Lancaster Farm and Home Foundation Re-Elects Directors
v BY SALLY BAIR
Lancaster Co. Correspondent
LANCASTER Seven directors
were re-elected to three year
terms on the board of the Lan
caster County Farm and Home
Foundation at Its 23rd annual
meeting Thursday.
Re-elected were: Darvin E.
Boyd, Akron; Orpah GrayblU,
Lititz; Robert C. Groff,
Quarryville; Richard A. Haas,
Lancaster; Evelyn Hess, Lan
caster; George M. Lewis, Mt. Joy;
and Kenneth M. Rutt, Quarryville.
Building manager Chester Neuin
reported that over 55,000 people
attended 1,056 meetings during*
1906. Chairman of the building
committee Kenneth Rutt pointed
out improvements made to the
physical plant, including new
drapes at the stage, purchased
through a contribution of the Farm
Women Society of Lancaster
Agriculture Secretary Tabs Assistant
HARRISBURG - Acting
Agriculture Secretary Boyd E.
Wolff today announced his ap
pointment of Steven Crawford of
Blocmsburg, Columbia County, as
executive assistant.
Crawford, 27, joins the state
Department of Agriculture after
three years as legislative director
in the government relations
division of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association.
“IBs experience in working with
members of the General Assembly
and agricultural leaders and his
knowledge of agricultural issues
will be of tremendous value to the
Department,” Wolff said.
“His primary, immediate
responsibility will be assisting me
in achieving a smooth, efficient
and effective transition for the
Casey administration at the He is a 1961 graduate of Mans-
Department,” Wolff added. field State College with a Bachelor
In addition to handling many of of Arts degree in political science,
the day-today details of the He has participated extensively in
change in administrations, local, state and national political
Crawford will be involved in policy campaigns in the past eight years.
Fruit Production Increases 17 Percent
HARRISBURG - Total
production for Pennsylvania’s six
major fruit crops in 1966 was
430,060 tons, up 17 percent from
1965 according to the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Statistics Service.
The value of utilized production for
these six fruit crops was 87.3
million dollars, also up 17 percent
from last year.
Pennsylvania’s 1986 apple
production totaled 620 million
pounds, up 6 percent, valued at
$53.1 million. Peach production at
100 million pounds more than
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County. The board has also
authorized repainting of the
auditorium chairs and is having
the floor refinished.
County Agent Jay Irwin,
reporting on behalf of the
scholarship committee, said the
board awarded 16 $l,OOO
scholarships to students in the
- fields of agriculture, home
economics and nursing. This year
12 $l,OOO scholarships will be given
to students entering the fields of
agriculture and home economics.
Applications are now available to
high school seniors.
President Darvin Boyd said that
the board has reorganized its
committee structure and that
those committees will be working
to report to the total board.
Program for the evening was a
multi-media presentation entitled,
“The Beauty of it All,” by Ronnie
Reedy of Lititz.
development, Wolff said.
At PFA, Crawford directed
advisory councils and policy
development committees for the
23,000-member organization, and
oversaw the establishment and
administration of the PFA Legal
Defense Fund and Pennsylvania
Friends of Agriculture Foundation
both a first for Pennsylvania
agriculture.
He played a leading role in
presenting lawmakers at the state
and federal level with the views of
PFA and its members on major
legislation, including The Worker
and Community Right to Know
Law, changes in unemployment
compensation, Pesticide Control
Act, Seasonal Farm Labor Act and
the federal Insecticide Fungicide
and Rodentidde Act.
doubled the 40 million pounds
produced in 1965, and was valued
at $18.2 million. Pear production at
3,000 tons was up 30 percent, and
utilized production was valued at
$950,000.
Tart cherry production of 12
million pounds was twice the 1985
level, valued at $3 million. Value of
the utilized production for sweet
cherries was $1.3 million, with
production of 1,050 tons, up 110,
percent from 1985. The 1986 grape
production was 60,000 tons, up 20
percent, valued at $lO.B million.
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Boyd, Richard A. Haas, Evelyn Hess, Robert C. Groff and George M. Lewis. Missing from
photo are Orpah Graybill and Kenneth Rutt.
Farm Commodity Bill Reintroduced To Pa, House
HARRISBURG - Rep. John H.
Broujos, D-199th, Adams, York
and Cumberland Counties, and
Rep. Kenneth J. Cole, D-91, Adams
County, have reintroduced a bill to
give farmers control over the farm
commodity marketing programs
in Pennsylvania.
The same bill was passed by the
House in 1985 by a vote of 187-5. The
bill died in the Senate.
"ms bill is important to the
fruit growers of Southcentral
Pennsylvania and throughout the
state, since it gives them the power
to control marketing of their own
commodities,” said Cole.
A legal opinion of the Office of
Counsel of Governor Thornburgh
interpreted the Agricultural
Commodities Marketing Act of
1968 to give absolute control in the
Secretary of Agriculture with
respect to administration of the
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“For over 25 years, the system
worked well when farmers had
control over contracting and
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“The bill is in line with the policy in
at least five other agriculture
states,” stated Cole.
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introduced in the current session,
being House Bill 62, with 38
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bill. Gov. Robert Casey cam
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