VOL. 31 No. 32
As Preserve
PP&L Saves
620 Acres
LANCASTER At a news
conference Thursday afternoon in
the Lancaster County courthouse,
the Pennsylvania Power and Light
Company announced plans to
donate perpetual preservation
deed restrictions on nine adjoining
Manor Township farms consisting
of approximately 620 acres to the
Lancaster County Agricultural
Preserve Board.
Donald Smith representing the
company said the land was
acquired by PP&L in the 1960 s for
a potential power generation site
for which a need is no longer
projected. The site will be
resurveyed with most farms to
include existing farmstead
buildings, and preservation deed
restrictions will be placed by
donation.
“We live here,” Smith said. “We
work here. And we want to keep
this land in agricultural preserve
as our commitment to the best
interest of the county.”
Allen Musselman, director of the
Agricultural Preserve Board, gave
the sequence of events to follow
after this announced declaration of
intent by PP&L. “Next the land
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New Products, Promotions
Spur Dairy Sales Increases
MARTHA J. GEHRINGER
LANCASTER There is nothing
new under the sun, that is unless
you look in the dairy case.
The variety of items found in the
dairy case has been steadily in
creasing in recent years. New
dairy products are continually
being developed to answer
changing consumer tastes.
Dairy Research Inc. has
developed prototypes of new two
products, with anticipated general
CCC Cash Flow Dries Up
WASHINGTON - Farmers
participating in USDA programs
such as the whole-herd buy-out
found Uncle Sam’s pocketbook
empty earlier this week when the
Commodity Credit Corporation ran.
out of money.
According to CCC Treasurer Ted
Langlois, the agency is authorized
to borrow up to $25 billion from the
United States Treasury to finance
the operations of farm loan and
subsidy programs.
“Our operations have caused us
to borrow up to that limit,’’ said the
USDA official, who was not willing
to single out any one program as
the cause of the current
predicament
Prior to last year, funding USDA
piograms had not been a problem
for CCC. Although the agency
closed down for three days in
February, 1965, the books balanced
for the next two decades until July
17,1985, when the funding well ran
dry for a week.
Five Sections
Janae Martin, Lancaster County's Dairy Princess, holds a
carton of CalciMilk, one of the newest additions to the dairy
case.
distribution in early 1987, ac
cording to Joseph O’Donnell of the
Product/Process Research and
Development Division of DRINC
One product is a high-calcium
milk that utilizes only natural milk
calcium. The second is a butter
that is spreadable directly from
the refrigerator. A reduced calorie
product, the new butter is made
with natural rmlkfat that has been
modified to give it this new trait,
explained O’Donnell.
Since then, the problem has
become chronic, with a shutdown
in February of this year and again
this week. Farmers participating
in USDA programs will not receive
any further payments until
Congress approves a supplemental
spending bill.
Although Congress is currently
considering a $5.3 billion sup
plemental appropriation, ASCS
Budget Officer David Hall would
make no prediction as to if and
when the money would be
available
Hall echoed Langlois' statement
that no specific program was
responsible for the fiscal crisis He
pointed out that the 1985 crop loan
program has cost CCC $l5 bill.on,
with only $2 billion being repaid to
date.
Advance payments being offered
at producer signup for 1986 pops
have also resulted in a hefty cash
outlay of $3 billion, Hall said.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1986
Extensive consumer testing of
these products has met with
positive results.
DRINC is also working on a
carbonated milk, low calorie milk,
and raspberry, pina colada,
banana and peach flavored milks,
all in the early stages of
development.
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A milking contest, butter making demonstration and lots of dairy products officially
ushered in Dairy Month in Pittsburgh's Market Square this week. Here, Pa. Dairy
Princess Beth Heald shows Pittsburgh Radio Station KDKA's Jay Pochapin how to milk a
cow. Both participated in a milking contest, which Beth went on to win. For more photos
of this event from Butler County Correspondent Barbara Rader.
To Dairy Farming
BY BVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
Back in 1937 when the National
Association of Chain Drug Stores
sponsored the first national milk
month, they never dreamed of
biotechnology or UHT milk
processed at ultra high tem-
New Dairy
Columns This Week
Two new features of
interest to dairy farmers
start this week. First, the
copywrited “National
Dairy Cow Sale Index”
gives the sale price
averages in several
categories for all the breed
and dispersal sales
reported in Lancaster
Farming.
The first of its kind, this
national summary will help
dairymen evaluate the
worth of their own cows in
relation to national and
state averages. “The
National Dairy Cow Sale
Index” will appear weekly
with the “Major Dairy
Sales and Dispersals”
column. This week the
column appears on Page 34.
In addition, the “All
Breed Dairy Club
Registry” of directors and
activities will be the place
for county and state club
reporters and secretaries
to publish their local breed
news to the 120,000 readers
of Lancaster Farming.
This week this new column
starts on Page 20.
$8.50 per Year
A Tribute
peratures to aUow the milk to be
kept at room temperature for
seven months. But they knew they
had a good product. And they knew
if you told people about this good
product, people would drink more
milk. And that’s what this special
dairy issue of Lancaster Farming
is all about.
Drink more milk. Use more
dairy products. Salute the far
, mers, agribusiness people and
advertisers who support this
tremendously important industry
important economically and im
portant as a way of life.
You’ll find feature stories from
all over Lancaster Farming
Territory by our staff
correspondents. You’ll find recipes
galore. Recipes that use dairy
product ingredients. You’ll find
twb' new dairy columns (one
copywrited) that were brought into
existence because of Lancaster
Farming’s sensitivity to the needs
of farmers in their business
operation.
And you’ll find our usual
columns and coverage of farm
news, editorials that speak to the
world for farmers and advertising
that lets farmers in Lancaster
Farming Territory know where to
obtain the products and services
they need to run the home farm
operation. And you’ll find the
markets and farm sales as usual.
So here’s Lancaster Farming’s
golden anniversary tribute to the
national celebration of “June is
Dairy Month’’. A celebration that
honors thousands of men and
women and their families who
produce and process nearly 140
billion pounds of milk annually.
Happy reading!