VOL. 33 No. 11
Friends List
New Officers
LANCASTER The Friends
of Farmland Preservation
announced the election of several
new officers. Daniel Herr, a lawyer
from Strasburg, was elected presi
dent. Retiring president, James
Jolly of Millersville, will remain
on the board of directors.
Eric Probst, who lives on a
Pequea Township farm and is an
auctioneer, was elected vice
president
Barbara Skelly, a teacher in the
Lampeter Strasburg school dis
trict was elected secretary.
And Stuart Herr was elected
finance chairman. Heir lives on a
Lancaster Township farm and is
vice president for Scrta Mattress
Co., Lancaster.
Friends is a non-profit organiza
tion that supports farmland preser
vation in Lancaster County.
Ag Industry Complex Proposed By Fulton County Farmer
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
CAMP HILL A Fulton
County farmer with a master’s
degree in physics wants to build a
200- to 500-acre agricultural
industry complex that eats up
Joshua Cowell (at halter) sold his champion steer to Dan
ny George (right) for a record $13.50 per pound. Boyd Wolff,
state agriculture secretary is center. «
A record lamb price of $75 per pound was
paid by Foxes Market to Scott Kuzemchak.
The Fox family (left to right) are: Leremy,
Brian, Bill and Leroy.
Henry Givler receives Blue and Gold Award from Presi
dent Melissa Spayd.
FFA Bestows Awards
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG With the blare
of the Star Spangled Banner echo
ing through the circular hall of the
forum, the FFA Band opened the
burnable waste from the city and
surrounding
no waste of its
He looks at garage as a renew
able resource that can be used to
create steam for heat or generate
electric power. This energy can
Mark Hull sold his champion to Hatfield
Quality Meats for $lB per pound. With Hull
are Boyd Wolff, state ag secretary and Jerry
Clemens from Hatfield.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 23, 1988
59th Convention of the Pennsyl
vania Future Farmers of America
Association. Under the banner,
“Today’s Dreams-Tomorrow’s
Reality,” President Melissa Spayd
called the meeting to order and
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then be used to, among other
things, raise vegetables or cut
flowers, manufacture cheese, can
pet food, dry lumber for furniture
or pellet manure to send back to
suburbia as a lawn and garden
supply.
And this teacher turn farmer and
Junior Livestock Prices Shatter Records
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG The Annual
Junior Livestock Sale on Friday
morning usually provides the cli
max of a week of farming activities
at the Farm Show here. And this
year was no exception. The first
champion in the ring was Scott
• Kuzemchak’s champion lamb.
And as Abe Diffenbach’s auction
eer’s song filled the small arena,
the price went higher and higher
until Foxes Market of Elizabeth
town, Hershey, Harrisburg and
Camp Hill had paid a record
Five Sections
DHIA Records Expose
Loss Income From Mastitis
BY PAT PURCELL
LANCASTER —Are farmers
afraid to find out how much money
mastitis is costing them?
During a training session on
using DHIA records conducted by
Glenn Shirk, Lancaster County
Dairy Extension Agent, farmers
learned to use DHIA reports to
determine loss of income from
mastitis problems. Future training
sessions are scheduled for Thurs
day, Jan. 28 in the Mt. Joy area and
Friday, Jan. 29, in the Quarryville
area. Farmers will be shown how
DHIA records can help them make
many management decisions.
Value of Somatic Cell Counting
The most costly disease in dairy
cattle is mastitis and the most accu
rate measure of udder health that
appears on the DHIA records is the
engineering consultant, Mathem
Mellott, of Harrisonville has tin
technical experience and personal
research data to capture the atten
tion of academic, government and
environmental persons. His pre
sentation at the marketing confer
ence at the Pennsylvania Farmers*
$9,675. That’s $75 per pound. The
Fox family has been a long-time
supporter of the youth sale by buy
ing champions and other animals
to insure good prices for these
projects.
The reserve champion shown by
Scott’s brother Joe was
bought by another annual suppor
ter of the market livestock sale.
Willie The Butcher of Lancaster
County paid $lO per pound for a
total of $1,220.
In the steer sale, the small boy
"with a big smile now has a bigger
bank account. With the record bid
of $13.50 per pound for his grand
champion steer, 10-year-old
Joshua Cowell, Greene County,
sold out to Danny George of
George’s Foodliner in Bethleham.
Farm Preservation Act Reviewed
At Chester Young Farmers Meet
BY MARJORIE KEEN
Chester Co. Correspondent
ATGLEN Look at the Farm
Preservation Act carefully, Pen
nsylvania Senator Noah Wenger,
Ephrata (R-36), told the Octorara
Young Farmers Association Mon
day night. Decide from a business,
not an emotional, standpoint
whether or not to sell development
rights to your farm, Wenger
advised.
Wenger and Representative
Arthur Hershcy, Cochranvillc
(R-13), explained how $lOO mil
lion is to be distributed to Pennsyl-
$8.50 Per Year
linear score of somatic cells. The
cows with the lowest SCC are usu
ally the highest producers and
return the greatest profits as shown
by the following tables.
An analysis of DHIA records
indicate that the single most
important factor accounting for
milk production variation amoung
herds was the somatic cell count.
Cows with the lowest SCC in
early lactation are less likely to
experience increased SCC later as
compared to cows with cell counts
greater than 100,000. The evi
dence suggests that SCC linear
scores of 0-1 are the best and herd
averges of 3 and below are ideal
for maximum milk and maximum
profit.
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Association’s annual meeting in
November has started the quest for
a steering committee to seek fund
ing for a feasibility study on an
agricultural synergism that would
benefit all the people of
Pennsylvania.
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The 1280-pound champion
named “Coal” put a record
$17,280 into Joshua’s pocket. The
previous record for the grand
champion steer was $l2 per pound
or a total of $15,060 bid by the
Arthur J. Glatfelter Agency of
York in 1983.
This year’s reserve champion,
Mike Messick of Middletown,
Dauphin County, earned more
with the number two title than he
earned last year when he had the
grand champion. Mike’s reserve
champ brought $8.50 per pound
for a total of $10,625 on a bid by
-Foxes Markets. At last year’s
show, Mike’s grand champion
brought $7.75 per pound for a total
of $9,881.
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vania fanners as a result of the
referendum that passed by a 2-1
margin statewide in November.
When the State Legislature
reconvenes this week it will write
the enabling legislation to put the
bond issue money where farmland
is in greatest jeopardy, according
to Wenger. “Until that legislation
is passed we are not going to have
all the details that you may be
interested in. However,” the sena
tor said, “there’s a general basic
agreement about what concepts
will be used.”
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