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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]