Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL 23 No. 29
Twelve young Lancaster Countians were awarded scholarships this week by
the Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation. Recipients were, left to right,
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Farm Women Calendar 126
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Dairy issue
deadline
nears
On Juft* 3, LANCASTER
FARMING win recognize
the area’s dynamic dairy
industry with its Annual
Dairy Issue.
We extend a special In
vitation to dairy groups and
organizations, as well as
Individuals, to submit ar
ticles and news on dairying
for the Dairy Issue.
To be sure you make the
Dairy Issue, please submit
all advertising and editorial
material by Tuesday, May
30. Callus»t7l7-394-3M7or
717-626-1164, Or write
Ltscaster Fanning, Box
366, Llta*,!**. 37643.
Cattle market topping $6O
LANCASTER - A bullish
cattle market continues
throughout the country as a
result of fewer available
slaughter cattle and steady
demands by consumers.'
Speculation continues that
the escalating prices may be
Milk production calms down
By DIETER KRIEG
NEW HOLLAND -
Plagued for months by
surplus production and extra
marketing costs, most of the
Northeast’s dairy industry is
seeing some light and rays of
hope at the end of the tunnel.
Amos Funk speaks for land preservation
By DIETER KRIEG
MILLERSVILLE - Amos
Funk, a grandfatherly
Lancaster Countian, has two
titles by which he is known
throughout southeastern
Pennsylvania - farmer and
conservationist. He’s a man
who has shown devout
dedication to agriculture and
Runoff, flood plains topics of legislation
By JOANNE SPAHR
HARRISBURG - Two
companion bills which have
been hailed for their
proposed benefit to farmland
conservation have passed
the Senate and are now in the
House conservation com
mittee. Those bills are
Senate Bill 744, known as the
Unusually lute strawberry season seen
ByKENBACEBORRY
LITITZ - If you’re waiting
for those luscious red
strawberries which last year
this time were starting to
appear on the market, you
had better prepare yourself
to be patient for a little while
longer. Like most other
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 20,1978
beaded towards new records
in weeks to come and a
number of choice animals
are already bringing $6O or
more per hundredweight
Depending on the type of
cattle at- Lancaster County
auctions this week were
That is the bottom line of a
report 'delivered here this
week by John York, former
general manager of Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative
and now vice president in
charge of member and
public relations for Lehigh
outstanding soil stewardship
throughout his life. A 1966
nominee for Master Farmer,
he has won the respect and
admiration of thousands who
have gotten to know him
personally or heard of his
work at meetings or in print.
To many, Amos Funk is
“Mr. Conservationist.” The
Storm Water Management
Act, and Senate Bill 743, the
Flood Plain Management
Act. Both bills are supported
by Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, Pennsylvania
Fanners Union, and the
State Grange.
Of the two, the one which
may affect farmers more
crops ; this Spring,
strawberries are going to be
late.
That seemed to be the
consensus of opinion of
growers this week, anyway.
While the strawberry far
mers tended to be optomistic
about the size of the crop
A. Kinckiner, Barbara Trimmer, Marilyn Aldinger, Sheryl Bollinger, Martha
Gregory, June Grube, Beverly Hummer, and Denise Grim. Details are on page
109.
reported to be 50 cents to
fully $3.00 higher than the
previous week. This past
Monday, for example, a
price of $60.10 per hun
dredweight was paid at the
Lancaster Stockyards for a
Charolais steer. It was the
Valley Cooperative Far
mers. York addressed a
meeting here on Wednesday
evening for which about 80
members of LeHi were
present
Noting that LeHi is rapidly
approaching the time when
Lancaster County Com
missioners formally
bestowed that title on him in
1967.
Despite his many
achievements and constant
dedication for the good of
agriculture, Funk is a quiet
and modest man. His
manner can best be
directly is the Storm Water
Management Act, the first
bill of its nature to be in
troduced into the Senate.
In the bill it is stated that
anyone developing land in a
manner which may effect
storm water run off must
take measures to assure that
the maximum rate of runoff
expected, calling it to be
“good” or “decent”, the
majority of them didn’t
expect to see the red berries
ready before June 1.
Peter Alexih, from Herr
Fruit Farms, Lancaster R 2,
summed the prospects up as
“good but late”. He stated
first times since the late
Summer of 1973 that prices
here topped the $6O mark.
Looking at this week’s
auction activities, which are
detailed on the market
pages, inside, it’s noted that
the high price at the Lan
the cooperative will no
longer have to depend on
other than its own members
for milk supplies, York
stated that the dairy
situation in the Northeast for
the Spring of 1978 is
noticeably improved over
described as “grand
fatherly.”
Bom in October of 1911 in
the farm house which has
been in his family for three
generations, and his
maternal grandmother’s
family for several
generations before that, the
amiable “Mr. Con
is no greater after
development than prior to it.
The purpose of the entire
bill is to encourage the
planning and management
of storm water run-off in each
watershed in the Com
monwealth, consistent with
sound, water and land
practices.
that the blossoms of the
strawberry plants were a lot
better than anticipated and
that the crop was “taking
off” right now with the
added moisture. He ex
pected the height of the
strawberry picking to occur
about four weeks from now.
$6.00 Per Year
caster yards sparked trends
at other Lancaster County
auctions. On Tuesday at
Vinage, choice and prime
steers went for $6O-61 per
hundredweight, and Wed-
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that of a year ago. National
production of storable dairy
products - butter, nonfat dry
milk, and American cheese -
- is down slightly in all
categories, compared to a
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servationist” grew up with
farming. The family
operation consists of three
farms encompassing 270
acres and since 1963, Funk’s
Farm Market. Fruit and
vegetables are the specialty.
Married in 1936 to the
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One major provision
requires that within two
years following the issuance
of guidelines by the
Department of En
vironmental Resources,
each county must prepare
and adept a watershed storm
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From Millersville, Fred
Funk, representing Funk’s
Farm Market, too said he
hoped for a pretty good crop.
Few were last to the frost, he
continued, and right now
some of the strawberries in
the field are now about as big
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