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(D-199th, Adams, York and
Cumberland Counties) and Samuel
E. Hayes, Jr. (R-81st, Blair and
Huntingdon Counties). The bill is
now being sent to the Governor.
“This is an historic act for the
farmers of Pennsylvania: they will
control not only the marketing
contracts that advertise their
products to the public; they will
also control the marketing per
sonnel,” Representative Broujos
stated.
“We anticipate that the apple
growers will immediately petition
for a referendum to start up their
marketing program, since
marketing is a major part of the
total farm economy,”
Representative Hayes stated.
Since the apple growers in the
summer of 1985 terminated their
marketing program with the state,
as a protest against loss of control
through an administrative
decision, the fruitgrowers, milk
producers, and other commodity
growers have sought legislative
relief to give them a stronger voice
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from an assessment on their
products.
“We are confident the Governor
will sign the bill, since he cam
paigned on the issue in support of
the farmers and has been active in
amending the bill to improve its
effectiveness,” Representative
Broujos stated.”
Major changes, in addition to
contract and personnel control, are
the Secretary is made a member of
each commodity board; an annual
audit and report are required;
purchase and contracting
procedures are spelled out; and
compensation of marketing board
members is increased to $lOO, the
first increase since 1968.
All major farm groups, such as
The Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society, Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, Pennsylvania Far
mers Union, The Grange, and
fruitgrowers have supported the
bill.
PFA President Keith Eckel
praised the General Assembly for
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passage of the legislation. He said,
“Nearly 400 of our members
visited their legislators in
Harrisburg earlier this month in
support of important farm
legislation including House Bill 62.
The bill renews the spirit of
cooperation between the State
Department of Agriculture and
fruit and vegetable producers in
the operation of commodity
promotion and research program.
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NMPF Approves Plan
Committee this week. The group
met in Chicago on April 20. “The
next step is to have attorneys draft
the language to implement
necessary changes in the order,”
Jim Barr stated. Barr is NMPF’s
Chief Executive Officer.
The plan calls for one board, one
staff and one chief executive of
ficer. The board would have up to
36 members who are represen
tatives of state and regional
promotion organizations. This
would be in addition to the 36
currently authorized.
A concept of five areas of
qualified expenditures will be used
in seating directors. Those points
include:
• Cash money including pooling
similar to the DPFA pool, which
could be earmarked.
• Program developed on the
national level and implemented on
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the local level by local units.
• In store promotion, food ser
vice, etc., developed by the
“national” program.
• Nutrition Education-imple
mentation expenses would be
credited if the program was
developed on a national level
(N.D.C.).
• Product Research any
research funds, to be credited,
must be sanctioned by a national
clearinghouse.
To have Board representation,
each state and regional promotion
unit will be required to contribute
to the total state and regional
allocation on the promotion cor
poration budget.
A transition team has been
named and will be made up of
representatives from NDB staff,
UDIA staff, regional and state
promotion organization managers,
producers from NDB and NMPF,
NDB’s President, Ivan Strickler,
and NMPF’s Structure Committee
Chairman, Herman Brubaker.
COW was invited to participate but
has thus far declined.
The plan is the result of nearly a
year and a half of effort initiated
by NMPF at the request of its
members. The restructuring will
bring together under one
organization the programs that
were previously developed by two
organizations, the National Dairy
Promotion and Research Board
that was authorized by federal
legislation in 1963, and the United
Dairy Industry Association which
has worked with local, state and
regional promotion groups for 15
years.
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