V01.21N0.12 Farm Calendar 10 Nimutz’s Corral 10 Life on the farm 12 Agriculture 1975 19 Thoughts in passing 21 Pesticide exams 29 Country Corner SO Homestead Notes 50 Manheim farmer is Pork All-American By MELISSA PIPER LANCASTER When the itional Pork Congress mvenes in Indianapolis irly next month, 32 swine oducers will be honored as >rk All Americans. One of ie producers who will iceive the honor is Barry aldeman, Manheim R 4. Haldeman was selected as ie outstanding young pork roducer in the southeastern a. area late last year and as recently chosen by the a. Pork Producers ssociation to represent the tate as an All American. Chosen for his outstanding ontributions to the pork idustry along with le vities in the community nd in agricultural func ions, Haldeman will receive i $3OO award from Shell Chemical Company - Animal lealth division along with eceiving recognition at the ’ork Producers Banquet darch 10. Haldeman grew up on a arm near Mastersonville ind while attending danheim High School, took mine fattening projects for H and FFA. His interest in he enterprise carried over nto his fanning career and today the producer markets In This Issue Home on the Range 55 Womens Calendar 56 What’s New 60 Chester conservation 64 Peach convention 65 Penmnarva meeting 66 Bicentennial form 72 Public Sales Register 82 about 3000 slaughter hogs per year. “We never had a pig on the farm until I started raising them for FFA,” Haldeman explained. “I decided that I Tobacco market stalling , prices hazy By DIETER KRIEG LANCASTER - An estimated 2S percent of the 1975 tobacco crop has now been sold, and according to some sources, a few pur chasers are done buying. The most frequently quoted price continues to be 58 cents per pound, which has been the case for the past two weeks since buying started. Observers of the scene - including buyers, growers, and neutral onlookers - all have different things to say, but there is one area with which they’re totally unanimous - this year’s quality is leaving something to be desired. One company spokesman described the year’s harvest as “a mixed crop.” No significant change in quality has been noticed so far as Frosted fluffs of snow beautify a pasture near Woodbine, York County. liked working with them and kept up with the operation when I went into fanning.” The Manheim area producer did not begin farming directly after more and more tobacco leaves the sheds. Although the quoted price continues to be hovering around the 58 cent mark, there is some indication that Dairy situation encouraging By DIETER KRIEG QUARRYVILLE - Im ported daily products are pretty well under control now, and all things con sidered, dairying in the near future looks good. Hungs look so promising fbr now, in fact, that those dairymen who can economically afford to produce more milk are being encouraged to do so. That’s the message which members of District 12, Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative, heard last Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 7.1976 Red Rose 4-Hers honored graduting from high school, but attended McPherson College in Kansas majoring in sociology and also served as a volunteer in the Brethren Service working it may go down. This would be unwelcome news for those growers who have continued to hold onto their crops in hopes of higher prices, but nevertheless, that’s the word month from their president, Lester Jones. A prominent dairyman with a 400-cow herd in New Jersey, Jones assured his audience that Biter-State is By MELISSA PIPER LANCASTER For a number of county beef and lamb club 4-Hers, Thursday evening marked the end of a successful season. The annual awards were with Indian children in tse southwest. In 1965 Haldeman Bought his larm near the Elm- Penryn area and converted several of the poultry houses from several sources of information. A ray of hope remains, however, as all seasoned tobacco growers themselves would realize. One in a position to handle an increased flow for milk - especially during the base building period - because of an expanding Class I market in Order 4. Inter-State’s presented at a banquet held at the Farm and Home Center here, with local agribusiness firms spon soring the trophies. Jim Greider, Columbia R 2, garnered two armloads of A3D6 Per'Year •> Lancaster Farmini Photo by Dieter Krieg which dotted the acreage into farrowing and finishing facilities The producer keeps 200 sows which farrow twice I Confirmed on Page 26]i representative of a com pany, who himself raises tobacco each year, said that “a wise man reserves the right to change his mind.” (Confirmed on Pjge 221 policy is to maximize Gass I sales, and we’ve been ex panding that, the president said. [Continued on fy IB trophies during the presentation. Greido: bad shown the grand jchunpion Junior steer at' the State Farm Show In January and was presented with an ‘IGMSwad on Pact 23]
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