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Egg Producers Sponsor
Busch NASCAR Race Car
DOVER, Del. The North
east Egg Promotion Coalition re
cently announced that it has
signed on as an associate sponsor
of the Number 93 Pontiac Busch
Grand National race car.
The 93.3 WMMR-FM Busch
Grand National race car is
owned and driven by Bill Hoff.
In addition to carrying the
“Good Egg” logo on the rear
quarter panels of the car, Hoffs
pit crew will also have the flag
waving egg symbol on their hel
mets for a total of ten races.
The first race with the egg logo
car was the MBNA Platinum 200
at Dover International Raceway
June 1. The pit crew has been re
ported so positive about the egg
sponsorship that they have
adopted nicknames such as
“Scrambled” and ‘Yokie.”
According to Christine Bush
way, director of marketing and
promotion for the Northeast Egg
Promotion Coalition, The Mon
ster Mile (Dover Raceway) also
participated in the egg promotion
efforts during the entire NAS
CAR weekend.
“Starting on Friday (May 31)
for the Craftsman Truck Race
and continuing through the
Busch and Winston Cup races,
the American Egg Board’s Good
Eggs appeared at entrances to
the track,” Bushway said.
The lifesize egg characters
were at the track throughout the
weekend and distributed “You’re
A Good Egg” tattoos to race at
tendees as well as to children in
Bush Meets Pa. Pork Producers
DES MOINES, lowa Presi
dent George W. Bush said “we
are the best producers of pork in
the world, and we need to be ex
porting more of it.”
Bush spoke at the recent
World Pork Expo at the 4-H
Building at the lowa State Fair
grounds.
In order improve exports. Bush
said he needs the “Trade Promo
tion Authority legislation to be
come law.” That would give the
President more flexibility and au
thority to make trade deals with
other countries.
To have a strong economy,
“we need to have a strong farm
economy, which creates more
jobs,” Bush noted. He em
phasized the importance of a
strong economy, which frees peo
ple from paying taxes so they can
use that money to strengthen the
economy.
Bush urged the Senate to fol
low the House’s lead in passing a
measure that would permanently
eliminate the death, or estate tax,
to allow people to keep the family
Bush addresses the World Pork Expo. Members of the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council are in background.
The Northeast Egg Promotion Coalition has signed on
as associate sponsor of #93 Busch Grand National NAS
CAR race car. Pictured here at the first egg-sponsored
race at Dover International Raceway are, from left, the
American Egg Board’s “Good Egg”; Bill Hoff, car owner
and driver; and Paul Sauder, chairman of the Northeast
Egg Promotion Coalition and CEO of Sauder’s Penn Dutch
Eggs, Lititz.
the special Take A Kid To The
Races venue on Saturday. Signs
were also displayed around the
race track which proclaimed “An
Egg A Day Is OK!”
“This is the first time egg pro
ducers anywhere in the country
have become involved in NAS
CAR racing,” Bushway said.
“We are very excited about this
opportunity to let people know in
a fun and entertaining way that
studies have proven that as a part
of a low-fat diet, eating an egg a
day is OK for most people.”
The Northeast Egg Promotion
President George Bush meets with Kurt Good, Good's
Livestock, Inc. and vice president of the Pennsylvania
Pork Producers Council, right, at the World Pork Expo in
Des Moines, lowa.
farms in the family. He also
spoke about the importance of
Coalition consists of egg produc
ers from Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, New York, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, and Dela
ware.
It is responsible for promoting
egg consumption and consumer
awareness about eggs throughout
the northeastern states.
For more information about
Bill Hoffs number 93 Busch race
car, go to http://
www.hoffmotorsports.com
For more information about
eggs and good nutrition, visit
www.aeb.org
using alternate energy forms such
as ethanol.
Bush also spoke about home
land security, restructuring the
federal government by making
the homeland security director a
cabinet position and merging sev
eral federal agencies into one de
partment to be more efficient and
effective. He also commented on
former Pennsylvania Governor
Tom Ridge, director of the Office
of Homeland Security, on doing
good work.
About 4,000 people attended
the speech, including delegates
from Pennsylvania. Attending
the Expo were Oscar Manbeck,
president of the Pennsylvania
Pork Producers Council (PPPC);
Scott Bailey, Hostetter Manage
ment, president of LanChester
Pork Producers; and vice presi
dent of PPPC, Kurt Good,
Good’s Livestock, Inc., Denver.
PMMB Amends Over-Price
Determination Method
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board (PMMB) re
cently agreed to adopt a quarter
ly method to determine the over
price premium applied to Class I
(fluid) milk produced, processed,
and sold in the state.
David DeSantis, chief of en
forcement on accounting for the
board, cited lack of staffing as
the reason for adopting the quar
terly method to replace the cur
rent monthly adjustment of the
over-price premium.
Effective July 1, the amend
ment states that the over-price
premium “shall be calculated on
a quarterly basis, using a full
quarter’s data, for each of the
data quarters.” Data quarters are
defined as November-January;
February-April; May-July; and
August-October.
The over-price premium is the
price dairy farmers may receive
above the over-order premium set
by the board (currently $1.65 per
hundredweight.) Milk quality
and other factors are used to de
Proposed Amendments To
Mideast Milk Marketing
Orders In Federal Register
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
USDA recently announced a ten
tative final decision that adopts
provisions to amend the current
pooling provisions of the Mideast
Federal milk marketing order.
This decision is based on testimo
ny and evidence given at a public
hearing Oct. 23-24, 2001, in
Wadsworth, Ohio.
The tentative final decision
was scheduled to be published in
the June 11 Federal Register. In
terested persons have until Aug.
12 to file comments. USDA will
determine whether dairy farmers
approve the amended order.
This decision would eliminate
unneeded and change inadequate
pooling standards that have re
sulted in inappropriately pooled
milk on the Mideast order.
The amendments would:
• Eliminate automatic pool
plant status for the 6-month peri
od of March through August.
• Not include milk shipments
to a distributing plant regulated
by another federal milk order as
Hundreds Of 4-H’ers At
Ohio State Campus June 19-21
COLUMBUS, Ohio About
450 teens from around Ohio will
gather on the Columbus campus
of Ohio State University to par
ticipate in leadership, citizenship,
and educational activities during
the 86th Ohio 4-H Youth Expo.
The annual conference, June
19-21, allows delegates to learn
new ideas and skills they can use
in their 4-H clubs and in their
communities, said Allen Auck,
4-H youth development associate
for Ohio State University Exten
sion and coordinator of the event.
This year’s Expo will help cele
brate 4-H’s centennial.
During the Expo, the 4-H’ers
will participate in one of 18
small-group, hands-on work
shops on topics such as roller
coaster design and physics; pet
therapy; government and com
munity involvement; Ohio heri
tage; theater arts; sheep, dairy,
beef, and swine projects; cloth
ing-related careers; and rocket
science.
On Friday, four of the groups
will perform community services
that incorporate what they
learned in Thursday’s work
shops. For example, one group
termine the over-price premium.
The amendment also states the
premium “shall be included in
the wholesale and retail price
build-up for each of the three
months beginning in the sixth
month following the end of the
quarter for which the quarterly
over-price premium was calculat
ed. Any adjustments to the over
price premium shall be made in
the succeeding quarterly calcula
tion, affecting the corresponding
three months of resale prices. For
example, the over-price premium
as calculated for the data quarter
November, December, January,
shall be included in the wholesale
and retail prices announced in
each of the months June, July,
and August for the months July,
August, and September, respec
tively.”
The amendment, which ap
plies to all milk marketing areas
m the state, followed a May 12
hearing in which DeSantis testi
fied on behalf of the PMMB re
questing the policy change. Allen
Warshaw, attorney representing
the Pennsylvania Association of
Milk Dealers, did not oppose the
amendment.
pool-qualifying shipments under
the Mideast order.
• Eliminate the “split plant”
feature that provides for desig
nating a portion of a pool plant
as a nonpool plant, provided that
the nonpool portion was physi
cally separate and operated sepa
rately from the pool side.
• Establish a “net shipments”
standard for supply plant deliver
ies to the order’s distributing
plants for the purpose of meeting
the shipping standard. This deci
sion also would increase the
number of days that the milk of a
producer needs to be delivered to
a pool plant before being eligible
for diversion to nonpool plants
and institutes year-round diver
sion limits adjusted seasonally for
all pool plants.
For additional information,
contact David Z. Walker, Market
Administrator, USDA/AMS/
Dairy Programs, 7851 Freeway
Circle, Middleburg Heights, OH
44130, (440) 826-3220, e-mail
dwalker@fmmaclev.com.
will work with preschoolers and
another will take pets to visit res
idents at an assisted living facility
in London.
In addition, 70 of the partici
pants will take part in state 4-H
ambassador training to ready
them for a year’s worth of experi
ences as 4-H ambassadors, said
David Farrell, coordinator of the
ambassador program. They will
leam effective public speaking
skills; how to work in teams; and
how to work with elected offi
cials, with county 4-H profession
als, and with the media. A final
recognition for last year’s ambas
sadors is set for Youth Expo’s
opening lunch on Wednesday,
June 19.
Conference delegates also will
tour Ohio State’s campus, experi
ence college life by staying in stu
dent dorms, and take part in rec
reational and social events. Any
4-H’er ages 14 to 19 can attend
the summer youth conference.
Local sponsors often underwrite
the costs. In addition, Wendy’s
International and the American
Dairy Association and Dairy
Council Mid East are major
sponsors of Ohio Youth Expo.
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