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Continued from page one discussed last night is the result of countless hours of work on the part of apple growers and committees seeking to devise a workable COMMONSENSE plan for keeping the processing apple industry on a sound basis.
Kenneth Robinson, a member of the VAMA and AAMA marketing committee, who has been active for several months in developing the plan, along with growers from other areas of Virginia and other states, explained the terms of the membership contract of the VAMA which is currently being offered to the growers of Virginia.
The meeting last night was the second in a series of five meetings which are being held this week throughout the apple area of Virginia. The purpose of the meetings is to explain the machinery being provided by the VAMA through which processing apple growers may market their fruit in a more satisfactory manner.
C. E. Johnson, Jr., director of the Virginia Farm Bureau arid an apple grower in Rappahannock County, announced that the following growers had agreed to serve as a committee to contact other apple growers and explain the benefits of membership in the VAMA. The committee is composed of Ned Jones, chairman, Washington, Va.; C. E. Johnson, Jr., Allen Stokes, Ed Harris and Ben Lacy.
M. A. Hubbard, executive secretary of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation who presided at the meeting, and others present emphasized that this project is in no sense an anti-processor movement; “rather it is designed to strengthen the whole industry.” “The processors,” he said, “are our market and unless they do well we cannot hope to do much better.”
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