64—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3, 1976
Appraisers and managers torn* 400-cow dairy
By JOANNE SPAHR
MANHEIM - Two hundred
and seventy-five members of
the American Society of
Farm Managers and Rural
Appraisers emerged - and
kept emerging-from tour
buses in front of Noah
Kreider and Sons, freestall
milking bam and parlor last
Monday. The group with
members from all over the
United States and Canada
was holding its semi-annual
conference which included a
tour of Lancaster county
Diseases to be
researched
HARRISBURG The
Agriculture Research
Committee recently ap
proved three new projects
for fiscal year 1976-77 at a
cost of $57,066, it was an
nounced last month by
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Raymond J.
Kerstetter.
Kerstetter, who is
chairman of the nine
member research com
mittee, noted that one of the
new projects is concerned
with eliminating a potato
disease known as ver
ticillium wilt
“Potato farming in
Pennsylvania is in need of
strengthening,” said Ker
stetter. “The processing
markets such as the
production of potato chips
hold out the promise of a
rewarding outlet for our
farmers. Certainly, a project
that can cut a farmer’s
production costs through the
eradication of disease is
extremely worthwhile."
The verticillium wilt
project was awarded to
Pennsylvania State
University at a first year
cost of $23,139.
In April, the research
committee approved con
tinuing 18 projects for fiscal
year 1976-77 at a total cost of
$372,655. Funds for
agricultural research are
derived from a yearly ap
propriation of about $400,000
from harness and horse
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At the Kreider operation,
the group stood in front of the
80 x 524 ft. milking bam - one
of the largest in the county -
as they listened to Noah
Kreider Sr. and his two sons,
Noah Jr. and Richard, speak
about the operation.
Max Smith also addressed
the group, highlighting some
of the basic facts about
Lancaster County fanning.
The Kreiders stressed the
racing proceeds. This meant
that less than $28,000 was
available for new projects.
However, Kerstetter
explained that the com
mittee is requesting the
governor’s budget office for
executive authorization to -
spend unused monies from
the current fiscal year for
two of the three new
projects, and the con
tinuation of two on-going
projects.
The new projects are a
study of the differences in
normal and unexercised
horses, and the transmission
of a cow virus. The two
continuing projects involve
an apple disease and the
production of grapes for
wine in Pennsylvania.
The horse project, known
as the cardiopulmonary,
hematologic and
biochemical responses to
exercise in normal horses
and in horses with decreased
exercise performance, is to
be awarded to the University
of Pennsylvania at a first
year cost of $13,940. The
bovine leukemia virus
project will also be done at
the University of Penn
sylvania at a first year cost
of $19,987.
Pennsylvania State
University will get the
project on the control of cork
spot in apples at a cost of
$6,000. It will also handle the
grapes-for-wine project at a
cost of $6,000.
importance of family
cooperation in keeping the
1150 acre operation running.
This was a different concept
from that known by many of
the agents in the tour, since
most of the men, whose titles
ranged from farmer to real
estate broker to manager
and appraiser, run farms for
other people as their line of
work.
Clifford B. Huffman of
Lancaster who is the area
farm loan'manager for South
East Pennsylvania with
Equitable Life Assurance
Society, and president of the
North East Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Ap
praisers, the hosts of this
event, said some of the men
in the organization manage
as many as ten farms for
other people in the Mid West
and western regions of the
United States.
Thei Kreider farm was
chosen for the tour because
of its diversification - on the
11 farms in the operation
with 9 adjoining, the
Kreiders raise 300 acres of
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Noah Kreider, Sr. speaks with
Clifford B. Huffman, president of the
Northeast Society of Farm Managers
and Rural Appraisers and tour
director for the conference. In
background, Mrs. Marian Krei
speaks with an interested individi
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