A3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3,1984
Pa. fieldwork
review outlined
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania
farmers continued harvest of
apples, grapes and cabbage as well
as green (hop, ensilage, high
moisture ground ear and shell corn
and com for grain in the three days
suitable for fieldwork during the
week ending October 28, according
to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Other farm acitivies during the
week included plowing, seeding
wheat, making small amounts of
hay and fixing fences. Fieldwork
was limited by rain in all parts of
the state, ranging from 6/10 of an
inch to 2.45 inches.
The harvest of apples and grapes
statewide reached 83 and 94 per
cent respectively. The harvest of
cabbage is nearly complete.
Across the state, the com for
grain crop was 90 percent mature
and 22 percent harvested. Last
year’s crop was virtually all
mature and 43 percent was har
vested at this time. The five-year
average of com harvested by this
date was 42 percent. Cora is drying
down much slower this year than
normal. In the northern region,
corn was 81 percent mature and 17
percent harvested. In the central
region, com was 93 percent mature
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and 23 percent harvested. The
southern region reported 98 per
cent mature and 28 percent har
vested. The harvest of com silage
statewide totaled 91 percent
compared to vitrually complete at
this time last year. The northern
region reported 87 percent har
vested, while central and southern
regions reported 93 percent of com
silage as harvested.
The harvest of soybeans was 21
percent complete statewide,
trailing last year’s 39 percent
harvested. The northern region
reported 17 percent of the soybeans
harvested, and the central and
southern regions reported har
vesting rates of 23 and 28 percent
respectively.
Fall plowing in the state was
reported as 94 percent complete
compared with last year’s 92
percent and the five-year average
of 93 percent complete. Wheat
planting statewide reached 90
percent complete, one percent
point behind last year.
The harvest of fourth crop
alfalfa was 69 percent complete
compared with 86 percent last
year. The quality of hay made
during the past week was rated
poor by 68 percent and fair by 32
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one that will enable farmers to go
on-line with their own computers.
State-run testing and reporting
facilities are not the only thing the
state DHIA directors are con
cerned about; they recognize that
the individual contacts between
supervisors and dairymen are
important too.
“Pennsylvania DHIA is a
federated system,” explains
Kindig, “so the local boards of
wUUillj ell L responsible for
setting local policy that’s in tune
with the state and national rules.”
To help the counties, which vary
so much in circumstances and
available resources, meet thi®
task, the state now empln” ..aee
fieldmen.
The responsibilities of the
fieldmen are to directly help the
supervisors in their work with the
state and to communicate with the
local boards and local dairymen.
From the county point of view,
Jay Mylin indicates that the
fieldmen perform several im
portant services handling
particular problems supervisors
are having, training new super-
percent of our reporters. The
amount of feed being obtained
from pasture was rated below
average by 39 percent, average by
46 percent and above average by 15
percent.
Topsoil moisture supplies for the
commonwealth were rated
adequate by 82 percent of the
reporters and short by the
remaining 18 percent. Northern
region reporters rated soil
moisture as 86 percent adequate
and 14 percent short. Central
region reporters rated soil
moisture as 67 percent adequate
and 33 percent short. Southern
region reporters rated soil
moisture as 100 percent adequate.
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visors and conducting workshops
for dairymen.
To increase service for the
counties, Kindig notes that they
are now in the process of hiring two
additional fieldmen, and will be
adding a sixth next summer.
With more fieldmen, the state
directors are looking, too, for
greater promotion of DHIA.
Currently, 47 percent of the herds
in the state are on test, and Kindig
says they’d like to increase that
figure. “The more herds that are
on test, the better off every
dairyman is because we can hold
down the cost of the program per
member,” says Kindig.
But with promotion, as with
many other parts of DHIA, success
lies in the hands of the county
DHIA directors, who have most of
the influence and responsibility for
running the program, stresses
Kindig. Supervisors are hired and
fired on the local level, and fees
are set by the county boards.
“Counties have to stay on top of
the situation,” says Kindig. A
monthly printout of supervisor
Local milk
vertising, dairy princess pageants
or travel expenses.
The general thrust of the sub
committee’s recommendations
was to approve only local funding
applications that showed evidence
of contribution of local money or
resources to the promotional
programs.
In other action' regarding the
work of HBM/Creamer, the ad
vertising agency designated to
conduct a six-month |600,000
program which began September
1, the advisory board voted to
proceed, for an initial sum of
$13,000, with the contracting of
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errors, the “kick-out sheet,”
should be reviewed at least every
other month to get an overview of
the quality of the supervisors’
work. In some counties, and
Lancaster is one of these, the
board of directors even award
financial incentives to supervisors
for superior performance. Criteria
for the Lancaster County program,
explains Jay Mylin, are mailing
time, errors per thousand cows,
centering date range, and farmer
evaluations. Supervisors who
meet these standards earn a $3OO
bonus.
promotion
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With the promotion board’s
approval on Wednesday,
HBM/Creamer will also begin
airing four new radio ad
vertisements that promote “Make
It Milk” within a holiday theme.
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But Jay Mylin would be quick to
point out that this is certainly not
the only reason Lancaster County
has a good track record with
DHIA. He is convinced that a
responsible board of directors is
crucial too.
And Bob Kindig’s final comment
is, “I hope that business-minded
people who are interested in
helping their fellow dairymen will
get involved at every level, local
and state.”
wrestling, for an
campaign.
Board members viewed a
videotape of Baumgartner in
action at the Olympics. ftfusch
weck described Baumgartner, an
Edinboro native, as a “natural”
for milk advertising. Baumgart
ner is committed to using dairy
products, drinking over three
gallons of milk a week and eating
lots of ice cream and other dairy
foods.
advertising