. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. New CCCGA Director Is Avid Industry Spokesman By CAROLYN GILMORE When the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association hired Dwight Peavey as executive director last February, it also got an active public relations spokesman for Massachusetts cranberries. Dr. Peavey engages in grower contact as well as intensive lob- bying regarding state regulations affecting the cranberry industry. He also is available to answer questions at his office in the Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- ment Station in East Wareham. And he speaks to local groups.


. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. New CCCGA Director Is Avid Industry Spokesman By CAROLYN GILMORE When the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association hired Dwight Peavey as executive director last February, it also got an active public relations spokesman for Massachusetts cranberries. Dr. Peavey engages in grower contact as well as intensive lob- bying regarding state regulations affecting the cranberry industry. He also is available to answer questions at his office in the Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- ment Station in East Wareham. And he speaks to local groups. Peavey has been representing the industry in cases where regu- lations are being formulated with COVER PHOTO AS executive director of the Cape Cod Cranberry Grow- ers' Association, Dr. Dwight Peavey has become a major spokesman for the industry. A story on Peavey starts on this page. (CRANBERRIES photo by Carolyn Gilmore) respect to water management, pesticides, farmland reevaluation, encroachment and bog reclama- tion and expansion. Of these matters, the Massa- chusetts Water Management Act will produce "a substantial impact" on the cranberry indus- try, Peavey noted. The CCCGA, he adds, supports the act "in principle," because it favors any measure to conserve and preserve clean water. "In fact," the executive direc- tor says, "the industry has been doing water management for 100. i IT IS INSECT TIME. Color photographs of cranberry insect pests and more are now arranged with t^Tit in a portfolio that is available. The portfolio endeavors to bring together the words of research complementing the photographs and mak- ing a summary of cranberry insect information that will be of use to the cranberry grower for a lifetime. The portfolio is available for $100 and, if you wish to examine a copy, telephone (609) S94-8556 evenings around 6 or write to: Walter Z. Fort Box 183 Pemberton New Jersey 08068. Please note that these images are ext


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