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VOL 26 No. 44
Task force to fight PRT
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER - A full-scale
voluntary action program among
pork producers is being launched
by a Lancaster County
Pseudorabies Task Force to
combat the highly contagious
disease which has infected more
Inside
This
Week’s...
Jersey & friend.
Just twcr of the win
ners in the South
central District 4-H
Dairy Show. Turn to
D 6 for all the winners.
Two Philadelphia citizens receive $lO,OOO for proving milk’s
as good as gold. See page C 25.
The 4th Performance Tested Boar Sale attracted buyers from
six states and Canada and set a new average... Find out more on
pageA2B.
Ag Progress packs 6 em in
DONNA TOMMELLEO
and
DEBBIE KOONTZ
Rock Springs Over 70,000
visitors made the 1981 Penn
sylvania Ag Progress Days one of
the largest ever. The three-day
event included more than $l5
million worth of equipment from
various exhibitors.
This year’s Ag Progress Day
was' dedicated to outgoing
agriculture dean James M. Beattie
Over 70,000 people packed onto the 1500-
acre expanse to see the 1981 Pennsylvania Ag
Progress Days, Tuesday through Thursday.
Voluntary producer fiction
than 60 herds throughout the state
since its outbreak in January, 1980.
The Pseudorabies Task Force,
which is composed of producers,
veterinarians, feedmen,
marketers and educators, has
prepared guidelines to voluntary
action, which will be distributed to
who is credited with the expansion
and improvement of the field days.
“The annual event continues to
gain in popularity, attracting both
farmers and urban persons,” says
Joseph D. Harrington, Penn State
professor of agronomy and field
days general chairman. “There’s
something for everyone, including
programs for women and youth.”
A sea of visitors covered the
grounds and kept the exhibitors
and food concessions hopping. The
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 29,1981
Lancaster County pork producers.
The Task Force also will hold
two public meetings for pork
producers to discuss the guidelines
and answer any questions.
The pseudorabies meetings will
be held:
-Monday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Bergstrasse Elementary
School, east of Ephrata, near the
junction of Hts. 222 and 322.
-Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m.
in the basement meeting room of
the Lancaster Farm and Home
Center.
“The main objective of the
program and the meetings is to
motivate producers into par
ticipating in the voluntary action
effort,” according to Glenn Shirk,
County Extension Agriculture
Agent and member of the Task
Force.
“We want to provide leadership
and coordination for a voluntary
effort and get everyone in the
industry moving together in unison
and in the same direction.”
The Task Force began meeting
several months ago to formulate
the guidelines for voluntary action.
Their preparation included
researching the scope of the
problem and the nature of the
disease, analyzing the local area,
investigating what other afeas
have done to combat pseudorabies
and attempt to find any weak links
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large crowd proved once again this
year, the need and the eagerness to
keep up with the changing
agricultural trends.
In various sections of the ex
pansive 1500 acre research center,
farmers found the latest
techniques and equipment and
watched demonstrations on
mowing, chopping, baling, and
much more.
This issue takes you there with our cameras.
See more photos on page A2O.
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Congratulations are extended by Ben F. Morgan Jr., right,
executive vice president of Dairymen, Inc. to Ralph Drock,
general manager of MCMP.
MCMP tally shows
overwhelming ‘yes’
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md. Members
of Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers, Inc., voted an over
whelming “Yes” wi Monday to the
proposed merger of the milk
marketing cooperative with
Dairyman, Inc., based in
Louisville, Ky.
About 400 members converged at
the Hunt Valley Inn for what
became the Baltimore-based dairy
producer co-op’s last annual
meeting.
To resounding applause, teller
committee chairman Robert L.
Grove announced when the 1152
cast votes had been tabulated, 1105
of them, or 94.93 percent of the
total membership, had voted af
firmative. Nays numbered 28, with
16 contracts voting neutral based
on religious beliefs, and 3 ballots
returned unmarked.
Members of MCMP had looked
at merger possibilities for more
than a decade. Monday’s final
balloting climaxed a series of
impromptu “shade tree” field
meetings and more formal district
caucus sessions held to brief the
COLUMNS
Editorials All); Now is the tune,
AID; That’s a good question, B 5;
Joyce Bupp’s column, CIO; Ida’s
Notebook, Cll; Ladies have you
heard?, CS), Dairy Pipeline, Cl 6.
HOME AND YOUTH
Homestead Notes, C 2; Home on
the Range, C 6; Farm Women, C 8;
■Chester 4-H, C 26; Kid’s Korner,
Cl 2; Middletown Fair, DIO; 4-H,
CI7; home canning, C 22; Wayne
Fair, CIO; FFA.C2B.
DAIRY
Potter Co. Dairy Show, A3l;
Fayette Co. Holsteui Show, A 24;
Berks DHIA, C 29; Cumberland
DHIA, D 5; Blair DHIA, D 4; Potter
DHIA, Dll; Lancaster DHIA, Dl4;
Somerset DHIA, D 18; 4-H district
dairy show, U 6.
$7.50 Per Year
. y§3|nembers on all phases of the
""’possible merger.
• With the considerably more than
two-thirds member approval
needed for merger, MCMP wfll
become the Middle-Atlantic
Division of Dairymen, Inc.
At the dose of the business day
of August 31,1981, the assets of the
cooperative will be consolidated
with those of Dairymen, Inc. and
the Middle-Atlantic Division will
start September 1 as one of a dozen
districts of the large southeastern
regional marketing cooperative.
“Dairymen, Lie., is our best
alternative when considering die
welfare of oar dairy members,”
said MCMP president Fred Butler
of Inwood, West Virginia. “They
have a strong philosophy of Class I
sales, are innovative in their
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Fungus creeps
into Pa. fields
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
ROCK SPRINGS - An alfalfa
destroying fungus, uncommon to
Pennsylvania, was recently
reported in Centre County, a USDA
spokesman said Thursday.
However, alfalfa varieties
resistant to the fungus ver
ticillium wilt—should be available
within the next two years, said
Kenneth Leath, USDA Research
Plant Pathologist at Penn State.
“It’s (the fungus) not going to do
the damage it could have done,”
Leath said.
He expressed confidence that the
complex disease will not remove
alfalfa from the state cropping
system.
“The biggest impact in Penn
sylvania,” he said, “will be a
change in varieties grown in the
state.”
Leath discovered the fungus last
week on a Penn State farm and a
private farm.
“We don’t know how much is out
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