placed
when the land is pre-measured,”
said cnnntv ASCS official OnnaM
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Fickes Silo Co, Newville, PA
Joseph M. Fisher & Sons, York, PA
S G. Lewis and Son, Inc., West Grove, PA
R.T Markle Farm Equip., Inc., State College, PA
Marshall Machinery, Inc., Honesdale, PA
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dustry. He has had articles
published in industry magazines in
the United States, South America
and Central America.
Birth is active in the Extension
Professors Association, Epsilon
Sigma Phi, American Agricultural
Economics Association, the
Poultry Science Association and
the Pennsylvania Poultry
land measurement services
Lutz, “and report their crop
acreages to our office after
planting.”
He said pre-measurement is
important in helping farmers plan
the amount of land to devote to the
acreage conservation reserve
(ACR) and planted acreages of the
program crops. The ACR is
cropland removed from production
and put into conserving uses under
the 1985 acreage reduction
programs. The programs require
farmers to reduce their 1985 feed
grain and extra long staple cotton
acres by 10 percent; wheat and
upland cotton by 30 percent; and
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Stoulfer Bros., Inc., Chambersburg, PA ...
Lloyd Sultobaugh, Camp Hill, PA
Swope and Bashore, Inc., Myerstown, PA ~.
Tam Agri Corp., Dillsburg, PA
Unionlown Farm Equipment, Cnlontown, PA.
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Arnett's Garage, Hagerstown, MD
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Federation. He has served
advisor to the Pennsylvania Egj
Marketing Association and is a
member of Gamma Sigma Delta.
Birth received his bachelor ol
science degree in agricultural
education from Penn State. He
earned a master of science degree
in agricultural economics, also
from Penn State.
rice by 35 percent, according t<
Lutz.
To be eligible for price support
loans, target prices and other
program benefits, Lutz said
producers must certify actual
planted acreages.
Other ASCS producer services
include measuring total cropland,
field or subdivisions to be planted
and land areas for other purposes.
Fees vary, based on the type of
service rendered.
In order to schedule pre
meaurement service requests on a
timely basis, farmers are en
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