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VOL. 32 No. 31
Did you ever think what yotnwoulcThave missed if you had never had a
calf lick you in the face or sOCk yoOflfnger. These kids are certainly better
equipped for life after their experience on Penn Square in Reading
Editor’s Note: Dairymen make the news on the pages of Lancaster
Fanning every week, but we still enjoy taking this first issue of every
June Dairy Month to do something even more special.
The response to our recipe offer this year was overwhelming. By the
June 1 cutoff date 313 persons had sent us at least double that number
of different recipes. In addition, our staff was out on the farms all over
a five-state area, as usual, recording what you are doing and what you
have to say. '
So we have our special dairy tribute issue chucked full of special
dairy features. And we have a lot left over for next week. And the next.
And the next. And the-. But here is what you’ll find in this issue:
Barbara Houser A 20,21
Mk Quality A2B
r eed Additives A 32
Vomen In Dairy Breed
Organizations B 2
Centre County Dairy
Princess 812
’a. Dairy Princess 814
•ancaster Milk Wagon 818
i ork Co. Dairy Princess 827
Irookside Dairy C 2
licecrest Farm C 4
We Salute
The Dairy
Industry
Dairy Month Party DIO,II
Carrdale Holsteins Dl4
Mercer Dairyman DlB
Coolidge Family D 22
Maplesway Farm D2S
Berwick Dairy Empire D 34,35
Gold Syndicate E 2
Joleo Farm E 6
Snyder Co. CMA ElO
W. Va. Dairyman El 6
PDCA Judging School ElB
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1987
Calves Attract Kids
State Dairy Farmers Reduce Debt
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
CAMP HILL Pennsylvania
dairy farmers on Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association's Farm
Management Service reduced
their debt by an average of $3,400
in 1986 over 1985. That is one of the
Commission Hears Proposals
BY. MARTHA J. GEHRINGER
HARRISBURG - What will the
next Farm Bill hold for dairy
farmers?
That is what Secretary of
Agriculture Richard Lyng would
like to know also. To this end he
has charged an 18-member
commission comprised of
dairymen from across the country
with gathering public opinion on
which direction the policy should
be aimed.
The Commission stopped in
Harrisburg Wednesday as part of
this nationwide, 10-stop Hp.
Beef Business Big
With DTP Farms
BY JACK HUBLEY
Shannon Pepple set up shop in
the dairy business four decades
ago, coming to Chester County
from Bedford with an old car and
enough money to buy bread.
“He had an eye for good cows,”
reminisces his son Jim, who took
over the West Chester-area dairy
operation in 1973.
Good eyes seem to run in the
family. By the winter of 1985 the
Pepples were milking 740 cows and
cropping 2,000 acres. Then along
came a thing called the Dairy
(Turn to Page A 24)
Tuesday.
You’ll want to see what else happened by raiding and looking at our
report on 010 & 11.
most significant figures to come
out of the newly-completed state
summary for this service The new
records are based on 4,200 clients
in Pennsylvania, according to John
Moulton, director of program
development on this record
keeping service. In addition, ac-
Dairy farmers, industry leaders,
university staffs and represen
tatives of farm organizations
expressed their feelings on the
fedecal price support program,
supply management,
somatotropin, the family farm,
export markets, promotions and
government regulations.
The federal price support
(Turn to Page A 27)
Pennsylvania State Dairy Princess Pamela Kindig pauses
from her dairy promotion activities long enough to feed the
cows on her family's dairy farm in Conestoga, Lancaster
County. For a feature story about Pam, turn to page 814.
Five Sections
counts payable are down $6OO over
the same period of lime.
“We have a lot of bills that were
cleaned up in 1986,” Moulton said.
“This compilation of farm records
for a sirable number of dairy
farms becomes the first factual
indication of just how dairy far
mers faned in 1986. Interest
payments were down by an
average of $6OO based on a
reduction of overall indebtedness
from $117,000 per farm in 1985 to
$112,000 in 1986. When you take
depreciation and add back capital
gains items such as raised
livestock:' gam on purchased
livestock and other capital assets
sold, net farm income for 1986 was
$16,000, up $3,800 from 1985.”
Along with the reduction in in
terest costs, a major decrease in
$8.50 Per Year
(Turn to Page A 22)