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.In iRi mini il 25 Ho. 3* 3$ I Dairy princesses (crowned Ann Murren Adams County Carol Hawbaker Tina Neufeld York County In This Issue SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Polled Hereford juniors, 17; FFA, 4-H judging, 20; Ask the VMD, 22; Legislative roundup, 24; Beef cookoff, 25. SECTION B: Lancaster DHIA, 2; Is your dairy in trouble?, 8; Ethanol blends, 11; West Snyder FFA, 12; Freeze concentration, 13. SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Joyce Bupp, 4; Franklin dairy princess, 16; Ram sale, 19; Adams dairy princess, 25; The milk check, 28; Sheila’s shorts, 34; Conservation tour, 37. SECTION D: Farm talk, 2; York dairy princess, 6; Adams DHIA, 8; Dauphin DHIA, 10; Caving, 12; 480-foot heifer barn, 16; Juniata DHIA,22. Farms said secure as TMI vents BY PAT KAUFFMAN LITITZ - Officials at Three Mile Island nuclear plant have scheduled Krypton venting for next weekend, and so far the public in this state and surrounding states appears to be calm. Farmers are not expected to encounter any hassles from the venting. .Some hope for Farmland shippers Eastern members move to shake up management BYCURTHARLER TROY Members of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative, apparently seeking a brighter future under their new president, have mounted a campaign, complete with advertising, jto clean up the Co-op’s operations? t The main battle is going to be over Arden Tewksbury’s continued employment at Eastern. Meanwhile, independents told by Eastern to join {be Co-op or lose their market found the first breaks in a solid wall of northeastern dairies who maintain they have no room for more members or more milk. Two other co-ops have said they would be willing to talk with the Farmland shippers looking for an alternative to Eastern. Focus of the Eastern members’ advertising Blue mold sporulation found BY DICK ANGLESTEEN LANDISVILLE - Blue mold sporulation, the first really visible sign of the fungus on tobacco plants and the stage at which it can spread and reproduce, has been detected in Lancaster County. The grey-blue discoloration on the un derside of leaves was found this week in a seedbed in the Leola-Leacock area by Arnold Lueck, county ex tension agent. Presence of the fungus was confirmed by Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 21,1990 While farmers felt the brunt of public sentiment during the TMI crisis with customers in Maryland and New Jersey turning away from Pennsylvania produced cdilk and products temporarily, there is no sign that tins will happen during next weekend’s venting procedure. program is the Eastern Board of Directors which meets Tuesday, June 24. Ads appear tins week in a number of farm and local rural newspapers urging Eastern members 'to demand “new management and cleanup of all operations;’* " . As Co-op President Stanley Kprona explained, Tewksbury served his limit of nine yeans as a Board member. Now, Co-op General Manager Howard McDonald has' hired Tewksbury as Assistant to the General Manager at a reported $30,000 a year. A resolution to limit McDonald’s power to hire ex-officials of the Co-op was defeated at Eastern’s annual meeting earlier this month. But a number of members say they resent Tewksbury’s extended term in power, and thus the first lines are drawn John O. Yocum, agronomist and tobacco researcher at the Penn State Southeast Research Lab, Landisville. The blue mold was found on plants left in a seedbed after transplanting had been completed. No field evidence has as yet been found. “It is a tune that growers must remain vigilant,” Lueck emphasized, “We recommend that they follow three important practices. “If transplanting is not completed, continue to spray the seedbeds until the transplanting is finished entirely. “As soon as transplanting is completed, turn the seedbeds under. “Finally, keep a close eye on fields for any visible evidence of blue mold.” Both Lueck and Yocum stressed that blue mold could “explode” in the fields if certain weather conditions all come together to provide an atmosphere suitable for its growth and spread. Continued cool, cloudy Boyd Gartley, director of member and public relations for Inter-State Milk Producers, said the Co-op routinely tests the milk it receives. He said that there was no significant rise in the test during the TMI crisis, and that since Krypton is a noble gas, it will not enter the food chain and therefore in the battle to turn Eastern around. Hie advertising, paid for out of the pockets of in dividual Eastern members, (Turn to Page ASS) Pseudorabies bars breeding swine from shows BYSHEILA MILLER HARRISBURG Pseudorabies, the con tagious diseasethathas been cropping up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, has affected the state’s breeding swine herds in a way similar to the cholera 'outbreak several years ago, said John Henkel, Strasburg, director of the Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council. Henkel was referring to the fact that the state’s weather, coupled with the addition of a moisture film over a few day’s period would be ideal for blue mold. While temperatures have been cool, the bright, sunny days and relatively dry (Turn to Page ASS) 12 infected swine herds confirmed in 4-coimty area MYERSTOWN - Two more Lebanon County swine herds were found to be in fected with pseudorabies this week. This brings the number of infected herds in the four county area of Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks and Dauphin to 12, according to Dr. John W. Cable, Chief of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Department’s Swine Health Division. In addition, a thirteenth herd is under quarantine due to exposure to the disease. should not show up in the milk. Gartley also said that milk routinely gets the brunt of public sentiment, because it is monitored for radioac tivity. But he said, it is the only product produced fresh daily so it provides the most ready medium lor testing. A 1 Zimmerman from Quality Control Labs,-which handles the testing for Inter- State, said that right now the lab is only performing routine tests, and that during the venting,, they will consolt with the state. Extra tests will only be run if the state advises QC it is necessary. Zimmerman said he did not expect this to happen. Dairy farmers near TMI have received no word of extra testing procedures. Mrs. E. Wayne Besbore Department of Agriculture has recommended that breeding swine classes be curtailed until February, mm. This recommendation, which was sent out to all county fair associations on June 12, was the result of a meeting held on May 30 between the swine producers and the state government. The producers and of ficials met to discuss the pseudorabies problem m the state, and what effect it could have on the show and fair season. The producers were represented by Clyde Me- Conaughy, Smicksburg; Clayton Weinbart, Rochester Mills: John Henkel, Strasburg; Ken Fetterolf, Centre Hall; Reno Thomas, Beavertown; and Dennis Grumbine, Myer stown. 2 According to Grumbine, The two new confirmed cases in Lebanon County involve neighboring herds to the original infected herd in the Myers town area. Dr. Cable said. Besides the three Lebanon County cases, there are single infections diagnosed in Dauphin and Berks and seven in Lancaster County currently. The infected Lancaster County herds are concentrated in the Ephrata- East Earl section of the northern part of the county. Thus far, no common $7.00 Per Year whose family operates a dairy farm within the 5 mile radius of the plant said that while their dairy and the state and federal govern ments collected samples for months after TMI, it is not aware of any intention to collect samples during the Krypton venting. Tony Evans from the Maryland Department of Agriculture said he doesn’t anticipate any consumer resistance in his state. He noted that they’ve been testing milk for over 30 years and know more about it than almost any other product He did mention one phone call recently from a con sumer concerned about the venting and be said be suspects there may be others like her but that he has not had any cells from them. (Turn to Page A 27) president of * the Pa. Cooperative Swine Breeders Association, there were “ump-teen many doctors from PDA, Penn State and USDA” present at the meeting, too. Max A. Van Buskirk, Jr., V.M.D., who heads PDA’s Bureau of Animal Industry, was there along with several other veterinarians. Grumbine noted there were also representatives of the dairy industry there. He mentioned that they were concerned about the disease infecting the cattle exhibited at fairs where hogs carrying pseudorabies might be exhibited, too. “They have a right to be concerned,” added Grumbine, “because cattle don’t usually make it through the disease—for cattle it's a sure death.” (Turn to Page AI8) denominator has been found to indicate the original source of the disease, Dr. Cable explained. “We still have the three different, separate groups that were diagnosed as original cases in the out break,” Dr. Cable explained. “We haven’t been able to find any cross-links so far between these original cases in Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties. “The other confirmed (Turn to Pat* A 34)