BY LOU ANN gSOD
SOMERSET (Somerset Co.)
Pack your bags and head to the
Pennsylvania Young Farmer
Association Summer Conference
in Somerset County.
The agenda for the annual con
ference held July 21 and 22 is
packed with farm tours, great eat
ing, entertainment by Captain
Stubby, and a volleyball
tournament
“It’s a time to share ideas,
exchange agriculture technology
and see the technology imple
mented at on-site tours,” said Doy
le Paul who is coordinating the two
day event.
Overnight lodging is available
at motels, bed and breakfast inns
and camp grounds in the area,
which is touted as the roof garden
of Pennsylvania because of the ele
vation of the Allegheny mountain
chain.
Registration begins at 9:00 a.m.
on Friday, July 21. Lunch on both
days will be served at the Somerset
County Area Vocational Technical
Schools. A choice of tours is
offered each afternoon.
Entertainment at the Friday
night banquet held at the Ramada
Inn is Captain Stubby, a farmer
from Galveston, Indiana. Paul
Harvey of ABC news reports that
Captain Stubby offers good, clean,
down-to-earth humor that is hard
to come by. His stories are
enriched by growing up in hard
limes. Paul promises, ‘"Hie laughs
come thick and fast and your sides
will ache.”
A pig roast will be held Saturday
at 12:30 p.m. with county chapters
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competing in a volleyball
tournament.
Tours of the following farms
and businesses are offered:
•Bill and Mary Jane Yoder Farm
has the top Jersey herd for butterfat
for the past several years. They
rank ninth in the nation for a herd
of 30 to 49 cows. Their intensive
grazing system has brought recog
nition in state and national publica
tions. Examine their gravity flow
manure system.
’4-Guys, Inc. is a stainless steel
and aluminum fabrication plant
organized in 1975 and now has
annual sales exceeding
$6,000,000.
•Robert Decker Farms features
QUEENSTOWN. MD.
Today’s farmers are asked to feed
a growing population on less land,
using fewer chemicals that can
End their way off the Held and
into our food and water supplies.
What’s a producer to do? Well,
a wise first step would be to attend
the 21st annual Wye Field Day,
August 24, at the University of
Maryland Agricultural Experi
ment Station’s Wye Research and
Education Center.
“Our goal is to improve the
lives of Maryland fanners and
consumers through innovative
research and educational prog
rams.” said Dr. Russell B. Brins
ficld, head of the Wye Research
and Education Center. “The Wye
Field Day provides a unique
opportunity to share the results of
some of our efforts with the citi-
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their popular six-horse wagon
teams seen at the state farm show,
on TV and in movies. He owns 40
registered Belgian horses and anti
que machinery.
•Snyder of Berlin produces
quality potato chips.
•Hillside Hunting Preserve pro
vides hunting excursions in a set
ting that closely resembles natural
, Cover.
•Stony Acres Farm owned by
Jim and Barbara Brant dates back
to 1890. They have a rolling herd
average of 21,507 pounds of milk,
811 pounds of butterfat and 708
pounds of protein.
•Coal Cleaning Plant and Sur
face Mine is an important industry
Wye Field Day Set For Aug. 24
zens of Maryland.”
Here’s a brief rundown of this
year’s informative field day
wagon tours:
• A cornucopia of helpful infor
mation about Held crops, includ
ing the latest soybean variety, dis
ease and weed control methods,
and efficient use of fertilizers is
available to those taking the field
crops and soils tour.
•'Horticulturists are offered the
latest sweet com variety and polli
nation trial results, irrigation alter
natives for vegetable production,
information on how to optimize
fruit size in tree fruits, and how to
use integrated pest management to
control strawberry and bramble
insect pests.
• Cattlemen can learn about the
future direction of research on the
famous Wye Angus herd. Experts
• Retail Stores
• Light Commercial
• Storage Bldgs.
• Offices & Shops
• Garages
• Mini-Warehouses
• Industrial, Mfg. Facilities
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• Machinery Storage • Livestock Housing
• Farm Shops • Horse Arenas
• Hobby Barns • Open Fronts
• Dairy Barns a Poultry Housing
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to Somerset. Visit an active sur
face mine and see the strip mine
operation.
•Latuch Brothers Dairy Farms
boasts famous registered Holsteins
with a SO dcscendents linage.'
•Farmers and Threshermens
Jubilee Grounds where history is
brought to life.
•Scchler Sugar Shack is a sugar
camp that combines modem and
age-old methos to produce maple
syrup.
•Southern Somerset County
offers a scenic tour of the variety of
modem agriculture and artifacts
from the past
•Walker’s Farm Service offers
computerized fertilizer mixing and
will field questions while showing
cow/calf pairs and 1989 Wye
progeny.
Pesticide-conscious homeow
ners and small orchard owners
will benefit from a morning half
hour clinic, “Low-input Fruit Pro
duction,” where disease-resistant
varieties and non-chemical con
trols will be discussed.
Another informative session,
“Your Health and Environment,”
runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Here
you can learn how to prevent
food-borne illness, conserve and
check your water supply, and dis
pose of hazardous household
waste.
There are three afternoon semi
nars: Ag Market Outlook, Aqua
culture in Maryland, and Low
input Sustainable Agriculture. In
addition to the buffet luncheon
State
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seeds.
•Brendles Poultry Farm has
85,000 layers and 44,000 pullets.
Manure is processed through a
methane digester which supplies
all the electricity for the farm plus
they sell it for the community.
•Somerset Historical Center
exhibits recall the pioneering spirit
that settled the state frontier.
The host chapters included Ber
lin Brothcrsvalley, Meyersdale,
Noth Star, Rockwood, and Some
rset Counties PYF chapters.
To register, request information
form James Harrold, Somerset
County AVTS, R.D. #5, Vo Tech
Road, Somerset, PA 15S01 of call
(717) 443-3651.
and program, there is also a crab
feast, featuring bluegrass music,
from 3 to 6 p.m. There will also be
a staffed information booth for the
College of Agriculture and Col
lege of Life Sciences at the Uni
versity of Maryland at College
Park.
The Wye Research and Educa
tion Center is located near
Queenstown on Maryland’s East
ern Shore, 3 'A miles south of U.S.
Route SO, on Carmichael-Wye
Neck Road. Watch for the Ches
ton Lane Entrance road about Vi .■
mile beyond the Carmichael
Methodist Church.
The 21st annual Wye Field Day
is sponsored by the University of
Maryland Agricultural Experi
ment Station, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, and the Wye and
Aspen Institutes.
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