D4-Lancnter Farming Saturday, July 20,1985
DES MOINES, lowa - Penn
sylvania’s pork producers show
an overwhelming support for a
national 100-percent pork producer
checkoff program according to
results in a national survey.
Eighty-four percent of Penn
sylvania pork producers
responding to the poll said they
were in favor of the proposed
program. A total of 56 Penn
sylvania producers responded. The
survey was mailed by the National
Pork Producers Council to its
130 head shown at Nat'l
Jr. Shorthorn Show
MILWAUKEE, Wise. - For the
second consecutive year, a Hoyt
bred female has topped all entries
at a National Junior Shorthorn
Heifer Show. The 1985 show, for
American Junior Shorthorn
Association members, was held
July 3, in Milwaukee, Wise.
Judging the show was Randy
Cates, Cates Farms, Modoc, Ind.,
and Dr. Tom Turner, Ohio State
University, Columbus, Oh. Over 80
exhibitors representing 13 states
participated in this annual show.
HS Miss Hi Desert 4446*,
exhibited by Cyndi Hoyt, Burns,
Ore., was chosen the grand
champion female over*the 130-head
event. After winning her class,
Miss Hi Desert went on to claim
the summer and grand cham
pionships. She was also the bred
and-owned champion in the show.
Statistics on the heifer are; bom-
May 5,1984; weight-1,110 pounds;
weight per day of age (WDA)- 2.63
pounds; hip height- 54.75 inches;
and frame score- 8.3. This heifer is
sired by HS Guiding Light, and her
dam is HS Desert Bloom 163 ‘car.
She is a maternal half-sib to last
Pork producers favor checkoff program
110,000 members.
“The survey was conducted to
give individual producers a chance
for direct input on the proposed
program,” states NPPC
President, Ron Kahle, Kearney,
NE. “We were surprised by the
overwhelming response to the
plan. When 12,000 producers
respond to a national survey and 81
percent favor a proposal such as
this, we’re confident there is broad
support in all states, including
year’s grand champion female at
the National Junior Shorthorn
Heifer Show.
Reserve grand champion female
was GR Bonnie Rachel, exhibited
by Rachel Schilling, Lake Fork, 11.
She was also the Senior Champion
female. On show day she weighed
1,376 pounds, had a WDA of 2.34
pounds, stood 56.25 inches tall at
the hip, and had a frame score of
7.8. Calved November 18,1983, her
sire is IDS Duke of Dublin, and her
dam is Bonnie Ruberta.
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Pennsylvania.”
Kahle announced the formation
of a pork producer task force
aimed at gathering producer input
into the proposed 100 percent in
vestment program. Represen
tatives from all 38 NPPC member
states will serve on the task force,
which will study the proposal and
recommend any changes in the
current legislated draft.
“For maximum individual
producer input, Pennsylvania pork
producers are encouraged to
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Dave Reinecker, York Springs
state pork producers association
president Steve Burkholder,
Alburtis, or Pennsylvania national
director, Eugene Wingert, St.
Thomas, Kahle added.
NPPC has also established a toll
free hotline for producers’
questions and comments on the
plan. Producers can call: 1-800-255-
2255, code 7675.
Results of pork producers input
will be considered at a NPPC
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special delegate meeting to be held
July 24-25 at the Airport Regency
in Des Moines. At that meeting,
NPPC’s 150 delegates will consider
the 100 percent proposal and in
corporate any changes before it is
introduced into Congress.
The plan would support in
creased pork promotion and ad
vertising, expand food service and
pork merchandising programs,
encourage new product
development, increase research
and other vital industry projects.
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