VOL 27 No. 21
Mariu Mars Belinda brought top-price of
$12,200 for a live animal during the annual
Spring Promise Garden Spot sale held at the
Guernsey Pavillion on Thursday. Purchased by
Arie Breedy of Chino, Calif., the open heifer is
joined in the sale ring by, from left to right:
Inside
This
Week’s...
For a year full of hard work, demanding projects and
dedication to -the - world: of farming, many FFA members
throughout the southeastern PA region have been honored at
their annual banquets. See them on pages...6l6 through 630.
Holstem-watching can be hard work. Find out where a group
of Lancaster Holstein breeders spent the day...A26.
Adams dairymen learn a new language - that of “com
puterese’...Al9.
N.Y. names NEBCO
and others in lawsuit
t SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York
w Attorney General Robert Abrams,
Tuesday, charged the Northeast
Columns
Editorials, Ail); Now is the time,
A 10- Ida’s Notebook, B 5; Ladies
have you heard? B 12; Garden
Center, B 13; On being a farm wife,
B 15; Chicken Coop News, 825; The
Dairy Business, D 7; Brockett’s Ag
Advice, D 32; Farm Talk,D33;
Daily
Lebanon DHIA, 06; Blair DHIA,
D 8; Tioga DHIA, DIO; Mon
tgomery DHIA, Dl3; Juniata
DHIA, Dl4; Huntingdon DHIA,
Dl6; Cumberland DHIA, D 18;
Franklin DHIA, D 22; Schuylkill'
DHIA, 025; Potter DHIA, D 24
Home and Youth
Homestead Notes, B 2; Home bn
the Range, B 6; Farm Women
Societies, B 9; Kid’s Komer, BIO;
Solanco Young B14;
FFA news, 816, 817, B 18; 4-H
news, 820 and D 2; Koohy’s Barn,
834; PFU vice president^B36.'
Jerry Hall, Douglas Bowman and George St.
Onge, consignors; Dick Clark of American
Breeders Service; Benny Gunzenhauser,
contending bidder; Jay Howes, ringman; Les
Hosking, leadsman; and in the auction-stand,
Charles and Horace Backus, sale managers.
Dairy Cooperative Federation,
Inc. and four other milk dealers
with -alleged co-conspiracy to
restrict where former Dellwood
Foods shippers would be able to
sell their milk, said Abrams’ staff
member Linda Gargiulo.
In addition to NEDCO, New
York State is suing Glen and
Mohawk Milk Association,
Queensboro Farm Products, Inc., __
Tuscan Dairy Farms, Inc. and'
Oneida-Madison Milk Producers
Cooperative Assocation, Inc. for
$5.4 million dollars according to
NEDCO spokesman Calvm Cobb.
“NEDCO vehemently denies the
allegations of the conspiracy,”
said Calvm Cobb. A recent NEDCO
report claimed “there is no factual
basis for a complaint against
NEDCO or its key executives.”
In January 1962, NEDCO, a
cooperative federation with 64
member cooperatives, acquired
the Fraser, N-Y. manufacturing
plant from Dellwood Foods, Inc.
NEDCO is required, by
agreement with its cooperative
members, to purchase alt its milk
requirements from those mem
bers. To secure membership from
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Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, March 20,1902
Adams District honors farmers
BY SHEILA MILLER
YORK SPRINGS - Two Adams
Countyfarmers were honored here
Thursday evening as the Adams
County Conservation District
presented its Outstanding Con
servationists awards during the
35th annual banquet.
Dairyman Edwin Shearer of B 2
Dillsburg was recognized for his
conservation efforts for 1981, while
Carl Keller of R 3 Gettysburg was
honored for his long-term
achievements m conservation
farming.
Shearer and his wife Judy have
only been m the fanning business
for the past 4 years. They moved to
their Adams County 75-acre farm
in 1978 from Harrisonburg,
Virginia.
The Shearers, who describe
themselves as “city kids”, at
, tribute their success in farming to
Adams County Commissioner Thomas L.
Collins, left, presents Carl Keller, a beef and
grain farmer from R 3 Gettysburg, center, and
dayman Edwin Shearervß2-,DiHsbufg, with
Jessie embryo
brings $21,000
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
LANCASTER —Bidding stopped
at $21,000, Thursday, for an unborn
embryo, the top-selling con
signment of the Spring Promise
and Garden Spot Holstein Sale,
here at the Guernsey Barn.
Willow Street breeder, Mowery
Frey purchased the embryo out of
Lime Hollow Elevation Jessie, one
of the few Holstems to write a six
generation Excellent pedigree.
Consigned by Siam Holstein
Partners H of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, the embryo is sired by
Glendell or Valiant and due this
summer. Frey has his choice of
sire and sex of the embryo.
The Excellent 2E dam, and
Elevation daughter out-of an Ir
vington Pride Admiral, also
completes eight generations of
the guidance and assistance they
received from federal agencies
like the Fanners Home Ad
ministration, the Soil Conservation
Service, the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service and to “a lot of good
fnends who held our bands.”
“When we scraped our knees
getting started in farming with no
experience, they were quick to put
a Band-Aid on our hurts,” said
Shearer.
During their four-year career in
the field of agriculture, the
Shearers have built a registered
herd of Holstein cattle that now
numbers 50 head.- Their 45-cow
milking string pumped out an
average of 16,000 pounds this year.
This statistic is down from their
rolling herd average of two-years
ago,
“We had a production average of
the Outstanding ConservatimEt awards dur
ing the Adams County Consfration District's
annual banquet, held evening at
York Springs. .. sj|
20,000 pounds cows. The Jessie cow
boasts a top record of 25,510 pounds
of milk and 1,017 pounds of fat as a
5-year-oldN e
Thursday’s sale, managed by R.
Austin Backus, Inc. of Mexico,
N.Y., marked the 11th Spring
Promise Sale and the 41st Garden
Spot Sale. According to Backus
spokesman Peter Deßlock, Jr, the
final tally showed a gross of
$163,600 and averaged $2,200 on 81
head.
“We’re very pleased and thought
it was a good sale,” Deßlock
reported.
The top-selling live animal
brought $12,200. Arie Breedyk of
Chino, Calif, purchased the open
heifer, consigned by Bernice
Syndicate and Marlu Farm of
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over 18,000 pounds in our second
year of dairying, but then the
drought hit us. We’re only now
beginning to get bade up,” ad
mitted Sheared ”l|’s a lot easier
dropping building
production upxum. 1 ’
With the heloSwKmHA, SCS, and
ASCS, in a long
term cost for his
conservation Coping with
the erosion prwetns on the wet,
erosion-prone *ipilB required a
major effort in a short
timeperiod. -
Along with cqpjour strips, which
the Shearers atgked off on the
entire 70 acres' pf cropland, the
erosion the fields were
brought underfcpntrol with the
construction ofSt diversions, 1 dry
dam, and 1 drop Jsx to catch water
exiting the dfyppions. The wet
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$7.50 per year