A3O-Lancast«r Famine, Saturday, March 15,1988
WASHINGTON - Chairman
Kika de la Garza, D-Tez., of the
House Agriculture Committee said
that President Reagan’s decision
to comply with Congressional
requests to avoid disruption of the
federal - meat and poultry in
spection program was a “welcome
move that will benefit farmers, the
processing industries and con
sumers.”
PFA criticizes choice of new PDA deputy
CAMP HILL Board of
Directors of the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association today ex
pressed disappointment in the
appointment of Kirk Wilson,
mayor of Carlisle, as the new
deputy secretary of the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture, according to an an
nouncement by the farm group’s
state president, Keith W. Eckel.
Wilson, recently elected Carlisle
mayor, is a former radio and
television reporter in Harrisburg.
He spent three years on the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives
staff; worked for the Governor’s
Energy Council and the Gover
nor’s Press Office.
“It’s a disappointment to me and
members of the PFA Board that
Governor Dick Thornburgh has
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after the President sent Congress a 0 f meat and poultry sold to con
formal request for release of $5.7 sinners
million in previously appropriated .. x want to emphasize that this is
fimds for the inspection program. no t new spending. What has
Since Congress had already ap- happened simply is that funds
propriated the money for use in the which Congress appropriated last
current fiscal year, the President’s year for meat and poetry fo.
action automatically made the spection in fiscal 1986, with a
funds available for inspections prov iso that they would be
released when formally requested
seen fit to turn his back on
agriculture again,” said PFA
President Keith W. Eckel. “It
seems as though the ad
ministration is going out of its way
to disassociate itself from
agriculture. That’s disappointing,
because there were many strong
backers of the Governor in rural
Pennsylvania."
The Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association had unsuccessfully
opposed the nomination of
Agriculture Secretary Richard
Grubb, because the farm
organization did not believe he had
the necessary agricultural ex
perience to head the department.
“Our farmer members have
adopted strong policy stating that
the agriculture secretary and
deputy secretary should have
agricultural experience,” Eckel
All interested persons are
welcome to attend the Beekeeper
Association meetings which are
held the third Thursday evening of
each month. While beekeepers are
urged to join the association, it is
not necessary to be a member to
attend the educational meetings. 4-
H and FFA members, as well as
Other young people interested in
bees, are also welcome.
Ronald Fullem is the newly
elected president of the association
for 1986.
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said, “because the administration
looks to those persons for
developing policies affecting the
number one business (agriculture)
in Pennsylvania.”
PFA has received, reports
Eckel, a public commitment from
the Lt. Governor William Scranton
and Robert Casey, the two major
party endorsed candidates, to
place persons with agricultural
experience in positions of
leadership in the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture.
PFA is a general farm
organization with more than 23,000
farm family members in Penn
sylvania. It is also affiliated with
the American Farm Bureau
Federation, the largest general
farm organization in the country.
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and released,” de Id Garza ex
plained. “This will be helpful for
farmers, processing industries and
consumers because it means that
the Agriculture Department will
now have to make sharp cuts in its
meat and poultry inspection
schedules in order to reach its
Gramm-Rudman budget reduction
totals for the remaining months of
fiscal 1986.”
Hep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif.,
Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry,
noted that furloughing inspectors
to the extent threatened earlier
would have had a sharp impact on
the livestock and poultry economy
because meat and poultry plants
cannot operate without federal
inspectors. With the decision to use
the previously appropriated funds,
officials have indicated that
furloughs can be limited to three
holidays when meat and poultry
plants would normally be closed,
Coelho said.
Administration action to release
the $5.7 million in previously ap
propriated funds was requested
Feb. 20 in a letter signed by all
Members of the subcommittee
including Coelho and the Ranking
Minority Member, Rep. Jim
Jeffords, R-Vt. The request was
also signed by de la Garza and
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Rep. Edward R. Madigan, R-lU.,
Ranking Minority Member of the
full Agriculture Committee. The
letter pointed out that the Food
Safety and Inspection Service had
been required under the fiscal 1986
Gramm-Rudman order to cut
outlays by more than |l5 million
and the agency had indicated that
about $9 million of the cuts would
be found by furloughing agency
personnel including inspectors.
Coelho said that on the basis of
the department’s earlier in
dications of furloughs which might
be necessary during fiscal 1986, it
had been calculated that the action
might have cost processing
workers |lOO million in lost wages
and benefits through September
because of reduced operations.
“Such action would not only
harm industry workers, farmers
and consumers, but it would fail to
address the real issue of how best
to get budget savings by moder
nizing the meat and poultry in
spection system, and it could
damage public confidence in this
essential consumer protection
program. We are glad the ad
ministration has agreed to take the
far more practical course of using
its already-available funds while it
continues to search for effective
ways to economize,” de la Garza
and Coelho said.
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