VOL 28 No. 47 Congratulations Pa. Daily Princess Tamara Lynn Cree Four Sections (Turn to 818] Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 24,1983 Ron Kopp, Middletown dairy farmer, faces TV cameras and explains his problems with discarded cans and bottles, including the loss of a top producing cow. Spend 5 cents to save a cow BY DICK ANGLESTEIN MIDDLETOWN - The year of 197 b was a memorable one for agriculture. It was the Bicentennial Year and tributes were pouring out fur the "embattled farmers who fired the shots heard round the world” and founded a nation 200 years before. Agriculture was booming and machinery companies quit running equipment ads because they didn't want to create any more demand that they couldn't fill. The machinery that was available was allocated to dealers and farmers scrambled to snap it up. But for Kon Kopp, dairy tanner located just off Hi. 283 near the Pa. Holstein farm, it was memorable from another standpoint. On June 17, 1976, he lost one of his best cows to hardware disease '1 came out in the morning and she was just lying there,” he i ecalls. Suffolk named Ephrata winner BY LAURA ENGLAND EPHRATA It may have been raining cats and dogs at the Ephrata Fair Wednesday night, but a stylish group of lambs competed for top awards despite the constant downpour. Under a roof with two open sides, the rain threatening to dampen the entire show arena, 13-year-old Heidi Fisher lead her 112-pound Suffolk lamb to the championship title. A daughter of Bill and Dee Fisher, East Earl, Heidi won the overall honors for the first time. She raised her champion lamb as a junior agriculture project at Garden Spot High School. An eighth grade student, Heidi is a member of the seventh and eighth grade Ag Club. Capturing reserve market lamb laurels was 15-year-old Lori Martin, Narvon. A member of the Grassland FFA Chapter at Garden Spot High School, Lori competed in the contest for the first time this (Turn to Pago A3O) "In the haylage in the feed bunk we found a shredded can "She hadn't been ill so it must have been the only cause. "She was one of our best producing cows.” Kopp recalled this painful memory at a press conference Wednesday convened by the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association to drum up support for the mandatory deposit beverage container laws that have been introduced in the Pa House and Senate. Kopp, who farms with his brother,Jay and father, Howard, hasn't lost any cows since then, but he's had continuing problems with cans and buttles. Recently, he had to replace a front tractor tire and have a rear one repaired due to bottles The dir.cl cost was about $l5O, plus downtime on the equipment and lost tune in the fields “The other day I was out in the Heidi Fisher, East Earl, poses with her 112 pound Suffolk lamb which was named grand champion at the Ephrata Fair Sheep Show. 57.50 per Year field and sav this car going by with someone hanging out the window he baid “The guy winged a bolUe at the speed limit sign along the field They like to throw them at the Mglte." Kopp and Keith Eckel, HKA president, walked along the road next to the exercise yard, and collected a variety of soda and beer cans and bottles for the television cameras at the on-farm press conference Tl would almost pay me to hire someone to just pick these things up,” Kopp remarked Eckel explained the purpose ot the proposed law now in effect in several stales that requires a five cenl mandatory deposit on beverage containers, particularly soda and beer cans and bottles, to discourage roadsides and fanners fields from being the garbage can tor passing drinkers (Turn to Page A 23)
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