Vegetable Marketing Program Receives
In Matching Funds
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HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The Secretary of Agriculture
has approved $lO,OOO in matching
funds from the Department of
Agriculture to the Pennsylvania
Vegetable Marketing and
Research Program to erect bill
boards promoting Pennsylvania
vegetables around the state.
The program will match the
state money with $5,000 from the
program’s budget and $5,000
from the Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association.
The matching promotion funds
were included by the General
Assembly in last year’s budget
and awarded by the secretary of
agriculture to several different
commodity groups who made
proposals.
More than 30 billboards around
the state will feature the colorful
artwork of the "Pennsylvania
Proven Produce” logo along with
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the text “Pennsylvania Vegetables
The Best” The outdoor adver
tising campaign during July and
early August is being conducted in
cooperation with the American
Cancer Society. The Cancer Soci
ety. whose logo will also appear in
the billboard, also promotes
increased vegetable consumption
to decrease a person’s risk of
cancer.
The ability of the program to
double industry money with state
money is making this paid adver
tisement campaign possible for
the first time in the program’s
history.
The Vegetable Marketing and
Research Board will also continue
its ongoing promotional efforts for
Pennsylvania vegetables.
Throughout the growing season, it
will be sending news releases
about the various Pennsylvania
vegetable crops to the news media
•Beaver Falls Quality Meals 'Double A Farm
•Meridian Bank -Howard Farms
•Bishard Insurance -Joint Venture
•Quaker Securities, Inc .Glass Lounge
•Lincoln Supply & Equip Co -Furman Foods Inc
•Dr Robert Baslian -Cresson Feed Mill Inc
•Joint Venture •Francis Boone
•Ronald Dale Wessner -Dutch Country Fancy Veal
•Good s Receiving Station -Terry Weyandt Livestock
•Mark C Hershey Farms .East Penn Manufacturing
•Arnold Yorkshire Farm -Chris Herr & Russ Redding
•Medford Quality Foods at the PA Dept of Agriculture
•W. M Dunlap & Sons, Inc -Upper Dauphin Livestock
•Morrell A Myers -Chapman Corp
•Kessler’s Inc -Integra Bank
•Evergreen Tractor Co "Stonehursl Farms
•Harry Bachman, auctoneer -Ronald Dale Wessner
•Country Butcher Shop ,Q r « ern
•Livestock Reporter -Centre Herd Health Services
•Rich Brandt Farm Real Estate . Northeastern Farm Credit
•?^ r^kD oo rCo • .John D. Stauffer, auctioneer
•Del-Wood Kitchens me. . Farmers (or Tom Ridge *
•James Pariett's Son
•Centre Equine Pract.ce t L ™ r
•Wayne Feeds •FickesSiloCo
•William L Piper -Hixenbaugh s Drug Store
•Dr. Vickie Arxferson, dds * Zu 9 Farm E W
•Dyan Yingst ,Farm Show °P er - Su P v
•Tice Farms P Starr & Sons, Inc
•Lancaster Level Flo •Slate. Farm Insur. Co
•Tn-County Confinement System ’Century Natl Bank & Trust Co
•Phil Reid, Livestock Photographer ‘Fritsch Farm Supply
•Swine Gems ’John F. Marbn Farms
across the state throughout the
growing season.
Over the years, these news
releases have resided in hundreds
of food-page newspaper articles
about Pennsylvania vegetables
that have reached millions of read
ers. It is one of the most cost
effective methods to reach those
who make the household fflbd
buying decisions.
This year the program plans to
send out over ten releases during
July, August, and September high
lighting the Pennsylvania veget
able harvest. That makes this
year’s effort one of the most
extensive yet.
The program also supplies col
orful point-of-purchase materials
for grower farm markets across
the state. These feature the “Pen
nsylvania Proven Produce” logo
and emphasize the nutritional val
ue of vegetables.
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ALEXANDRIA. Va.
Middle Atlantic Order Market
Adminstrator Rex F. Lothrop has
announced a producer nonfat milk
solids price of $l.lB per pound for
May 19%.
The weighted average differen
tial base milk price was 43 cents
per hundredweight and the price
per pound of butterfat ws 94.73
cents.
The producers NFMS price was
up 19 cents from last year while
the base differential decreased
$1.36.
The standardized base milk
price per hundredweight for pro
ducer milk with the market aver
age nonfat milk solids content and
3.5 percent butterfat would have
been $14.03 and the excess price
would have been $13.60. This rep
resents a base price increase of
$1.22 per hundredweight from the
previous year.
The excess price increased
S2.SB from last May. The nonfat
milk solids price, applicable to
handler payments, was $1.1879
per pound for the month, up 19.8
cents from last May.
The weighted average price for
May was $14.05 per hundred
weight and would have been
approximately 46 cents higher
without the effect of the Class 111-
A price.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 1996-Al7
Mr. Lothrop said that producer
receipts totaled 512.7 million
pounds during May, a decrease of
46.2 million pounds from last May
and the average daily delivery of
3,550 pounds per producer
decreased 56 pounds or 1.6 per
cent from a year earlier.
Total nonfat milk solids pro
duction for the month was 44.7
million pounds. This represents an
average NFMS test of 8.72 per
cent, down from 8.73 percent last
May.
Class I producer milk totaled
220.0 million pounds and was
down 2.7 million pounds, or 1.2
percent from last May. Class I
milk accounted for 42.90 percent
of total producer milk receipts
during the month, compared with
39.85 percent in May 1995.
Base milk accounted for 90.39
percent of total producer milk
receipts in May compared with
88.63 percent last year. The aver
age butterfat test of producer milk
was 3.63 percent, up from 3.57
percent last May.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 181.2 million pounds
during May. a decrease of 6.6 per
cent from a year earlier, after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition.