VOL. 30 No. 32
Duties on Canadian pork just one step away
BY JAMES H. EVERHART
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
Commerce Department has
confirmed its preliminary finding
that the recent surge of Canadian
pork imports has been stimulated
by a Canadian subsidy of pork
producers.
The Department announced its
conclusions in a ruling this week
that confirmed the existence of a
Canadian subsidy of pork exports
to the U.S., and set the amount of
the counterveiling duty that it feels
should be levied to protect the
American pork industry.
Welcome, Jersey Breeders!
Jersey breeders from across the nation will attend the Jersey Cattle Club’s annual
meeting at the Americana Host Farm in Lancaster this week.
BY SUZANNE KEENE
I LANCASTER - Nearly 600
Jersey breeders will be arriving at
the Americana Host Farm Resort
in Lancaster this weekend for the
start of the American Jersey
Cattle Club and the National All-
Jersey Inc. annual meetings.
“We’re really delighted with the
response,” convention co
chairman Helene Dreisbach
reported. The convention,
scheduled Sunday through Wed
nesday, is expected to be the
largest in recent years.
One reason for the excellent
response could be the meeting
agenda, which includes tours of
I-ancaster County Jersey farms,
business meetings, a national
heifer sale and a banquet honoring
retiring American Cattle Club
Executive Secretary James
Cavanaugh.
Cavanaugh will be roasted
during the Cattle Club’s banquet
Tuesday night, when he will also
receive a distinguished service
award for outstanding and un
selfish service to the Jersey breed.
Leading the list of Cavanaugh’s
many contributions are his work
toward increasing production and
marketing Jersey products, Cattle
Club Assistant Secretary Calvin
Covington said
A private reception for
Cavanaugh and his wife will follow
the banquet. Maurice Cove will
take over Cavanaugh’s position
starting July 1.
The Master Breeder award will
go to Newell Mills of Fallon,
Nevada, and seven young couples
will receive Youth Jersey
Dairyman Awards,
Four Sections
“We’re delighted,” said Charles
Harness, spokesman for the
National Pork Producers Council,
which initiated the complaint
about the Canadian subsidies.
The amount of the duty was
raised slightly from earlier
estimates, to a total of $3.21 a
hundredweight on live hogs and
$4.03 a hundredweight on pork
products. The increase amounts to
17 percent over preliminary duties
foi* live hogs, and 4 percent for
pork products.
Harness indicated that the duty
on products may be raised slightly.
Another highlight of the national
convention is the 28th Annual
Heifer Sale, scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon at the Solanco
Fairgrounds. The sale bill features
55 of the nation’s best pedigreed
Jersey heifers
Included on the sale bill is A-
Nine Top Brass, a heifer whose
granddam is a leading lifetime
milk and fat producer in the Jersey
breed. She has three records over
30,000 pounds and in 365 days
produced 32,660 pounds milk and
1,589 pounds fat.
A top Pennsylvania bred heifer
to be sold is Bnarcliff Soldier Boy,
out of a cow with a two year, five
month record of 17,260 pounds milk
and 721 pounds fat. Soldier Boy has
one full brother and one maternal
brother in bull studs.
The Ogston Golden Opportunity
Sale, featuring outstanding Jersey
cows and bred heifers, will be held
Thursday in Columbus, N.J.
Although the sale is not an official
part of the convention activities,
transportation to the sale from the
hotel will be available.
On Monday, convention goers
will have an opportunity to tour
some of I Lancaster County’s out
standing Jersey farms. Included
Jersey Stories
Other stories of inter
est to Jersey breeders
in this week’s Lanc
aster Farming are:
* Ogston Farm A 22
• Jersey Juniors'
Cookbook 822
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 15,1985
He said an apparent clerical error
was made by the government in
calculating the figure, and the
council will attempt to have the
amount raised.
He added that the industry group
was relatively optimistic about the
prospects for favorable final action
on the counterveiling duty request.
The International Trade Com
' mission has 45 days to make its
decision on the case. The com
mission will have to rule that the
U.S. pork, industry is being hurt by
the subsidy, in order to put the
counterveiling duty in effect.
on the tour are.
• MilknHoney Farm, Peach
Bottom, owned by George and
Dons Hough. The Houghs raise 180
Jerseys with 87 milk cows on the
317-acre farm. They have bred a
top AI bull.
•The farm of Paul and Charlotte
Trimble, Peach Bottom. The
Trimbles milk 100 Jerseys and
purchased their foundation herd in
Vermont in 1968.
• The Robert Ulrich, Jr. farm, in
Quarryville. The Ulnchs milk 100
Jersey cows and had the second
high DHIR record for a Jersey
herd in the state in 1984, with 14,102
pounds of milk and 694 pounds fat.
• Lynmoore Farm, Quarryville,
owned by William, Tom and Larry
Aaron. The Aarons stress milk and
fat production on their Jersey
farm.
• An Amish Jersey farm.
During business meetings, the
National All-Jersey Inc. will elect
one new director and will appoint a
new director The American Cattle
Club will re-elect their president,
who is running unopposed, and will
elect four directors.
The Jersey breeders will also
hear from Carl Wolf, president of
First World Cheese Associates in
South Orange, N.J. Wolf’s business
makes about $lOO million of cheese
sales annually and includes Jersey
Pride Cheese in its list of speciality
cheeses.
The 75 to 80 Jersey Juniors ex
pected to attend the convention
will have separate breakfasts on
Tuesday and Wednesday and will
have their own hospitality suite
open during the course of the
meetings.
“We have no indication that the
ITC will not reaffirm its original
ruling made last December and
find that the industry has been
injured by the Canadian subsidy,”
Harness said. “Proving the
amount of the subsidy to the
Commerce Department was the
hardest part.”
Canadian pork producers have
been required to post a bond equal
to the amount of the estimated
subsidy on all pork exported to this
country after April 2. The bond
reportedly will be held until the
Canadian actually makes the
payments to the producers, then
paid into the U.S. treasury if the
ITC affirms the duty.
All funds collected after the
ruling is finalized will be disposed
of in the same way, being retained
in bond until the Canadian
government actually determines
the amount of its subsidies each
year and makes the payments to
producers.
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June is Dairy Month
at Lancaster Farming
LANCASTER - Week three of
l.ancaster Farming's coverage of
Dairy Month focuses on biology,
the genetics and breed charac
teristics that can be so critical to a
dairyman.
The latest research a review
of some important techniques . . .
and a rundown on the traits that
make the different dairy breeds
special. . . it’s all here in this
week’s edition.
The specifics.
• The individual breeds. Officers
of the various dairy breed
associations talk about their
breeds’ distinctive traits. For
more, turn to page A2O.
• The Ogston Golden Op
portunity. A Lancaster Farming
correspondent travels to this
“mecca” of Jersey enthusiasts, to
talk with the people who have
contributed so much to the Jersey
breed. Find out more on page A 22.
• Embryo Transfer. Will E.T.
eclipse A.I. as the 20th Century’s
major contribution to the ad
vancement of dairy science 7 Read
more on page A 26.
• Four decades of A.I. Lancaster
Farming dairy editor Wendy Wehr
talks to some of the people who
helped pioneer artificial in
semination techniques in the 19405.
To hear their account of the early
days of A.I, turn to page A 27.
• New Bolton Center. Where will
the advances of the future be
uncovered? Most probably, in
research facilities like this
University of Pennsylvania
campus near Kennett Square.
Read more on page A 32.
• Research up close and per
sonal. How does it feel to be on the
forefront of agricultural research?
For one woman’s account of the
rigors of the life of a researcher,
turn to page 82.
The request for U.S. intervention
in the matter was filed last
November by NPPC. Both the
Commerce Department and the
ITC, in preliminary findings, had
indicated that the subsidy was
hurting the American pork
producing industry.
Officials in the Commerce
Department said they did not know
if the interim duty or the in
creasing likelihood of an official
counterveiling levy had stem
med the tide of Canadian imports.
“According to what I read in the
Wall Street Journal, the duty has
had a noticeable, but minor effect
on the futures market,” said
Commerce’s Chris Parian.
He added that other reports
indicate prices have continued to
slide in the short run, as Canadian
pork producers begin to liquidate
their holdings.
The NPPC’s Harness noted that
preliminary duty has had an ef
(Turn to Page A 36)
Week 3: Genetics
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