SFCS Ms. Rainbow Brite, exhibited by Royal Charolals
Co. of Greensburg, Pa., was selected as grand champion of
the Charolals show at the Indiana State Fair last month.
Pennsylvania Heifer
In Charolais Show
Tops
INDIANAPOLIS, IN Held
on the state fairgrounds in Indiana
polis, Ind., The Indiana State Fair
Charolais Show featured 56 head
of quality, registered Charolais
cattle. Marvin Nichols of Ankeny,
lowa, judged the animals in front
of a sizable crowd.
Getting the grand champion
female nod was SFCS Ms Rain
bow Brite. The March 3, 1987,
daughter of Silver Creek Thunder
bolt also claimed the senior
champion female honors in the
40-head female show. She was
exhibited by Royal Charolais Co.
of Greensburg, Pa. Claiming the
reserve grand champion award
was the junior champion female.
Perfection’s Tally 11. The Sept. 16,
Sire
Power
Fund Announced
TUNKHANNOCK (Wyoming)
The Board of Directors of Sire
Power’s Northeast Sales Division
(NESD) is very happy to announce
the initiation of a Scholarship
Program to help deserving youth
living in the NESD membership
area continue their college educa
tion. A total of five $1,000.00
scholarships will be made avail
able. These scholarships will be
awarded at the 1988 Sire Power
Annual Meeting which will be
held Tuesday, January 24, 1989.
The eligibility requirements for
these scholarships are as follows:
1. The applicant must be a col
lege Sophomore, Junior, Senior, or
Graduate Student during the year
of application.
2. Parents, guardians or applic
ants must be patrons of Sire Pow
er’s NESD membership area,
which covers Central and Eastern
Pennsylvania and the State of New
Jer
1987, daughter of BR-MF Kruger
rand T 752 was exhibited by Per
fection Charolais of Warsaw, Ind.,
and Willard Walker of Springdale,
Ark.
Another Willard Walker entry
rose to the top in the bull show.
JSC Chairman 1034, a 1986 son of
JSC Alladin 101 P, also claimed
the show’s senior champion bull
honors. Coming in to claim the
reserve grand champion bull slot
was CLC High Card 7111. Also
the junior champion bull, he was
exhibited by Comer Land & Cattle
Co. of Tompkinsville, Ky., Proffitt
Charolais of Tomkinsville, Ky.,
and Wolfiridge Cattle Services of
New Richmond, Ohio. High Card
is an April 17,1987, son of Silver
Creek High-Rise H 99.
Scholarship
3. scholarship must be
applied to continued education ip
an agricultural related field.
4. Previous scholarship award
winners will remain eligible dur
ing subsequent award years.
“The continuing education of
our youth in agriculture is very
important to the NESD Board of
Directors and Sire Power Manage
ment. With the NESD Scholarship
Program we would like to make
this continued education possible
for young people of farm families
in Sire Power’s NESD member
ship areas,” states DuWayne Kutz,
Sire Power General Manager.
To receive an NESD scholar
ship application, interested stu
dents should contact Gary L. Hen
nip, Sales and Service Director,
Sire Power, Inc., R.D.#2, Tunk
hannock, Pennsylvania 18657,
phone (717) 836-3168. Deadline
to submit applications is Novem
ber 1, 1988.
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REPORTS
Pennsylvania and
Northeast Agriculture
H. Louis Moore
Professor of
Agricultural Economics
Penn State University
century, the North
importance as the
bread basket of the nation. The
expanses of fertile, cheap land to
the West shifted many enterprises
in that direction. The railroads in
the last century and trucks in this
century opened our markets to
more distant production. Today,
markets in many cases have
become even international in
scope.
Yet the North Atlantic states
(New England, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania) continue
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to play a role as agricultural pro
ducers. Nursery, vegetable, fruit,
dairy, livestock and some field
crops are important in the North
east. These North Atlantic states
accounted for 6.6 percent of the
nation’s cash receipts from agri
cultural production in 1970. With
the big push in grain production
and export sales in the 1970 s in the
Midwest, the shore held by the
North Atlantic states dropped to
just 5.1 percent by 1980. TTie agri
cultural recession of the first half
of the 1980 s hit other areas harder
than the Northeast. Grain produc
ers were especially hard hit. The
Northeast improved its position
during the agricultural recession
years and by 1987 accounted for
5.8 percent of the nation’s cash
receipts from agriculture, up from
5.1 percent in 1980.
Which states in the North Atlan
tic area arc major players in agri
culture? Most people indicate that
the two most important states are
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New York and Pennsylvania. It is
generally believed that New York
is a larger agricultural state than
Pennsylvania. Why? There are two
reasons: (1) New York does have a
larger dairy industry than Pennsyl
vania, and (2) New York was more
important than Pennsylvania until
the 19705. In 1970, Pennsylvania
produced 31.5 percent of the agri
cultural cash receipts in the North
east while New York’s share was
33.8 percent. Combined, the two
states produced 65.3 percent of all
the cash receipts in the Northeast.
The recent summary for 1987
indicates that Pennsylvania now
accounts for 40 percent of the total
agricultural cash receipts in the
Northeast. (Up from 31.5 percent
in 1970). New York’s share at 31.2
percent in 1987 is down from 33.8
percent in 1970. In 1987 these two
states shared 71.2 percent of the
total cash receipts in the 9 state
area.
Pennsylvania is strong in a num
ber of agricultural enterprises such
as dairy, poultry, hogs,
mushrooms and nursery products
and maintains strong supporting
industries that supply the inputs,
financing and marketing services
to keep agriculture viable. The
smaller New England states arc
betting on minor crops such as
blueberries, broccoli and endive
with sales made direct to the con
sumer as their road to growth.
The transition period for agri
culture, which began in 1980, has
seen Pennsylvania’s agricultural
receipt grow from $2.70 billion in
1980 to $3.23 billion in 1987, and
the state moved up from a ranking
of 21st to fourth in cash receipts.