continues growth
HERSHEY - PACMA, the
marketing affiliate of the Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association
(PFA), continued to grow in 1985,
PACMA manager Marlin Miller
reported recently.
Miller reported the PACMA
membership increased nearly 10
percent, “...strong evidence that
more and more members are
gaining a better understanding'of
the need for professional
assistance in their marketing
endeavors.”
PACMA provides services for
the marketing of feeder cattle,
cattle, feeder pigs, hogs, feed
ingredients, grain, spent hens,
seed potatoes, and processing
apples. PACMA also provides
forward contracting for cattle,
hogs and grain and is involved in
developing new markets for
Pennsylvania farm commodities.
Miller reported that PACMA
marketed $3O million worth of
farm commodities in 1985, up from
$23 million in 1984. “Enhanced
membership awareness of the
programs plus the addition of more
sales representatives in the
country contributed to the con
tinued success of PACMA’s cash
marketing programs,” Miller said.
PACMA added four new, local
sales representatives during the
year.
PACMA also established the
Commodity Futures Service, and
added another staff member in
1985 to improve its futures
marketing service. As a result,
Miller reported, the number of
forward contracts written through
PACMA doubled during the year.
PACMA acquired a new
responsibility in 1985, the operation
of PFA’s newest division,
PROFITS, created to research and
develop new marketing
techniques, new products and new
marketing opportunities for farm
commodities.
PACMA also helped two new
producer cooperatives get started
during the year, Miller reported.
The Penn Quality Meats
Cooperative of veal, beef and dairy
beef producers and the Penn Mar
Cooperative of pork producers
plan to purchase and operate
packing plants m central Penn
sylvania.
Miller said, “Their goal carries
out past PFA voting delegate
recommendations to establish
integrated cooperatives con
trolling production, processing and
marketing for higher profits in
agriculture.”
Project (8 help
market hay
UNIVERSITY PARK - Small
scale hay producers in
Southeastern Pennsylvania are
invited to partioipate in a special
hay marketing project sjronsored
by the Cooperative Extension
Service. Using funds secured
through Penn State’s Small Farms
Program, producers can have
their hay sampled, tested and
advertised for sale by hay quality
during this marketing season.
This project is designed to open
up new marketing opportunities
for the producers whose gross
farm income is less than $50,000. In
addition to helping market hay,
this project also will fund a hay
newsletter and several hay
production/marketing meetings
throughout the region in 1986.
These would be available to all
interested hay producers.
The sponsoring Cooperative
Extension personnel are Bruce
Kreider in Dauphin County (717)
652-8460, Larry Yager and Bill
Murray in Adams County (717) 334-
6271 and Cheryl Iteirbaim in
Chester County (215) 696-3500.
These agents will be supervising
the sampling, testing and ad
vertising of the hay for small scale
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