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VOL 34 No. 11
Eighth Keystone
Cornucopia
Features
PA Foods
HARRISBURG In a depar
ture from tradition, the 1989 Key
stone Cornucopia is a served din
ner rather than the buffet meal
offered at the previous seven
functions.
Cornucopia Coordinator Kathy
Gill noted that the meal will fea
ture two entrees “to ensure that the
diversity of the Keystone State’s
agricultural bounty is evident at
the February 6 event.”
The dinner, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania State Council of
Farm Organizations and sche
duled at the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center, is a tribute to
the Commonwealth’s number one
industry. The reception and dinner
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Farm Show QhampUm Prices Down , Except Swine
BY LOU ANN GOOD * -
HARRISBURG The tradi
tional Sale of Champions brought
Farm Show activities to a climax
Hatfield Packing set a record when they purchased
Susan Toner’s champion market hog for $21.50 e pound or
$4,644. From left: Secretary of Agriculture Boyd Wolff, Clair
Clemens, Lieutenant Governor Mark Singe! and Jerry Cle
mens (kneeling).
Second Farm Show
Supreme Dairy Champion?
EPHRATA (Lancaster) —Con-
trary to information from the Farm
Show press office, 1989 was not
the first year a supreme dairy
champion was selected, according
to Marvin Miller of Strasbuig.
Miller should know. He earned
that honor in 1980. The headline
on the front page of the January 12.
1980 issue of Lancaster Forming
Four Sections
James and Nina Burdette and sons Kyle and Justin were
honored at the Franklin County Holstein Club meeting
recently tor their tour 1988 All-Pennsylvania awards.
'■ Jamury 13.
'Noted for rtcord-bfCtltittl
pnoSt, the animal sale this year
dropped considecabley except for
read “Grand View Fields Supreme
Champion”. Miller had a better
chance than his competitors that
year. Grand View Farms exhibited
not one, but two grand champions.
Miller took the grand titles in both
the Guernsey and Holstein breeds.
It was Miller’s Holstein which
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1989
the champion market hog, which
fOhHbr a record price of $21.50 a
pound.
Fifteefi-year-old Susan Toner of
Clinton County, who sold her
champion market swine for
$4,644, said, “I was so excited to
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Changing The Image Of Agricultural Education
BY LISA RISSER
ROBESONIA (Berks) —Agricul-
tural education is changing. The
restructuring and streamlining that
has been shaking up businesses
during the 80s has struck agricul
tural education. The changing edu
cational needs of students have
necessitated a corresponding
change in the ag course material.
The most visible sign of change
occurred in November at the
national FFA convention when
Joint
Ag-Ed
\v Exclusive •
Series ss
Editor’s Note: The needs of
agricultural education and the
means to support it in the school
systems have become jjssues of
discussion in recent years. This
occasional series by all the staff
members at Lancaster Farming
at various times during 1989 will
explore these issues. Each article
in the series will carry the above
logo.
Franklin Holstein Breeders
Honor Top Producers
PARADISE (Lancaster)
Lancaster County history was in
the making this past week at the
Paradise Tobacco Auction as buy
ers paid up to $1.40 for a pound of
609-type tobacco.
“Three years ago when we
began the auction, $1,30 a pound
wu die Ugh,” recalled Bpc
auction manager.
Prices for the Maryland-type
tobacco have been increasing
steadily since the season’s opening
five weeks ago. At the onset $1.25
was the average price whereas this
week $1.37 was the average with
Breaking New Ground
At Conrad Weiser
members voted to change the orga
nization’s name. No longer is t!«
group Future Farmers of America.
It is simply the FFA organization.
The name change reflects th(j
wider diversity of agricultural
related careers open to students
today. Agriculture is more than
50$ Per Copy
BY BONNIE BRECHBILL
Franklin Co. Correspondent
WAYNESBORO (Franklin) “The Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture has stopped paying for the bruccellosis vaccination prog
ram,” State Director James Burdette of Mercersburg told the 150 peo
ple assembled at the Franklin County Holstein Club’s Annual Meeting
and Awards Banquet. The PA Holstein Association has written a resol
ution requesting the reinstatement and continuation of the vaccination
program. Burdette encouraged dairy farmers to write to their legisla
tors to ask them to reinstate the program.
Burdette also stated that the PA Holstein Association is at the forc
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Tobacco Auction Prices
Reach All-Time High
BY LISA RISSER
Steve MHler, left, and Don McNutt are directing changes
in the agricultural education program at Conrad Weiser
High School. One of the biggest changes approved by the
school board Is the establishment of two ag classes that will
provide students with science credits.
$lO.OO Per Year
$1.40 being the high,
There is a tremendous demand
for Lancaster County-grown
tobacco partly for its good quality,
but also because “our tobacco fol
lows demands set in the burley
markets and the burley market is
short in poundage,” explained
Probst. “There is about a 3 million
,( *pdfind drop in production in the
county as compared to previous
years. This scenario set die stage
for prices we’ve never seen in
tobacco!”
Farmers doing business through
private treaty are also bencfitting
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farming and ranching. It encom
passes Everything from food pro
ducing to food processing with
subjects such as conservation,
bioengineering, and economics
thrown in.
Conrad Weiser Area High
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