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Vol. 48 No. 36 IH Enthusiasts Gather At Fairgrounds For Red Power Roundup Jonathan Dinterman of Bunker hill, W.Va., left, shows his 1939 model F-20 to open ing ceremony speakers at the Red Power Roundup in Bloomsburg last week. From left are Dennis Wolff, Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture; Ben Trapani, president, Chap ter 17 International Harvester Collectors of Pennsylvania; Fred Trump, Bloomsburg Fair director; and Bill Swope, president of the national IH Collectors Club. Photo by Dave Lofover Campaign Promotes Locally Grown Food BRIAN SNYDER Centre Co. Correspondent PHILADELPHIA It has be come increasingly clear in recent years that, if family farms are to flourish once again across the American countryside, farmers must reconnect in a meaningful way with their closest neighbors and with the rural communities in their region. Fortunately, at the same time that many farmers are rediscov ering the enduring value of their neighbors, average consumers are expressing a preference to buy food that is grown on nearby farms, by farmers who they can know and visit, using methods that assure accountability and high quality. Farmers and consumers, it (Turn to Page A 26) Most Commodities Represented At COOL Session MILLIE BUNTING Market Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) The session began with a New York State senator and ended with a Virginia cattleman. Dur ing a last-chance effort late last week, speakers were given three minutes to voice their opinions on the controversial Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law at the USDA’s find listening ses sion here at the Lancaster Farm and Home Center. Written testimony was also ac cepted. Of the 45 who had signed up to speak, many also submitted written information which they could not present in the allotted three minutes. E.S. Yates, administrator of the USDA’s Agricultural Market ing Service (AMS), opened the listening and education session www.lancasterfarming.com with a brief statement welcoming the approximately 150 people scattered throughout the room for their interest in contributing information. USDA/AMS has the job of implementing the COOL legislation as mandated by Con Inside The Farmer ✓ Somerset County Pro Show page A 36. ✓ Farming On The Edge page A2B. ✓ CWT Update page A 34. ✓ 4-H Capitol Days page 812. 16802 826 P 3 18072 OSO 296288 SERIALS RECORDS PAT TEE I IBRARY APT W 209 UNIVERSITY PARK PA 16802 Four Sections gress in the 2002 Farm Bill. William Sessions, AMS deputy administrator, provided a brief review of the current thinking on the regulations and the labeling of imported commodities. He said AMS must establish a com pliance review process which would involve a recordkeeping trail of origin claims. A fine of $lO,OOO per offense for willful vi olations is already mandated in the law, he noted. Sessions made no mention of the tempest stirred up at the Lan caster Cattle Feeder’s Day Feb. 4 in the same room when he pres ented a run through of the label ing law. Area cattle feeders were aghast at the possible record keeping involved to, wm.. quired, provide traceback on all Saturday, July 5, 2003 (Turn to Page A3O) DAVE LEFEVER Lancaster Farming Staff BLOOMSBURG (Columbia Co.) Folks who love red trac tors found what they were look ing for in Bloomsburg last week. It was the 14th Annual Red Power Roundup, hosted in Penn sylvania for the first time since 1994. Collectors from across the Editor’s note: This issue we introduce a new monthly col umn, Plans For Pennsylvania, by the Hon. Dennis C, Wolff, Pennsylvania secretary of agri culture. Wolff, owner of Pen- Col Farms, operates a 700-acre, 500-head dairy farm specializing in purebred Hol stein genetics. He has served on various national and interna tional marketing ventures, is a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees, and serves as board member on various Holstein USA Calls National Convention A Success WINSTON SALEM, N.C. Holstein Association USA, Inc. gathered in Winston-Salem, N.C. last week to conduct its official business and recognize award winners for their leadership in the Holstein Association and the dairy industry. The annual meeting included award presentations to Holstein Northern Bedford High School FFA’s dairy judging team took first place during FFA Activities Week recently at Penn State. Team members are, from left, Andrew Ritch ey, Carissa Ebersole, Jennifer Cogan, and Kenny Stanton. Ritchey and Ebersole are students at Northern Bedford and Jennifer Cogan is a 2003 graduate. Kenny Stanton is an Everett area student who attends agricultural classes at Northern Bedford. Ritchey finished third individually in the state. Stanton was sixth in dairy judging. See story page A2O. Photo by Linda Williams, Bedford Co. correspondent $37.00 Per Year country and Canada brought more than 800 tractors to the three-day show, according to Ben Trapani, president of Interna tional Harvester (IH) Collectors Chapter 17 in Pennsylvania. Tractors on display included the earliest McCormick Deering (Turn to Page Aid) | HON. DENNIS C. WOLFF ■ I Pennsylvania Secretary * o f Agriculture i agriculture, lending, and insur ance companies. The president of the Nicholas Wolff Founda tion, Inc., Wolff is a Master Farmer. Agriculture, Pennsylvania’s top industry, has had its share of challenges. Despite the droughts ~~0( a year ago, the seemingly end less rains of this planting season, low milk prices, animal health, and environmental issues, Penn sylvania’s agriculture industry re- enthusiasts across the country as well as the world. The Jeffrey and Gayle Benedict family was honored as the 2003 Distin guished Young Holstein Breeder. The Benedicts own and operate Lake Effect Holsteins in Pulaski, N.Y. $l.OO Per Copy (Turn to Page A 27) (Turn to Page A 27)