A2B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 18,1986
30 YEARS AGO
Prospects of a bumper com
crop with yields reported up to
150 bushels per acre are in store
for Lancaster County.
During Tuesday’s tour of
Chester "County, one Lancaster
County farmer told he had shucked
some com that measured 75-100
bushels per acre. “A lot will run
over 100 bushels,” County Agent
Max M. Smith advised this mor
ning.
Harrisburg Cool weather and
excessive rainfall this season
prevented Pennsylvania honey
bees from gathering their usual
amount of nectar, and the honey
crop is the lowest in 32 years,
according to preliminary
estimates announced today by the
State Department of Agriculture.
Three hundred and twenty-five
Lancaster County farmers
Tuesday toured Chester County
areas that represented various
phases of farming and industry in
a 135-mile trip by six buses and 16
private automobiles.
Harrisburg About 264,000
game birds were liberated in
Pennsylvania by the Game
Commission this year or will be
stocked in appropriate areas
before the end of the 1956 small
game season. Following are
details of these releases as
provided by the agency’s
Propagation Division.
Paul Z. Martin, Jr., seven year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Z.
Martin, Blue Ball, Saturday af
ternoon led a field of 28 to place
first in the first show and roundup
of the Boots and Saddles Blue at
the Martin Sales Stables Grounds
in Blue Ball.
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THIS WEEK
Leon B. Risser, Litiu, loppeu
both the bull and female cham
pionships in the Pennsylvania
State Shorthorn Breeder
Association Show and Sale at the
Keystone Sales Bam in Mt. Joy
Thursday of last week.
Seventy-five years of dedicated
efforts to build a better breed of
beef cattle will be marked of
ficially by Hereford breeders from
across the nation during American
Royal week in Kansas City.
Final date for farmers to enter
into Conservation Reserve con
tracts under the Soil Bank for this
year, 1956, has been extended from
Oct. 15 to Nov. 30, 1956, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture an
nounced Oct. 9.
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Allied Cooperatives Endorse RCMA
The Executive Committee of
Allied Federated Cooperatives
representing 21 cooperatives
marketing a billion pounds of milk
annually have endorsed the over
order pricing program of the
Regional Cooperative Marketing
Agency (RCMA) according to an
announcement by Stanley Judd,
vice president, of Deßuyter, New
York.
The Allied action was announced
at a news conference at RCMA's
Syracuse headquarters attended
by NYS Commissioner of
Agriculture and Markets Joseph P
Gerace and NYS Senator Nancy
Larrame Hoffmann, Allied
Executive Vice President Merton
Evans and General Manager
Alfred Lawrence.
The Canton-based Federation
will now recommend to each of its
member cooperatives,
representing a total of 1,400
producers, that they sign RCMA
contracts.
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In announcing the co-op’s en
dorsement of RCMA, Judd said
that his organization had studied
the over-order program carefully
and were convinced it was in the
best interests of all dairymen in
the Northeastern region.
"With the recent formation of
the Middle Atlantic Cooperative
Marketing Agency, covering most
of the southeastern part of the 11
Northeastern states, we believe
that the coordinated efforts of this
new organization with RCMA will
have a reasonable chance to be
successful,” said Judd, "We urge
ail unaffiliated dairymen who have
not jet joined RCMA to do so as
promptly as possible.”
Senator Hoffmann pointed out
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LANCASTER FARMING
FOR COMPLETE
AND UP-TO-DATE
MARKET REPORTS
that sign-ups for over order pricing
now have reached approximately
85 percent of all producers in the
Northeast, when both RCMA and
the Middle Atlantic Agency are
considered.
“It gives us an excellent chance
to make this very much needed
pricing program work,” said
Hoffmann.
RCMA will undertake to move
the farm price of milk up when 93
percent of all dairymen in the
region have signed its marketing
contract. The amount of the in
crease will depend on many fac
tors, including farmers’ costs,
market conditions, the consumer
price index and the wholesale
price.
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