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
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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
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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.
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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
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