Ephrata Young Farmers See
Program On New Vo-Tech School
The Ephrata Young Farmers to” farming to consider vo-tech
Tuesday night viewed a slide school.
presentation of progress and The vo-tech program followed
plans for the new vo-tech school the Young Farmers’ regular
scheduled to open this fall in monthly business meeting.
Brownstown. It wa s reported that 168 per-
Ralph Layman, who will be sons attended the annual ban
pnncipal of the new Browns- quet last week
town area school, showed slides The auditor’s report on the
of various stages of construe- organization’s 1969 funds was
tion and illustrated the planned approved
£‘2 ZTr m ° f V l6 Plans were discussed for the
schnnlc^n 1 nthp? f ° 3imilar Young Farmer-FFA Slave Auc
schools in other ajeas tJon and volleyball Game
The slides also included the Thursday night Some 21 FFA
new Willow Street vo-tech membeis agreed to sell them
school, another of the three selves into slaveiy to Young
schools underway in the county Farmeis for a day or so
Charles Ackley, vo ag teacher Actually, the Young Farmers
at Ephrata High School and pay foi the woi k, but the money
Ephrata Young Farmers advis- goes directly into the FFA trea
or, said he is advising young sury. Besides giving the Young
farmers ‘not going dnectly in- Farmeis and FFA members an
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opportunity to get acquainted,
the program can lead to part
time jobs for FFA members,
Ackley explained.
Plans for the recreation night
April 2 at Ephrata were discus
sed. This involves a volleyball
play-off between Ephrata, New
Holland, Manheim and Kutz
town.
Members were reminded of
Ladies Night March 19, at which
Fred Schmook of the Ephrata
Flower Shop will give a flower
arranging demonstration.
New Young Farmers officers,
installed at the banquet, took
over their first official meet
ing The meeting was conducted
by the new president, Mahlon
'Eberly
Four Young Farmers attend
ing the state leadership confer
ence Tuesday at the Holiday Inn
at State College were Ackley,
advisor. Eberly, president, War
ren Bollmgei, past president,
and John Zimmerman, treasur
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 21,197 -
SECOND SECTION
214 County Farmers Signed For
Wheat and Feed Grain Program
Only two county farmers attended a meeting at the
Farm and Home Center Monday to learn about the 1970
Wheat and Feed Grain programs.
But 121 county farmers already have signed up for the
wheat program and 93 for the feed grain program, accord
ing to Miss Dorothy Neel, county executive director of the
Lancaster County Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service.
She urged county farmers in
terested in the programs to en
roll early to avoid the rush be
fore the March 20 deadline The
ASCS office is open during the
week to farmers seeking to en
x oil in the piogram or wanting
infoimation about them
Last year, about 340 county
farms out of about 6,700 eligible
were enrolled in the feed grain
piogiam and about 825 out of
about 5,925 in wheat
Miss Neel said both the wheat
and feed gram pi ograms are
“designed to control surplus and
mciease faim income ”
Farmers who participate must
“divert” a portion of their acre
age from production and they
have the option of leaving a
larger portion unplanted
In retuin for cutting back on
planting, farmers get certain
guarantees of return or subsidy
payments
Most county farms have a
wheat allotment and yield. To
participate m the subsidy pro
gram, the farmer must set aside
in 1970 an acieage equal to 30.3
per cent of his wheat allotment.
Last year’s piogram called for
setting aside only 15 per cent of
the allotment
By planting within the allot
ment and divei ting 30.3 per cent
of the acreage, the farmer can
earn certificate payments of up
to 48 per cent of the allotment
or the wheat gi own.
The certificate payment is bas
ed on 48 pei cent of the allot
ment times the established yield
rate for the paiticular farm times
the certificate payment rate,
which will be set July 1. The
payment rate last year was $1.52
a bushel and is expected to be
around $l5O this year.
While the aveiage wheat yied
per farm in Lancaster County is
45 6 bushels per acre, it varies
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