Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster
Co.) Jim Herr, 46, of Lancaster
has joined the staff of Lancaster
Farming as an advertising sales
representative.
Herr has worked in advertising
for a number of years, having
worked for another farm publica
tion for three years prior to joining
Lancaster Farming.
For 10 years he had his own
advertising agency based in Lan
caster and served businesses,
including many agribusinesses, in
the Mid-Atlantic area.
He first started working in a loc
al mattress factory that his grand
father had started in 1909, before
going on to achieving a bachelor’s
degree in elementary education
from the Northwestern University
of Chicago.
“I consider it a privilege to work
with the leading agricultural news
paper in the East,” he said.
“I see my role as helping people
make sure they get the advertising
they need to make their businesses
grow, in a paper that really works.”
Herr is married to Cindy and
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they have a 9-year-old son. Jim is a
member of the Lancaster Friends
Meeting (Quakers) and is the edi
tor of his church newsletter. His
hobbies include woodworking,
coaching his son’s soccer team,
and hiking.
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tation to its economy, as well as the
suspiciousness of activities at the
National Cheese Exchange.
Some speakers requested that
Secretary Glickman do something
to raise the price of milk so that far
mers can recoup their cost of pro
duction and not go out of business.
The logic of the government
using the cheese price at the
National Cheese Exchange to
determine the price of milk paid to
farmers nationwide was also
questioned.
As a general policy, in reporting
all market prices of commodities,
the USDA has taken steps to
broaden the number of markets
tested and reported.
The Basic Price Formula, how
ever, is set by Congress and the
secretary of agriculture has,
according to Sen. Specter, the
authority to drop the NCE price in
lieu of a price equivalent
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man who attended the meeting,
Glickman began efforts in late
January to address the use of the
NCE price and has been receiving
public comment.
However, it’s not clear if what
Glickman already started will ful
fill what Sen. Specter requested
when he returned to Washington
and addressed the Senate later in
the day on Feb. 10.
According to the Congressional
Record for the day, Sen. Specter
said, “Mr. President, the dairy far
mers of northeas cm Pennsylvani
a, and for that matter the entire
state of Pennsylvania, and for that
matter the entire nation, are suffer
ing very materially because of low
milk prices.
“It is a national calamity where
dairy fanners all across the country
are facing the prospect of bank
ruptcy because the costs of produc
ing milk have risen so tremendous
ly and the price of selling milk has
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decreased very rapidly in the
course of the past several weeks
and several months.”
In his address. Specter
described the meeting and how it
came to be called. He also talked
about the testimony and specifical
ly mentioned testimony given by
Mrs. Patricia Swetter.
‘The highlight of the meeting
occurred when a woman named
Mrs. Swetter made the point very,
very emphatically, about the
imminent difficulties faced by the
farmers and how answers were
needed now.
“This Mrs. Patricia Swetter
made that point with special gusto,
as did quite a number of the other
farmers who spoke at the hearing.”
Spector said in his address to the
Senate that Secretary Glickman
explained the difficulties of find
ing an immediate solution, which
he said lead to a discussion of the
BFP and the use of the cheese price
at the NCE.
Specter then explained the
connection between the price
of cheese and milk and that,
“There have been some indi
cators that the price of cheese
is not accurate as it has been
currently established.
‘The Secretary (Glickman)
responded in dialogue that...
he would be willing to work
now to develop an equivalent
price of cheese so that we
could have a reevaluation as to
the price of milk.
‘There has been some indi
cation that there has been
some manipulation of the
price of cheese. It may be that
this is a subject which ought to
be a matter for a hearing by the
Judiciary Antitrust Subcom
mittee. It may also be that
there ought to be a hearing
from the Agriculture Subcom
mittee of Appropriations, or
from the Agriculture Commit
tee, on the pricing of milk, tak
ing a close look at the issue of
developing an equivalent
price for cheese.”
He then outlined a “sense
of-the-Senate” resolution that
he subsequently proposed and
which was adopted by the
Senate (83-15) on Feb. 13 that
calls upon Secretary Ghck
man to consider acting
immediately pursuant to his
legal authority to modify the
Basic Formula Price for dairy
by replacing the National
Cheese Exchange as a factor
to be considered in setting the
Basic Formula Price.”
The resolution was spon
sored by U.S. Sen. Specter,
co-sponsored by U.S. Sen.
Rick Santorum, and also co-
sponsored by Sens. Russell
Feingold, Herb Kohl, James
Jefford, Patrick Leahy, Rod
Grams, Paul Wellstone,
Olympia Snowe. and Susan
Collins.
Specter’s Washington
office press secretary John
Ullyot said this week, “TTiis is
pretty substantial step
forward.”
He said that what signifies
the importance the dairy issue
is receiving from the entire
Senate is, “... that the debate of
the balanced budget amend
ment was interrupted. The full
weight of the Senate is behind
urging Secretary Glickman to
de-link the Basic Formula
Price from the National
Cheese Exchange.”