ri n 1 11 |l]||ir^^Kl^MHPv^^^BMGf^*P^^v3l VOL. 34 No. 21 FFA Students Compete For Speaking Honors BY LOU ANN GOOD KINZERS (Lancaster) Penn Manor’s Heidi Quanbeck proved her prediction that she can speak on any subject. The tenth grader walked away with top honors in the county FFA extemporaneous speaking contest, held at Pequea Valley High School on Wednesday. Heidi was one of 25 students from six county schools who com peted. She and Mike Fisher, second-place winner, and John Hess, third place winner, will go on to area FFA competition sche- Senior prepared speech winners In county FFA competi tion included from left: Matt Wanner (third), Greg Harnish (first), Don Fair (fourth) and Krisie Miller (second). Management Practices Can Help You Beat Johne’s Editor’s note: This is the first article of a two-part series on Johne’s Disease. The disease was the topic at an informational meeting held at the Lancaster Farm & Home Center this week. BY LISA RISSER LANCASTER When a far mer sees his best dairy cows, one after another, shed hundreds of pounds in a short time, he wants answers. Johne’s Disease could be the first answer; there’s no cure is the second answer. Hundreds of farmers and veter inarians came to the Farm & Home Center on Tuesday to find out more answers at a Johne’s update meeting sponsored by the Pennsyl vania Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry, Penn State, and the University of Pennsylvania. The day’s discussion centered on explaining the disease and what measures researchers have found to prevent the further spread of Johne’s within a herd or to another herd. Dr. Ron Yoxheimer, chief of cattle diseases with PDA’s Bureau of Animal Industry, announced that the department has expanded its testing facilities to alleviate some of the bottleneck caused by the fecal cultures, which often need to sit for three months before results can be determined. i,>1619.? l-‘ v9 towwa* iw# *‘ IB V Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April i, 1989 duled at Solanco High School on April 13. Fisher represented Sol anco and Hess, Manheim Central. Contestants in the extempora neous category drew a topic then had 30 minutes to prepare a four to six minute speech. Heidi’s speech focused on computers and ag. Although this was the first time, she entered the extemporaneous category, Heidi admitted that speaking ability runs in her family. Her brother, Eric who is now 23, won at county, area and regional levels and placed second in the (Turn to Pago A 23) In addition, Yoxheimer dis cussed the Certified Johne’s Dis ease Test Negative Herd Plan. “The thrust has been to identify infected animals,” he said. “We need a program that would identify herds that aren’t infected.” Such a program would provide (Turn to Page A2B) The Pennsylvania Holstein Association State Spring Show grand champion was Emar Loretta Lynn (right) owned by Howard Hammond, 111 and Mark Campbell. The reserve grand champion was Ebe-Tlde Libido Poppy owned by Morrell Farms and exhibited by Bob Morrell (center right). Junior champions of the open show were exhi bited by Ron Hefner (left) and Jim Burdette (center left). Dairy Princess Taml Balthaser made the presentations. See all the pictures from the show starting on D-10. Extemporaneous speech winners at Lancaster County FFA competition Included from left: John Hess (third), Heidi Quanbeck (first), Matt Wanner (fourth) and Mike Fisher (second). Five Farmers Interviewed Pennsylvania Farmers Report Surface Moisture, But Dry Subsoil BY PAT PURCELL EPHRATA (Lancaster) Is another drought on the horizon for 1989? While forecasters look to the skies and their crystal balls to make their predictions, farmers, being the practical-minded people that they are, are looking at their soil and arc not making any predic tions. All their sure of is what they see in their fields today. The soil moisture level is better in many areas of the state than it was last year, but as Jim Harteis, a dairy farmer in Cambria county said, all that could change in thirty days. Just 20 miles from Altoona, sur- Daylight Savings Time Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. Sunday. Five Sections face and subsoil moisture look good on the 400 acres where Har teis grows alfalfa and‘com. water tables continue to be at least two to three inches below normal. “If it continues as it’s been for the past 30 days the moisture level should be adequate,” said Harteis. “All that can change. It did last year in 30 days.” Just north of Ephrata near Schenksville, dairyman Galen Crouse reports subsoil does not Proposed Cuts Called Unfair National Ag Programs 1.1 Percent Of Budget BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor BLAIR STATION (York)—According to the staff 50C Per Copy have (he moisture it should this time of year. And at the southern of Lancaster County, Jim L Hess*, confirms the same conditions. “The subsoil has some moisture, but it’s worse than average. We’v. had a dry winter and a real dry January,” said Hess. Due to soil types and manure application, Lancaster County is less prone to drought than some (Turn to Page A 26) assistant of the U.S. House com mittee on agriculture, expenditures on national farm programs are down substantially from the 26 bil lion dollars spent in 1986. James Lyons, speaking for the national ag committee, said that the 1989 pro jected expenditures would be down to only 11 billion dollars. “We have made a sigmliccnt sav ings already,” Lyons said. The report was part of Con gressman Bill Goodling’s (R-19) Agriculture Seminar held here Wednesday at the 4-H Center. Lyons said that agriculture expen ditures represented only 1.1 per cent of the total U.S. budget, and some supporters think agriculture is singled out unfairly for budget cuts. In addition, to add to agricul ture’s importance, Lyons said that the U.S. is a net exporter of ag products. William Bailey, deputy under secretary, international affairs and commodity programs, agreed. “Even though we export more soy beans than aircraft, some people m government think ag is not impor tant enough! to make committ- $lO.OO Per Year (Turn to Page A 22)
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