Kreider
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which includes $2 per hour for
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The Master Farmer and his
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Kreider started farming in 1953
following his marriage to the
fonder Eleanor Hostetter. They
formed a partnership with his
parents, saved enough money to
buy a herd in 1956 and the farm
and an additional 30 acres in 1958.
The growth has been steady, if
not spectacular, ever since. Herd
size has tripled, acres doubled,
and a new home constructed.
As an added efficiency
dimension, dry cows are
separated from the herd and not
brought back until a couple of
weeks before freshening. Heifers
then get a preview of herd life
and the milking parlor prior to
calving.
“All bull calves end up at the
bull feeding operation on a
second farm,” the Master
Farmer points out. “The bulls
are fed to 1,300 or 1,400 pounds
and then sold.”
There are no trade secrets on
how Kreider produced corn at the
rate of 160 bushels per acre or 33
tons of silage on some fields
during one of the worst growing
seasons on record. He uses full
season corn varieties, fertilizes
according to soil tests, controls
weeds, and protects the land with
such good practices as contour
strips, a sod waterway, and rye
cover.
“William Waltman, my crops
man the past nine years, likes to
plow the land in March. About 100
pounds of actual phosphorus,
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potassium, and liquid manure
are applied the previous fall. The
balance of the fertilizer is plowed
down in the spring and a starter
solution is applied at planting,”
the award winner said.
The young Lancaster Countian
solves the chore of opening a corn
field each fall by seeding two drill
widths of wheat along the field. It
saves soil as well as hand work.
“Using the Farm Business
Analysis System, we have
figured that crop value per total
crop acre is $173.41 for alfalfa and
com,” Kreider emphasizes.
Mrs. Kreider, Cynthia Sue, and
Palela Kay, both daughters,
assist with farm chores when
needed. So does son Tom, 16,
when high school sports don’t
interfere.
Along the way, the Master
Farmer also has expanded
participation in his church,
community, and agricultural
organizations.
He has served as president of
the Lancaster County Farmers’
Association, local of Inter-State
Milk Producers Cooperative, and
Solanco Fair Association. He was
vice president of the Lancaster
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and director of the county Dairy
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and Solanco Fair Association.
Kreider also is an Agway
committeeman and a deacon of
the Mechanic Grove Church of
the Brethren.
There are now five Penn
sylvania Master Farmers
residing in the county, the most
recent before Kreider being Noah
W. Kreider in 1970. Other Master
Farmers in the county are Amos
Funk, Millersville Rl; B. Snavely
Garber, Willow Street Rl, and
Earl L Groff, Strasburg Rl.
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George H. Wolf, York County;
Ray E. McMillen, Perry County;
Budd E. Ott, Northampton
County, and Daniel C. Schrack,
Clinton County.
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