D4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 14,1981 Messick (Continued from Page D 2) Sunmental heifer entry. The bred and owned, April 1980 heifer was last year’s grand champion Sunmental at the Dauphin County Round-Up. She is sired by Polled Challenger out of a Gahant cow. In only his second year of showing, Mike led his heifer to the reserve grand championship at last month’s KILE junior show Show results are: HEIFERS Chianlna 1 Dwayne Messick Elizabethtown champion 2 Brenda Fisher Hummelstown 3 Joe Messick Middletown Sunmental September calf 1 Josephine Popp Middletown April caH 1 Mike Messick Middletown champion 2 Sally Messick Middletown reserve champion STEERS Clast I Mike Messick dispelled all fears of showring jitters and handled his steer with confidence to earn junior champion showman honors. entries dletown 3 Malt Webster Halifax 4 Cmdy Baker Elizabethtown 5 Amy Bowman Ehzabethville Class M 1 Becky Webster Halifax, 2 Dwayne Coble Hershey 3 Keith Hess Elizabethtown, 4 Dale Fisher Hummelstown 5 Kurt Hess Elizabethtown Class 111 1 Monique Sweigard. Halifax 2 Mark Webster Halifax 3 Shannon Puglise Hershey 4 Brenda Fisher Hummelstown 5 Doug Shope Mid dletown Class IV 1 Kaye Sweigard Halifax 2 Garth Sweigard Halifax 3 Grayson Fair Harrisburg 4 Tim Foreman Hershey 5 Tammy Baker Elizabethtown . Class V I Dwayne Messick, 2 Steve Martz Millersburg. 3 Judy Fair Harrisburg. 4 Mike Messick 5 Sally Messick SHOWMANSHIP Senior 1 Monique Sweigard 2 Judy Fair 3 Brenda Fisher 4 Dwayne Messick 5 Dale Fisher Intermediate I Becky Webster 2 Tim Foreman 3 Tammy Baker 4 Sally Messick b JoeLoobey Junior 1 Mike Messick 2 Dwayne Coble 3 Amy Bowman 4 Shannon Pugiise 5 Garth Sweigard Technology & energy are major farm challenges COLLEGE PARK, MD. - Adop ting existing technology, accepting new technology and coping with rising energy costs are the three major challenges facing America's farm industry for the I9Bo’s, according to the director of research at the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES), University of Maryland. In a speech delivered Nov. 4 at the 16th Annual Maryland- Agricultural Leaders Forum in college Park, Md. W. Lamar Hams said agricultural industry leaders who have not taken ad vantage of changing technologies and those who fail to grasp new ones on the horizon may find their competitive positions adversely affected. “Although, in general, society benefits from the introduction of new technology, the transition that takes place following the in troduction of new technology can be exceedingly painful, and unquestionably this is one of the challenges agriculture will face during the 1980 s,” Hams said. Those who have adopted the technological changes of the last 25 years and those who adopt technology changes of the last 25 years and those ' who adopt technology on the horizon, such as microcomputers, will displace their less competitive coun terparts, he said. In addition. 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