VOL. 32 No. 25
Farm Credit
Recommendations
CAMP HILL The nation’s
largest general farm organization,
the American Farm Bureau
Federation, this week presented
Congress with a 21-point package
of recommendations to help rescue
the Farm Credit System.
The recommendations are the
result of an investigation by
American Farm Bureau’s Farm
Credit Study Committee, which
includes Keith Eckel of Clarks
Summit, Lackawanna County,
president of the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association (PFA). PFA
represents over 23,400 farm
families and is an affiliate of the
3.5-million member American
Farm Bureau.
Eckel said, “Time is running
short. We need a prompt infusion
of federal funds to rescue the
system.” The Farm Credit System
lost $1.9 billion last year. Eckel
said the Farm Bureau study
committee’s recom
mendations,”... are vital for
maintaining a viable Farm Credit
System for agriculture and for
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House Speaker Joins Milk Speaker
In Glass Of Health Kick
BY RVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG - Get a “glass”
of this! The speaker’s stand in the
hallowed chambers of the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives
here on Capitol Hill was turned into
a platform to promote milk and the
cause of dairy farmers on Wed
nesday.
That’s right. Pennsylvania
Dairy Princess Pam Kmdig
proposed a milk toast to house
speaker K. Leroy Irvis after ac
cepting the House of Represen
tatives personal citation for an
outstanding job of promoting milk.
Speaker Irvis accepted milk in a
glass decorated with the state’s
coat of arms. Irvis raised the glass
of milk toward the full House of
Representatives’ Chamber that
Speaker of the House K. Leroy Irvis raises a glass of milk to his colleagues in the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Speaker for milk Pam Kindig, Pennsylvania
dairy princess, poured the milk for Irvis and her local representative John Barley.
Noel King, Pennsylvania poultry queen, shares the
climactic ending of the Poultry Federation Banquet with
country music star Lee Greenwood.
was in session and to warm ap
plause went on official state record
that, “The chair not only accepts
the gift of milk, but welcomes the
gift.” “This is one of the few
dietary things the chair is allowed
to drink,” Irvis said to the
amusement of his fellow
colleagues.
This all started when
Representative John Barley who
represents Kindig’s district in
I Lancaster County arranged to
have the legislative body present
this special citation of
congratulations. “I can’t help but
think that Pam had a very im
portant part to play in the
significant figure that shows an
increase in dairy product con
sumption of better than 7 percent
in the last 12 months,” Barley told
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 25,1987
the House. "That shows Pam has
been doing her job well.”
Pam responded to Barley’s
presentation by thanking the
House of Repre-ontatives for the
citation. “As Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess, I am an ambassador for
the dairy farmers of Penn
sylvania,” Kindig said. “My main
concern is promotion of dairy
products. And to remind the
consumer that milk is fitness they
can drink. I am sure you are all
aware of the increased emphasis of
dairy products on TV, radio and
billboard promotions. Most of this
advertising is paid for by the dairy
farmers because they realize that
to compete with other products
they must improve the quality and
quantity of their advertisements.”
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Four Sections
Poultry Banquet
Sold Out
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HERSHEY The annual fund
raising banquet for the Penn
sylvania Poultry Federation
literally sold out for the Thursday
night performance of Lee
Greenwood and the dinner here at
the convention center. The cutoff
point for a capacity crowd was
1,950 reservations, but 1,989 tickets
were eventually sold for the $lOO a
plate event and 150 more persons
were turned away.
SCS Chief Visits Lancaster Co.
Wilson Scaling (left) chief of the Soil Conservation Service,
came to Lancaster County on Wednesday to find out what
area farmers are doing to keep topsoil on their farms. Aaron
Stauffer (right) and SCS district conservationist Warren
Archibald pointed out some of the water quality and runoff
monitoring work being done by tike U S. Geological Survey on
Stauffer’s 67-acre crop and livestock operation near Ephrata.
The project is funded by the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Scaling's second Lancaster County stop was the Christian
Smucker farm for a look at the pipe terraces and manure
storage system installed as part of the Rural Clean Water
Project.
Largest Export Order To Date
Heifers Sail To Venezuela
Editor’s Note: In this week’s
story, Joyce Bupp examines the
complexities and successes of
exporting dairy cows. Using the
recent Venezuelan shipment as a
springboard, Joyce presents an in
depth look at the export business
getting the animals from the farm
to the dock.
Next week she takes the story
shipboard and explains what
happens once the animals get on
the ship.
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
WILMINGTON, Del. - The Love
Boat it’s not.
Nor do the 400-plus passengers
spend their days playing shuf
fleboard or sunning by the pool.
While they do lounge most of their
$8.50 Per Year
This social gathering of the year
for the federation has grown from
200 to 300 attendees 10 years ago to
the record crowd this year.
Greenwood with a country music
style captured the enthusiasm of
the poultry group with many of his
top-chart singles. The grand finale
received a standing ovation as the
male vocalist of the year sang his
most popular “God Bless The
U.S.A.” An overheard comment
after the performance rated the
program as the best ever given at
the banquet.
time, it’s primarily to (oncentrate
on the important work ot cud
cl ewun,, converting torage and
gram mto muscle, fetal develop
ment, and potential nnlk
production structure
For, at their destination,
thousands of miles away in the
South American country of
Venezuela, a buyer waits with
anticipation for a boatload of
healthy, well-fleshed heifers to
disembark and be loaded onto
waiting trucks for the final leg of
this journey.
Once an agriculture rarity, such
international shipments are
becoming an everyday occurrence
in the purebred dairy cattle
business. Pennsylvania’s Holstein
Association has been at the
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