Pa. conservation
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Satellites will update con
servation agencies knowledge of
the state of America’s farmlands,
probably within 5 to 10 years.
Orbiting equipment will relay
information on the state of the land
from millions of points, with local
staffers only needing to make spot
surveys as a check of the system.
New equipment makes fertilizer
placing more exact and efficient,
enabling fanners to avoid un
necessary cost, nutrient waste,
and the pollution problems created
by runoff into watersheds.
Pennsylvania’s directors and
conservation staffers were
especially interested in Myer’s
opinion that implementation of the
Mason-Dixon targer area program
is not “moving as fast” as it
should.
The Mason-Dixon area includes
14 Pennsylvania counties in the
Susquehanna River-Chesapeake
Bay watershed.
Long-term studies of Bay
pollution, affecting aquatic life and
related seafood industries, point to
nutrient and soil runoff from
watershed farmland as a key
source of imbalances in the
estuary. Up to 65 percent of the
Mason-Dixon farmland is reported
experiencing excessive erosion
problems.
Myers assured the con
servationists that no “politics” are
involved in target area selection.
Designations are based on the
criteria of need and resources
available. Assistance from the
agencies is expected to come in the
form of additional staffers and
increased funding.
Farmland protection continues
to be a controversial subject, says
the soil service chief, and federal
goals are broader-based than
strictly conservation. A dozen
agencies with 40 assorted
programs are responsible for
policy implementation, under the
leadership of USDA’s Soil Con
servation offices.
Most policy making, says Myers,
must remain at a local level, where
land use, water use and quality and
land development issues originate.
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“Conservation groups in the
West are filing lawsuits against
land protection measures,” added
Myers, predicting an upcoming
legal fight over the issue.
During the brief press con
ference following his keynote
address, Myers told reporters he
hopes conservation methods im
plementation will remain volun
tary, but foresees mandatory
measures as a future possibility.
Farmers will increasingly face
public pressure on the “whose land
is it” issue.
Although he admits enjoying
turning ground with a plow, the
farmer of 1100 acres in Missouri’s
“Bootheel” section is an avid
promoter of no-tillage, and out
spoken in urging plowmen to park
their moldboards for other tillage
methods.
The two full days of speakers and
sessions included an address
Tuesday by, Nicholas De
Benedictis, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources.
An awards program Tuesday
evening honored conservation
winners across the state, and
Wednesday’s wrap-up was a host
tour to P.P.& L's Brunner Island
electricity generating plant, which
utilizes waste hot water to raise
catfish and heat greenhouses.
Award winners included:
“We tried Hardy Brand corn...
“It would I>e hard
to beat in yield.”
“We have about 400 acres in
corn, all Hardy, because it
doesn’t pay to be using differ
ent brands. Back when we were
deciding who to go with, my
son ran tests, with Hardy on
one side and Pioneer on the
other. He said that Hardy did a
little better, and so that’s what
we ordered
You get your full bushel, so
you don’t need to be filling your
planter all the time. And I
honestly don’t think any other
corn would outyield it. We al
ready put it to the test ”
ORDER NO. 4 BASE MILK
PRICE SUJS FOR AUGUST
ALEXANDRIA. VA. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine on
September 9 announced an August
1983 base milk price of $13.85 per
hundredweight and an excess milk
price of $12.46. The weighted
average August price is $13.87 and
Conservation Organization of the
Year Jr. Woman’s Club of
Birdsboro.
Conservationists of the Year
George B. Wolff, Lebanon County;
and Betty J. Geer, Elk County.
Conservation Educator of the
Year Lorraine Kinder, Nor
thumberland County.
Conservation Fanner of the
Year Donald G. Cotner, Nor
thumberland County.
Watershed of the Year Middle
Creek Watershed, Snyder County.
Maurice K. Goddard Forestry
Award Henry Chauncey Tree
Farm, Bradford County.
County Commissioner of the
Year W. Donald Templeton,
Cambria County.
Special recognition was paid to
Robert Williams, Editor, Penn
sylvania Farmer; and Seymour
Fowler, Penn State.
Ken Hess
Hess if Sons
Bangor, £A
...and we like it!”
jJ HI OAHU'S lii'llz
“...exceptionally
good tonnage.”
Bad Holmes
Fen Mar Farms
Hanover, FA
“The 802 X has been a real
good silage corn for us. We’ve
gotten 21 Vs tons to the acre,
and it’s good quality, with a lot
of gram to it
I've had 301 XS and it did real
good—terrific ear, and it
yielded good too. And the
403 XS looks terrific right now
This year I tried another
brand, and I’m not going back
to it, cause it’s the only place
where I’ve got this ‘up and
down’ corn I’m staying with
Hardy corn.”
See your local Hardy Brand dealer, or contact
“Vbr a Hardy Stand use Hardy Brand”
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8,1983-A27
the butlerfal differential for the
month is 17.0 cents. The base milk
price is up 11 cents from July and
is 13 cents higher than last
August’s price.
The advertising withholding
rate, which is deducted from the
base and excess milk prices but not
the weighted average price is 14
cents a hundredweight. The gross
value of August producer milk was
$71.0 million, compared to $89.3
million last year. A total of $717.8
thousand was deducted for ad
vertising m August, up from $707.5
thousand last year.
Mr. Shine said that producer
milk receipts totaled 512.7 million
pounds during August, an increase
of 7.4 million pounds or 1.5 percent
from a year earlier. The average
daily delivery per producer was
2,385 pounds, up 91 pounds or 4.0
percent from the August 1982
average,
Class 1 producer milk totaled
239.1 million pounds and was up
16.6 million pounds from a year
ago. Class I producer milk ac
counted for 46.63 percent of total
producer milk receipts during the
month, up significantly from 44.03
percent last August. Base milk
accounted for 91.95 percent of total
producer milk receipts m August
compared to 91.57 percent a year
ago. The market average butterfat
test of producer milk was 3.46
percent in August 1983 and 3 47
percent a year ago.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I m-area
milk sales of 197.1 million pounds
during August, an increase of 3.04
percent over a year earlier, after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition
“It’s clean-husking
and stands nice.”
Paul Musser
Musser Farms
Manchester, PA.
“The Hardy 30IXS has come
up real mce, stood real good in
the Fhll, and picked clean The
size of the ears was good and
some other brands picked a lot
harder . that’s one reason I
like Hardy corn
This year I’ve got some
270 XS, and I don't think it
could be any more perfect It’s
taking the dry weather real
good And the 403 XS per
(formed well It really threw the
ears in the wagon The bin
filled up, and that's what you’re
looking for ’’