D2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 19,1983 Eastern Lancaster County sweeps FFA York County's high team from Eastern with Bob Garland, Hubbard, includes, from the left, Glenn Burtner, James Hall and Peeev Kleindienst. Three highest individual scorers in poultry judging are shown with Allen Tate, of Victor F, Weaver's. They are, from the left, Jim Weidman, third; Mike Smoker, second; and Nelson Horning, third. Second-place Grassland team includes, from the left, Jim Weidman, Lisa Heft and Dave Fisher. NEW HOLLAND - Eastern Lancaster County FFA’ers swept all of the top placings in the annual poultry judging competition held last Saturday. Members of the Grassland FFA, Eastern Lancaster County, comprised the top three teams among Lancaster County par ticipants, also made up the top team in the tri-county competition that included teams from York and Berks and placed seven of the top 10 individuals, including the top ' three. Members of the first-place Grassland team were Kent Halsey, Nelson Horning and Mike Smoker, which was also the top tri-county team. Horning and Smoker were the top two scoring individuals, too. The second-place Grassland team included Jim Weidman, Lisa Heft and Dave Fisher. The third place Grassland team was made up of Wade Martin, Joan Feinour and Matt Seifrit. The fourth-place Lancaster County team hailed from Cloister Chapter, Ephrata, and the fifth place from Penn Manor. Also competing were contestants from Elizabethtown. Individual placings behind Homing and Smoker in the top two spots included Jim Weidman, Grassland; Kent Halsey, Grassland; Greg Musser, Elizabethtown; Steve Fox, Ephrata; Wade Martin, Grassland; Matt Seifrit, Grassland; Dan Hartzler, Elizabethtown; and Dave Fisher, Grassland. Among the Berks County competitors, Oley Valley had the top team and Twin Valley was second. Members of the top Oley Valley team were Courdlan Fisher, Kirk Fisher and Dean Willman. Among the York County com petitors the top team came from Eastern, including Glenn Burtner, James Hall and Peggy Klein dienst. Teams also took part from Dover and Red Lion. Extension offers manure program UNIVERSITY PARK - Manure management and disposal to avoid environmental pollution has been one of the most difficult problems Pennsylvania’s livestock industry has had to face. Spiraling costs of manure storage facilities designed to eliminate daily spreading is making it more difficult for the family farm to stay in business. Most farmers are aware of the environmental pollution problems that improper manure management can create, but they need help in learning how to solve these problems, said Robert Graves, Extension agricultural engineer at Penn State. With the adoption of uniform guidelines concerning manure management for environmental protection, Extension Service staff members are assisting farmers in developing a total waste management concept that will enable them to use their time and resources more efficiently. County Extension agents and Penn State College of Agriculture specialists have been able to demonstrate that properly designed earth bank storages costing between $5,000 and 17,000 are just as satisfactory as concrete and steel structures priced at $20,000 and mpre. “As a res lilt, many farmers-who could not afford the more ex pensive types are now building the less expensive structures,” Graves noted. “This has made more capital available for other pur poses, increase net farm income, and reduced some of the water pollution problems that were at tributed to runoff from fields jp». -_nty. jnty /eceives trophy from Wait Mowrer, of the Lancaster County Poultry Association. Team members, from the left, are Kent Halsey, Nelson Horning and Mike Smoker. jnty v -