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MILESBURG William
Sturges, WeUsboro, has accepted
an interim position as Executive
Director of the Pennsylvania Far
mers Union, the general farm orga
nization’s Board of Directors
announced today.
Sturges, a former Tioga County
dairyman, has been a member of
the PFU since 1976, and served as
Dairymen May Choose
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HARRISBURG Pennsylva
nia dairy formers in the Federal
Order Four Milk Marketing area
have until Dec. IS to choose
between.two promotion programs
for 1988, state Agriculture Secret
ary Boyd E. Wolff announced
today.
Wolff noted that dairymen can
support either the Pennsylvania
Dairy Promotion Program (PDPP)
and its statewide “While Lite” and
“Make It Milk” campaigns or the
eastern regional Mid Atlantic Milk
Marketing Area (MAMMA) prog
ram and its “Milk Is Fitness You
Can Drink” promotions.
Order Four producers can direct
their contributions to PDPP by
writing by Dec. IS to Joseph D.
Shine, Federal Milk Market Admi
nistrator, P.O. Box 25828, Alexan
dria. Va. 22313.
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a Board member from 1978 to
1984. Most recently, he was East
ern Pennsylvania Field Director
for the state office staff. As Execu
tive Director, Sturges will manage
all staff activities in the statewide
organization.
“The challenges facing agricul
ture in the Northeast are enorm-
No notice is required from those
who want to support the Mid
Atlantic program, since contribu
tions are credited automatically to
MAMMA unless directed other
wise, the Secretary said.
Based on milk production fig
ures compiled by die Pennsylvania
Agricultural Statistics Service,
some $5 million from assessments
could be available for the coming
year.
Under the federal marketing
program, a 15-cent assessment is
collected for each 100 pounds of
milk produced. Five cents is ear
marked for the National Dairy
Promotion Board for advertising,
promotion and research, while
producers can decide which state
and regional promotion programs
receive the remaining 10 cents.
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ous,” Sturges said, “but they are
not insurmountable. I welcome
this opportunity to work with our
farmers, our Department of Agri
culture, our state Legislature, and
our Congressional Delegation to
preserve family farms in
Pennsylvania.”
Allen Deiter, recently reelected
to a second term as President of the
Organization, said the Board was
very pleased that Sturges had
accepted the post “We feel that
Bill brings a high degree of com
mitment and competence to his
new position,” Deiter said, “and
we are eager to work with him.”
Some of the issues oudined by
the Board as priorities for the
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remainder of this year and into
1988 include the impact of a feder
al budget compromise or automa
tic cuts under the Gramm-Rudman
Deficit Reduction Act, a .500 per
cwL cut in the dairy support price
scheduled for January 1, 1988,
property tax reform and
implementation of Pennsylvania’s
new farmland preservation
program.
According to Sturges, farm
income is an overriding concern
for the group. Polls conducted by
the PFU at Empire Field Days and
Ag Progress Days revealed a
strong interest in allowing produc
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only come from the market place
instead of the government when
we start producing to meet
demand,” Sturges said. ‘‘Farmers
are ready to move away from prog
rams that encourage over
production and low prices,” he
continued
Sturges replaces former Execu
tive Director Chester Reed who
resigned last month to pursue other
professional opportunities.
The Pennsylvania Farmers
Union is one of a network of 24
state chapters which collectively
make up the National Farmers
Union, representing more than
250,000 farming and ranching
families nationwide.
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