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VOL. 29 No. 50
Industry
divided on
egg order
BY JACK RUBLEY
LANCASTER
responses from one-third of the
nation’s egg producers, the
proposed egg industry marketing
order will include four provisions,
according to marketing order
committee chairman Gerald
Weber, who addressed a Pa. Egg-
Marketing Association meeting
last Friday night at Lancaster’s
Conestoga Resort.
About 250 egg industry
representatives attended the
session to hear committee
chairman Weber, Penn State ag
economist Tony Stemberger and
Canadian producer-processor Stan
Steen discuss the advantages and
pitfalls of egg supply
management
Although two-thirds of the
marketing order survey respon
dents indicated a need for some
form of quantity controls,
nationwide opinion' remains
divided on exactly how to get the
job done
Though industry feedback in
dicated a preference for con
trolling the number of hens. Weber
indicated that egg allottments
would be preferable from a
regulatory standpoint In com
puting initial egg allottments the
committee opted for a three-year
historical base period from Sept.
30, 1981, to the same date in 1984
Quotas would be issued to
producers one year in advance,
Weber said.
Weber pointed out that countries
already on egg quota systems tend
to experience continual cutbacks ,
m layer numbers, since the system
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Dairy roundup - local promotion, rabies & heifers in wings
31 groups
apply for
milk funds
HARRISBURG - With a
Monday, Oct. 15, deadline, 31 local
promotion groups submitted
funding requests to the Penn
sylvania Dairy Promotion
Program Advisory Board, ac
cording to state Agriculture
Secretary and Advisory Board
Chairman Penrose Hallowell.
Requests were received from 31
groups for a total of 61 local dairy
promotion projects.
“We are pleased with the
diversity and interest demon
strated by these promotion
requests,” said Hallowell. “It is
refreshing to know that so many
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Four Sections
Based on
-..ThWf 172-pound pumpkin sold at Good’s Wholesale
Vegetate Auction this week at Leola could be considered
the auction’s first season it’s been a whopping
success and there are a lot of happy faces around.
This gigantic ’’gourd” was grown by Dale Johnson, of
Catawissa RD, Columbia County. Shown with the pumpkin is
Sterling Gottshall, of Catawissa, who trucked it to Good's.
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LEOLA In its first season of
operation, Good’s wholesale
vegetable auction at Leola expects
to do about a half-million dollars in
business.
“We’ve already done about
$450,000 in business,” David H.
Good said, “and we should reach a
half-million dollars before we close
for the season.
Dairy Exclusive
Second cow falls victim
NEW BOLTON CENTER-A
five-year-old Holstein dairy cow
from Fauquier County, Va., was
admitted as a rabies suspect to the
large animal hospital at New
Bolton Center, University of
Pennsylvania’s School of
Veterinary Medicine, on Wed
nesday, Oct. 3. The results of tests
confirmed the diagnosis of rabies
on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
When the cow was admitted to
New Bolton Center, she was placed
in isolation and was humanely
destroyed two days later after
diagnostic tests revealed no
evidence of a disease that could be
treated easily. Subsequent
pathological studies performed at
the State Public Health Laboratory
in Lionville confirmed the rabies
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20,1984
Vegetable auction reports successful first season
“It has surpassed anything we
expected.”
But Good was quick to credit
both the excellent weather, which
provided an abundant and con
tinuing supply of produce, and the
cooperation of both growers and
buyers for the initial success of the
wholesale auction, which has been
open for the past four and one-half
months.
diagnosis.
This is the first rabid cow seen at
the Center since November, 1982.
The first cow, from a Lancaster
County dairy herd, was apparently
bitten by a rabid bat.
Rabies, a virus that attacks the
neurological system of warm
blooded animals, usually is spread
by direct bites. In this case, the
cow was not known to be bitten by
a wild animal, although the owner
reported that numerous skunks
have been seen in the cow pasture.
The virus also is shed in large
quantities in the saliva of an in
fected animal and can be tran
smitted when it comes in contact
with open wounds or mucous
membranes.
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Johnson grew 14 of the monsters this year, including a
289-pound patch-mate that was displayed at the Bloomsburg
Fair. The 14 stalks had plenty of water, including creek
irrigation, and two 80-pound bags of fertilizer,
"The mam problem," according to Gottshall, “is that they’d
grow so much some evenings, they’d grow themselves right
off the vine.”
Participating farmers increased
from about 150 in the beginning to
some 750. They came from
Maryland, New York and as far
west as Breezewood and Tyrone in
Pennsylvania.
It’s estimated that about 80
percent of the business was
generated by Lancaster County
growers.
Buyers also steadily increased
20 million spigots
about to turn on
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
DAIRYLAND, USA She ob
served her first birthday a few
months ago.
Lately, it’s been a carefree life of
warm Indian Summer days and
nights.
There are no real cares for the
coming winter with a warm barn
and overflowing silos that promise
full stomachs.
She looks forward to impending
Initial motherhood in spring.
And then finally beginning a
lifetime career to which she has
been born, bred and groomed -
turning out milk; adding four more
milk spigots to the national dairy
herd.
This scenario hasn’t changed
much over the years on dairy
$7.50 per year
during the season and came from a
five-state area, including Penn
sylvania, Delaware, New Jersey,
New York and Virginia.
With the auction scheduled to
stay open until about
Thanksgiving, depending on the
weather and produce supply, Good
is already looking toward some
changes for next year.
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farms as heifers continually move
into the milking herd to replace
members of the older generation
“retired” to McDonald’s or
whatever.
But this coming year there wiH
be a real difference.
That heifer may be joined by a
record number of “sisters” -
perhaps five million, adding some
20 million milk spigots that - when
opened - may provide a spring
flush such as this nation has never
seen.
And these spigots will open at the
conclusion of a painful adjustment
period designed to bring supply
and demand back into closer
balance.
How many replacement heifers
are really out there? Who knows.
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