Lancaster County Poultry Association Is \Looking For Queen LANCASTER The Lancas ter County Poultry Association is accepting applications for its next queen. Eligible young ladies will be single, have completed their junior year of high school and be no older than 23 at the time of the contest. Contestants may be an association customer, employee, or member of an employee’s family. The queen will receive either a $5OO educational scholarship or MR. & MRS. JOSEPH KOLMBR • Timber-Column Construction • Tl-11 Wood Siding JjJk AGRI-INC. Designers And Builders R.D. 4, Ephrata, PA 17522 • (717) 354-4271 Serving The Agricultural Industry For Over 20 ■ Years $3OO in cash as well as a $ 150 war drobe. The runner-up will receive either a $3OO scholarship or $l5O in cash. All contestants will receive a watch. This year’s contest will be held at the Farm & Home Center on August 5 at 6:30 p.m. Anyone interested in becoming a contestant or would like more information, should contact Mil ton B. Landis, chairman, R# 2, Box 347, Parkcsburg, PA 19365; 442-8750. Thanks and Congratulations On Their New 12’x36’ Run-In Shed BUILT BY to Schwenksville, PA FEATURES • 48” Roof Extension Along Open Side For Weather Protection • Galvalume Weed Control UNIVERSITY PARK, PA Research Center from 9:30 a.m. to Although weeds aren’t as much of 4 p.m. a problem in winter seeded small “Winter annuals such as chick grains as they are in com and other weed, field pennycress and henbit row crops, they can still cause sig- are the most common weeds that nificant yield losses. Growers can plague small grains," says Bob learn new ways of controlling Hartzler, associate professor of weeds in small grains at Penn "weed science. “These plants have State’s Agronomy Field Day on similar life cycles to that of the June 22. small grain, germinating in late fall The event will be held at Penn State’s Rock Springs Agricultural Roof Let Our Experience Work For You For All Your Farm Building Needs, Large Or Small Lancaster Farming SftfiftfaV; - JiihjTtr" f988 : A213 To Be Discussed At Field Day and flowering in the spring. Many people have noticed an increase in these weeds, possibly because of changes in tillage and other pro duction practices." Field scouting has not been a common practice in making weed control decisions in row crop pro duction for two main reasons, says Hartzler. First, weeds are consis tent in crops such as com and soy beans, so farmers know the weeds will be there. Second, weed control systems in most row crops use preemergence herbicides as the primary component. Since these are applied before weed emergence, it is difficult to use scouting in the decision-making process. But because of the more erratic emergence of winter annuals and the reliance on postemergence her bicides for weed control in small grains, scouting is a key compo nent of weed management in these crops, Hartzler says. Routinely spraying wheat, barley or oats without assessing the level of weed infestation will rarely be profitable. Hartzler will be available at the Agronomy Field Day to answer questions about scouting to control weeds in small grains. For more information about the field day, contact Penn State agronomist Lynn Hoffman at (814) 692-7955. Farmers Call For Probe Of CCC HARRISBURG (Dauphin) The Pennsylvania Farmers Union, along with a national alliance of dairy farmers and anti-hunger groups, concerned with USDA price manipulations, are petition ing the Senate Agriculture Com mittee, calling for an examination of the Commodity Credit Corpora tion, the group that determines surpasses and shortages for the Department of Agriculture. At the core of the farmers’ grie vances are two seemingly contra dictory actions by the USDA in the past several months. As of the first of the year, milk prices were cut by 500 per hundredweight because of a government-projected milk sur plus, yet a month later, distribution of dairy products to low-income families was terminated because of a milk shortage. “It seems ridiculous,” said Jack Rynd, Chairman of the Pennsylva nia Farmers Union Dairy Commit tee. “Dairy is cut off to those who are deserving when there’s confu sion over a surplus. We’re talking about seven and a half billion pounds of dairy products in CCC warehouses, which may seem like a mountain, but that can disappear in sixty days. There should be an investigation on whether we have a surplus or a deficit.” At present, the USDA counts all government dairy purchases from the CCC, even those for schools, senior and emergency programs, as surplus. Farmers are penalized with a price reduction because of a so-called “surplus” while low income families must do without because of an unsubstantiated “shortage.” Interested citizens should con tact their congressmen, or call Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee at (202) 224-4242. The Pennsylvania Farmers Union represents over 4,500 fami ly farmers in Pennsylvania.
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