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Ponna* State; University
Vol. 18 No. 50
FARM TRENDS
A summary of market
and commodity news
for the past week
Tobacco buyers have already been reported out In the
field, looking over the Lancaster County crop now hanging in
the sheds. Bids have started this year at 50-cents a pound,
which is about the price the crop sold for last year. Bidders
started around the 40-cent mark for the 1972 crop, a fact
which area growers haven’t forgotten. There’s some talk
about holding out for 60-cents. Could be a record year for
tobacco growers.
If you wanted to hear prognostications, this was a good
week to hear ’em. The Neppco convention in Hershey was
awash with predictions for the future, beginning with U. S.
Under Secretary of Agriculture J. Phil Cambell. Lou Moore
was his usual entertaining and informative self Wednesday
night at a hog and cattle outlook session at the Lancaster
Farm and Home Center, and there was even a little crystal
balling at the Shaver seminar on Monday at the Ramada Inn.
Perhaps one of the most listened-to speakers at the
Neppco convention was John H. Frazier, Jr., president of the
National Grain and Feed Association, and a partner in
Hennesy & Associates, Chicago. Frazier is a respected
spokesman for the feed industry, and his views on future
developments are said to be more often right than wrong.
Frazier sees an abundance of corn, wheat and soybeans
next year, and says that one of the most important factors in
the marketplace will be a tremendous wheat harvest in
Russia. "The Russians are going to harvest 47 million tons of
wheat more than they did last year," Frazier told the
poultrymen. “That’s up 1.8 billion bushels, or an increase
that's bigger than our entire wheat crop. They spill more
wheat than we grow,” he said. Frazier pointed out that the
good Russian crop will take a lot of pressure off domestic
wheat prices.
Nor does Frazier see any problems with the corn and
soybean supplies. Soybean harvests in the major
producing states are 90 percent harvested, he pointed out,
so that this year there’ll be very few beans left to mold in the
fields. A plus factor in this year’s crop is the low moisture
content of the beans as they come from the fields. Excellent
harvesting weather dried the beans down nicely, Frazier
pointed out, and he expects Midwest fuel reouiremen+s for
crop drying to be down some 50 percent from last year.
4-H’ers Cited During
Annual Dairy Banquet
A smiling Donna Akers left the
annual 4-H Dairy Awards
banquet Thursday night with not
one, but two, silver trays. The
Solanco sophomore turned in the
year’s best 4-H dairy project
book, and for that achievement
received a trophy from Richard
Stein, representing John W.
Eshelman and Sons, Inc. Donna
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Akers, Quarryville.
Four other youngsters were
also honored for their efforts at
producing good project books and
they, along with Donna, received
silver trays from Robert
Gregory, representing Pennfield
Corporation.
The other four winners who
were surprised and honored at
the banquet were: Brenda
by Dick Wanner
60-Cent Tobacco?
A Deluge of Outlooks
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Eshleman, 16-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Eshleman, Elizabethtown RDI;
Debbie Crider, Little Britain;
Barbara Aaron, 17, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Aaron,
Quarryville RDI; and Warren
Schmuck, 16-year-old son of Dr.
and Mrs. Larry Schmuck, Peach
Bottom RD2.
A total of 68 4-H’ers were
honored for scoring 35 points or
more out of a possible 45 points.
About 260 4-H’ers, parents and
sponsors attended the banquet.
Numerous other awards were
also presented at the banquet.
Following is a list, by category, of
those receiving trophies.
Junior Showmanship—Rhonda
Shope, Elizabethtown, Ayrshire;
Judy Witmer, Willow Street,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3, 1973
Poultry Producers
Flock To Hershey
Poultrymen were wise indeed
to shun export controls on the
feedgrains they use in their
production, unlike producers in
other farm industries, the
nation’s second ranking federal
farm official told egg producers
this week.
“Poultrymen know that export
controls are simply another form
of price controls and that the
imposition of price controls on an
industry’s raw material also will,
in all fairness, mean price
controls on its products,” U.S.
Undersecretary of Agriculture J.
Phil Campbell told 300 poultry
leaders at the 14-state convention
of the Northeastern Poultry
Producers Council (NEPPCO) at
the Hershey Hotel Tuesday.
Egg producers and allied in
dustrymen from throughout the
northeast came together for
three days to view the latest in
poultry equipment, products and
available services and to hear top
experts on subjects ranging from
new N promotional ideas to outlook
in the industry to the use of dried
poultry manure as a vital,
nutritional feedstuff for poultry.
Educational sessions were at the
Hotel Hershey and the com
mercial exposition at the nearby
Hersheypark Arena.
“And where do we go from
there?” Campbell asked. “I think
we have learned by now what
havoc price controls can wreak
on an economy, how they
discourage production and cut
back on supplies.
“Continually cheap grain
means continually cheap broilers
and the poultry industry knows
this. The cattle and swine in
dustries learned it a long time
ago. And prices that will
bankrupt producers will
bankrupt the flow of supplies in
very short order.”
Campbell pointed out that
prospects for continued growth in
Brown Swiss, Carol Balmer,
Lititz, Guernsey; Karen Sch
muck, Peach Bottom, Jersey;
Cathy Geroge, Lancaster, grand
champion junior showman.
Senior Showmanship —Linda
Sue Witmer, Willow Street, grand
champion senior showman;
Warren Schmuck, Peach Bottom,
Ayrshire; Marlin Stoltzfus,
Ronks, Guernsey; Rhoda
Stauffer, Ephrata, Holstein;
Larry Aaron, Quarryville,
Jersey.
Junior Breed Champions at
County Round-Up-Russell
Wilson, Elizabethtown, Ayrshire;
Lois Wanner, Narvon, Brown
Swiss; Mary Kirk, Peach Bot
tom, Guernsey; Sandra Frey,
Beaver Valley Road, Lancaster,
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demand for poultry products
remain bright. Trends indicate,
he said, that the consumption of
poultry meat will increase from
last year’s 52 pounds per person
to 62 pounds by 1985 in the United
States. Prospects are bright, too,
he observed, for poultry con
sumption, especially in the more
developed nations, because of the
growing affluence of consumers
in those lands.
“Without exports, American
farmers last year would have had
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 3
Holstein State Office Open House,
State College.
Monday, November 5
7:30 p.m. - Agway Garden Spot
Annual meeting, Farm and
Home Center.
Tuesday, Novembers
9:30 a.m. - Chester County
Extension Workshop, Men’s
Knit Jacket, Malvern.
6:45 p.m. -- Lancaster County
Holstein Association Annual
meeting and banquet, Good ’n
Plenty Restaurant,
Smoketown.
7:30 p.m. - Ephrata Young
Farmers Officers meeting,
Ephrata Junior High School
ag office.
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Donna Akers accepts a silver tray for having the year’s best
4-H dairy project book Thursday night during the annual 4-H
dairy awards banquet at the Good ’n Plenty Restaurant,
Smoketown. Presenting the award is Richard Stein of the
John W. Eshelman feed company.
$2 00 Per Year
to cut their rice production by
two-thirds, their wheat
production by nearly 75 percent,
their soybean production in half,
their tobacco and cotton
production by 40 percent and
their feed grains a third.
“There can be no doubt
policies that cut back production
and prevent American farmers
from operating at their optimum
efficiency—are forces that
,operate to push prices upward.”
National associations
promoting the consumption of
eggs, chicken and turkeys would
like to spend a little less and
enjoy it more by enticing
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In This Issue
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 33
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 37
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 22
Home on the Range 26
Thoughts in Passing 18
Lancaster Co. DHIA 14
Grange Meet 20
Dairying With
the Kirks 40
Pa. Poultry Queen 13
Keystone International 12