SYRACUSE, N.Y. A
project facilitated by New York
AgriDevelopment Corporation
will pump new technology and
new life into a western New
York feed mill.
In the process, 16 full-time
jobs will be saved and. continued
service will be assured to some
150 farm-families in western
New York and northwestern
Pennsylvania.
The product of a collaborative
Administration Announces Ag Marketing Grants
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania Agricul
ture Secretary Samuel E. Hayes
Jr. recently announced about $1
million to 22 organizations pro
moting Pennsylvania agricul
tural products.
“Pennsylvania agriculture
has products for the planet,”
Hayes said. “And, through the
hard work of these agricultural
organizations and the product
promotion grants, we are able to
spread the good news about
Pennsylvania’s high-quality
foods and agricultural products.
“Under this marketing effort, Association Pennsylvania
public and private dollars are Pride in Pennsylvania Products
working together to develop in Pennsylvania Restaurants,
promotional and educational
programs about our bountiful
supply of food and fiber.
“It’s easy to see why agriculture is the
backbone of our state economy. Pennsylvania
agriculture feeds the world. Our 60,000 hard
working farm families have an excellent
record of productivity helping to make us
first nationally in the production of mush
rooms and potato chips, and among the top
five producers of such diverse foods as milk,
chicken, trout, peaches and eggs.”
Hayes said the $860,000 in grants from
the 2000 Pennsylvania Agricultural Product
Promotion Matching Giants Program -*■ are
offered to qualified Pennsylvania nonprofit
agricultural product promotion and market
ing organizations to increase consumer
awareness and sales of Pennsylvania agricul
tural products.
The 2000 grants will be matched by the or
ganizations for a total of more than
$1,720,000 for product promotion.
This year’s recipients are:
• Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers Asso
ciation of Pennsylvania 2001 Forest Prod
ucts, Equipment and Technology Exposition,
$17,500,
• North Central Pennsylvania Regional
Planning and Development Commission
Northern Pennsylvania Hardwoods Product
Promotion Mission, $15,000.
• PennAg Industries-Poultry Council
Pennsylvania Egg Quality Assurance Pro
gram: Promotional Campaign, $50,000.
• Pennsylvania Apple Marketing Program
Winter Retail Pennsylvania Select Apples,
$31,500.
• Pennsylvania Fresh Mushroom Promo
tion Committee Pennsylvania Fresh
Mushroom Promotion Program, $150,000.
• Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council
Pork Products Promotion Program, $42,000.
• Pennsylvania Vegetable Marketing and
Research Program “Pennsylvania Pro
duce... Simply Delicious” Promotion Cam
paign, $lB,OOO.
• Pennsylvania Wine Association Com
prehensive Promotional Program for Penn
sylvania Wine and Wine Grapes, $120,000.
• The Center City Proprietors Pennsyl
vania Preferred, $36,000.
• Farmers’ Market Trust Promoting
“Pennsylvania Produce... Simply Delicious”
in the Greater Philadelphia Region, $44,000.
• Pennsylvania Association for Sustain
able Agriculture Southwestern Pennsylva
nia Consumer Guide to Farm Fresh, $24,000.
• Pennsylvania Beef Council Promotion
for Beef Quality and Safety, $36,000.
• Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Growers
Association Christmas Tree Commodity
Promotion, $16,000.
• Pennsylvania Composting Association
Marketing Compost Production and Use
in Pennsylvania, $7,000.
Reinvestment In Western N. Y. Feed Mill Saves Jobs
effort by New York AgriDe
velopment and its public and
private sector partners, the $3.3
million redevelopment of the
Gramco, Inc. feed mill on the
outskirts of Springville is exactly
the kind of agricultural eco
nomic development project with
which New York AgriDevelop
ment wants to be involved.
“This project represents rein
vestment in agribusiness infras
tructure,” said Michael
• Pennsylvania Dairy Prin
cess and Promotion Services
Dairy-Cyberspace Education
and Promotion, $2,900.
• Pennsylvania Dairy Promo
tion Program Make it Cool,
Make it Cold, Make it Milk!,
$147,500.
• Pennsylvania Dairy Stake
holders 2000 Stakeholders
Video Project, $6,750.
• Pennsylvania Landscape
and Nursery Association Pro
motion of Ornamental Horticul
ture in Pennsylvania to
Consumers, $22,100.
• Pennsylvania Restaurant
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Chamberlain, New York Agri-
Development’s executive direc
tor. “We’re proving that
economic development can
work for agriculture, too.”
Gramco’s operations had
been consolidated to two plants
one in Springville and an
other in Franklinville before
fire destroyed the Franklinville
facility last year. Saddled with
the loss of its most modern
plant, and realizing that its
-539,500.
• Pennsylvania Retail Farm
Market Association Direct to
Consumer Promotion of Agri
culture in Pennsylvania, $2,820.
• Pennsylvania Sheep and
Wool Growers Association
Pennsylvania Sheep Industry
Expansion Project, $4,400.
• RodaTe Institute— Market
ing to Demand: Meeting the
Needs of Today’s Increasingly
Aware Consumers, $13,000.
Hayes said that, during the
past five years, there has been
significant and steady growth of
agricultural exports from Penn
sylvania approaching nearly
$1 billion in 1999.
Hayes noted that Pennsylva-
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Springville plant was too anti
quated to carry the load,
Gramco was faced with the pos
sibility of closure after more
than 80 years in business.
Instead, New York AgriDe
velopment and its partners at
the Small Business Administra
tion’s Small Business Develop
ment Center, the Cattaraugus
County Bank, the Town of Con
cord Industrial Development
Agency, Empire State Develop
ment Corporation, and the Busi-
nia has the largest and most ag
gressive trade-development
program for food, agriculture,
and wood products in the
Northeast, and one of the top
development programs in the
country.
“The new ‘Products for the
Planet’ logo has created an iden
tity for Pennsylvania agricul
tural products in the world
market,’’ Hayes said. “And
recent trade events have re
sulted in sales of more than $l4
million.”
Gov. Ridge also has led trade
missions to countries such as
Mexico, Japan, South Korea,
Vietnam, Germany, and Great
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Novwnbar 25, 2000-Al9
ness and Professional
Development Center at James
town Community College coor
dinated a program that helped
Gramco develop its new busi
ness plan, provided financing
for the new plant’s construction,
provided economic development
incentives, and will provide
training programs and assist
ance.
Construction on the 5.5-acre
site began in October and will be
complete next May.
Britain to promote Pennsylvania
products such as produce and
agriculture products.
One of every five Pennsylva
nians is employed in an agricul
ture-related field. And
agriculture generates $4.2 bil
lion in annual cash receipts, as
well as $44 billion in related eco
nomic activity.
For more information on the
product promotion grant pro
gram, contact the Bureau of
Market Development at (717)
787-6041 or visit the Agriculture
Department homepage, which
can be accessed through the
Pennsylvania Power Port at
www.state.pa.us or directly at
www.pda.state.pa.us.
301-334-3977
1283 Joni Miller Rd.
Oakland, MO 21550
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