Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association
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large processors. In recent years,
membership was composed of
mostly allied industry, bankers,
and about half dozen of egg pro
cessors who were content to
handle egg marketing on their
own.
“As a charter member, I’m sad
to see it go,” Trout said. “At one
time, we did a great job promoting
eggs by holding cooking demon
strations and contests and holding
educational meetings, but there
was only a handful of people doing
the work.”
Trout is convinced that much
more work is needed in promoting
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Trout would like to disperse the
organization’s balance of
$13,181.41.
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eggs from that farm are banned.
Trout believes that the organiza
tion’s balance should be used to
give the farmer’s side of the story
through newspaper advertize
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could be used to hire an attorney to
fight the injustices done to poultry
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the Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation.
The Poultry Federation was
incorporated in 1916. It boasted
10,000 members during Depress
ion Years when fees were $2 a
member. Then the main draw in
membership was a stamping kit to
mark chickens so that they could
be traced if stolen. In the 19605, the
Federation became a trade associa
tion with full-time staff. It has
remained a strong association that
represents the broiler, turkey, and
egg industries.
John Hoffman, who heads the
Federation, said PEMA’s idea was
presented to the board of directors,
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which includes the president, vice
president and three appointees
from the turkey, broiler, and egg
councils. At this point, the board
said, many more back up dollars
are needed than merely providing
the salary of a promotion person.
“You need dollars to promote
commodities. We can’t just hire a
person and not give him money to
use,” Hoffman said.
Although no decision has been
reached, the Federation believes
that egg producers and processors
will need a lot of help in the future
complying with government
environmental regulations. They
see a need to hire a person who
could provide technical expertise
in environmental regulations.
“The Federation is a trade asso
ciation not a commodity associa
tion,” Hoffman said.
Trade associations deal primari
ly with regulations, taxes, legisla
tion, and promotional activities
that concern the industry while
commodity groups raise money
strictly for promotion.
Hoffman refers to the Federa
tion as being the leg man for
PEMA in the past “We’ve done an
excellent job of representing the
egg industry and will continue to
do so,” he said.
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