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rot 34 No. 5
Maryland-Leaf Prices Up
1 Percent Over Last Year
BY LISA RISSER
PARADISE (Lancaster) Brisk
leather and brisk bidding greeted
tobacco growers and buyers at the
teason’s first tobacco auction on
donday. The finest quality
Maryland-type tobacco went for a
tigh of $1.26 per pound with the
|2 buyers paying an average of
11.12 per pound.
“We had a tremendous sale,”
sported Eric Probst, president of
’aradise Tobacco Auction where
he sale was held. “Most of the far
mers went out of here with a smile
on their faces.”
The prices auctioneer Mitch
Ashby of North Carolina coaxed
nit of buyers was about 12 cents
lighcr than prices of a year ago.
‘Buyers are energetic about this
icar’scrop,” he saicL’“H^dei^i^
A panoramic birds-eye view of the Reiff farm sale north of New Holland. Three prints, cut and pieced together, give full record of the nearly 1000 farmers
who attended-one of the largest crowds ever to attend a real estate sale.
Lane.
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
NEW HOLLAND - Land zoned
iral/agriculture and in the same
imily for 127 years sold at a publ
; auction here Tuesday afternoon
)r a price that rivals average dcve
jpmenl property.
The Earl Township farm, for
lerly owned by Annie N. Reiff,
rought $14,090 an acre from two
)cal farmers who plan to keep the
md in farming. Ben Hoover, New
henetic Progress, BST -
Solutions Or Problems
BY PAT PURCELL
LEBANON Advances in
Jnetic development and in
search on Bovine Somatotrophin
iggest that the dairyman may be
nding new solutions to some old
‘oblems. But according to the
•esident of the Lebanon County
olstein Club, progress in these
eas may create more questions
Four Sections
is high for this crop.”
According to Ashby the tobacco
that was dumped on die market by
the federal government a couple of
years ago has been bought up and
now there’s a shortage.
A few hundred growers and
spectators followed the bidding
action and about a dozen farmers
rejected the top bid for their crop
and refused to sell. ‘They decided
to holdout in anticipation of higher
prices,” explained Probst.
About 130,000 pounds of tobac
co were sold on Monday with the
price range between $1.26 and
$.45. Joe Irvin with Ideal Leaf
Tobacco Co. of Farmville, Va.,
was the volume buyer on Monday.
Two days later the average selling
price was $1.16 with all good-
(Turn to Pago A 32)
Farm In Ag Zone Sells At Development Prices
Holland, paid $690,000 for the 47
acres with two houses, steer and
hog bams and other buildings on
the east side of Rail Road Avenue.
Jacob Reiff, a Lititz area farmer
bought the 19 acres of prime farm
land on the west side of the road for
$240,000.
About 1,000 people, many who
arrived at the farm on bicycles,
horse drawn buggies or cars with
bumpers painted black, formed a
solid circle, five, ten and fifteen
men deep, around the auctioneer’s
than answers.
Dr. David Vail, veterinarian and
registered Holstein breeder has
devoted more than 30 years of his
young life to the Holstein breed.
Vail continues to show and breed,
but has some doubts about what is
being called progress in genetic
development. Also, he believes
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10,1988
Twelve buyers lined up In the Paradise Tobacco Auction warehouse on Monday to
purchase about 150,000 pounds of Maryland type leaf. The average price per pound
was $1.12 with the ftnest-quality tobacco bringing $1.26 per pound.
stand. The atmosphere riveted
many a sporting event at the
spectrum.
As the price soared to record
prices on the separate tracts the
prospect to keep all the land
together diminished. In the end.
National Egg
Producers Discuss
Supply Management
BY LOU ANN GOOD
CHICAGO, IL—National rep
resentatives met in Chicago Thurs
day to review the findings from the
nationwide egg producers survey.
The survey was sparked from Lan
caster egg producers who want to
slop the decline in egg consump
tion and prices.
According to A 1 Wenger of
Wenger Feeds, Rhcems, the
national opinion showed a strong
mandate to pursue the industry’s
interest in supply management.
Dr. Milt Madison, Penn State
professor, reviewed the survey’s
findings with the national egg
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when both farm tracts were offered
together, no additional bids were
received. So the farm was sold in
separate parts. In addition, the Lin
den Grove School on the property
at the comer of Linden Grove
Road and Rail Road Avenue
brought an additional $45,000
from Melvin Hoover, New Hol
land. Total price for the combined
properties was $975,000.
When compared to farms that
sold in 1987 in the suburban Lan-
Lancaster County Production Up
DHIA Member Fees To
Increase By 3-5 Percent
BY PAT PURCELL
8c LISA RISSER
LANCASTER An increase
in DHIA fees, necessary to pull the
organization into the black, will be
instated as of January 1, 1989,
Clifford Blank told Lancaster
County members this week.
County DHIA members
gathered for their annual meeting
50$ Per Copy
caster City growth development
area, this land sold for only SI ,600
below the $15,696 average. When
compared to agricultural land in
the county, the selling price was a
record $3,600 per acre above the
previous selling farm. This previ
ous record came last December on
another East Earl Township farm
along Route 23 that brought
$750,000 or $10,490 per acre.
According to Agricultural Pre
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and awards banquet at Yoder’s
Restaurant of New Holland on
Monday and at Willow Valley
Convention Center on Tuesday.
Farmers who are testing their
herds two times per day will be
charged an additional $5 with the
money going to help pay supervi
sors’ salaries. Also, district direc
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$lO.OO Per Year