t'CHIHLII' A 1 r ' ’'fprl^u.v^ 1 WU.OV I’fil j 1 UN [UI K's' 1 ’ l-T.MNuYLMnOiH, oIA , > UHIUrUSI IV f-AI'P VOL 33 No. 42 Is It Twilight For Egg Producers? BY LOU ANN GOOD LANCASTER The egg industry is battling to survive. Their product faces declining per capita consumption, negative press reports of salmonella, cholesterol and low prices. Can producers survive? A 1 Wenger, national egg indus try leader from Rheems, chal lenged the approximately 200 par ticipants at the county egg associa- Uon meeting held Thursday night at the Lancaster Farm and Home Center, that now is the time to gain control of lhe*markeL “Retailers have a stranglehold on our pro duct,” he said, “now is the time to take drastic measures and not try a patch up job.” He said, “We’ve just come through the worst 18 months the poultry industry has ever seen. We’re losing five percent per capi tal consumption. Some call our product dangerous—but we know Dairy Princesses Prepare For Work, State Contest At a recent three-day dairy princess training seminar at Shippensburg University, 40 county dairy princesses along with 26 alternates and 48 adults participated as full time attendees. In addition, 25 others attended some of the classes. This year 40 county dairy princesses and 40 alternates are serving their county dairy industry. This seminar gives the new princesses background on many of the things they need to know to accomplish their task of promoting dairy products. The county dairy princesses are as follows; L to R, first row: Shelly L. Harshbarger, Juniata Co.; Bonnie Lou Klrland, Indiana Co.; Denise Martin, Franklin Co.; Tanya O'Brien, Somerset Co.; Tamml Sutton, Susquehanna Co.; Jennifer Garfield, Clarion-Venango Cos.; Christine Davidson, Cumberland Co.; Rebecca Sonnen, Pa. Dairy Princess; Tammy Sue Balthaser, Berks Co.; Julie Annette Wil liams, Erie Co.; Julie Grelder, Lancaster Co.; Debra Jo Gourley, Crawford Co.; Susan Ann Eisenhart, York Co.; Susan Corbin, Jefferson Co.; Rebecca E. Cromls, SUN-Area. Second row: Jaylenc Yoder, Mifflin Co.; Melissa Mae Morrie, Clearfield Co.; Beth Ann Cooley, Lycoming Co.; Julie A. Hall, Huntingdon Co.; Cherl Lynn Clayton, Mercer Co.; Four Sections better; we know we are producing a healthy, safe product” Despite this knowlege, he rea soned, “It doesn’t get better even if we try harder.” He commended local industry for their terrific advertising efforts, but he insisted, “That still doesn’t break the stran glehold of retail power over our product.” He told the audience, the egg producers are fighting more than consumer’s health worries about cholesterol and salmonella. He blamed retailers for setting prices and not passing price cuts on to the customer. He questioned, “Don’t you think it’s strange when your egg prices go down yet store prices remain the same?” To break retailers strangleholds on price setting, Wenger chal lenged trie audience to see the con cept of what would happen if they set production controls. “This is only a concept not a proposal,” '.(Turn to Pago A 27) m <uin - Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 27, 1988 Pork Referendum Sept . 7 & 8 The pork referendum to decide whether to continue the national pork check-off will be held September 7 and 8. Registration and voting will be held at your local county extension office. Anyone, including 4-H, FFA and other youth who have owned and raised two or more hogs for sale during the period of Novem ber 1,1986 through Septem ber 6, 1988 is eligable to vote. Absentee ballots must be completed and returned by September 1. A majority of yes votes is needed to continue the program. Subjects covered at the seminar included the responsi bility and honor of being a dairy princess, background on the indurstry promotion organizations and the nutritional value of milk. The princesses were also prepared for publ ic speaking, how to deal with the media and time management A big event in the lives of county dairy princesses is the state contest. The program organized by the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and Promotion Service, Inc. has set the date of Saturday evening September 24 for the state ban- Queen Star Sexy Is E-Town’s Supreme Champion Animal BY USA RISSER ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter) ‘The judges had a tough decision to make: which would be champion of the Elizabethtown Fair? A steer, a dairy cow, a hog, or a sheep? They chose Tom McCau ley’s Queen Star Sexy, a seven year-old Sexation daughter. McCauley’s Holstein competed with Arlisa Snavely’s yearling Shropshire ewe, Deb Wolge muth’s Angus-Chianina cross steer, and Laura Folker’s Chester- Hampshire cross barrow. Jerry Wyble, an Elizabethtown High School vo-ag teacher and judge of the dairy animal, declared Queen Star Sexy “a large, well balanced cow that was sharp and open ribbed and stood on a good set of legs and hooves.” McCauley is the 17-year-old son of Dr. Alan D. McCauley of New Directions Holsteins in Eli zabethtown. He has won four other supreme dairy champion titles at the fair. Queen Star Sexy is rated Angela Jo Hayes, Westmoreland Co.; Tracy Jo Schenck, Clinton Co.; Georgette Kramer, Sullivan Co.; Tery Kiser, Tioga Co.; Deborah Elaine Welty, Adams Co.; Angela Hoover, Lebanon Co.; Kimberly Bonzo, Beaver-Lawrence Cos.; Laurie Jeanne Sterner, Montgom- * ery Co.; Kay Ann.Leiby, Schuylkill Co.; Terri Packard, Bradford Co. Third row; Tiffany Ann Yeager, Chester Co.; PattySpadine, Wyomlng-Lackawanna Cos.; Gillian Kieff, Wayne Co.; Peggy Tomb, Potter Co.; Penny Puskarich, Washlngton-Grekne Cos.; Angellque McDonald, Bedford Co.; Janelle L. Kennedy, Butler Co.) Linda Buffington, Dauphin Co.; Clarissa Kay Decker, Centre Co.; Angela Kling, Perry Co.; Tara Jo Harrington, Warren Co. 50c Per Copy quet and coronation. The place is the Harrisburg Marriott. Janet Harding, program director, said this week, the milk punch reception will commence at S:3O p.m. fol lowed by the banquet at 6:30 p.m. and the coronation at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at $15.00 each from the Promo tion Services, 214 South Street, Box 640, Clarion, PA 16214. For more information you may call (814) 226-7470. Ticket order deadline is September 20. (See Alternate Princesses on Page A-31) $104)0 P«r Ymt Excellent 94 and had 32,148 pounds of milk with 4.4 percent butterfat in 365 days for her last lactation. The other judges for the show were Rep. Sam Hayes (R-Tyrone) for sheep; Dennis Grumbine, own er of Evergreen Tractors and a hog raiser, for swine; and Glenn Flick inger, an area supervisor for Pen nfield, for beef. Rep. Hayes called Snavely’s ewe “a broody, well-balanced ani mal with a sound hind leg, which is one of the animal’s stong points.” In addition, he said it did a fine job of representing its species. Folker’s hog was “the kind we’re looking for as seed stock,” said Grumbine. “There’s a proven correlation between length of neck and length of loin, and this barrow has a long neck. It’s a neat package.” Flickinger liked Wolegemuth’s steer saying “it’s heavier through the shoulders, but makes that up wMn yttu look through its loin.”
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