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VOL. 31 No. 45
Balboa
Does It
Again
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
STATE COLLEGE - After
being the grand champion at the
prestigious state show and
producing 31,000 pounds of milk
and 1,200 pounds of fat as a two
year old last year, Cherry Brook
LTD Balboa came to the 1986
Pennsylvania Holstein Cham
pionship Show here Thursday as a
three year old and did it again.
Was named senior and grand
Champion that is.
It all started when David Dowler
£ ‘chased Balboa’s dam at the
e Power Sale as a calf in 1981.
'When this calf Hanover-Hill Rag
Apple Rocky grew up (now 2E) she
fs mated to Valiant. Balboa is
result of this mating.
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State Dairy of Distinction Board of Directors Named
kY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
t Managing Editor
[STATE COLLEGE A group of
Wry industry enthusiasts who
Sere in attendance at a meeting
&re at Penn State in the interest of
!#ie Northeast Dairy Farm of
[Distinction Award Program
agreed to become the first state
pioard of directors and work to get
Hhe program in operation in
Pennsylvania by the spring of 1987.
|lnce milk originates from dairy
forms, the Dairy Farm of
[Distinction Program is designed to
[encourage the beautification of
4ury farms for the benefit of
tonsumers of milk who may drive
nst the farm. Any dairyman that
reduces milk for sale and has a
lice-looking farm may apply for
fee award.
Plans call for the state to be
Ivided into districts according to
low numbers and numbers of
Wiry farms. For example, with its
Concentration of dairy cows,
Lancaster County may be divided
Wo two districts. Where dairy
Lancaster Co. Ag Income Down
BY SUZANNE KEENE
LANCASTER Lancaster
*unty farmers harvested a
ilthy crop of ag commodities in
K, but received $24.6 million less
* their products than the
Kvious year.
The total value of
fftcultural products for 1985 was
million, reflecting a $l9
®hion decrease in the value of
f°ps and a drop of $5.6 million in
■value of livestock and poultry.
We had a good year in
Auction, but a very tight year in
Sjjws,” said Lancaster County
Pension Director Jay Irwin.
gtn released 1985 county
PCultural statistics compiled by
PAgricultural Statistics Service
Four Sections
The champions at the 1986 Pennsylvania Holstein Show in
State College Thursday (L to R) reserve senior and reserve
gNM#* champion Singing Brook Pete Audie; owner Obie
Snyder; senior and grand champion Cherry brook LTD
farms are more sparsely situated a
larger territory would be included
in a district.
A local board of directors
promotes the program, assigns
local judges and provides the
recognition events in each district.
Colorful farm signs are awarded to
let the public know your farm has
received the distinction. The state
directors form the basis to tie the
local districts together and provide
the tie into the regional
organization of the program.
Steve Spencer, Penn State dairy
science department, called the
meeting to order and introduced
Bill Underwood, president, and
Sue Renholds, executive secretary
of the New York State Dairy of
Distinction Program. Underwood
said thier program, which started
three years ago, “exceeded by far
anyone’s expectations. The in
terest was strong. The par
ticipation never has gone below 300
applications per year. And it has
had a good unpact on agriculture
in New York State.”
in a press conference here Wed
nesday.
Farmers broke county records in
wheat, barley, oats, and potatoes,
the number of dairy cows and
laying hens and value of dairy
products and eggs in 1985. But the
abundance of products contributed
to lower prices for almost every
commodity “I think the im
balance of supply and demand was
a major factor,” Irwin said.
The way agriculture has
maintained its strength in this
country is the increase in
productivity ' the increase in
production in yield per acre, in
crease in production in pounds
milk per cow, eggs per hen and
pounds of meat put on a broiler,”
loncostor Farming, Saturday, September 6,1986
At present farms in New
York State have received the
Dairy of Distinction Award. They
limit the award to 10 farms in each
district each year. In addition the
farm must requalify each year to
retain the distinction.
Underwood said not all Dairy of
Distinction farms are along main
roads. Many are along back roads
where they don’t get much ex
posure but still have a desire to
keep their farms looking beautiful.
“It gave dairymen in New York
State a chance to sit down under a
common cause to work on a
project,” Underwood said. “And
that has been important. Anything
we have learned or any of our
program bylaws, application
forms or judging criteria that can
be used to get the Pennsylvania
program started is openly
available to you,” Underwood
said. “New Jersey is also in
terested and we hope that together
we might turn our experience into
a Northeast Regional Program.”
The new Pennsylvania state
he said.
But despite the declining value of
ag commodities, the number of
county farms remained steady at
5,210.
“We have a tradition in this
county of really tightening the belt
when conditions are bad,” Irwin
said "I think Lancaster County is
fortunate in that we have the tight
farms we do.”
With 113,000 cows producing
$213.5 million of dairy products,
Lancaster County leads the state in
milk production. However, dairy
farmers here received about 85
cents less per hundredweight of
milk than in 1984. The average loss
of income on a dairy farm, Irwin
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Balboa; leadsman Harvey Clem; owners Dowter and Ed
Doeberiener and Judge John Morris. The show was held in
the new ag arena.
board of directors have already set
up two October meetings for
organizational and program
planning sessions. The dairy in
dustry leaders on this new board of
directors are as follows: -Helen
Fountain, Dairy Lea; Wally
Jackson, Milk Inc.; James R.
Barnett, Innerstate; Paul Nichols,
ADA&DC; Audrey Queitzsch,
Pennnsylvania Brown Swiss
Association; Danna Baker,
Eastern Milk; Daniel M. Baker,
Haylift Lands In York Co.
BY JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
AIRVILLE - Hundreds of
southern York County dairy cows
will have fuller bellies this winter,
thanks to the generous efforts of
fellow Pennsylvania farmers,
community volunteers and the
military.
Among the shipments of donated
hay which began arriving in
southern York County this week
was a convoy of six National Guard
transports which rolled into the
AirviUe area Tuesday afternoon
Drought Hay Fund
The 1986 Summer Drought
Hay Fund has received a total
of $19,358 to date. If you want to
contribute to this drought hay
fund, make your checks
payable to 1986 Summer
Drought Hay Fund. Then send
your check to Lancaster Far
ming newspaper, 22 East Main
Street, P.O. Box 366, Lititz, PA
17543, attention Hay Fund or
attention Editor.
$8.50 per Year
ADA&DC; Wally Willy, Hershey
Chocolate Co.; Richard Packard,
dairy farmer; Patty McMurray,
dairy farmer; Darwin Braund,
Agway, Inc.; Mike O’Connor, Penn
"State Dairy Extension; Bill
Smedley, Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program, PDA; Bob
Williams, Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program, PDA; Steve
Spencer, Penn State Dairy Ex
tension; Everett Newswanger,
Lancaster Farming newspaper.
with about 50 tons of bales.
Another 50-ton shipment, three
boxcars of hay donated from
western Pennsylvania, was ex
pected late in the week. It was
being moved cost-free by Conßail
and the Stewartstown Railroad,
and was loaded by Army Reserve
personnel.
Hay coming into York County is
being routed to full-time farmers,
primarily dairy operations, facing
critical feed shortages due to the
season’s severe, extended drought.
Some 1,737 cows on 22 farms will
eat better with those two ship
ments alone. The six loads which
arrived Tuesday in Airville were
distributed to feed 890 cows on a
dozen farms, averaging 74 head
per herd. Hay due on the
Stewartstown boxcar shipment
was earmarked for ten herds
averaging 84 head, and a total of
847 cows.
Another four boxcars of hay,
loaded m Sullivan County, are
expected to arrive at a later date in
York County Originally intended
for use in the South, the trans
portation costs were found to be
prohibitive, and the shipment
instead diverted to aid York far
mers.
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