VOL 30 No. 28
Motorists in Pennsylvania and New Jersey will be able to
spot ADA/DA’s health kick billboards that are part of an
outdoor campaign.
ADA/DC promotions
target point of purchase
BY SUZANNE KEENE
WILLIAMSPORT - The
American Dairy Association and
Dairy Council are gearing up for
summer milk promotion with
several :.~ograms aimed at hitting
the consumer where it counts at
the grocery store where he makes
his final decision.
"Have a Dairy Good Summer"
and “Ice Cream the Beautiful”
promotions featuring colorful
photos of summer dairy foods will
he placed in 2,000 supermarkets
and convenience stores in ADA's
marketing area, Dairy Marketing
Congressional committee hears
local testimony on Farm Bill
BY JAMES H. EVERHART
WESTMINSTER, MD - A
Congressional subcommittee of the
House Agriculture Committee
heard 29 witnesses from Maryland
and Pennsylvania address credit
and conservation issues in a for
mal committee hearing Monday at
the Carroll County Agricultural
Center here.
The Subcommittee on Con
servation, Credit and Rural
Development convened the
meeting at the request of
Congresswoman Beverly Byron,
whose district includes this
pastoral community.
And though the voices were often
different and the interests, varied,
there was surprising agreement
both on the scope of problems and
the range of solutions.
Virtually all the participants,
including the Congressional
representatives, wanted a
balanced federal budget. Most
thought federal programs were
often counter-productive.
And there was widespread
agreement that Soil Conservation
Four Sections
Specialist Pret Goslee announced
at a meeting of ADA’s executive
board this week.
The materials are presented in
such "a tempting manner” that it
is easy to convince merchandizers
and purchasing agents to use
them, he reported.
To assure that the materials will
stay up in participating stores at
least through July 15, ADA/DC has
developed a contest. Each
promotion kit contains a contest
entry form that the store can enter
in the drawing.
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programs were essential to the
continued health and safety of
agriculture in general and the
rural community in particular.
Witnesses included federal of
ficials like G. Wallace “Pat”
Clark, director of the Farmers
Home Administration in Maryland
and Delaware and Pearhe S. Reed,
State Conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service in College
Park, MD.
Maryland Agriculture Secretary
Wayne A. Cawley Jr. also gave
testimony, along with officials of
the state Soil Conservation
Committee and the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation.
The financial sector was
represented by bankers from
Maryland National, York Bank
and Farm Credit Banks of
Baltimore. Maryland Farm
Bureau, Maryland Grange, the
Pennsylvania Farmers Union and
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association all sent represen
tatives.
And farmers like Marlin Hoff of
New Windsor, MD, and York
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 18,1985
Farm groups divided
on ag secretary nomination
BY WENDY WEHR
HARRISBURG - Governor
Dick Thornburgh drew harsh
criticism from Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association leaders this
week 'for his nomination of Dr.
Richard Grubb as state secretary
of agriculture
But other farm representatives,
including the Pennsylvania State
Grange, spoke up in favor of the
nominee and publicly commended
the Governor on his selection.
Thornburgh announced last
week the nomination of Grubb,
who is senior vice president for
administration at The Penn
sylvania State University, and
holds two agriculture degrees from
Penn State.
In denouncing the Grubb
nomination, PFA president Keith
Eckel said, “There are many
qualified candidates with strong
agricultural backgrounds who
would better represent the
agricultural community.”
When questioned about his ob
jections to the Grubb nomination,
Eckel stated that the secretary of
agriculture should be a person who
is currently active in production
agriculture, who knows the issues
affecting agriculture today, and
who has a working knowledge of
the state’s department of
agriculture.
The secretary of agriculture,
said Eckel, "must be a strong
spokesman for the farmers’ needs
who can argue ably for the far
mers' position. I don’t believe this
Countians Ralph McGregor, Geary
Huntsberger and Paul McPherson
also had their say.
Though there was probably no
new ground covered.
Congressional staffers were im
pressed with the quality of the
testimony.
“It’s true, we’ve probably had
about 15 hearings like this around
the country,’’ said Jim Johnson,
subcommittee staffer. “But it’s the
first opportunity we’ve had to get
out in the country since the budget
compromise package was adopted
by the Senate.”
Even though they didn’t get the
first word on the subject, the local
witnesses may have had one of the
last The Senate has already
begun to draft its version of the
1985 Farm Bill, and the House is
expected to follow fairly soon.
On the credit issue, most
testimony indicated that local
credit problems are not as severe
as those reported in other areas of
the country.
"But if commodity prices con-
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gentleman can do that.”
Response from the governor’s
press office to the PFA objections
was candid. Press officer Michael
Moyle stated that the criticism
from the farm community is
relatively limited.
Although Harrisburg-based PFA
leaders were voicing their
criticisms, said Moyle, PFA
members in other parts of the state
and representatives from other
farm organizations have indicated
that the Grubb nomination was a
fine choice which they can support.
Among the state’s other general
farm organizations, the Penn
sylvania State Grange has publicly
praised Thornburgh for the
U.S. Milk production
climbs 3% in April
BY JAMES H. EVERHART
WASHINGTON - It’s official.
Milk production leaped almost
three percent in April, virtually
erasing the gams made during the
15-month dairy diversion program
that ended March 31
USDA’s figures for April, the
first non-diversion month since
December 1983, jumped 2 9 per
cent over April 1984 figures, to 12
billion pounds.
Most of the increase resulted
from a rise in production per cow,
which climbed more than two
percent to 1,101 pounds.
Cow numbers, on the other hand,
grew more slowly, increasing a
little less than one percent, to
10,903,000, or 97,000 more cows
than in April 1984.
The _cow number figure,
however, approaches the
February 1984 total of 10,910,000,
recorded during the second month
of the diversion program.
Pennsylvania’s figures closely
paralleled the national totals,
increasing about 3.1 percent over
Disking’s a dusty duty
Except for the lack of maturing corn, Pennsylvania
cropland looked more like August than May this month.
With April failing to live up to her reputation, fields took on
a parched, late-summer look throughout much of May.
$7.50 per Year
nomination Grange Master
Charles Wismer sent a note to
Governor Thornburgh this week,
commending him for the selection
of the Penn State administrator for
the agriculture post.
Having worked with Grubb on
Penn State’s board of trustees,
Wismer said he has found the
nominee to be a capable ad
ministrator Wismer believes
Grubbls farm background and his
lack of association with any par
ticular farm group will allow him
to work aggressively for
agriculture, working fairly with all
parties involved.
Grange spokesperson Linda
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April 1984- levels. However, cow
numbers grew more rapidly than
production per cow, increasing
20,000 cows to 738,000. Production
per cow was up five pounds, to
1,075 pounds
New York followed a similar
pattern, recording a 1.6 percent
production rise, to 1 014 billion
pounds The entire increase could
be traced to an increase of 15,000 in
cow numbers, to 935,000.
Production per cow remained
steady at 1,085 pounds
Maryland recorded a whopping
10-percent jump in production to
143 million pounds, with cow
numbers climbing from 120,000 to
122,000, and production per cow
jumping from 1,080 to 1,175 pounds
in April 1984.
Similar figures were recorded in
Federal Order No. 4 (Middle
Atlantic area), where production
increased 5.6 percent to 527 million
pounds in April.
April figures for Order No. 2 and
for Delaware and New Jersey were
not available at press time.