B 29mm Hfi/fH #*• Hr , U'B Tf|fnp XMlm ■Mt’llV'wl VOL. 30 No. 44 Dairy royalty was on hand to crown the winner at the 1985 Pennsylvania Holstein Championship Show Thursday in Meadville. From left are judge Norman Hill, Dave Dowler with the grand champion; Nancy Mitrich, Pennsylvania alternate dairy princess; Jill Hyde, Crawford County dairy princess; and Ed Doeberiener. Valiant daughter wins state title BY NANCY KUNICK Staff Correspondent MEADVILLE - A record** breaking count of nearly 300 en tries paraded through the show ring at the 1985 Pennsylvania Holstein Championship Show, held Thursday at the Crawford County Fairgrounds. This is “the largest fall show the association has ever held,’’ an nounced Bill Nichol, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Holstein Association. “There are five championship shows in July and August and the best of the breed is represented here. It’s a tribute to the Association and to the industry to show the best. “It’s always a pleasure to be here to watch this great show and it’s always the highlight of the year for the state association,” he added. Beginning with the bulls and continuing through every class, it was a display of the best Holsteins all the way. Judge Norman Hill, of Woodbine, Md., commented throughout the show about the exceptional quality he was seeing. At the start of his reasons for a class of 19 entries, he said, “I’d like to congratulate the exhibitors on the depth running deep in this class of four-year-olds.” Hill had a difficult tune placing them, granting several points to cattle all down the line and eventually pulling two youth division champions from that outstanding class of four-year olds. Balboa named champ Kepresentative of the show’s tremendous quality was the 1985 grand champion, Cherry-Brook CTD Balboa, the first-place senior two-year-old. Shown on Thursday by Dave Dowler, this S-W-D Valiant daughter was winner of the reserve grand champion honors just two weeks ago at the Crawford County Fair Balboa is owned jointly by Dowler, of Meadville, Dave periodicals division W 209 PATTEE Ll B «^ Y .... , VERSITY PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY ..« « pABJt DI U-<_Jf MI Four Sections 4-H’er from Bruceton, apd Queens Manor Holsteins of Jamestown. Dowler, p Mercer County ex tension agept, was quite proud of Balboa, since she is the first animal born on his farm and the first to carry his prefix. He keeps about 20 heifers on his home farm, and he also owns seven cows that are kept at other farms. Balboa and her dam are kept at Queens Manor. Out of the excellent Hanover-Hill Rag Apple Rocky, Balboa is projected at £2,554 of milk and 880 of fat on her first lactation. Reserve grand champion went to the well-knoqm Leadfield Telstar Linda-ET, exhibited by the Doeberieners of the Queens Manor-Leadfipld group. This aged Auction founders forecast better tobacco prices BY JACK HURLEY LANCASTER - Martin Auc tioneers Inc.’s auction facility near intercourse will be the site of the state’s first tobacco auction on Dec. 16. During a meeting held at Martin’s on Tuesday night, officers of the newly formed Pennsylvania Tobacco Auction, Inc., officially signed the organization into existence and discussed plans for the coming auction season. Those present included Lan caster attorney Miller. PTA’s president; Lancaster auctioneer Eric Probst, who serves as the organization’s secretary-treasurer; and PTA’s five director?: Robert Todd, auctioneers Paul Martin Jr and Martin, and two directors who prefer to remain anonymous Though the (bottom line in anj business venture must be to turn a profit, ‘‘our organization was formed to put dollars in the far mer’s pocket,’’ stressed an en- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 7,1985 cow earned the top spot at the Western Pennsylvania Cham pionship Show in early August. The six-year-old Linda is by Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief and out of C Craigo Petro Telstar. The junior champion title was given to Bob Morrell, Cochranton, with Merrillea Pete Marny, the first-place senior yearling. This Straight-Pine Elevation Pete daughter’s credits include the junior championship at the western championship show and at the Crawford County Fair. As he placed the senior yearlings, judge Hill remarked, “She is the best feet and legs animal I’ve seen today.” Globe Run Farm showed the day’s reserve junior champion. An (Turn to Page A 26) thusiastic Eric Probst following the meeting. Probst, who is ser ving as PTA’s general manager, pointed out that Pennsylvania’s traditional tobacco marketing procedure has resulted in sub standard prices at the farm level, a situation that PTA hopes to rectify. He noted that the sale of Penn sylvania’s production of 609 Maryland Type tobacco will be PTA’s top priority, witluType 41 being sold ‘if the need develops” Used in the manufacture of cigarettes, 609 is traditionally purchased by southern buyers who visit farmers and deal with them on a one-to-one basis. Although Pennsylvania Type 41 is sold m much the same manner, buyers are generally considered to be “local”, said Probst. Type 41 is used in the manufacture of cigars and chewing tobacco Rather than relying on the judgement of one buyer, then, an auction system will permit a group (Turn to Page A 29) Sfp 1 O , % &bs NEDCO files Chapter XI papers BY JAMES H, EVERHART SYRACUSE, NY - The finan cially troubled Northeast Dairy Cooperative Federation, Inc. has filed bankruptcy papers in federal court, listing $3O million in liabilities and only $2O 8 million in assets. The action, filed Aug. 30 in the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Utica, NY, requests reorganization under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act. If approved, the arrangement would allow the troubled dairy organization to continue in operation while it seeks to work out an arrangement with creditors. Even if all goes well, however, NEDCO will not be returning to the milk marketing business, at least not in the foreseeable future. First, the organization’s marketing members have gone to other co-ops or have made arrangements with handlers to sell milk directly. Lancaster seeks ‘Friends’ to preserve farmland BY JACK HURLEY LANCASTER Lancaster County’s Agricultural Preserve Board underscored its com mitment to preserving open space on Thursday by announcing a fund raising drive aimed at slowing the loss of farmland to industrial and residential development. Labeled the “Friends of Agricultural Land Preservation”, the new initiative will help ito underwrite the cost of purchasing deed restrictions on county far mland by soliciting memberships from the private sector. Though Lancaster County has ‘been widely acclaimed as the Lancaster Agricultural Preserve Board director Alan Musselman (left) and board chairman Amos Funk display two checks totaling more than $l,lOO, received in response to the board’s new fund drive $7.50 per Year Second, the federation has signed a non-compete agreement with Dairylea, the cross-town rival who accepted NEDCO marketing members June 14 when the federation’s bank, CITICORP, revoked its line of credit and seized the organization’s receivables. Third, NEDCO has also sold its major processing plants, including the Fultonville fluid milk plant and the Fraser facility which manufactured cottage cheese and sour cream. Thus the federation finds itself with no processing facilities, no milk to market and no customers . . and a $lO million deficit, most of it owed to producers. Nevertheless, the federation hopes to continue as a bargaining co-op, returning to the role it once played successfully before em barking on the hazardous seas of milk marketing. (Turn to Page A 35) number-one nonirrigated agricultural county in the nation, fanners aren’t the only ones who find the area’s rural atmosphere and temperate climate to their liking. Farmland here continues to slip away at the rate of 1,500 to 3.000 acres a year, according to board chairman Amos Funk. The county’s Agricultural Preserve Board was founded in 1980, in response to even greater losses that averaged some 5,000 to 8.000 acres annually from 1964 to 1969. To date, three preserves totaling (Turn to Page A 29)
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