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Judge Harold Binder of Colorado presents George Smith 111
with the Grand Champion banner at the Maryland State Fair
Holstein Show, Jdr, Smith’s winning 4-year-okf. Lucky M Pete
Gina.
Sign of times farmers getting sick & tired of losing more money
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
GETTYSBURG There are
increasing signs that fanners are
getting sick and tired of just losing
more and more money and going
deeper and deeper into debt.
On Tuesday, independent egg
producers from Adams, Cum
berland, York and Lancaster
Counties will meet with state and
federal legislators and Ag Sec.
Penrose Hallowell to see what help
they can get from conditions that
BY LAURA ENGLAND
STATE COLLEGE - On April
15, 1983, several hundred people
huddled together under a gloomy,
gray sky, defying a threatening
thunderstorm, to witness what
many had coined "a dream
becomes reality."
That dream molding into reality
was the groundbreaking of Penn
State's proposed Ag Arena, a
facility designed to house a variety
of agricultural events such as the
Little International Livestock
Exposition, the Dairy Exposition
and the Horticulture Show.
Five months later, visitors to
Penn State can see that the dream,
indeed, is real. According to
Milford Heddiesun, a Penn State
professor who has coordinated
fund-raising campaigns for the
building, construction of the Ag
Arena is on schedule.
To date, the structural steel
frame is up and the laying of a 9-
fout-high block wall will begin
soon. By winter, the sides and roof
should be completed, Heddiesun
said, and inside work can then be
done.
June 1, 1984. is the targeted
completion date of the 81-4 million
Four Sections
are causing them to lose three to
six cents a dozen on every dozen of
eggs they produce.
And in Adams County, one
dairyman will continue his efforts
to get tax relief from county
commissioners during these times
when he finds himself going into
the hole by another $20,000 to
$25,000 at the end of each year.
For both - the egg producers and
dairyman - it’s a combination of
governmental actk-is. weather
Ag arena takes shape on Penn State skyline
facility, Heddiesun said, but if ail
goes as planned the construction
could possibly be completed by
April 1.
"It's hoped that the Dairy Ex
position and the Little 1 will be held
in the Ag Arena next spring,”
Heddiesun said, "but it’s certain
the Fall 1964 Hurt Show will be
there."
Until then, fund-raising projects
will continue with a barbecue on
Sept. 17 leading the 1983 campaign.
The barbecue is set for the Penn
State-lowa football game at
Beaver Stadium. Other projects
will again include the Winter
Phunathon, sponsored by the
College of Ag students, and a new
professional phonatbon running
from mid-September through mid-
January.
in addition, the Office of Gifts
and Endowments will identify
major donors, Heddiesun said.
When completed, the Ag Arena
will consist of an 80’ by 150’ arena,
bleachers to accommodate 600
people, a food serving area, of
fices, rest rooms and a mezzanine
section. The mezzanine area will
be used for dances, banquets and
exhibits
Lmctstir Farming, Saturday, Srpttwfcir 10,1983
Md. State Fair names champions
By Joyce Bopp
TIMONIUM, Md. - Holstein
exhibitors paraded before a full
house in the Cow Palace dairy
arena Labor Day, as the black
and-whites judging wrapped up
several days of cattle arena action
at the Maryland State Fair.
In keeping with the western style
of champion seelection, Colorado
judge Howard Binder slapped the
rump of the winning 4-year-old,
after careful deliberation over the
slowly circling parade of class
winners.
Exhibited by George W. Smith
HI, of Smith-Mead Farms,
Frederick, the champion is Lucky
M. Pete Gina.
Reserve senior and grand
rosettes went to the O. Clayton
Smith family of Jefferson, with
their winning 5-year-old, DCS
Dairy Elevation Katie, by
Elevation.
For his junior champion, judge
Binder chose the Hirst place senior
yearling, sired by Tbunyma East
Star and exhibited by Michael and
Connie Young, Fresno, California.
Pulled into the reserve junior
champion slot was the first in
and surplus market conditions that
have sent production costs
spiraling and sent them deeper and
deeper into the hole.
Dorothy and Jack Sterner, of
Adams County, said that
producers are losing an estimated
three to six cents per dozen of eggs
produced.
“The market for large eggs is 80
cents per dozen,” Dorothy Sterner
said.
"The fanners are paid about 55
The construction of Penn State's Ag Arena is evident as the structural steel frame
goes up on the building site near Beaver Stadium. Completion of the ali-purpose
agriculture facility is targeted for next spring.
termediate calf, a Quality
Ultimate heifer exhibited by Steve
Wood, Nokesville, Virginia.
A highlight of the well-attended
show was the Maryland Hoislem
Association’s presentations of
several prestigious breeder
awards.
Distinguished service winner for
1983 is the King family of
Kingstead Farms. Veteran
Maryland Holstein leader Ralph
Walker was named the outstanding
senior breeder, and the out
standing junior breeder honor was
conferred on Roy and sue Crow.
The King family is nationally
known for their outstanding
bloodlines of registered Holsteins
developed over the past several
decades at the farm near
Damascus. Offspring of the herd
are in several foreign countries
and numerous Kingstead line sires
have gone into domestic sire
service organizations.
The late Leslie King founded the
Kingstead breeding herd, con
tinued today by his children Irving,
Jane, Douglas, Harold and Mary
King.
Production, fat and type ac-
cents per dozen and production
costs average between 60 and 67
cents per dozen. That means that
right now we are losing about six
cents per dozen of eggs we
produce."
Increased production costs in
clude higher utility bills and feed.
Sterner said his utility costs rose 49
percent last month and feed costs
are up some $4O per ton due to the
PIK program. PIK alone increased
$7.50 per Year
comptohments have earned the
Kmgstead herd 28 consecutive
Progressive Breeder awards from
the national Holstein Association.
A member of the King family
estimated that the herd show
string has been taking part in the
Maryland Slate Fair for about 35
years.
They’ve won the Premier
banners at the Timomum show,
and the Maryland State show,
numerous times, and have taken
the prized premier breeder honor
seven tunes at the Harrisburg
Eastern National show.
Outstanding senior breeder,
Ralph Walker, led his first call into
the shownng in 1923, at the Mon
tgomery County fair. He was a
rookie 4-H exhibitor and the
animal he displayed was the
family's first registered individual
in the herd-
In the early 1330’s Walker and
his brother, Grover, joined their
father, McKendree, full-time on
the Gaithersburg dairy farm, with
a milking string of about 50 head.
Success of the Walkers' Rolling
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production costs by 10 cents per
dozen.
The egg producers are also
concerned about increasing
competition from foreign and
domestic large corporate in
vestors. About 25 percent of laying
birds in Pennsylvania are owned
by foreign companies from Europe
and Japan compared to 15 percent
a year ago. Sterner said.
At the meeting called by the
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