“Come Alive in 6 85” COLUMBUS, Ohio Jersey breeders from across the United States will gather June 16-19 in Lancaster, for the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Jersey Cattle Club and the 27th Annual Meeting of National All-Jersey Inc. The meetings and events will be headquartered at the Americana Host Farm Resort in Lancaster. Pennsylvania Dutch hospitality will highlight the four days of meetings, awards, farm tours, entertainment and sales. The NAJ Board of Directors will meet Sunday morning, June 16, with the AJCC Board of Directors scheduled to meet that afternoon. Registration for those attending all functions will begin Sunday afternoon. A dinner theater presentation has been scheduled for Sunday night. THE RESISTANCE BSPREADWH Fighf the Colorado Potato Beetle resistance whh rotenone-based Penidt Noxfire and PBO or new pre-mixed P6-HOX. The most destructive pest your potato crop will ever have to face is back in your own backyard. 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Tuesday, June 18, will begin with the National All-Jersey Breakfast. Featured speaker will be Carl Wolf, President of First World Cheese Associates, the national distributor of Jersey Pride Natural Cheese. The NAJ Annual Meeting will follow the breakfast. Tuesday afternoon will see 50 of the top pedigreed Jersey heifers from across the nation offered in the 28th Annual National Heifer Sale. The sale will be held at the Solanco Fairgrounds, Quarryville, Penn. No* fire* and I’BO »i« led* rally uxistrrrd products fedpr.il rpgislMhon tor PB NOX i» pending is theme for Jersey meeting in June The AJCC Annual Jersey Breeders Banquet on Tuesday evening will honor retiring AJCC Executive Secretary James F. Cavanaugh with the AJCC Distinguished Service Award. Wednesday morning, June 19, will start off at the AJCC Awards Breakfast, where the seven win ners of the AJCC Young Jersey Dairyman Award will be honored. 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For more information or to order call your nearest Penick distributor or contact Penick Corporation Pesticides Division, 1050 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071, or call (201) 935-6600. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 4,1985-Al9 Chris Blackhurst, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Dennis and Cheryl Cline, Waterville, Iowa; Ed and Cheryl Ettinger, Mocksville, N.C.; Roger and Anita Marcoot, Greenville, 111.; Bill and Kathleen Schaeffer, Acme, Wash.; Richard and Paula Schlotterbeck, Lewisburg, Ohio; and Dan and Connie Schweigert, Tremont, 111. Events will conclude with the AJCC, Annual Meeting on Wed- specialist Daniel S. Kuennen. “Off-farm income is keeping many farmers <n business,” he says. “Net farm income dropped almost 50 percent from 1981 to 1983. During that tune. nesday morning. Newell Mills, Fallon, Nev. will be presented with the AJCC Master Breeder Award. For further information, con tact; The American Jersey Cattle Club, P.O. Box 27310, Columbus, Ohio 43227-9987. Phone 614/861- 3636. Or, in Pennsylvania contact: Donald Koontz, 3016 Distnct Road, Fredoma, Pa. 16124. Phone 412-376- 2884. off-farm income amounted to about six and a half tunes as much as government payments, even with increased payments through the PIK program. A farm that stays in business remains an active part of the local economy. When other businesses in a rural community fail due to agricultural losses, off-farm income may in turn be en dangered, creating a negative spiral.” Currently, conditions are worst in the Mid west, where farm-based banks and Main Street businesses are closmg m great numbers. Twenty-five of the record 79 banks that failed last year were farm banks. The plight of mid-western farmers and its effect on the local economy have lessons for other parts of the U.S., Kuennen says. For instance, more than a third of Delaware’s farmers report working 200 days or more off the farm. Statewide, farm households had an average income of just over $25,700 in 1980. Of that amount only $9,000, or 35 percent, came from farming. “Some Delaware ' farmers depend on the diversity Of their income,” Kuennen stresses. Medium-sized farms with annual sales of $40,000 to $200,000 ap pear to be the hardest hit nationally by the present economic crisis. The average Delaware farm fails easily within this range, at about $126,000 gross sales per farm m 1983, according to Delaware Depart ment of Agriculture statistics. The farm and the community depend on each other. Government payments to farmers have increased con siderably in recent years, Kuennen says, but still represent a relatively small portion of farm household in come. Off-farm em ployment, on the other hand, brings in an amount greater than the net farm income, both nationally and in Delaware. Rural businesses depend on the financial health of farmers to survive, Kuennen says. Rural development and farm policy should reflect this in-
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