—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4, 1972
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Jane Sowers (center) was recently
crowned the 1972-73 Pennsylvania Poultry
Queen by the 1971-72 Queen, Joy Nikerle
(left) in competition in the annual Penn
sylvania Poultry Queen contest in the
Hershey Motor Lodge, Hershey. Miss
Sowers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
McHale Backs Butz
On Hay Program
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Jim McHale, noting
a cutback in the Com
monwealth’s hay production this
year because of floods triggered
by Hurricane Agnes and late
summer drought, is calling for
the creation of a federal Hay
Assistance Program to provide
low cost hay to affected farmers.
“Dairy and livestock farmers
in areas deviated by the June
floods ~m almost certainly run
into hay shortages by January
and will need help in buying more
hav to feed their herds,” said
McHale
The secretary said he is
backing a proposal submitted to
United States Department of
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz
by local farmers and hay dealers
for a program to subsidize hay
purchases by farmers in disaster
areas.
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The proposal would establish a
Hay Assistance Committee,
headed by a hay specialist, which
will establish a price for hay in
disaster areas that is based upon
what a farmer can actually af
ford to pay for hay and still
maintain his livestock. The
diffrence between this fixed hay
price and the actual cost of
delivering the hay will amount
subsidized by the federal
government, according to the
proposal. As freight rates vary,
so will the federal subsidy.
McHale pointed out that
production for all types of hay in
Pennsylvama for 1972 is 3,977,000
tons, down 9 percent from last
year. Last year’s production
totaled 4,351,000 tons.
The secretary also explained
that the quality of hay was
y our book,
and supply
Sowers, is a native of Fairfield, Adams
County, and is attending Shippensburg
College. Barbara Gehman (right),
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Gehman,
East Petersburg, represented the Lan
caster County Poultry Association.
generally poor this year, a factor
that will further strain the hay
supply.
The flooding in June rendered
much acreage useless for
pasturing dairy and beef herds,
said McHale, and many farmers
were forced to supplement feed
with stored hay. This depletion of
stored hay coupled with a cur
tailed hay crop yield will catch up
with many dairy and livestock
farmers by January, said
McHale.
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