Mi A PENNSYLVANIA
VOL. 33 NO. 41
Provisions Of
Drought Relief
Bill Discussed
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
The drought relief bill signed
into law by President Reagan Aug.
H contains two provisions that
will benefit all dairy fanners
regardless of how much they’re
affected by failing crops or rising
feed costs.
The bill rules out the possibility
of another 50-cent a hundred
weight reduction in the govern
ment support price on Jan. 1,1989.
One of three potential cuts outlined
in the 1985 farm bill, it would have
taken effect if the U.S. Department
of Agriculture estimated the gov
ernment’s purchase of suipftis
dairy stocks in 1989 would have
exceeded 5 billion pounds on a
milk equivalent basis.
The drought relief measure also
requires a 50-cent increase in the
support price, to $ll.lO a hundred
weight for milk of average butter
fat content, between April 1 and
June 30,1989. The increase should
boost farm milk prices during next
year’s spring flush, when produc
ers are expected to be squeezed
most lightly by higher feed costs
and lower milk prices.
“This small, temporary milk
price support increase is needed to
stabilize farm milk prices next
spring and help daily fanners
weather the high feed costs caused
by the drought,” said James Darr,
the chief executive of the National
Milk Producers Federation.
The federation, which repre
sents most of the nation’s dairy
cooperatives in Washington, lob
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A large representative crowd at A|j Prgress Days watch
es ths hay mowing and conditioning demonstration on
Wednesday morning. Eleven rigs that include all makes of
tractors and equipment were represented. When tire
m&mm Queen and the new Adams
County Poultry-Queen Valerie Hoy receives her crown from
the 1987-88 Adams County Poultry Queen Melissa Gebhart.
Valerie won the title last Saturday evening at the Adams
Qaua|y,Houltry Association’s Annual Appreciation Ban
qimroQueen Pageant held this year at the Cross Keys
Mqlifclnn.
MRv State Poultry Queen
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams Co. Correspondent
CROSS KEYS (Adams)—Val
erie Hoy is the 1988-89 Adaihs
County Poultry Queen and the new
Pennsylvania State Poultry Queen.
Valerie captured the title in the
county’s Queen Pageant held this
year in conjunction with the
Adams County Poultry Associa
tion Annual Appreciation Ban
quet. This year’s event was held at
the Cross Keys Motor Inn. The'
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 20, 1988
title of State Poultry Queen alter
nates annually between Lancaster
County’s and Adam’s County
pageant winner.
The new State Poultry Queen is
the daughter of Paulette Hoy Pul
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Ag Luncheon
BY
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
machines finished their rounds, farmers were able to
move In close to Inspect the work and meet with agri
business representatives.
Improved ADF Levels
In PA Hay Show
BV PAT PURCELL
ROCK SPRINGS (Centre)
Although the drought knocked out
several classes of entries in the
Pennsylvania Hay Show featured
this week at Ag Progress Days, it
actually helped in the production
of of high protein and easily diges
tible hay.
Ag Preservation Group
Gains New Name, Bylaws
BY LISA RISSER
LANCASTER Late last
week members of the Friends Of
Agricultural Land Preservation
"Approved a name change as well as
Changes to their bylaws. Now
called Lancaster Farmland Trust,
the group adopted the changes to
better reflect the organization’s
growth.
“Friends of Agricultural Land
Preservation was established in
1984 as a support organization for
the Agricultural Preserve Board,”
said Alan Musselman, executive
director of the group. “We will
continue to be supportive of the
Board, but we have assumed other
projects independent of it We will
be more directly involved in agri
cultural preservation.”
The principal function of Lan
caster Farmland Trust is to save
Group Has Optimistic View
ROCK SPRINGS (Centre) —A
farm communicator told the gov
ernment day luncheon group here
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In previous years, according to
Sidney Boswath of the Agronomy
Department at Penn State Univer
sity, entries numbered between
140 to ISO. This year’s tally was
115. However, Bos worth noted
that chemical analysis in previous
years showed the ADF (acid diges
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Lancaster County farm land,
according 10 Musselraan. “We are
working with farmers for conser
vation easements by donation and
the acquisition of one, and possib
ly more, farms to resell to young
farmers just starting out.**
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Credit Directors
On Farm Tour
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LITITZ (Lancaster) —The
bankers dressed in sport shins and
the farmers in white shins and ties
got together this week to exchante
ideas on farm credit needs. The
ocassion for the on-farm meetings
was the annual board of directors
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Wednesday that diets, information
transfer, promotion, the national
food policy, pesticide pressures,
and biotechnology are present fac
tors to be considered in
agriculture.
Gordon Conklin, director,
American Agriculturalist Founda
tion, said animal agriculture is
clearly on the defensive. But, since
meat, eggs, and milk remain the
source of high quality protein and
other necessary food ingredients,
Conklin said we desperately need
to get this message across to the
public.
While Conklin chided the dairy
industry for its early promotion of
milk as nature’s most nearly per
fect food when many people were
lactose intolerant, he said the dairy
industry now has developed pro
ducts for older people and ethnic
groups who cannot drink whole
milk.
And he credited the Pork, The
Other White Meat commercials
with helping consumers perceive
pork as fallcss turkey and poultry
meal. “And perception constitutes
reality,” Conklin said.
Most farmers remain
production-oriented and therefore
lose touch with non-farm consum
ers and our legislators. “We need
to spend more time keeping every
one aware of the facts of agricul
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