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Ernie Frey captures
junior beef title
BY DEBRA STRICKLER
HARRISBURG - Two
ancaster County youths
wept the coveted grand and
eserve honors of the 1980
unior Beef Show held here
Tiursday afternoon.
Ernie Frey’s six years of
itrong dedication to 4-H beef
Lancaster Co . shepherds
dominate sheep show
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - Three
ancaster County families
ook championship honors
bring sheep competition at
iondayVFarm Show.
Starting off the day,
larhara Herr, Narvon,
flowed die grand champion
larket lamb on foot. The
finning lamb was a
trossbred, Cheviot x Suffolk.
She continued her winning
treak by taking the grand
hampidnship in both Dorset
ama and ewes in breeding
hee$ v competition. Her
emale champ had
reviotisly stood second in
er class In national com
etition at Louisville,
[entucky.
Herr, a junior at Garden
pot, has started into the
leep business in earnest,
he owns six ewes in her
inuly’s flock, along with
wen showstring Dorsets.
esides these sheep, she
uses wethers and market
mbs to sell.
Although she has raised
ampshires and Suffolks, as
The supreme champion dairy animal, the first cow so honored at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, Was the
handsome Holstein shown here between Max Perry, left, and Norman Craig. Her stabiemate, flanked by
Marvin Miller, was the grand champion Guernsey.
projects resulted in his
capture of the 1980 Beef
Show’s grand banner.
The judges second tapping
of Christian Herr’s reserve
heavyweight champion
provided the final assurance
The champion Suffolk ewe was shown by Clyde
Brubaker for Milton Morgan, of Lancaster.
well as Dorsets, she says she
likes the Dorset breed best
because they have a good
temperament.
Herr said this was the first
year she has done well at the
Farm Show, although in
previous years she has won
Grand View fields supreme champion
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 12,1910
Lancaster County was to*,
dominate the 1980 State Beef
Show: ;
Ernie Frey is the 15 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Frey of R 2
Quarryville.
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many honors and placed well'
incompetition.
When asked if she would
•rather be doing something'
else than spending her time
showing sheep, Herr com
mented it takes a lot of her
time but she would rather be
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Ernie Frey of R 2 Quarryville took the gi*hnd championship. Doug Parrot of
the show judge, is,on the left.
Farm groups, industry
decry U.S. grain embargo
BY CURT HAULER
LITITZ Every major
Jlaj-m.' i - organization
representing local fanners,
and several agribusiness
groups, have slammed
President'Carter’s decision
to embargo grain sales to
Russia.
Carter said the U.S. will
not sell, the Russians 17
million tons of grain in ex
cess of the amount we are
committed to sell.
The embargo was called in
retaliation for the Soviet
Union’s invasion of
Afghanistan.
The Russians, suffering a
severe crop shortage, were
expected to buy at least that
amount of grain from U.S.
farmers.
Depsite the President’s
assurances he would take
steps to see the U.S. farmer
was protected against
financial loss, most local
farm groups issued
statements opposing the '
embargo.
Farm Bureau, the Penn
sylvania Grange, PennAg
Industries Association, the
Fertilizer Institute, and-the
FarmersTJnion all said they'.
were upset by the embaigo. -
Allan Grant, American'
Farm Bureau Federation
President, said cutting off
wheat and other farm
In this issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Chester Whites, 14; Jerseys,
15; Opening day, 16; Brown Swiss, 26; Vegetable show, 36;
Circle of champions, 44.
SECTION B: Dairy Assn, meets, 2; commodity booths, 6;
food competition, 9; Berks forestry, 11; com champs, 12;
Ask VMD, 14; Guernsey meeting, 15.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Joyce Bupp, 10;
Belgians, 'll; No-till meeting, 16; Lebanon DHfA, 24;
Landraceshow,2B; Farm Talk, 32; Red Rose FFA, 34.
BY DICK WANNER
HARRISBURG - Grand
View Farms, a brand new
dairying venture which filled
their bam in Middletown this
past May, got off to a roaring
start in the show ring by cap
turing grand championships
in both Holstein and Guern
sey breeds at the Penn
sylvania Farm Show. And to
cap that achievement, the
top Holstein was named
Supreme Champion, the first
year that title has been
bestowed on any cow at the
Farm Show.
The herd is the result of a
collaboration between a trio
of dairymen with a vision of
building an outstanding
breedmg herd. Maxwell
Perry, the man who led the
supreme champion into the _
ring, has been a diaryman
all his adult life, first in Ken
tucky, then in Indiana.
Norman Craig, the other
herdsman, was as immersed
$7.00 Per year
commodity exports to the
Soviet Union would be- un
' wise and self-defeating.
He was speaking to the
group’s annual convention in
Phoenix, Arizona.
“Other, more effective
methods of' political and
economic retaliation are
available to this and other
North Atlantic Treaty
nations to protest the Soviet
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in the Guernsey breed as
Perry was in black and
whites.
And Marvin Miller, who
owns Grand View Farms,
has had a life-long dream of
developing a top-notch
breeding herd.
After he had' hung his
armload of prize banners in
the dairy barn, Perry talked
about their plans for the
herd. “We intend to make
half our money by selling
breeding stock,” he said.
“The milk is going to pay the
bills, of course, but the sale
of good animals is going to
be important to us.”
All the cows in the herd
were bought at dispersal
sales, Perry pointed out. The
Holsteins all came from Pen
nsylvania, while the Guern
seys have come from half-a
dozen in the South and the
Midwest.
For a breeder, a win from
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