WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S.
government-industry trade team
will travel to five countries in
Southeast Asia late in May and
early June to promote U.S.
agricultural exports.
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block said the team, which will
leave May 28 and return June 12,
will comprise specialists in all
aspects of the production, feeding
and marketing of livestock and
poultry. They will meet with high
level government and agribusiness
officials in the Philippines, In
donesia, Singapore, Malaysia and
Thailand.
The purpose of the trip will be to
assess the potential for expanding
sales of U.S. breeding stock and
feedstuffs, to determine credit,
infrastructure and other requisites
for increased imports of these
commodities, and to assure both
government and private sectors of
U.S. supply dependability, Block
said.
“The countries to be visited
already represent a significant
market for U.S. agricultural ex
ports, accounting for a total of |1.2
billion last year, and the potential
Lamb sale sets records
INDIANA The initial All-Star
Club Lamb Sale featured record
prices on May 1 at Indiana, Pa.
Fifty-three lambs averaged
$103.49, the highest average for a
consignment club lamb auction in
the state.
The top selling lamb set
another record with a selling
price of $360 for a club lamb. The
Hampshire lamb was consigned by
Blu-Acre Hampshires of Lan
caster. The lamb was purchased
by the Kuzemchak family of
Centre County.
The second highest selling lamb,
consigned by Champion Acres of
Champion, brought a price of $l7O.
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U.S. ag trade development team to visit S.E. Asia
for expanding
appears good.”
“With this team, we want to
demonstrate the willingness of
both U.S. government and industry
to work closely with government
and industry in the boat countries
on mutually beneficial activities
NEWARK, Del. The grass
sawfly, found in Delaware and the
eastern shore area of Maryland, is
even more destructive to wheat
than the armywonn, says University
of Delaware Extension
pest management specialist Mark
Graustein. Most damage occurs in
western Sussex and southern Kent
counties, but the pest has been
found in all three Delaware
counties.
Graustein says the insects have
already laid their eggs and the
offspring are starting to emerge
and clip the heads off wheat stalks.
Wheat varieties with a few large
heads usually suffer more damage
than those with a greater number
This lamb was purchased by Jean
Cornish of Ford City. Harold Lee
of Vandergnft, sold the top selling
Suffolk lamb on a bid of $l6O. This
lamb also went to Centre County*
and sold to David Harpster of
Boalsburg. Dirk Wise of Spring
Mills sold another Hampshire
lamb to the Kuzemchak family at a
price of $l5O. Elvin Yeagley. of
Elizabethtown purchased the top
consignment of Pete LeVan of
BeUefonte for $llO.
The 53 lambs sold into Penn
sylvania, Maryland, and Ohio. The
sale was managed and sold by Ken
Brubaker of Brubaker Livestock
marketing, West Chester.
these markets
Grass sawfly attacks Delmarva wheat
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This will be the sixth govern
ment-industry team in a campaign
launched a year ago to intensify
U.S. market expansion efforts in
developing countries with potential
for market growth. Block said. The
earlier teams, ' <* tp"'
of smaller heads, according to the
specialist.
Graustein says early evidence of
sawfly damage is not always
apparent. That’s why it’s im
portant for growers to check fields
carefully, particularly where
sawfly populations tend to be
highest along field edges and in
areas where plants are thick or
growth is rank.
Check for sawflies in at least five
locations in each field, including
one or two near the edge of the
field Hit the wheat stalks of two
Wayne Beef Assn.
HONESDALE - The Wayne
County Beef Cattlemen’s
Association will meet on Tuesday
evening. May 18 at 8 p.m. at the
Beach Lake Fire Hall (Small
Meeting Room) in Beach Lake.
Clare Linde, president of the
Wayne County Beef Cattlemen’s
Association, will conduct the
regular monthly business meeting.
Also a report from the Beef
Marketing Committee will be
heard.
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and soybean oil specialists, visited
14 countries in Africa, Latin
America, and Middle East and the
Far East.
Raymond D. Lett, executive
assistant to the secretary, will lead
the Southeast Asia team. The team
roster has not been completed, but
rows toward the innerspace bet
ween the rows. This will knock the
caterpillars into the innerspace. At
each location check five feet of row
on either side of the innerspace.
Grass sawfly caterpillars are pale
green with dark brown heads,
white faces, and eight pairs of
prolegs (middle legs).
A field should be treated to
control grass sawflies if an
average of two or more cater
pillars is found per five feet of row
innerspace. Graustein says
meets Tues.
Featured speaker at this beef
meeting will be Dr. Henry Neb
zydoski, local veterinarian from
Whites Valley. Neteydoski will be
discussing “Spring-time Beef Herd
Health Programs and
Management”.
All beef producers are en
couraged to attend this in
formative meeting.
Please contact the Wayne
County Extension office at 717/253-
5970 ext. 114 for additional in
formation
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Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, May 15,1M2-A2S
is expected to include USDA
market development coopera tors
representing the feed grams,
soybean, and livestock breeder
sectors, and representatives of the
poultry, dairy, swine, agribusiness
consulting and gram handling
industries
Lannate or Nudnn at two pints per
acre or Parathion at Vi-M: pits per
acre have provided good sawfly
control in the past.
For further information on grass
sawQies, contact the county ex
tension office m Newark, Dover, or
Georgetown. Ast for the free fact
sheet, "Control of the Grass
Sawfly.”
County we have such a difference
of thinking and topography. We
have the fruit industry, the tourist
industry, and general fanning.
Each has its own interests and we
need to educate each other about
our special needs.”
Robert Lott’s peers have given
his ample opportunity to take the
conservation message to the public
and even to Washington, D.C. Lott,
a Master Farmer, has served on
the State Horticulture Association,
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, State Association
Research and Legislation Com
mittee, Preservation of
Agricultural Land Committee, and
several others.
His efforts have not gone without
recognition He has received the
Certificate of Achievement Award
from the United States Soil Con
servation Service and the Kiwanis
Club Agricultural Achievement
Award. He has been awarded
membership in the agricultural
honorary Gamma Sigma Delta,
and in 1968 was named Con
servationist of the Year by the
Pennsylvania Association of
Conservation District Directors,
Inc
Lott has some immediate con
cerns for the agricultural com
munity, but, when viewed through
the eyeglass of experience, be
predicted brighter days ahead.
“The economy of the American
farmer today is so bad, he can’t
afford to put in some of the sound
conservation practices that we
have. I don’t see a bright picture
for American agriculture with the
economy’s downturn.
“Our greatest hope is to increase
our exports. I think the Reagan
Administration is on the right
track.
“Agriculture is so much more
efficient than industry. We have to
get people to.be more productive.
American farmers certainly are
And once we get this economy
turned around, we’ll have an even
greater potential for agriculture
here in America.”
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month prefer
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