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exporting opportunities, alterna
tive production opportunities, and
to meet a variety of people who ate
the potential consumers of Pen
nsylvania products.
hi this eta of renewed govern
ment support for small business,
and especially new types of agri
cultural enterprise, the Farm Show
can afford the producer whose
lifestyle may necessarily restrict
contact with the general public
the ability to better understand the
wants and desires of the consum
ing public. That can stimulate
ideas for doing something diffe
rent on the farm that can add to
farm income.
And of course, as it always has,
the Farm Show affords an oppor
tunity for fanner-to-farmer and
farm family socializing, to learn
about each other’s businesses and
concerns, and to learn about diffe
rent species, the ideal type and pro
duction techniques.
With 16 acres under roof, the
state’s Farm Show Complex at
Maclay and Cameron streets In
Harrisburg provides a year-round
venue for a variety of shows and
exhibitions/ though the primary
purpose for the state building the
complex was to house the once-a
year state Farm Show.
Grumbinc (whose first year as
director was challenged by a bliz
zard that resulted in Gov. Tom
Ridge shutting down all highways
to public traffic, allowing only
emergency vehicles) said that,
with good weather, he expects
about 400,000 visitors to the
facility.
Part of that contingent is to be
comprised of about 240 interna
tional visitors who had indicated
they would be attending the Liter
national Celebration 1998 trade
show, scheduled to be held today
from 9 am. to 2 p.m. at the Harris
burg Hilton and Towns, on 2nd
Street in Harrisburg.
Leo Dunn, director of the Pen
nsylvania Department of Agricul
ture Bureau of Market Develop
ment, said there were 63 booths to
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be set up in the Ball Room of the
Hilton.
He said that the booths were to
be set up in aisles, eight-booths
deep, from left to right across the
room, like the aisles of a shopping
market
From the left, in the first wall
row are to be Pennsylvania agri
cultural and exporting service pro
viders, including government
agencies, the Port of Philadelphia,
freight forwarding businesses and
consultants.
The second aisle is a double tow
of booths facing each other. Com
panies occupying those spaces
include livestock and livestock
equipment dealers. The next dou
ble row is to be booths of food and
processed food businesses, such as
Moyer Packing Inc. (meat proces
sor), Cloister Spring Water, Sand
ers Eggs, etc.
The third double row is to be
half more food, and half hard
woods businesses.
The far single aisle has been
taken by processed foods compa
nies and another livestock
company.
Dunn said that the international
guests who have indicated they
will attend the trade show, and the
evening’s Farm Show dinner
(about 7 pm. in the Hilton Ball
room), represent about 30 nations.
About of an anticipated 238 vis
itors, only six are dignitaries, the
rest are buyers.
He said of the notices of intent to
attend included a contigent of
about 25 from the People’s
Republic of China, one from the
Czechoslovakian Republic, Ecua
dor, seven from Egypt, three from
Astonia, seven from Ghana, two
from Guatemala, one from Guinea,
one from China/Hong Kong, lour
from India, two from Indonesia, 38
from Italy (buyers looking fro
equipment who are to tour the New
Holland plant after the trade
show), one from Japan, two from
Kazakhstan, one from Latvia, one
from Madagascar, 18 from Mex
ico, two from Morocco, 1 from
Nepal, one from the Netherland
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Antilles, two from New Zealand,
tentatively 48 from Nigeria, one
from Pakistan, five from the Philli
pincs, three from Poland, about 12
from Russia, two from Hawaii,
one from Uganda, eight from the
Ukraine, one from Uzbekistan, and
the ambassador from Mongolia.
Though the amount of trade
directly tied to PDA working with
industry to promote Pennsylvania
agribusiness in the previous two
international events cannot be nail
ed down to a specific amount,
Lancaster Farming has reported
business deals worth many
millions.
Such agressive promotion of
Pennsylvania products has been
taken up by Gov. Ridge and Sec
retary Hayes as an essential ele
ment in the strategy to rebuild and
reinforce the economic infrastruc
ture of the state.
Just weeks ago. Gov. Ridge and
Secretary Hayes traveled to sever
al Pacific Rim nations to meet with
officials to boost export opportuni
ties for Pennsylvania products and
commodities.
While the economics of the
those nations, such as the Republic
of Korea, have recently exper
ienced some turmoil, the trip was
used to establish and further exist
ing relationships.
According to many consultants
and those with experience in glob
al marketing, person-to-person
relationships and the building of
trust ate essential to breaking
ground in successful international
trade.
Part of Secretary Hayes' work
plan for the state agriculture
department is to work with
businesses to identify barriers to
trade, and then to forward those
concerns directly to our United
States representatives to the World
Trade Organization.
Kenneth Raney, executive
director of the Pennsylvania Hols
tein Association (PHA), said this
week that the International Celeb
ration and efforts by the PDA are
essential to promoting
Pennsylvania.
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Ibe PHA has been a pioneer in
Pennsylvania and in the Northeast
for exporting dairy cattle. It has
continued to work to market Pen
nsylvania Holstcins worldwide,
and participation in the Interna
tional Celebration is becoming one
of its most important avenues for
establishing a global presence.
“I think (the International
Celebration trade show) is really
important, and I compliment the
(PDA) for brining in potential buy
ers and people interested in Pen
nsylvania agriculture* Raney
said.
“The way it’s set up now, it’s
excellent It’s set up with buyers,
more than the dignitaries. As far as
that, they (the PDA) is doing an
excellent job for us, member ser
vices organizations, and
businesses.”
The PHA has exported a lot of
Pennsylvania Holstein cattle to
about SO counties over the years.
Raney said the International event
is seen as a way to meet and pos
sibly do business with people
whom he has not yet met
"It takes time to develop a busi
ness relationship. We’ve talked to
potential buyers (at the past two
international trade shows), but
have not made sales, but I’m
assuming those same people will
be back again this year.
“You need to be there to let the
rest of the world know what is
available and what you have to
offer," Raney said.
Others at the Farm Show, other
than the anticipated 400,000 visi
tors, include representatives from
32S agriculturally related compa
nies displaying their products and
services out of commercial exhi
bits. A list of the companies and
their locations in the complex is
included in this issue.
And though poultry exhibits
were banned this year as a precau
tionary measure due to out
breaks of a non-pathogenic, or
non-deadly, strain of avian
influenza there are mote than
9,000 entries in 30 catagories of
competitions.
There ate record premiums of
$247,138 and they will be paid out
to exhibitors including those
showing 525 beef cattle, 520 dairy
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cattle, 225 daily goats, 136 horses,
568 rabbits, 823 sheep, 619 swine,
and 136 draft horses.
Not intending meat rabbits,
there are to be a total of 3,483 ani
mals exhibited during the week.
Competitions include some of
the perennial crowd pleasets, such
as the folk dance festival and con
test; the Pennsylvania High School
Rodeo Association's champion
ship rodeo in the Large Arena; the
apple pie contest; the Soooper
Bowl, a celebrity ice cream eating
contest; the FFA window exhibits,
and, of course, the opening cere
monies featuring Gov. Ridge’s
welcome.
For the second consecutive
year, Pennsylvania State Police
Commissioner Paul Evanko is to
lead the reactivated State Police
Equestrian Drill Team. Evanko is a
horse enthusiast who lead the
effort to restore the drill team after
its 20-year hiatus.
The state FFA Convention again
is to be held in conjunction with
the Faun Show, and will feature
the presentation of Keystone Far
mer Degrees, as well as the selec
tion of the top FFA individuals in
the state.
Those curious about Christmas
trees can walk through a miniature
forest of different varieties judged
for appearance and shape.
Those unfamiliar with agricul
tural judging should note that all
species are compared against an
abstract “ideal” of perfection for
that species.
While breeders can select for
genetics that can provide a solid
foundation for achieving the ideal,
it takes a good understanding of
creating the proper environment
for growth to make those genetics
express themselves to the fullest
In addition to all the traditional
production and historic agricultur
al animal and plant species show
cased in the Farm Show’s competi
tions, the show also presents exhi
bits of judged production
skills such as home food pre
servation by canning and drying,
cooking skills and clothcs-making.
But not only are the judged exhi
bits on display for visitors to see at
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