08—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, MarchZl^lSSl
New Holland wins top FFA poultry honors
LANCASTER Eastern Lan
t caster County, of New Holland,
'swept the top individual and team
honors at the Lancaster County
FFA Poultry Judging Contest last
Saturday at Weaver’s Quality
Eggs, Inc, Greenfield Industrial
Park.
The top New Holland winners
-Randy Musselman, highest
individual scorer.
-Team composed of Wayne
Zimmerman, Mike Weaver and
Steve Ludwig, which captured both
the first-place Lancaster County
trophy, as well as Tri-County
honors
This marks the fitth yeai in
succession that New Holland
teams have won the top county
trophy, which is provided by the
Lancaster County Poultry
Association One of the trophies
was retired to the school after the
first three consecutive wins and
the FFA’ers from New Holland
already are two-thirds of the way
home in permanently winning the
second trophy.
Winner of the second-place
Lancaster County trophy was the
Elizabethtown team, which in
cludes Kevin Noll, Darrell Lehman
and John Amsbaugh
A second New Holland team took
third place It was made up of Carl
Horning, Randy Weaver and
Randy Musselman
Schools participating in the
competition were Warwick,
Elizabethtown, Solanco, Manheim,
Ephrata and New Holland, Lan
caster County, Twin Valley, Berks
County, Red Lion and Dover, York
County
Livestock survey focuses on N. American Trade
KANSAS CITY, Mo - The value
of livestock and meat commerce
on the North American continent in
1978 was an estimated $BB billion,
according to a first-of-its-kmd
survey done for the Continental
Livestock Commission.
The Commission, an arm of
Livestock Marketing Association,
undertook the survey to lay the
foundation for its effort to expand
and develop livestock and meat
commerce on the contment, ac
cording to Commission Chairman
Ralph K. Bennett, Ottawa, On
tario.
Bennet, a long-time observer of
the North American livestock
industry, said the survey was the
first one of which he was aware
that focused on solely North
American commeice including
the US., Canada, Mexico and
Central America.
“When the Commission was
founded last year by the Directors
of LMA, it was their conviction
that expanding North American
livestock and meat trade offered
as much potential for industry
development as did overseas
trade,” Bennett said. "And the
information gathered in this
A total of 10 different stations,
including two new categones,
tested the participants knowledge
of poultry and products The new
categones added this >ear were
dressed turkeys and pullet oral
reasons
Finishing behind hrst-place
individual scorer Randy
Musselman, New Holland, were
Steve Ludwig, New Holland, 2,
Mike Weaver, New Holland, J, Jay
Garber, Elizabethtown, 4, Todd
Miller, Warwick, 5, John Am
sbaugh, Elizabethtown, fa, Randy
Greenly, Elizabethtown, 7, Darrell
Lehman, Elizabethtown, 8, Wayne
Zimmerman, New Holland, 9, and
Scott Bailey, New Holland, 10
Assisting with the conduct ol the
competition were Jay Irwin,
county extension agent, Bob
Garland, Hubbard Farms, Jane
Gregory and Noah Gehman,
Pennfield, Jose Castillo, Gene
Hebert and Richard Bennett, of the
USDA, Ralph Griffith, Lestei
Good, Allan Tate and Bill Pat
terson, of Weavers, and Leioy
Esbenshade, representing the
poultry association —DA
;ry juding team from
Elizabethtown, shown with Bill Patterson, of Weaver’s
Quality Eggs, is made up of, from the left, Kevin Noll, Darrell
Lehman and John Amsbaugh.
:y pou._. tdging team
receiving trophy from Ralph Griffith, of Weaver’s Quality
Eggs, includes, from the left, Carl Horning. Randy Weaver
and Randy Musselman.
survey bears out that belief.”
Information for the Com
mission’s survey was compiled
from various industry and related
trade sources by Livestock IN
TER-MART, an element of LMA
specializing in monitoring
livestock supply and demand.
The year 1978 was the last one for
which complete figures for all
countries were available
Highlights from the survey
results
—ln relation to the total value of
goods and services produced on the
Continent that year, the $BB billion
in livestock and meat commerce
comprised about 3-4 percent.
—Approximatley 1.68 million
head of livestock and 533 million
pounds of red meai moved in in
ternational trade on the Continent.
More than 90 pei cent of the
livestock imported by these
nations originated on the Con
tinent, but less than 30 percent of
the red meat (13-14 percent of the
beef, 28-29 percent of the pork, and
1 percent of the lamb and mutton;
—ln terms of livestock numbers,
production appears to have kept
pace with population growth. But
the Continent was a net importer of
Leroy Esbenshade, president of Lancaster Holland, including from the left, Wayne
County Poultry Association, presents trophy to Zimmerman, Mike Weaver and Steve Ludwig,
first-place county judging team from New The team also received the Tri-County Trophy.
red meat, as production lagged 4
percent behind consumption.
—There were 143 pounds ot red
meat produced per capita, and 149
poundis consumed per capita, in the
U.S , Canada, Mexico and Central
America.
—Taken individually, the U S
produced 17b pounds ot red meat
per capita and consumed 187
pounds; Canada produced 159
pounds and consumed 162 pounds;
Mexico produced 53 pounds and
consumed 50-52 pounds; the
Central American countries
produced 49 pounds and consumed
34 pounds.
—ln 1978, there were an
estimated 325 million people on the
Continent, and 276 million head of
cattle, hogs, sheep and goats. The
nations on the Continent each have
about the same percentage of the
total human population as they do
numbers of livestock, but there is a
considerable difference in the
amount of red meat each produces
The reason for this variation is the
differing uses of land and livestock
among the nations
—Cattle make up between 69-65
percent of the livestock on the
Continent, and beef makes up
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Top individual scorer in the Lancaster County FFA Poultry
Judging Contest is Randy Musselman, of New Holland.
about the same percentage ot red
meat. The predominance ot cattle
is due to the grassland areas ex
tending from Canada down
through most the central and
western U.S., and mto north
central Mexico; and because ot the
dual purpose of meat and milk for
which many of the cattle are raised
in Mexico and Central America
—ln Canada, an estimated 15
percent of the cattle population m
1978 was dairy cattle; in the U.S , it
was 9 percent, in Mexico, 28 per
cent and in Central America, 16
percent.
Taylor named Berks agent
LEESPORT Karen E. Taylor by funds provided by the Berks
has been appointed to Penn State’s County Board of Commissioners.
Extension Service staff as an A native of Vermont, Miss
assistant Extension agent and Taylor received a bachelor of
assigned to Berks County, ef- science degree from the University
fectiveMarch2. of Vermont in 1980, majoring in
Thomas B. King, Penn State animal science.
associate dean for extension,
points out that Miss Taylor is ln Berks County she is
conducting educational programs associated with Extension
in the area of 4-H dairy and Dlrector > Herbert A. Wetzel with
livestock. offices in the Berks County
Her position was made possible Agricultural Center, Leesport,
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Commenting on me value ot the
survey, Bennett said it will allow
each country on the Continent to
relate itseit to the entire Continent
tor an evaluation ot potential
commerce.
There are certainly potential
barriers to expanded trade,” he
said, ’and these include duties,
quotas, health regulations, the rate
of money exchange and the need
tor additional economic growth in
certain countries.
• But the identification ot the
potential tor trade is a necessary
first step to overcoming many ot
these barriers
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