VOL. 32 No. 16 Baxter Evaluates Term As President BY JOYCE BUPP York County Correspondent STONEBORO - With half of his two-year term now history, Pennsylvania Holstein Association president Art Baxter calls 1986 a year of both accomplishments and frustrations, and anticipates 1987 will offer renewed challenges to the nearly 6,000 members. “It’s gone awfully fast,” says the amicable Baxter of his first 12 months heading up the state’s largest dairy breed organizations. “A lot of things happened I didn’t anticipate.” He further reflected that, just one year ago, one of his key goals was to help initiate some system of registered Holstein evaluation other than “simply indexing.” “Since then, the Breeder’s Majority has been formed; that’s a start on the right track,” affirms this long-time breeder and showman. The Breeder’s Majority, a grassroots breeders group, commanded widespread attention when it was organized at the 1986 national Holstein convention in Milwaukee, Wis. However, the sleds for the fledgling organization (Turn to Page A3B) Art Baxter Schuylkill Countian Named PPPC Pork All-American BY JACK HURLEY Despite rumors to the contrary, be family farm is alive and well in ’ennsylvama. Just ask the fadings. Ken Fneling, along with * bi other Philip and father (rman, runs H. Fneling and His, Inc., a 350-sow farrow-to nish operation near the Schuylkill fomly town of Begins. In 1981 the Pennsylvania Pork foducers Council honored the deling family by naming Philip »ir Pork All-American, the PPC’s most prestigious award, bl Thursday night the family was ice again in the limelight when e council named Ken Fneling its •7 Pork All-American at PFPC’s nth annual Keystone Fork foigress held at the Penn Hams ktoi Inn The family’s involvement with ngs dates to 1969, when Philip •nght his first 10 sows. Ken was bllm high school at the time. The Fnelmgs took to the hog Biness enthusiastically and have ADA-DC President Raymond Johnson (right) presents an appreciation gift to Walter Buescher, the keynote speaker for the association's 27th Annual Meeting held this week in Syracuse, New York. Pesticide Regs Outlined At Crops And Soils Day BY JACK HUBLEY LANCASTER Normally the only line you’re likely to find at a wintgrjgxtenygp Service meeting is theluncKline come noontime. At Lancaster County’s Crops and Soils Day on Tuesday, though, the line of farmers waiting to sign up for pesticide applicator recer tification was almost as popular. Since the amendments to the Pennsylvania Pesticide Control Act began circulating among the farm community, they’ve been creating quite a stir. Contained in Senate Bill 1445, the changes take affect Mar. 11, and though many new regulations are on the books, there’s still much that remains on the drawing board, according to Bob Anderson, a New Holland based Extension employee who is taking charge of Lancaster County signups since the recent retirement of County Extension agent Arnoldl.ueck. At Tuesday’s meeting at the Farm and Home Center, Anderson outlined the ffiajor changes that been upgrading their facilities and adding sows ever since. Shortly after getting started, they moved their sows from A-frame housing to a chicken house converted to house pigs. In 1974 the Fnelmgs built a Cargill finishing house, and two years later the family put up a new farrowing house that went from 60 to 90 crates in the years that followed. A nursery building was erected in 1978. Although fire gutted the farrowing house two years ago, the Fnelmgs were soon back in business with a brand new facility featuring a manure scraping system that cleans the new farrowing house daily A new gestation barn is currently under construction Managing the business is truly a Fnehng family affair Although Ken does a little of every thing, he specializes in mixing feed. Philip handles vaccinations and other medications, and their father helps with the feeding and other chores Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, February 21,1987 will affect fanners applying for a license or recertification to apply restricted-use pesticides. Reviewing previous requirements, Anderson noted that times have changed since the first certification program was in stituted in 1973. To be licensed to apply restricted-use pesticides, the applicant was required to take a First Farms For Dairy Of Distinction Come From Pennsylvania STATE COLLEGE - The Northeast Dairy of Distinction Program that has expanded into Pennsylvania this year is reported to already have 35 farm ap plications sent in. Sue Reynolds, executive secretary, told the Pennsylvania State Directors here Monday that, in addition to the ongoing New York program and the excellent start of the Pennsylvania program, ‘he has received ap- Philip’s wife Dorothy keeps the records that Ken emphasizes are crucial to the success of any hog enterprise Also a corporation member, Ken and Philip’s mother Frieda handles secretarial chores. “We’re all able to do one another’s jobs in case one of us has to go away,” this year’s All-American points out The Fnelmg's production averages 9.1 pigs weaned per sow per litter, which pencils out to about 7,000 market hogs annually In addition, they farm 120 acres of corn and 40 acres of alfalfa. "There’s something different to do everyda>,” Fnelmg sums up I get tired before I get bored " Illinois Farmer Shares Views And no one seemed bored during the morning s semmai sessions when featured speaker Art lidi man took the podium to tell far mers how he’s been able to maximize profits in his Strawn, Illinois hog operation (Tin n to Page A2l) ADA-DC Promotion Outlined At Meeting BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A leading dairy spokesman said Wednesday that we see the commitment to be successful, reorganize our resources if necessary to continue as an intensive dairy economy in this nation. Raymond Johnson, president of the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, presented a report entitled, “Organized Progress Through Organized Promotion” at the 27th annual meeting here at the Sheraton Inn at Liverpool “Amid all the many elements of change in the dairy industry, one constant has remained,” Johnson said. “This constant is the fully- written test on an open-book basis in his own home. To renew the license, the farmer only needed to attend one update training session within the three-year duration of the license. Under the new Act, however, farmers applying for their private applicators license will have to take a supervised examination at a plications trom Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, too. Stephen Spencer, Penn State University and advisor to the Pennsylvania group, reported that a favorable response was received to the question of a state awards program at Ag Progress Days Lancaster Farming offered an 11x14 color photograph enlargement from a slide to the Pennsylvania winners. Kenneth Fneling (right) was named Pork All-American for 1987 at Keystone Pork Congress on Thursday Presenting award was Penn State Extension economist Louis Moore, who served as banquet emcee Five Sections funded milk promotion. Generic promotion programs are now an institutional part of the dairy in dustry’s marketing strategy. We have arranged our ADA-DC program elements not only in promotion, but we have also helped organize local, regional and national programs. And while we have had tremendous successes in all these different areas of in volvement, it would be false security for me to suggest that we have arrived. We have established a pattern of progress through promotion, but many unfinished challenges linger and most cer tainly new opportunities that affect our pattern will reach our agenda. (Turn to Page A2B) Department of Agriculture approved testing site. T7ie test will remain open-book, Anderson said. The Act,, defines a certified private applicator as one who uses or supwidses the use of restricted use pesticides on agricultural crops on owned or rented property. The private applicator may also apply these pesticides on ground being farmed by another party if he receives no compensation. While licenses have been issued free of charge in the past, the new regulations set the license fee at $lO. Some of the most important changes in the Act deal with up date training. Anderson said that license holders will need to ac cumulate credits in two classes of subject matter. The so-called “Core” subjects deal with items such as safety, label com prehension, equipment, regulations' and environmental effects of pesticides The Category Specilic” subjects $8.50 Per Year (turn to Page A2O)
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