VOL. 32 No. 51 Kirkland Supports Policy To Deter Support Price Cut BY PAT PURCELL HARRISBURG Jack Kirk land, Dairy Marketing Specialist at Penn State University, urges Con gressional policy makers to look at the surplus purchases by state prior to cutting support prices nation wide. Because much of the over production, according to Kirkland, is coming from western producers, he suggests that those producers be encouraged to cut production. Kirkland adds that dairy farmers in the northeast and southeast are keeping supply and demand in line and should not be hampered by a nationwide price cut. Pennsylvania milk production figures supplied by the United States Department of Agriculture for September showed a decrease in number of milk cows by 2.2 per cent and milk production per cow was up by 1.3 percent for a total production decrease of 0.9 percent. Fall Back To Standard Time Tomorrow Morning . / At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning, { things will get back to normal, or should we say back to standard. Standard time that is. Really us farmers don’t need officials or e\ en clocks to tell us the time has come to turn our time pieces back one hour. The shorter days to make the last cutting of alfalfa told us that already. Hopefully the time change won’t affect our milking or feeding schedule. At least we’ll gain back the hour we lost last spring. Lancaster 4-H’ers: A Parade Of Winners Editor's note: See all those award winners of the Lancaster 4-H Dairy Awards Banquet not pictured, in next week’s issue. BY PAT PURCELL Il was a parade of winners at the Lancaster County 4-H Dairy Ban quet Thursday evening at the Country Table in Mt. Joy and win ning was not restricted to only 4-H members. The youths’ accom plishments were shared by parents, leaders and the county’s extension dairy agent, Glenn Shirk. Without this support system, Lancaster County 4-H would not be the sour ce of pride it has become. Dairy Judging Coached by Gary Akers and Peter Warner, the dairy judging team placed sixth out of 38 teams at the national level. Team mem bers are: Bob Barley, Tom Arrowsmilh, Tom Barley and Tom Wiker. Tom Arrowsmilh placed 18lh out of 152 competitors in overall individual judging and Bob Barley placed 24th and took fourth For September of 1986: number of milking cows was 734,000 milk production per cow was 11201hs. total milk production was 822 million pounds For September of 1987: number of milking cows was 718,000 milk production per cow was 11351b5. total milk production was 815 million pounds. Although the Dairy Termina tion Program ended August 31st, dairy farmers continued to sell off an additional 2,000 head in Sep- Ressler Heads Up . New Holland Satellite Office BY LISA HAMM NEW HOLLAND Over ' fields and through bams, bottle t(and bag in hand, Leon J. Resslcr is collecting pieces of the Upper Conestoga Watershed. As the new project associate for the Lancaster County Extension Service’s satellite office, Resslcr will help farmers maximize crop yields and reduce water pollution by tailoring nutrient management programs to individual farms. Formerly a Mcnnonite mission ary in Africa, Resslcr has taken over for Robert J. Anderson, who was hired as county agent to place in the Guernsey division. Diary Bowl Awards Jason Herr, George Bard and Daniel Bard, members of the junior 4-H dairy bowl team took a fust place in regional competition. (Turn to Page A2B) Out of the mouth of children often comes wisdom. If you have been following the drawings of poetry that the children and grandchildren of our Lancaster Farming readers are sending to staff writer Lou Ann each week, you know that the ideas they convey by pen and pencil can be very captivating. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24, 1987 tember. Figures recorded in August for number of milking cows was 720,000 with milk pro duction per cow at 11751b5. Total milk production was 846 million pounds. “It is interesting that in Septem ber, dairy farmers sold off their cows, after the end of the dairy ter mination program,” said Kirkland. “2,000 cows were sold, and I’m not sure what the reduction is a result of. In southeastern Pennsyl vania the drought was extensive in some areas and maybe caused some farmers to gel rid of some cows, but certainly there is plenty of feed available.” replace retiring agronomist Arnold Lueck. Assisting Ressler is Jeffrey Stoltzfus, who holds a degree from, Penn Stale in agricultural education. Ressler graduated from Penn State in 1975 with a degree in agro nomy. In 1978, he enrolled in the Columbia Graduate School of Bible and Missions in Columbia, S.C., after which he departed for a six-year program in Kenya where he worked with die Maasai and Luo tribes. The program involved developing a small demonstration dairy farm and an educational program. \ Kessler and his wife, Lou Ann, and their two young sons, Lynn and Lee, left Africa once a native was trained to do Ressler’s job. For the past two years, Ressler has been working on Spring Lawn Farm, just south of Lancaster, and his family has grown to include 7-month old Lonclle. The program that Ressler and Stoltzfus are working on is federal ly funded by the Rural Clean (Turn to Pag* A3l) Captivated By Our Children’s Pencils 21 Major States For September 1987 in the 21 major dairy states which account for approximately 85 percent of the total national production, total milk production was 9.887 billion pounds which shows that in spile of the dairy termination program National Leader Urges Farmland Preservation BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor HARRISBURG A national farm leader told reporters at the capital here Monday that what Pennsylvania lost in the steel industry to foreign production could be small in comparison to At the news conference Monday afternoon is Cy Carpent er (left), National Farmers’ Union president and Chet Reed, Pennsylvania Farmers’ Union. Reuben Lee 54014 z?u.3 <x<je i 3 uh>u Horse In th&above drawing you can be sure the milk in this truck ■by Reuben Lee Stoltzfus, White Horse, is of excellent qual ity because it has the Real Seal on It. Even the handler gets a plug. For more drawings from our children, watch Section B each week-this Issue on Page B-10. Four Sections total production had increased by 2.3 percent over last year. Although the number of cows had actually decreased from 1986 by 2 percent, production per cow had increased by 4.4 percent with obvi ously better producing cows. Also, (Turn to Page A3B) what could be lost if the agricultur al industry is not preserved. Cy Carpenter, president of the National Farmers’ Union, said, “I admire those of you who are work ing toward farmland preservation. Agriculture is your number one industry. And if you lose farmland (Turn to Pag* A2B) $8.50 Per Year
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