Grants Announced
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blended fuels.
• Pennsylvania Beef Council:
$105,000 to expand participation
and educate the consumer about
the value-added beef products
being introduced to the Pennsyl
vania market place through a
pilot marketing project.
• Pennsylvania Cooperative
Potato Growers, Inc.; $450,000 to
build and operate a potato pro
cessing facility in Schuylkill
County that would convert raw
potatoes into dehydrated potato
products.
• Eastern States Bison Cooper
ative: $109,141 to establish a
working capital account to pro
vide for the processing, packag
ing, labeling, distribution, mar
keting and sales of value-added
bison (buffalo) meat.
For information on applying
for 2003 value-added grants visit:
www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/
vadg.htm.
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American Hereford Association I
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Here
ford breeders will visit Louisville,
Ky. for the North American In
ternational Livestock Exposition
(NAILE).
The American Hereford Asso
ciations (AHA) national show
will begin at noon, Monday, Nov.
18. Jack Ward, LaGrange, Ind.,
will judge the show.
In conjunction with the show,
the AHA will host the Bluegrass
Stakes Futurity Sale, Sunday,
Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. in the Newmar
ket Hall on the Kentucky Fair
and Exposition Center show
grounds.
The cattle for sale will be on
display throughout the weeks ac
tivities. Sale listings can be view
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tion, please contact Patrick Gray
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• National Junior Hereford
Association Show, Coliseum,
show grounds
• 6 p.m. Bluegrass Stakes Fu
turity Sale, Newmarket Hall,
show grounds
Monday, Nov. 18:
• Noon National Homed and
Polled Hereford show. Coliseum,
show grounds
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NAILE show, please visit
AHA Web site at www.he-
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Court Rules Against Pork Checkoff
DES MOINES, lowa A fed
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recently that the Pork Checkoff
program is unconstitutional is a
blow to the pork industry, said
Craig Christensen, an lowa pork
producer and vice president of
the National Pork Board.
“Obviously, the producer
members who make up the Na
tional Pork Board are extremely
disappointed by the ruling,” said
Christensen, a pork producer
from Ogden, lowa.
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the Department of Agriculture
will continue to review the
the
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Judge Richard Enslen of the
United States District Court for
the Western District of Michigan
ruled on Oct. 25 that the checkoff
is unconstitutional and that all
collections of the checkoff are to
cease by Nov. 25.