Reading Fair honors Sattazahns, 1981 Farm Family B Y LAUREL SCHAEFFER Staff Correspondent ✓ FLEETWOOD Hie Reading Fair Board of Directors honored the 1981 Farm Family, 4-H Boy and Girl and FFA and FHA Boy and Girl during their annual pre-fair banquet on Monday, here at the Fleetwood Grange. Selected from among other Grange entries, the Clarence Sattazahn family of RI Womelsdorf, members of Marion (Continued from Page C 36) reach a bushel in the 4 months you delayed selling. it you have to pay storage charges tor corn held under loan, say 30 cents per bushel per year, you would have to add this in hgunng your alternatives: per bu.per month 12 mos. 3,7 cents ■+■ 2.!> cents = 6.2 cents per bushel in this example, corn prices would have to rise by 6.2 cents per month tor you to come out even, in 4 months' tune, corn would have to sell tor $3.25. in weighing your options, you should also consider how much your State and Federal income taxes would be reduced by deductions tor interest paid on CCC loans and commercial storage. Also consider how much your taxes would be increased by interest earned on cash trom gram sold at harvest. uw«<wuwiWww<WMWMw<wwammMWMwwm Compact & Powerful, 800 lb. 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Seat bar allows adequate body clearance j for range of operator sizes Bar is quickly, MUtiffuHm easily pulled down by hand and secured at waist level providing additional re- jUESZffiSjCW stramt protection that prevents operator i JWkjSpvH from falling forward With bar in place spring look is disen gaged, activating foot pedals which op- JUtilijuMM erate loader hydraulics J?oot pedals are Ijlla ctj locked when bar is in ”01*’ position. tMmaaeygq preventing lift arms from moving 0 PRICE r f CLARK BOBCAT DEALERS: BOBCAT...# 1 13 Models UpTo 3700 Pound Capacity Grange were this year’s Heeding Fair Farm Family. Their selection made them the 26th farm family to be honored by this occasion. In the audience were members representing all 25 previous farm family winners. The Sattazahns, Clarence, Marlene, and their children, Kai;en, Kevin, and Kirk, farm 310 acres and are presently milking 95 Holsteins. Their rolling herd average for 1980 was 16,479 pounds Near-record New CCC corn, sorghum pricing policy put in place On July 17, USOA announces a new policy tor selling CCC stocks ot com and sorghum. To avoid market disruptions, only a portion ot the stocks will be sold at minimum sales prices, which will be calculated at lib percent ot the county loan rate plus carrying ' charges tor interest, storage, and handling. While minimum sales prices will vary by location, the national average minimum sales prices will be $3.13 per bushel tor com and $3 tor sorghum. Bids for additional amounts will be accepted at higher prices, or at later dates. This pricing strategy will let the market determftie how much and Where gram will be sold. The new policy aUows the CCC to accept bids as small as 1,000 bushels. This will help tanners, particularly tarmer-teeders, to bid tor CUC offerings. Contact your ABCS office tor further in formation. 5 v' I«*w * ■ smSls 'i ( A« ■V itssai. *tLy a If iims milk and 560 pounds buttertat. Their cows are kept in free stall housing, divided into three groups and milked in a carousel milking parlor. The groups include cows producing over 50 pounds milk per day, cows under 50 pounds milk per day and dry cows. The Sat tazahns outfit high producers with magnets, enabling them access to more feed. ■ Their crops include 140 acres of corn which yielded 24 tons of silage per acre last year and 140 bushels of grain per acre. They also have 75 acres of hay, harvested as haylage or baled m large round bales, 25 acres of wheat, 50 acres of pasture and 20 acres of woodland. They have three silos used for haylage, com silage, and high moisture com. Clarence does his own artificial insemination and presently has four bulls on the fann. He has been a member of the Marion Grange since 1954 and has been Master for three years. He is a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ, Host, like the other members of his family, and belongs to-many other farm related organizations such as the Conrad Weiser Young Farmers, various Holstein associations, Berks County and Pennsylvania Farmers’ Associations, Berks DHIA, Atlantic Breeders Cooperative, the Dairy Shrine Club, and also the Manon Town- - ship zoning board. Marlene is a member of Farm Women Society 5 as well as the Grange and church. She is active in the farm operation, milking CWRK 543 I Carlisle, PA Myerstown.PA Mill Hall, PA Tunkhannock, PA PETERMAN HIBHWAY EQUIPMEIIT SWOPE & BASHORE INC. DUNKLE & 6RIEB BARTRON FARM SUPPLY FARM EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY CO. 717-933-4138 717-726-3115 717-836-3740 717-249-5338 717-564-3031 - Chatnbe sburg, PA „ Honey-Grove, PA P ulnm A Slatington, PA IMPl mrv "ORMAN D. CLARK t , Dii JJSL .mo scat ENTERPRISES INC. & SON INC FARM SUPPLIES INC. 2i5-767-i7ii 717-263-4103 717 . 734 . 36g2 215-679-7164 Drums, PA HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY CO. 717-788-1127 The Clarence Sattazahn family was honored as the Farm Family of the Year. Seated are Clarence and Marlene with children, Karen, Kevin, and Kirk.. morning and evenings, keeping the records and .doing the banking. This farm wife' also cans and freezes her garden produce and helps with general upkeep and fieldwork. The Sattazahns eldest child and only daughter, Karen, 21, was the 1980 Berks County Dairy Princess. She is presently a senior at Kutz town State College, majoring in elementary education and library science. Karen was involved in 4-H for ten years, was elected to the ' t wT. Martinsburg, PA Centre Hall, PA - Collegeville, PA Airville, Pa. BURCHFIELD’S INC. OUNKLE S 6RIEB MID-ATLANTIC EQUIP. AIRVILLE EQUIP, INC. 814-793-2194 814-364-9109 215-489-1400 717-862-3358 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19,1981—C37 540-Air Cooled Gas 543-Liquid Cooled Diesel National Four Society and served as a director to the Berks County Junior Holstein Club for three years. She presently is the Dairy Princess Promotion coordinator for Berks County. Kevin, 18, who was a 1980 graduate of Conrad Weiser High School, helps full time on the farm. He is a -director of the Junior Holstein Club and was a 4-H member for 10 years. Kevin is a member of the Conrad Weiser FFA (Turn to Page C3B) Quarryville, PA GRUMELLI’S FARMSERV. 717-786-7318 '
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