Regulations boost farm spray costs By JOYCE BUPP York Co. Reporter /*AIRVILLE - Has your farm chemicals bill been on the rise lately? If so, you can ; thank federal regulatory agencies for a part of their sizeable, and growing, contributions toward those stiffer invoice notices. “It takes from eight to 13 million dollars to dear one product for one crop,” says Ed Cunningham, technical service representative of tire Chemagro farm chemical company. Cunningham oversees the research of numerous chemicals in the areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia and supervises a 17-acre test plot on the farm of York Countian Eugene Manifold, Airvilleßl. r The staggering figure juoted by Cunningham is largely a result of the Spiraling number of regulations required to be met before a promising chemical can be sold across the counter. The extra costs and tune (Continued on Page 19) Jay Kreider wins FFA Holstein show ALLENTOWN * Jay Kreider, an 18-year old dairyman from Palmyra, Lebanon County, captured the biggest award of the 22nd annual Southeastern Regional FFA District Show last month, 'tlis aged daughter of Citation R Maple was judged best of the show. A member of the Little Ducthmen FFA Chapter, Kreider’s triumph came in a contest which had m °re than 115 animals en tered. The reserve grand champion belonged to Wendy Shaw, 16, of Oley. She exhibited a Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation daughter, aged two years and 10 months. Bradley Yoder and Steve Gunman had the junior and reserve junior champion, respectively. Yoder’s animal was a senior yearling sired by Paclamar tCa. U «*l e Triune . while competed with an intermediate calf by aclamar Astronaut. of th l)reeder ar >d exhibitor contest was Wendy I BerL r™*! County placed first (Continued on Page 26) and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware Vol. 22 No<4£ //Jp Morning glory on the Roy Stoner farm near Lititz. Soon forage harvesters and com pickers will will change the picture here and elsewhere around the countryside . Farm Calendar 10 Editorials io Grape sprayer 22 Conservation pics 24 Peachilicious weekend 37 Homestead Notes 42 Ida’s Notebook 43 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 10,1977 Autumn is near. In this issue Home on the Range 46 My Thoughts 50 Womens’ Calendar 50 Joyce Bupp 52 Lancaster Farming photo by Dieter Kriec Recipe Swap 53 Jr. Cooking Edition 54 Doris Thomas 58 Kendy’sKoUumn 59 Southeastern 4-H dairy show 61 Solanco Fair preview 90 18, 93,120 Corn survey 94 Plant lovers’ corner 103 Life on the farm 104 $6.00 Per Year New wheat growing in popularity By DIETER KRIEG UNIVERSITY PARK - Fanners have a new wheat available for planting this Fall which shows a lot of promise in more ways than one. Dr. Robert Pfeifer, Penn State University plant breeder in charge of wheat and barley, says “it’s quite a good line” and has statistics to back up his statment. Across the state, growers of the new variety praise it for several reasons and are planning on sowing it again for their 1978 crop. The new wheat is Hart, developed jointly by the University of Missouri and Penn State University. Its many virtues include resistance to wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV), greater yields, a «soft high-quality straw, during storms, quick drying properties, resistance to Hessian fly, good combining qualities, deer resistance, and early maturity. “We think it’ll make a pretty good wheat (Continued on Page 28) Atlantic’s Harry Roth directs NAAB LANCASTER - Harry Roth, operations director for Atlantic Breeders since 1973, has been elected to a three yeap'term on the board of directors of the National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB). The announcement was made following the association's recent annual meeting in Louisville, Ky. A graduate of Penn sylvania State University, Roth joined Western Penn sylvania Artificial Breeding Cooperative in 1956. He later became sire analyst, then manager in 1960. With the merger of Western and Southeastern ABC in 1964, Roth assumed the position of breed programs director, which he held until 1973. For several years, be has served on the NAAB’s Research and Sire Evaluation & Genetic Im provement Committees. Roth is also on the Penn sylvania All-American Dairy Show board of ’irectors and chairman of Atlantic’s research com mittee. _ As the Cooperative’s operations director,-he' is' responsible for all semen (Continued on Page 35)"
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