VOL 32 No. 4
102-Year-Old Grandmother Joins Family At Podium
Mrs. Martin Moore the 102-year-old grandmother (second from left) joined grandson
David and wife Mary Fyock in front of the Lancaster County Ag Industry Banquet this
week to receive a Century Farm award. Mrs. Moore was born and raised on the Lititz
family farm. Robert Zook, Ag Committee chairman made the presentation.
Tax Reform Act Will Cost Most Farmers More Dollars
BY SUZANNE KEENE
LANCASTER As 1986 draws to
a close fanners should evaluate
how recent changes in the tax code
will affect their tax returns this
year and in 1987.
Among the revisions in the Tax
Reform Act of 1986 are smaller
deductions in soil and water
conservation expenses, loss of
capital gains and investment
credit deductions, and reductions
in depreciation deductions.
“Most commercial farmers will
pay more tax with the new law
than they paid under the old law,”
Penn State Extension tax
Wise • Expert Says Alfalfa Key To Profits
BY JACK HUBLEY
STATE COLLEGE After more
than two decades of involvement
with forage research, Dr. Neal
Jorgensen concludes that nothing
enables a dairyman to turn a profit
better than high quality alfalfa.
Jorgensen, who serves as director
of the University of Wisconsin’s
Agriculture Experiment Station,
came to Pennsylvania to tell his
story as one of the featured
speakers at the Annual Forage
Conference co-sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Forage and
Grassland Council and Penn State
University.
ACRES Isn’t The Size Of Your Farm
BV EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
CAMPHILL, Pa. - Now when a
farmer talks about his acres, he
may have subscribed to the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association’s Electronic Market
and News Service. He may not be
describing the size of his farm at
all.
Originated by the American
Farm Bureau, this new service
available through PFA’s Farm
Management Services Division
Hives Pennsylvania farmers
commodity Futures quotes up
dated every 10 minutes. With the
instant access to the same in
«pNWKMHr. Jenkins told
farmers attending an Extension
sponsored meeting at the Lan
caster County Farm and Home
Center this week.
A recent Penn State study of
2,200 Pennsylvania farms in
dicated farmers, on the average,
can expect tax increases of just
over $1,500.
“The take-aways are immediate
and the give-backs don’t happen
until ’BB and ’89,” he said.
Jenkins warned farmers to
expect 1987 to be the toughest tax
year in a long time and urged them
to plan now to use the deductions
Held at the university’s Keller
Conference Center on Tuesday,
this year’s conference zeroed in on
the role of forages in dairy
profitability. And as the morning
session’s kick-off speaker,
Jorgensen assured his audience
that alfalfa has no peer when it
comes to the efficient conversion of
feedstuffs to milk.
The researcher, who owns a herd
of 65 dairy cows in conjunction
with his brother, noted that, in
general, alfalfa is underutilized.
“We should be increasing the use
of alfalfa from the time the cow
calves right through the lactation
formation used by commercial
traders, local farmers can now
have help to interpret trends and
select markets as close as their
telephone.
Agricultural communications
and resource evaluations systems,
or ACRES for short, also gives you
USDA market wires, market
analyses and national weather
service reports.
Keith Eckel, president of PFA,
and a farm user of ACRES for a
number of years says that the
markets and the weather reports
are two of the major items on the
ACRES program that help him. "I
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1986
Lancaster Century Farm Awards
that remain to their best ad
vantage.
He suggested farmers try to
transfer some expenses into 1987 to
offset income in that year. “Shift
your expenses into 1987 as much as
you can,” he advised. “Use your
pencil on it. Do some planning of
your own.”
Some farmers, he noted,
traditionally stock up on supplies
at the end of the year. Delaying
those purchases until Jan. 1 would
be wiser with the tax changes, he
said.
Because consumer interest will
not be deductible in 1987, farmers
cycle,” he said. “We do not
recommend to our dairymen that
they feed corn silage to high
producing cows in the first two
months of lactation.
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Milk Prices ,
Utilization Increase
BY MARTHA J. GEHRINGER
UNIVERSITY PARK Milk
prices and Class 1 utilization of
milk increased while total milk
production and CCC purchases fell
during October 1986, according to
USDA statistics.
“Everything keeps getting
better. We may be turning the
corner for dairy,” Jack Kirkland,
Penn State economist, said.
Kirkland speculated that there
would be no drop in the milk
support price between 1988 and
1990. He based this prediction on
the continuing drop in production
and CCC purchases.
He said, however, that CCC’s
purchases would be close to the
level which could trigger a price
drop in the 1988. “I may be going
out on a limb, but I feel very good
about the dairy industry right now.
Unless the bottom drops out bet
ween October and December, the
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BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANDISVILLE, Pa. - To the
warm applause of the more than
250 participants at the Lancaster
County Agricultural Industry
Banquet here Tuesday evening a
102 year old grandmother joined
her family at the podium to receive
century farm recognition.
David and Mary Fyock, Lititz,
with David’s grandmother Mrs.
Martin Moore along with six other
farm families were reegomzed for
having farms in the family for
more than 100 years. The Fyock
farm at 905 Orchard Road has been
in the family for 105 years.
Grandmother Moore was bom and
raised on the farm that was pur
chased in 1881.
Two of the new century farms
came from the same family. One
from the mother’s side and one
form the father’s side. Robert and
Jane Houser, 436 Beaver Valley
who have a choice of paying off
business or consumer loans should
pay the consumer loans and keep
the business loans, Jenkins ad
vised.
Farmers who are eligible to
contribute to an IRA would be wise
to do so. A carefully selected IRA
plan can earn more than a typical
Of these 6,000 turkeys on the farm of John Sensenig, Lititz,
that escaped someone's Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday,
they still have Christmas around the corner.
Turkey Still Receives Top Billing
BY BECKY COLLINS
Special to Lancaster
Farming
Behold, the lowly turkey.
Its name has been denigrated as
a means of describing a number of
things in our society. “Cold
turkey,” "talking turkey,” and
just plain "turkey” describe a few
of the more human qualities we
give these birds.
Yet, as the holiday season rolls
around each year, the value of the
lowly turkey is not lost on a nation
of turkey "gobblers ”
Three Sections
Pike, own the farm irom father
Harry Houser. This farm has been
in the Houser family since 1869.
That’s 117 years. Rodney and Mary
Lou Houser, Lancaster R 6, own the
farm from mother Elizabeth
Houser. This farm has been in the
family since 1841 or 145 years.
One of the farm couples was
about to celebrate their 50th
wedding anniversary.
Warren and Alverta Buch, 50
Campus Road, Lititz, own the
family f arm that was purchased in
18V1 or 115 years ago.
The oldest farm recognized this
year is owned by Mahlon and Hazel
Charles, Marietta R 2. Their family
farm was purchased in 1823, 163
years ago.
Henry and Hazel Reist, Mount
Joy, own the family farm that was
purchased in 1826. That’s 159 years
ago.
Jay and Louis Ball, Mount Joy,
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small investment and will be more
valuable than before the tax law
changed, Jenkins said.
To help farmers with their
planning, Jenkins outlined a
number of the major tax code
changes that will affect them
First Thanksgiving
Yes, it’s true that the turkey was
present at the first Thanksgiving in
1621. According to the National
Wildlife magazine, wild turkeys
were donated by the Indians in
attendance as their contribution to
the feast.
Long before the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth Rock, millions of wild
turkeys ranged North America
Built for speed, hunting the elusive
turkey was a challenge which
could take all day
Benjamin Franklin was so en-
$8.50 Per Year
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