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always some obstacles to creating
and keeping a smoothly operating
business.
Those who are
attempting to rebuild
PRFMA said they
believe the organization
can help overcome
those obstacles, through
education or influencing
official policy.
Local and state reg
ulations can be created
that unfairly and
unccessarily restrict
business by requiring
meaningless paper
work, effort, or profit
taking fees.
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GutshaM’s, Inc.
ADAMSTOWN
Adamstown Equip. Inc.
ALLENTOWN
Lehigh Ag Equipment
BECHTELSVILLE
Miller Equip. Co.
CARLISLE
Gutshalls Inc.
CENTRE HALL
Dunkle & Grieb, Inc.
CRESSON & BELLWOOD
Hines Equipment, Inc.
DOVER
George N. Gross, Inc.
EASTON
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ELIZABETHTOWN
Messlck Farm Equipment Co.
INTERCOURSE
C.B. Hoober & Son
GREENCASTLE
Meyers Implement
GREENSBURG
JAM Machinery Co.
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Furthermore, many sense that il
can be counted upon today, in
almost every business, that there
will be opposition to conducting
business.
Opposition can come from local
and/or broader-scalc anti-industry
and anti-competitive forces, or it
can come through dbmonitbred
actions by public officials working
with an insufficient understanding
of the impact of their suggested
actions and policies.
A number of legal and statutory
threats to small businesses can
come from policies adopted with
out consideration of those small
businesses. In some cases, the
small businesses being affected are
not represented, much less consid
ered, when policies are being
developed.
Developing and adopting poli
cies is politics, and to influence the
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Peoples Sales & Service
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Pikeville Equipment, Inc.
QUARRVVILLE
Grumelli Farm Service
TAMAQUA
Charles Snyder, Inc
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Deerfield AG & Turf Center, Inc
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outcome, requires political clout
Clout can only come through
good communications, a respected
reputation as an industry represen
tative group, and a message that
solves problems, instead of
exacerbating them.
That is what the people working
to re-establish the PRFMA organi
zation want to develop a mutu
ally supportive organization that
can provide a conduit to a spec
trum of useful educational mater
ials and programs, timely warn
ings of upcoming regulations and
policy changes, development of a
networking system, and respected
political recognition.
According to Berry, “(The
PRFMA) has not been active for a
few years. Now a new group of far
mers, men and women, can see
some value from a state
organization.
“It’s main goals are
marketing education
and, in addition to fel
lowship, to provide a
unified voice for direct
markets.”
Berry started last year
as the multi-county,
agri-marketing agent for
Berks, Bucks, Lehigh,
Montgomery and
Northampton counties.
He said that the
southeastern region of
the state has been grow
ing, and has become
much more conducive
to direct marketing.
“The urban sprawl
has been putting pres
sure on farmland to
make farmland more
profitable, so if people
can develop direct
marketing techniques
they can profit on, we
would be turning a
negative into a
positive.”
Berry got involved
with the PRFMA effort
through Larry Yager, a
marketing agent in
Adams County.
Yager had been pre
viously involved with
the organization when it
was active, and he co
chaired and coordinated
the 1998 Pennsylvania/
Mid-Atlantic confer
ence, along with rep
resentatives of existing
direct marketing associ
ations, agriculture
departments, and exten
sion services in Pen
nsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, New Jersey,
and Virginia.
The Pennsylvania
contingent on the con
ference planning com
mittee included a num
ber of farm marketers
who had been interested
in restarting a statewide
association.
Yager said that at last
year’s conference, he
recommended that Pen
nsylvania growers
appoint a stealing com
mittee to look into
restarting the associa
tion. Yager had to be
away for a number of
weeks and called upon
Berry to aid the group.
In that way. Berry
was introduced to those
interested in bringing
the Pennsylvania orga
nization back to life.
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