Page-6-^eom-Talk, iancaster farming, Saturday, October 11,'T997
EDGEWATER, Md. As
part of the 1997 Pennsylvania
Crops Conference held early
this year in Grantville, com
mercial com growers were
polled on a proposed statewide
com checkoff program. Of 51
growers voting, 39 cast ballots
in favor of a checkoff.
In that environment, it was
significant, perhaps, that Law
rence Meeks of Carroll Coun
ty, Md. was on hand and on
the program to tell Pennsyl
vania producers “what’s hap
pening with the feed grains
checkoff in Maryland.”
Meeks is president of the
Maryland Grain Producers
Utilization Board, which ad
ministers the assessment pro
gram on com and feed grains in
the state. The Maryland check
off rate is one half of one per
cent of the price of the grain
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Conference, State College.
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Monday, .human 19
Pennsylvania Crop Manage
ment Association Meeting.
State College. Contact Jan
Pruss. (814) 863-1020.
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Board President Explains Checkoff
(50 cents on $100) at the first
point of sale. The money is
limited to use on research, edu
cation and market development
projects, at both the state and
national levels.
The Maryland checkoff in
cludes a rcfimd provision with
refund requests varying “pretty
much with the weather,”
Meeks told his Pennsylvania
audience. “Five to 10 percent
in good years and as high as 18
percent in dry or bad years, like
1991.”
Meeks said the Utilization
Board annually funds several
youth education programs.
Their importance, he noted,
was evidenced on a recent visit
to the state legislature in Anna
polis. In 10 offices, only one
person had any experience
with agriculture, he said, and
that was in public relations for
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“It scares me that so many
who are making decisions
about what we do, don’t have
any idea what agriculture is all
about,” Meeks said.
The Maryland Grain Utiliza
tion Board annually receives
between 40 and 50 requests for
funding. A total of 34 projects
were funded for 1997, includ
ing $41,000 for a wide variety
of education projects. Addi
tionally, market development
projects were funded for
$330,394, and $118,632 was
appropriated for production
and genetic research.
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grant appropriation of
$490,000, $155,000 was set
aside for the National Com De
velopment Foundation, the re
search and market develop
ment arm of the National Com
Growers Association, with
directors representing 18
states.
“By pooling dollars,” Meeks
told the Pennsylvania growers,
“we’ve been able to research
ethanol, biodegradable plastics
and to fund gene mapping, for
example, projects we’d never
been able to consider on our
own.”
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