AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Augusts, 1983
STATE COLLEGE - The
Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s
Association and Penn State
University will sponsor a twilight
Beef Field Day at the J. Paul
Espy’s Green Ridge Beef Farms,
Plowing banquet speaker set
YORK Frank W. Naylor,
assistant secretary of Small
Community and Rural Develop
ment, will be the featured speaker
for the national plowing contest
banquet on Friday, Aug. 12.
The deep-pit beef banquet is part
of the three-day plowing session to
be hosted August 11-13 at the York
4-H Center and John Shearer farm
near Spring Grove, featuring
competition at local, state and
national levels.
Local competition is scheduled
for 10 a.m. Thursday, August 11,
with the state contest at 10 a.m. the
following day. National runoffs
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Beef field day set for Aug.
August 15.
The program, beginning at 6
p.m., will include a tour of the
Espy Farm, located on Route 45
between Water Street and Spruce
Creek, featuring the modem
begin Saturday, August 13, with
the small plow category entries
going into action at 9 a.m. A
national antique plow division
starts at noon, followed by the
national large plow competition at
2 p.m.
While there is no admission fee
to the contest, spectators will be
charged a $l.OO per vehicle parking
fee. Tickets are available for the 7
p.m. banquet at the Center Friday
evening, and can be obtained from
the York Chamber of Commerce
office, 13 Market Way Blast, at a
cost of $12.50 per person.
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feedlot from which over 1000 cattle
are marketed each year.
Visitors to the farm will also see
the type of cattle fed, rations, and
facilities and can view a special
exhibit of cattle, pulled from the
pens, which have widely varying
rates of gain even when fed the
same rations.
Also, a demonstration on
pumping liquid manure will be
featured. Emphasized here will be
the preservation of maximum
plant nutrients by injecting
manure into the soil.
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Espy, president of the Pa. Beef
Council and a leader in the cattle
industry, will present information
on the Pa. Beef Check-Off. Paul
Heffner, Gettysburg, president of
the Pa. Cattlemen’s Association
will discuss activities of the PCA.
To conclude the program, a
producer panel of four prominent
cattlemen will discuss how they
produce and market beef.
The scheduled program is as
follows:
6 p.m. Tour feedlot, cattle,
facilities, ask questions.
EQUIPMENT, .nc
7 p.m. Demonstrations,
pumping and soil injection of liquid
manure.
7:45 p.m. Pa. Beef Check-Off,
J. Paul Espy, Pa. Beef Council
president.
8 pm. Activities of the Pa.
Cattlemen’s Association, Paul
Heffner, president.
8:15 p.m. Producer Panel,
“How I Produce and Market
Beef,” Dr.' Erskine Cash of Penn
State, moderator.
8:45 p.m. General discussion
andquestion/answer period.
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