Robert Zook, Oxford, testing his skills in the agronomy
judging event.
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Buckwalter, gold, Dennis
Lesterman, silver, and Curt
Strohmaier, bronze.
In Livestock judging, Gordon
Hoover, Pequea Valley, earned" a
gold medal and placed third in
the Robert Strauss,
Ephrata, also a gold medalist,
placed fourth A silver medal
went to Tom Denlmger, Pequea
Valley, and a bronze went to Carl
Gerlach, Penn Manor.
A pair of gold medals also
came to the area from public
speaking contestants. Ray
Martin, Garden Spot, placed fifth
in the state, and Manheim’s Bob
Hershey also got some gold
Ron Hunt, Penn Manor, took a
gold medal for his second place
finish in poultry judging Jerry
Long, Garden Spot, captured a
bronze medal.
Other prizes were-
Ag mechanics - Gold, Wayne
Martin, Garden Spot
Interview - Silver, Gregory
Martin, Garden Spot.
Floriculture - Gold, Sandy
Gmder, Mt. Joy
Horticulture - Gold, Randy
Firestone, and Jeff Risser,
Ruby Ginger, left, Sharon Henly and Mike
Buckwalter were all entered in Thursday’s
Randy Firestone, left, Ray Erb and Al Lutz
tried their luck at ornamental horticulture
judging on Thursday at Penn State.
Brownstown; Silver, Ray Erb
and Gene Bruckhart, Mt. Joy; Al
Lutz and Ray Lefever, Brown
stown; Bronze, Craig Becher,
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supplies m this country and
caused unprecendented wild
markets and high prices.
Larson commented that his
remarks were tempered by the
fact that conditions in the past
few weeks were changing so
rapidly that what was true today
might not be true tomorrow. He
said, in fact, that a major policy
decision from Washington was
imminent, it could change
everything, and it could come as
early as Monday, July 2.
“The feedgrain industry is
almost afraid to trade,” Larson
said. “Dealers are wary of high
price grain, high interest, high
shrinkage, hedging losses, and
the unpleasant possibility of
customer defaults and
bankruptcies. Every day, some
country mills are closing their
doors.
“Costs aren’t headed down,
though We’re going to see high
costs for the rest of this year and
all of the next. And the American
consumer is never again going to
be able to buy food at very low
prices.”
Larson went on to say that the
administration had to pick its
way to a reasonable agriculture
policy, taking into account the
needs of American consumers
and farmers, and the desire to
keep up a viable trading position
with our foreign customers
He said that the dollar would
suffer if foreign customers lost
faith in the U S ability to supply
their needs “But maybe the
balance of payments will have to
go down the dram if the govern-
dairy judging contest at Penn State. Ruby
is a student at Manheim, Sharon is from
Octorara and Mike is from Oxford.
Firestone and Lutz are from Brownstown
Vo-Tech, Erb is from Mt. Joy.
ment is to fulfill its obligation to
feed the people at home,” he
concluded
Prior to Larson’s speech,
Donald W Parke, the
association’s executive vice
president addressed the group,
saying that the 60-day freeze on
prices has farmers and grain
mills caught in a financial web
The 60-day freeze on prices has
farmers and gram mills caught m
a financial web, according to
Donald W. Parke, executive vice
president of PennAg Industries
Association, Ephrata
According to Parke, mills are
going broke paying premium
prices for grain on existing
contracts, but being unable to
raise prices
Parke said one local mill
operator, when confronted with a
loss situation, asked the Internal
Revenue Service for help
Parke said the miller was told
he had three choices Roll back
prices to the June 1-8 level;
disregard the order and take a
chance on getting fined $5,000, or
shut down the mill.
“If the industry is not to be
labelled wolf crier,” said Parke,
“it must be prepared to
document its fears ”
Parke urged farmers or millers
forced out of business, or who
have altered their production, to
submit their names, addresses,
size of operation and their
production numbers to their
congressman, PennAg and
James McLane, director,
Special Freeze group; Cost of
Living Council, 2025 Mt. St,
N W , Room 5308-D, Washington,
D C. 20508
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