VOL 34 No. 33
Delmarva Chicken Festival
OCEAN VIEW, DE. The 41st annual Delmarva Chicken
Festival feted the mother of the poultry industry in her home town
of Ocean View, Delaware. Held over the weekend of June 16 &
17, the event was part homecoming, part educational, and in large
part, just plain old fashioned fun with chicken.
Festival goers, which included a number of summer visitors
from the nearby Delaware and Maryland coastal resorts, were
treated to a hometown honoring itself on its 100th anniversary and
its most famous citizen, Cecile Steele, who in 1923 produced the
first flock of chickens grown specially for meat.
That flock, which saw 387 birds come to market averaging a
little over two pounds each in weight, took 16 weeks to produce. It
set off an industry which is worldwide in scope. On Delmarva, it
ranks as the largest industry, producing more than -500 million
birds worth over one billion dollars per year.
Mrs. Steele’s contribution'*) hef state, and nation, will be
recognized permanendv-in the form of an official historical marker
prepared by*the Statfc ot Delaware which will be placed in Ocean
Vic#**lowti"p!BK.
From loft 10 right aro: John Johnson, president, Ocean
View Town Council; Donald J. Lynch, president, Delmar
va Poultry Industry, Inc.; David Steele; Jean Steele Bunt
ing: and Delaware Governor Michael N. Castle.
Three Dairy Promotion Groups Reach Agreement
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
—Three of the four major farmer
funded organizations that promote
dairy products in Pennsylvania
have agreed to coordinate their
marketing and fundraising activi
ties, capping eight months of nego
tiations mediated by the state
Department of Agriculture.
The formal agreement, which
will take effect July I, was signed
June 16 in Harrisburg by Raymond
Johnson, president of the Ameri
can Dairy Association and Dairy
Council Inc.; Kenneth Stromski,
chairman of the Federal Order 36
Advertising and Promotion Agen
cy; and Paul Corbin, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program.
The Syracuse, N.Y.-based ADA
and DC collect money from far
mers regulated under Federal
Order 2 and promote milk in the
order’s marketing area, which
includes New York City, northern
New Jersey and northeastern Pen
nsylvania. The Order 36 agency
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-'PERIODICALS DIVISION
W?O9 PATTEE LIBRARY
PENNSYLVANIA STAft UNIVERSIJY
UNIVERSITY PARK PA 1600._-1-./0*
Four Sections
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. A milk toast tor batter mHk promotion from tha slgnatoras of an agraamant of cooperation
among three of thafour major milk promotion groups In Pennsylvania. They are (I to r): seated,
Raymond Johnson, signing for ADA/DC; Paul Corbin, PA Milk Promotion Committee; Boyd
Wolff, state ag secretary, and Ken Btromskl signing tor FO 36 Advertislng/intormatlon. Stand*
Infl.Brlan ward, ADA/DC, Donna Venter, state promotion commutes and Scott Higgins, FO 36
Advertlslng/lntormation. Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing Assn, did not sign tha agreement.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24,1989
Farrow* finally racalvad a little haymaking weather on Month* afternoon in aseaaon where
regular daßy shower* have hindered harvesting and iiflM%;(Aeratton9. in thepholo,
10-year-old Jama# Martlnw*lts on IwplherOanlel to oompllMhmMm round with the bailer to
fill the third wagon before they pulttne hay loads back to the home farm along Clay Road in
Lancaster County. The sons of Mr. and Mrs. Slam a Martin weHMh the hay field among some
hpuseeln # development along Route 322 near Brlckerville when Managing Editor Everett
Newswanger snapped the picture.
Stability In The Northeast Dairy
Industry Demands United Front
BY PAT PURCEtL
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Instability marks the num
ber one industry in Pennsylvania
and the most important farm enter
prise in the northeastern United
Haymaking Between Showers
Stales dairy fanning.
“Dairy farmers have seen more
price fluctuations at the farm level
in the past ten years than any time
since JVorld War IL There has
been more instability in the North-
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east than most dairy fanners can
remember and certainly more than
they wish to continue” said Dr.
Paul Hand, General Manager,
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative,
speaking in University Park on
Wednesday at the dairy industry
symposium.
The symposium titled, “Indus
try and Academic Perspectives Of
The Competitive Position Of The
Northeast Dairy Industry” brought
together leaders of the dairy indus
try with academic and government
economists to present their views
on the status of the industry in the
Northeast region and to discuss
strategy for bringing stability back
to the industry.
Milk producers in the Northeast,
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Conservation Farmer
Up For
National Award
GREENCASTLE (Franklin Co.)
Richard Stoner of Franklin
County is used to winning state
and local conservation awards.
This time the 41-year-old live
stock farmer is eligible for nation
al recpgnition.
Stoner, of 7100 Windmill Road,
Gpencastle, has been selected as
Pennsylvania’s nominee fdr the
1989 National Endowment for
$12.50 Per Year
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