Meat inspection shift threatens Mount Airy Locker Co. future
Mount Airy Locker Co in Maryland faces a three year transition as state control of meat inspection ends and federal oversight begins. Owners warn of higher costs and more bureaucracy, fearing consolidation and plant upgrades while officials defend alignment with federal standards and savings.
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Oklahoma
Montana
Utah
California
Auciello
Maryland
L.D. Nordyke
USDA
Food Safety Inspection Service
Federal takeover keeps fund raising butcherings going
Fund raising butcherings can continue after April 1 when the federal government assumes meat inspection. Not-for-profit groups such as Granges Farm Bureau 4-H and Future Farmers of America will be allowed to slaughter process package and sell meat at federally inspected plants. The change saves Maryland 660000 in state costs and keeps existing community practices intact pending inspections only if complaints arise.
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Nordyke
Maryland
Stephen T. Wolford
Maryland Meat and Poultry Inspection Program
Wolford
Mr. Wagner
Ray Dorsey
Dorsey’s Meats
Woodsboro
Billi Hemp
Jefferson
Mr. Hemp
Wagner
Auciello
Secretary of Agriculture
Audelio
Wayne Cawley Jr
MDA
Harold Kanarek
Cawley
Mount Airy Locker Co
Farm Bureau
4-H
Future Farmers of America
L.D. Nordyke
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food Safety Inspection Service
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Harold Lenhart
Shuff’s
Madigan sworn in as secretary of agriculture
Edward Madigan of Illinois becomes secretary of agriculture after resigning his House seat. He was sworn in by Abner Mikva in a private Agriculture Department ceremony and a public ceremony was planned. Madigan, 55, was the senior Republican on the House Agriculture Committee and had been confirmed by the Senate. He succeeds Clayton Yeutter, now chairman of the Republican Party.
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Washington
Edward Madigan
House
Ilinois
Bush
Congress
Madigan
Abner Mikva
Agriculture Department
USDA
Farm groups back Bush fast track on GATT trade talks
Farm groups support President Bush request for extended fast track authority to push GATT negotiations, while some critics warn of risks. The talks, led by the Uruguay Round, seek to liberalize global agricultural trade and include a possible NAFTA extension. Rep. Edward Madigan notes farm groups back a deal reducing market-distorting subsidies, with Farm Bureau’s Harry Bell warning against unequal gains for U.S. farmers.
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Capitol Hill
Bush
U.S
Uruguay
Congress
United States
Canada
Mexico
Edward Madigan
Ilinois
American Farm Bureau Federation
Madigan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Harry Bell
House Agriculture Committee
Farmers Still Get Only One Fourth Of Food Dollar
U S Department of Agriculture economists say the farmer's share of the consumer food dollar remains about 24 percent. In 1990 the farm value of food sold to consumers rose 2.5 percent to 106.4 billion, while marketing costs reached 338.1 billion, up 6 percent. Retail prices rose 5.8 percent in 1990, with forecasts of 2 to 5 percent for 1991. The detailed breakdown shows labor, fuel, and other costs absorbing the majority of the dollar, leaving the farmer with about a quarter of each spending dollar.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S
Howard Elitzak
Department’s Economic Research Service
Elitzak
Denis Dunham
USDA
Dunham
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Rocky Ridge
Stacey Guyton
Cindy Fell
Upper Shore Dairy Princess
Tanya Jager
South Central Dairy Princess
Jennifer Trout
Baltimore Harford Dairy Princess
Jewell Rinehart
Maryland Farm Queen
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