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Box 187 Local Representative Fitchville, CT 06334 DAVID NEWMAN Phone: (203) 642-7529 (717) 299-9905 Our New Warehouse Is Now Under Construction At FLYWAY BUSINESS PARK, Located By The LANCASTER AIRPORT SYRACUSE The American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc. has signed the New York Mets’ star rightfielder Darryl Strawberry as its new spokesman for milk in New York City. Mtik Strawberry was signed to a one year contract that will feature him in a television commercial beamed to the Big Apple beginning on April 1, or virtually the start of the baseball season. The commercial received an enthusiastic response from board members and dairymen attending the AD ADC’s annual meeting banquet Wednesday night at the Hotel Syracuse. 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ADA/DC signs Mets’ Darryl Strawberry for NYC ads mcaster Fanning, Saturday, February 22,1986- The organization used a slide program to explain the method it employed first to select Strawberry and then, to make the commercial. Staffers reviewed a variety of other possible choices, including rock star Bruce Springsteen and New York Mayor Ed Koch, before selecting the rising young Mets outfielder. “We had two requirements in selecting our spokesperson,” said AD ADC executive vice president Brian Ward. “It had to be someone New Yorkers could identify with, and also someone who would fit in with milk’s healthy image. Strawberry was the ideal choice in both areas.” Export session YORK - The Office of In ternational Agricultural programs at the Pennsylvania State University, and the Pennsylvania The commercial is designed to appeal specifically to New Yorkers, but remains firmly tied to the ADADC’s overall “Health Kick” campaign. It will be sup ported by bus and subway posters featuring Strawberry. The dairymen in the audience got to see the less-than-glamorous side of the commercial process, during in the agency's slide show. They learned that extensive meetings and creative sessions had taken place for weeks before actual production of the 30-second spot, which required a week of filming in Los Angeles. The commercial has been well received in preliminary testing, AD ADC officials said. slated in York Department of Agriculture are interested in helping Pennsylvania food producers and processors take greater advantage of over seas export markets. A telecon ference meeting will be held Thursday, March 6th, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the York Campus of the Penn State U, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue, York, Penn sylvania. Despite controversial farm bills, high interest rates and stiff in ternational competition, there are more than a few success stories in U.S. agricultural trade. This Teleconference has been specifically designed to put the spotlight on successful regional and national trade programs and examine the elements of their success. Some of the programs to be explored will include; alnlonds, apples, timber, high tech mills, soybeans and others. Particular attention will be given throughout the telecon ference to the interplay of finan ces, marketing, transportation and government relations in trade programs. Recent U.S. agricultural trade negotiations in China and Japan will be documented via videotape. Objectives of the teleconference are to explore ways in which American agriculture has been successful in marketing overseas. To develop options which may be available for increasing foreign trade. To determine areas in which additional education is needed to enhance U.S. trade. To increase and improve cooperation between institutions, trade councils, private businesses and government in the areas relating to international agriculture trade. 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