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VOL. 34 NO. 51
TWo wo rids mot at ths Lowoll Brubakor family farm Monday morning when
the Jackson family singers stopped in tor a few relaxing moments before get
ting on the road again. The Jacksons are the featured guests at the Lancaster
County Holstein Association Banquet In November so Bmbaksr, association
wssklent, wanted the world-famous singers to know where milk comes from
Integrated Pest Management
Enhances Earm Profitability
BY PAT PURCELL
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) is not a new idea for pest
control to many farmers, but IPM
Pennsylvania Receives 1989
Farmland Trust Award
WASHINGTON. DG Penn
sylvania Governor Robert Casey
recently accepted a 1989 Ameri
can Farmland Trust Agricultural
Conservation Award on hafcaif of
the Commonwealth of Peonaylva
nia, which was honored in the
category of “Public Policy and
Chester Co. SOS
Campaign Under Way
WEST CHESTER (Chester
Co.) Open space preservation
■ Chester County is “a NOW or
NEVER issue.” Save Open Space
Chairman Peter Hausmann told a
crowd of supporters as he official
ly kicked off his committee’s Fall
campaign. Officially known as
Four Sections
has experienced a resurgence of
interest recently due mostly to the
public’s continuing concern about
agricultural pesticide use.
But farmers and many other
Program Development” .yt its
new $lOO million farmland pre
servation program.
The American Farmland Trust
(AFT), the only national, nonpro
fit organization dedicated solely to
prelecting farmland, cried Penn
(Turn la Page AN)
Chester County Citizens To Save
Open Space, the organization is
mounting a county-wide cam
paign to encourage voters to vote
YES in the November 7 referen
dum on a $5O million bond issue
to preserve farmland, historically
(Turn |o Paga A 23)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 28,1989
members of the agribusiness com
munity are part of this renewed
interest. This interest was evident
on Thursday at a seminar spon
sored by the PennAg Industries
Association entitled “Integrated
Pest Management, All For One
Goal With Room For All”. The
seminar was held at the Eden
Resort Inn and co-sponsored by
the Alliance For The Chesapeake
Bay. Soil and Water Conservation
Society, PA Dept, of Agriculture,
Penn State University’s College of
Agriculture and the Pennsylvania
Association of Conservation
Districts.
(TWn to Pag* Ml)
'Fall Back ’
Time Returns
Remember to turn
your clocks back
before you go to bed
Saturday night. Stan
dard Time returns at
2:00 a.m. Sunday
morning.
before they met all the Holetein breeders. In the photo (I to r): Hilltop-Heritage
Tempo Manda, first place show cow with over2o,ooom and 700 f at 3y; Brubak
er; Bruce and Brenda Jackson; Crystal and Blake Brubaker, age 5 and 3; Brit
tany and Brent Jackson, age 5 and 4; and Deb Brubaker. Heather Brubaker,
age 8, was In school.
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGEB
Managing Editor
MT. JOY (Lancaster Co.) —On
the road to Nashville, TN, with a
short stop at home in Englewood,
OH, the Jackson Family concert
group paid an advance visit Mon
day morning to the Lancaster
County family hum of Holstein
Association President Lowell Bru
baker. Because the Jackson family,
Lancaster County Poultry
Group Elects Directors
WILLOW VALLEY (Lincas
ter Co.) Four men were elected
to the Lancaster County Poultry
Association Board of Directors
during the annual dinner meeting
on Tuesday.
Mike Harrold of Lititz, Guy
Martin of Lancaster, and Clyde
Slaymaker of Strasburg are new to
the 12-member board while Milton
Landis of Parkesbuig retained his
seat
Other board members are
Richard E. Landis, Kenneth Mar
tin, Barry Renno, Thomas Panta-
509 Per Copy
Oh, To Know Where
Milk Comes From
BY USA RISSER
$12.50 Per Year
Bruce and Brenda with children
Brittany, age five, and Brent, age
four are the featured guests at the
Lancaster County Holstein Ban
quet qgxt month, Brubaker thought
it would be a nice idea to introduce
the world-famous music group to a
little “real” farm life. This idea
came to life when the Jacksons fin
ished five concerts within 24 hours
over last weekend and were ready
(Turn to Pago A 32)
no, Paul Wolgemuth, Roger Gar
ber, and Thomas Beachler.
The nearly 300 people present at
the banquet, held at the Willow
Valley Convention Center, hon
ored Robert Zimmerman, past
board vice president, and Steve
Combs, past board secretary, for
their service. Both men received
plaques in recognition of their
work.
Anita Meek of Willow Street,
Lancaster County and Pennsylva
nia Poultry Queen, received a $5OO
scholarship, which will help her in
(Turn to Pago A 26)