(Continued from Page AM) Policies decided then become state policy and are forwarded to the American Farm Bureau for consideration and possible conso lidation into national policy. To help delegates and members better understand the issues which suggested policies are to address, a number of sessions and workshops are scheduled. In the spring, the PFB surveyed members directly to find concerns, which could be for policy, or just for more information. Six topics were discovered, according to Janet Carson, a spokesperson for the PFB. The six issues were dairy concerns, electr ic deregulation, estate planning, handling farm emergencies, farm health issues, and effective use of computers on the farm. Carson said that with those issues in mind, a number of expert speakers are scheduled to address those issues. She said that starting 9:30 a.m., Monday, Nov. 17, Dr. Robert Yonkers, a Penn State Extension agricultural economist, and David Walker, the assistant market admi nistrator for the Middle Atlantic federal milk marketing order, are to discuss some of the changes coming to the dairy industry, and GRAIN DRYERS & BINS STILL AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY! • Transport Augers • Utility Augers New & Used Feed Bins Delivered & Setup ■» Sorting Tho Industry For Onr 35 toon Farm Bureau Prepares For what kind of transitions are anticipated. Monday afternoon, from 2 p.m. to 3: IS p.m., Thomas Walker, marketing manager of the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange Inc. is to discuss man agement erf milk price risk using futures and options. (The N.Y. CSC Exchange recently changed is options strike price fees to reflect 25-ccnt inter vals, rather than having some leaps of SO-cents or more, to make the futures options tool mote usable for hedging.) At the same time, from 2 pjn. to 3:15 pjn., a program is scheduled to address computer uses. From 3:30 pan. to 5 p.m., an educational program for members is to deal with the management of medication. At the same time, a program is to be held to deal with electric deregulation. Speakers are to be Dennis Buffington, a Penn State professor of agricultural and bio logical engineering; Eric Levis, legislative representative for the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Asso ciation; and John F. Sipics, vice president of retail energy supply for Pa. Power & Light Co. Also at the same time, the PFB Marketing Co-op annual meeting E/VIHEKR • Gram Bins IMATIC BATCH OR IRAIN DRYERS oblems With Your Grain Dryer? 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From noon-1:30 pm., Tuesday, the annual President's Luncheon is scheduled to be held. In addition to words from PFB President Guy F. Donaldson, there is to be the pre sentation of the PFB Young Far mer and Rancher awards. From 1:45-3 p.m. Jane Brans tet ter is to conduct a workshop on men-women relationships, follow ing a theme of a more recently for your nearest Dealer Water Quality an IMPORTANT Ingredient In estock Management WATER CONDITIONING Your Water Treatment Center 800-893-5081 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novambar 8, 1997-A27 548 New Holland Ave. Lancaster, PA 17602 Ph: (717) 393-3612 800-224-3612 popular and heavily marketed program that presents the sexes as being more different than what popular culture has attempted to make people believe. The founda tion of the program is that men are different than women, in thinking and actions, and that if those dif ferences are understood then they can better understand each other and have more realistic expecta tions, and ultimately better and longer relationships. Meanwhile, delegates are to be holding another voting session. Health issues are to be consid ered again from 3:15-4:30 p.m., with Dr. Joanna Cain, Penn State Geisinger Health System director of the division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to be speaker. A member reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday is to be fol lowed the annual mem ber recognition banquet, with humorist David Okerlund as the main speaker. Awards to be presented include the Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture award, PFB’s distinguished service to agriculture award, All-Star recogni tion, and the Young Far mer and Rancher Dis cussion Meet Award. Entertainment during the recption and banquet is to be Howard Jung on the piano. A guest-member reception follows. On Wednesday, a far mer breakfast starts the day from 7-7:45 a.m. with state Rep. Ray mond Bunt Jr., chair man of the state House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, set to be the speaker. The delegates are to conduct a final voting session from 8-11:30 a.m. The PFB Women’s Committee is to meet from 8-9:15 am., while food safety considera tions are to be presented in a program from 9:30-10:45 a.m., with Christian Herr, state deputy secretary of agri culture for regulatory program, to be the speaker. The PFB annual busi ness meeting is to be held from 11:30 am. until noon, followed by a meeting of the PFB board of directors. For more informa tion, contact a local PFB leader or call the state office at (717) 761-2740.
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