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Kutztown FFA member Joel Burkholder. 17, claimed the
middleweight champion honor with this 215-pound Duroc-
Yorfcshire-Hampshire barrow.
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heavyweight title. Ackley, a
member of the Lincoln Community
4-H Club and Cloister FFA
chapter, is the son of Joy and
Charles Ackley.
New Holland claimed another
champion when Dave Fisher
exhibited his homebred 212-pound
Hampshire cross to the lightweight
champion title. David, the son of
Bill and Dee Fisher, is a member
of the Grassland FFA chapter and
the New Holland 4-H Club.
Chris Chapman of Manheim,
Lancaster County collected a
reserve champion middleweight
title with her 219-pound Yorkshire-
Duroc-Landrace cross.
Kutztown FFA member Joel
Burkholder, 17, also won with a
three-way cross. Burkholder’s
Duroc-Yorkshire-Hampshire, wh
ich weighed in at 215 pounds
captured the middleweight title.
Joel is the son of Melvin and
Mildred Burkholder.
Sixteen-year-old Dean Zeager
showed “Porky” a 204-pound
Poland China-Duroc cross to a
reserve champion lightweight
title. Thursday’s contest marked
Dean’s first Farm Show tan bark
appearance. A member of Lower
Dauphin FFA, Dean is the son of
John and Rachel Zeager.
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Uncaster Faming, Saturday, January 15,1983—A27
Dave Fisher, New Holland, exhibits his champion light
weight hog. Fisher’s winning entry is a 212-pound homebred
Hampshire-cross.
Delaware County boasted a pmnahfp
market swine champ, when Kris Watch next week’s issue of
Bryan earned the light Lancaster Farming for complete
heavyweight reserve cham- marketswineresults.
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Harkin predicts
Farm Bill repairs
MASON CITY, lowa - The
chairman of a U.S. House
Agriculture subcommittee
predicted here, Sunday, Congress
will re-open the 1981 Farm Bill
during the coming session to made
needed repairs in farm programs.
U.S. Rep. Tom Harkin (D-la.),
who spode Sunday night to a Cerro
Gordo County Democrats dinner in
Mason City, said Congress will
take a second look at farm
programs because it is now clear
the 1981 Farm Bill program “has
hopelessly failed. It basically
proclaimed that we don't really
need any meaningful farm
programs and it is now clear that
approach just hasn’t worked.”
Mounting farm economic
troubles make clear the need to
“get back to good, sound farm
programs which have worked
well,” Harkin said. “We need a
good set-aside program, a good
land diversion program, a good
soil conservation program, and
policies which make low interest
loans available for fanners.”
“As a member of the House
Agriculture Committee, and the
chairman of one of its sub
committees, I say to you tonight
that not only must Congress act to
do these things in the coming
session, it will.”
Harkin also urged the President
to sign “contract sancitity”
legislation now on his desk to help
“make certain we’re doing
everything we possibly can to
increase our export sales and to
ensure that nothing jeopardizes
those sales.”
“The farm economy is in
trouble,” Harkin added, “and as
long as the farm economy is ailing,
the rest of the economy will con
tinue to ail. As agriculture goes, so
goes the nation.”
Harkin has been a member of the
House Agriculture Committee
since 1975. He currently chairs its
subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy
and Poultry.