VOL 33 NO. 5
Phillips Named
Jaycees Farmer
GETTYSBURG Robin Ann
Phillips, 33, R.D. 1, Mohrsville,
has been selected by the Pennsyl
vania Jaycees as their Outstanding
Young Farmer for 1988. A panel
of judges, experts in the fields of
agriculture and agribusiness,
picked Mrs. Phillips from a field of
17 nominees. Phillips is Lancaster
Farming’s Berks County
Correspondent
She will be honored at the Out
standing Young Pennsylvanians
Awards Congress to be held
February 6-7,1988, in Harrisburg.
Quaker State Corporation, Oil
City, Pennsylvania, has sponsored
the Outstanding Young Farmer
Program for more than a quarter of
a century.
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Bob Raver, retired Mont
gomery County Maryland
cooperative extension agent,
Intriduced no-tlllage farming
methods to his county in
1968. See story In special no
till section C 2-6.
Shelly, Hershey and Stoltzfus Receive Top Honors
BY PAT PURCELL
LANCASTER Hundreds of
Red Rose DHIA members
gathered for their annual meeting
in a different way in 1987. Foe the
fust time the Red Rose DHIA
annual meeting and awards ban
quet was held in two locations in
order to better accomodate all
Lancaster Farming
Is Being Sold To
Lancaster Newspapers
LANCASTER Lancaster
Fanning newspaper is being sold
to Lancaster Newspapers Inc.
according to an announcement
made this week by John M. Buck
waiter, president. The sales agree
ment was signed Tuesday with set
tlement scheduled for January 4
and effective January 1.
Also included in the sale was the
Lititz Record Express, a town
weekly newspaper published in the
same office with Lancaster Farm
ing, Susquehanna Printing, a com
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01 ' UIVISIOM
The tobacco auction season kicked off Monday at the Pen
nsylvania Tobacco Auction near intercourse with 26,000
pounds selling for an average of $1.02 per pound. Prices
held steady for the rest of the week.
Spirit of Crisis Not Present At Faith/Farming Conference
MT. PLEASANT—Long term
solutions and finding ways to cope
with real problems were two atti
tudes present in the fourth annual
p#lW4fl£W e fanners at Laurelsvil-
Church Center, near
*!%c spirit of crisis that was pre
sent four years ago isn’t here
now,” said Levi Miller, Program
Mertz, Kissling Split Top Honors
In Berks Co. DHIA
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Berks Co. Correspondent
LEESPORT Two farms,
long familiar to Berks County
dairymen for their yearly high herd
averages, again divided the top
members. Willow Valley Restaur
ant hosted members from the
southern end of the district and
Yoder’s Restaurant hosted mem
bers from the northern area.
Achieving the highest production In their breeds were: Karl Herr, Red & White;
Samuel F. Long, Mixed and Steve Hershey, Holstein.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1987
director for the Center.
In his evening talk, Calvin
DeWitt, a professor of environmen
tal ethics at the University of Wis
consin, shared many stories of how
people he had met were coping and
having fun while they went about
the business of farming. Though
his stories may have presented ide
alized situations, they gave specif
honors for milk, fat and protein at
the Berks County 1987 DHIA
Awards Banquet. Held at the
Berks County 4-H Center, the
well-attended banquet recognized
the 41 cow herd of the Mertz
Red Rose DHIA
Ellis Denlinger, state director,
informed members that all DHIA
rule infractions will be settled by
the state hearing board instead of
locally as had previously been
Tobacco Prices Up
Over Last Year
BY LISA RISSER
LITITZ—About 7 5 buyers and
sellers gathered Monday afternoon
at the Pennsylvania Tobacco
Warehouse in Intercourse for the
first tobacco auction of the season.
Buyers paid an average price of
$1 per pound for 26,000 pounds of
Maryland-type tobacco, with
$1.06 being the day’s high and 100
the lowest price for extremely low
quality leaf.
These prices represent a 60 per
cent increase over last year’s
prices when the opening week
brought approximately 650 per
pound for top-quality leaf and
ic examples of how some people
had managed to be both keepers of
God’s creatures and the creation
Art and Jocele Meyer, Fresno,
OH, also called for a return to the
ideals of a former time in their
illustrated presentation of Chief
Seattle’s famous farewell speech
“If you sell the land...” That speech
was originally given in the north-
Brothers, R.D.I, Kutztown, as the
highest herd for milk and protein,
and the Hiddenview Holstein herd
of the Kissling Family, Rl, Robe
sonia, as the highest herd for
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done* In 1987 Denlinger reported
60 rule infractions had been hand
led. Also, board meetings will be
increased in 1988 to six per year up
from four previously.
Four Sections
dropped from there.
*Tm pretty well pleased with
how the sale went,” commented
Bob Todd, manager of Pennsylva
nia Tobacco Auction. “This is
probably 100 more than had been
offered on the farms. The highest
that we knew of was $.95. Some
sold here for $1.06.”
‘This is a good crop,” said an
Intercourse farmer. ‘These prices
are definitely better than last year,
but they won’t go much higher
than today.”
In order to encourage reluctant
farmers to sell on the first day,
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western US at the point the Indians
were about to sign over their land
to the “great chief in Washington.”
After a lamp lit dinner, atten
dees shared stories with the whole
group. In these “true” stories from
their experience, they gently
poked fun at preachers, and reality
of death.
Registration for the event was
about the same as last year with
about 8S persons attending accord
ing to Levi Miller, Laurelville
program director. Miller also felt
that a wide range of geographic
areas were represented with people
from as far away as Oregon com
ing in for the gathering. This is the
last year for the event to be hosted
by Laurelville, at least until it has
been held in another area. Miller
said.
In other state business, accord
ing to Denlinger, training for
sample takers has been established
and supervisor evaluations have
been implemented. Denlinger
reported that the state loan has
been paid off to the Penn State
University for the buidling which
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