Wheat signup is reopened
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block has announced wheat far
mers will be permitted to enter the
revised 1984 wheat program during
an April 16 - May 4 signup period.
President Reagan signed the new
program provisions into law last
week.
“I encourage wheat farmers who
have not already signed up to take
advantage of the revisions in this
1984 program,” Block said. “A
strong additional signup once
again will prove that wheat far
mers are willing to play a major
role in solving many of their im
mediate problems. ’ ’
Farmers with wheat bases who
previously had not signed up for
the 1984 wheat program are
eligible to participate in the
revised program, Block said.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture had held a earlier
signup from Jan. 16 through March
16 during which time nearly 240,000
farms representing over SO
BEAVERTOWN - On April 6,
Brooks End and Par Kay Farms
held their Spring Sale. The Auc
tioneer was Dan Baker Lafayette,
Ind. The sale totaled $84,420 for an
average of $347.00 for the 243 head
offered.
The top-selling animal was Lot
124 RTB3 Paramount 139-13 selling
for $l2OO. to Zimmerman Farms,
Swarthmore. The top-selling
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Farmers who previously signed
up for the 1984 program need take
no action unless they wish to
change their level of participation
in the revised program, Block said.
Producers who earlier signed up
may change their participation in
the wheat program and the
payment-in-kind program by
notifying their local county office
of USDA’s Agricultural
Stabilization- and Conservation
Service, he said.
The basic legislated program
changes are:
The target price has been
lowered from $4.45 to $4.38 per
bushel.
Although the reduced acreage
requirement remains at a
minimum of 30 percent, 20 percent
of the requirement must be under
an acreage reduction program and
the remaining 10 percent will be
paid land diversion with a paid
Brooks End reports sale
Yorkshire Bred Gilt was Lot 19
purchased by James Harnish,
Lancaster, for $475. The top-selling
Landrace Boar was Lot 136 pur
chased by Zimmerman Farms,
Swarthmore,for $BOO. The top
selling Landrace Bred Gilt was Lot
85 purchased by Karl Zimmerman,
Middleburg, for $625.
The 42 head of Yorkshire Bred
Gilts averaged $384; 41 head of
diversion rate ot $2.70 per bushel.
Advance diversion payments
will be available.
PIK payments are increased
from 75 percent to 85 percent of the
established yield times the acres
diverted.
State Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
committees may authorize haying
and graziong on acreage con
servation reserve acreages
devoted to wheat prior to Jan. 12. If
authorized, the same rules will
apply for the 1984 wheat haying
and grazing program as were in
effect for the 1983 wheat haying
and grazing program.
Block said signup will not be
reopened for the 1984 upland
cotton, feed grain and rice
programs.
The revised 1984 wheat program
signup will be conducted at
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service county of
fices.
Yorkshire Boars, $524; and 83 head
of Yorkshires, $453.
The 37 head of Landrace Bred
Gilts averaged $379; 10 head of
Landrace Boars, $468; and 47 head
of Landrace, $398.
The 113 head of Commercial
Open Gilts averaged $249.
This sale offering sold into seven
different states. Much of this sale
offering featured imported
bloodlines.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21,1984—A5S
Manbeck firm purchased
FREDERICKSBURG - Pur
chase of C.F. Manbeck, Inc. and its
affiliated company, Farmers
Pride, Inc., has been announced by
Michael T. Morris, Hershey at
torney, and Scott Sechler, owner of
Sechler’s Poultry, Strausstown.
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operation of the business, in
cluding current contracted
growers, is contemplated.
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position of Chief Executive Officer
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Walborn will continue in their
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The C.F. Manbeck - Farmers
Low path depopulation
BY JACK HUBLEY
LANCASTER - Efforts to
eliminate all possible traces of
avian influenza continued this
week with the depopulation of six
flocks diagnosed as having the low
path, or mild form of the disease.
To date, seven farmers have
volunteered their flocks, with
depopulation efforts expected to
continue through next week at the
rate of one flock per day. Of the six
flocks depopulated, two were
nr
Pride group, started many years
ago in a small building in
Fredericksburg, and today is one
of the better known broiler in
tegraters and marketers in the
area. The plant has a daily
capacity of approximately 65,000
birds.
Farmers Pride operates a group
of wholesale and retail sales
outlets in an area from Cleveland
to Philadelphia, marketing both
poultry and other food products.
Sechler’s Poultry is a large-scale
handler of live poultry and fowl.
Operations mainly cover the
Middle Atlantic States and
Canada.
Purchase price was not
disclosed. Hendrik Wentink of Walt
Montgomery Associates, initiated
the transaction and assisted in the
negotiations.
underway
located in Manheim, two in Lititz,
and one each in Strasburg and
Shippensburg.
The primary means of deter
mining low path viral activity is
the presence of antibodies. All
flocks found to possess these an
tibodies will be depopulated.
Officials stress that flocks
diagnosed as low path are nor
mally birds that have recovered
from the disease, and such
depopulation efforts will have no
effect on the quarantine zone.
The only outbreak of lethal avian
flu to occur thus far this month was
a backyard flock of 13 layers, four
turkeys, and seven ducks declared
on April 10, at Blair Mills in
Huntingdon County. Though no
decision has been made, it is
doubtful that this case will result in
an expansion of the quarantine
area.
Fears that a Mathias, West
Virginia, flock may have contained
the lethal virus have been laid to
rest by serology and virus isolation
tests that revealed no trace of the
disease.
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