WILLIAMSPORT - "Enjoy The by the American Dairy Association throughout Pennsylvania. Jreat Cheeses of America,” is the and Dairy Council (ADA/DC). The promotion makes use of heme of a spring cheese ADA/DC will place the promotion point-of-purchase materials which iromotion being sponsored locally in ° ver 17° supermarkets are placed in supermarket dairy * - I j* * * 9 Point-of-purchase materials have been placed in dairy cases throughout ravo 500. ield Jftl 1.2 W rSni ,yc * ADA/DC promotes cheese* in central Pennsylvania %,^VI [L * „tor [i t KBtc* 1 !$,l , s — I i- «SHF t Jf WJi > U \A -V/ WiM F&d iViWi W < 'Sfe ( ' s^-. r /'** , f f j w f * A 4. >• 1-0 ' ■&&* r/fcr h «% m * r * ■*' t *»»»♦' '*•** '"* 4*^, I ’ennsylvama .6 Ifl * «? - *,, 11 'A? V IV ■iT' % r r 1 f y. i&fj* yf. wdj cases The materials consist of red, white, and blue mobiles, danglers, and banners which draw shopper’s attention to the cheese section of the dairy case They encourage shoppers to purchase domestic cheeses such as cheddar, mozzarella, colby, montere> jack, Swiss, blue, muenster and American The supermarket promotion is through the end of April being supported by $4.1 million in v ADA/DC is a dairy producer national television advertising funded and directed milk The ads tell consumers to look for promotion agency serving the the “Great Cheeses of America’’ Federal Order 2 area of Penn promotion at their grocer’s dairy sylvama, New York and New case. Jersey. Dairy farmers interested Included with the promotion is a consumer sweepstakes, with a grand prize of Lifetime Travel on American Airlines; first prize is a Magnavox Home Entertainment Center. The sweepstakes is also Foreign-held U.S. farmland WASHINGTON agricultural land owned by foreign interests rose from 13.7 million acres to 14 million acres as of October 8, 1984, according to J. Peter Deßraal, a research at- 1 t ' / i^kJ %-*V HsK^Sfck SS$iJ& y* ’**®m t - * 1 41. % \ 1 f A Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 20,1985-A23 rises to 14 million acres P V ! y***' Z, ”«**. i^%ii being promoted through national newspaper inserts Participating stores in Penn sylvania include ACME, Laneco, Giant-Shur Save, IGA Food Mart, and several other independent grocery stores This is one of four annual supermarket promotions being sponsored locall> of ADA/DC dairj farmers It will run in learning more about their dairy promotion program are en couraged to call ADA/DC’s Williamsport office at (7171 323- 2552 or call tollfree 1-600-HOT MILK. torney with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. The 14 million acres represent slightly more than 1 percent of U.S. agricultural land. Forest land accounts for 57 percent of all foreign-owned acreage; cropland, 14 percent; pasture and other agriculture, 24 percent; and nonagricultural and unreported uses, 5 percent. Corporations own 83 percent of the foreign-held acreage; part nerships, 9 percent; and in dividuals, 7 percent. The remaining 1 percent is held by estates, trusts, associations, in- U.S stitutions, and others. U.S. corporations with 5 percent or more foreign ownership reported owning 62 percent of all the foreign-trade acreage. The remaining 38 percent is held by foreign persons not affiliated with a U.S. corporation. Some land is held only in part by foreign investors. These partial interests reduce the 14 million acres of foreign holdings of U.S. agricultural land to an equivalent of 12.6 million acres. Foreign persons from Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, West Germany, and the Netherlands Antilles own 73 percent of the foreign-held acreage. The largest foreign-owned acreage, mostly timber land, was in Maine, accounting for 15.5 percent of the state’s privately owned agricultural land. Foreign holdings in Maine represent about one-fifth of all reported foreign owned land nationwide. Three large timber companies own 95 percent of the foreign-held acres in Maine. One company has only partial interests in 32 percent of the acres and the other two companies are U.S. companies which are partially foreign owned. Except for Maine, foreign holdings are concentrated in the South and West-36 percent in the South and 27 percent in the West. Rhode Island is the only state with no reported foreign-owned agricultural land. These findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted to USD A under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978. The reports indicate foreign owners planned to keep 92 percent of their acreage in agricultural produciton. They also reported no change m tenancy or rental arrangements on 41 percent of the acres, some change on 31 percent of the acres, and “no response” for the remaining 28 percent. Foreign holdings in Penn sylvania total 176,656 acres; in Maryland, 47,313; in New York, 381,264; in New Jersey, 26,419; and, in Delaware, 8,310.