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VOL. 26 No. 47
Breckbills post double Solanco win
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
QUARRYVILLE - Ed
Breckbill, of Breck-a-dee Farm,
Oxford, Chester County, has been a
busy Holstein showman in the past
few months.
“And I’ve been quite busy back
on the farm," his father, Richard,
adds.
For when one member of a dairy
partnership is on the show circuit,
the other must stay back .on the
farm and pick up the slack.
But it all paid off on Thursday
when the father and son took both
the Holstein grand championship
and the reserve grand cham
pionship at the SolancoFair with a
four-year-old and an intermediate
calf. The “Mutt and Jeff” black
and whites have been as busy,as
their owners recently, too.
The four-year-old, who is
projected at over 20,000 milk and
850 lbs. of fat in her second lac
tation, previously took the grand
championship of the Chester
County Black and White Show and
third in the champion show at
Kutztown.
Farm Bill’s dairy
provision draws fire
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Hie
National Milk Producer
Federation and several leading
milk marketing cooperatives have,
openly attacked this week’s
Senate’s revision of the dairy price
support program of the federal
Farm Bill.
This controversial legislative
action, which occurred here
Tuesday, included a 70 percent
parity level and eliminated semi
annual price adjustments.
“It is totally unacceptable,”
declared NMPF Communications
director Doni Dondero.
The Senate adopted the Reagan
Administration’s proposal for a
minimum 70 percent parity level
The grand champion heifer at the Polled Hereford Summer
show was exhibited by Mike Cummings. West Minister, Md.
Pictured with Mike are Show judge Marvin Minor, Richmond,
Va., and Jackie Kirschner. Pa.,, PolledJHerefflOlJoueen. ..„ . „
The calf, which shows all the
promise already of developing into
a top black and white, also has
taken major honors at the county
level and at Kutztown district FFA
show.
The cow is out of Breck-a-dee
Dora Topper Jo Jo, sired by Penn
Octo Kenny, of Atlantic Breeders.
The calf was sired by Tiho Kit
Builder. The dam is Zion-Meadows
Ele Margy, an. Elevation daughter.
; Judge Bob Gregory, of Penn
field, paid due respect to both of
the Breckbill entries' when he
. decided on the twin honors.
The father-son partnership in
cludes some 75 milkers and about
130 total head. Their rolling herd
average is over 17,500 lbs. of milk
and 670 of fat.
And the show circuit isn’t
finished yet for 20-year-old Ed
Breckbill. After catching his
breath from * long day of showing
on Thursday, it’s packing the calf
back up over this weekend and
heading for Harrisburg.
For Ed andthepromising bovine
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with an annual adjustment. The
annual adjustment, however, is
tied into CCC net purchases they
must stay below $750 billion or else
the adjustment is cancelled.
Not surprisingly, CCC purchases
easily exceeded the proposed level
last year, coming in at $1.3 billion.
And Dondero explained the
government’s purchases this year
have increased at a rate greater
than last year’s.
If passed, said Dondero, the
Senate’s acceptance of the Ad
ministration’s_ package would
maintain the present $13.10 support
price • well the 1982-83
marketing year. By then that $13.10
support price would equate to
below the 70 percent level.
“This is not going to keep dairy
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19,1981
Ed Breckbill, of Oxford, is sandwiched by a
couple ofchampions at Soianco Fair - an in-
farmers in business,” Dondero
exclaimed.
Dairylea spokesman Bruce Snow
estimated that every 5 percent
below 80 percent parity can cost
farmers 91 cents per hunderweight.
For example, a million pound
producer can expect to receive
slB,oooless with a 70 percent level.
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Hmm mi
Homestead Notes, C 2; Home on
the Range, C 6; Kid’s Korner, Cl 2;
4-H, Cl 2; FFA, Cl 4; Farm Women,
C 9; Md. judging teams, Cl 9;
Solanco 4-H sheep show, Al 7; FFA
and 4-H Baby Beef Show, A 18; 4-H
swine show A 25.
Crowds pack York Fair
YORK The York Fair, winch
began its line-up of beef, sharp,
dairy and swine champions last
Friday, is wrapping up a soggy
week today. The annual event, one
of the largest in the state, did not
disappoint visitors this year.
' Acres and acres of fairgrounds
were packed with exhibits, spine
tingling rides along midway
and enough food stands to feed the
entire city of York. ■
The Fair-had something -for
everybody. Both city and country
people could feel at home. Jam
med with daily visitors, the Fair
offered the hustle and bustle of any
booming metropolis. And .not far
from the crowded parking lots,
where scores of buses unloaded
visitors from as far away as
Virginia and the nation’s capital,
the latest farm machinery stood
termediate calf reserve grand champion and a
four-year-okfgrand champion.
Inside
This
Week’s...
Penn Gate Farms sweeps South Mountain Fair Holstein Show.
It’s 0n...A30. , •
The Pennsylvania Dairy Industry will celebrate 25 years of
princess promotion Tuesday night. Read its history...Cls.
To see how it feels to be “locked up" by the USDA for the first
corn crop report, turn t0...D2.
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Solanco Dairy Show, A 24; Dairy
Photo Album, £2B; Lebanon DHIA,
DIG; Bradford DHIA, Dl9;
Frankling DHIA, D 24; Upper
Susquehanna DHIA, D 29; Hun
tingdon DHIA, D3l.
for inspection by both farmers and
city folk.
Some of the finest livestock in
southeastern Pennsylvania filled
bam after bam as visitors ogled
in the advent of the
Pennsylvania AlhAmerican,
several families are
preparing to take their top
dairy animals to Harrisburg.
One family tells their story of
developing a top Holstein
herd. Find out how they did it
while making it a 'family
affair’ on page 08.
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Editorials, A 10; Nowis the time,
A 10; Joyce Bupp’s column, C 4;
Ida’s Notebook, Cll; Country
Outings, CIS; Ladies, have you
heard? C 26; Farm Talk, D 5; Dairy
Business. DlB.
animals and bad questions an
swered by friendly exhibitors.
One of the highlights of the
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