_ V V VOL. 35 NO. 6 Keystone Shepherds’ Symposium Educational Session Discusses Diagnosing Lamb Mortality LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Sheep and wool producers flocked to Lancaster County last weekend to learn the latest news and products available to them at the Key stone Shepherds’ Symposium. A tour of county operations on Thursday kicked off the three-day event. Exhibitors displayed their wares on Friday and Saturday and updated attendees on the newest pro duct information. Also occurring on Friday and Saturday were educational sessions such as diagnosing lamb mortality, ventilating sheep facilities, and small business manage ment skills. A high point on Saturday was the crowning of the new Pennsylvania Sheep & Wool Growers’ Association Lamb & Wool Queen. The 1988 queen, Carla Clutter, passed on her royal duties to Julie Maust of Somerset County. Also that day, creative seamtresscs competed in the Make-it-Yourself-With Wool Contest, and the contestants modeled their garments after lunch. With Newspaper Bedding, Farmers May Lower Costs Reduce Landfill Problems BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster Co.) —Because of the high cost of bedding materials fop-livestock, farmers are ready to look at shredded news print as an alternative to keep their animals warm and dry. And because of the environmentally ini tiated mandate to recycle as much of America’s trash as possible, the general public is ready to give farmers all the newspapers they can use. At one of several informational bam meetings on the subject, Glenn Shirk, Lancaster County agent, said there is a demand for paper and there is a supply of paper, but it’s hard to get the demand and supply together. “Our society is a great generator of waste,” Shirk said. “And up to now, it has been convenient to dump papers on the truck and put them into landfills and bury them. But there must be a better way. Maybe the (Turn to Page A 29) BY PAT PURCELL TIMONIUM, MD “It isn’t enough just to be farming any more. You have to prove you are doing the right thing.” That was the advice to the hun dreds of fanners and educators who braved the snowy, icy roads to Timonium for the Mid-Atlantic Conservation Tillage Conference on Wednesday. “Do You Have The Right To RCMA Conducts Successful Annual Meeting SYRACUSE, N.Y. Congressman James Walsh and New York State Senator Nancy Larraine Hoffmann spoke to dele gates at the Regional Cooperative Marketing Agency Inc. (RCMA) annual meeting to express their support for the organization’s ef forts to improve the income of dairy farmers. Congressman Walsh, the only New York Representative who serves on the House of Repre 016192 1299 periodicals 135®®«BB5ffi Four Sections BY LISA RISSER (Turn to Pago A 34) Mid-Atlantic Conservation Tillage Conference Do You Have The Right To Farm? Farm?” was the focus of the 16th annual conference. The environ mental issues with which farmers must deal are piling up. How these issues are handled by the media and by local as well as national government will determine the future of agriculture. The aim of this year’s conference was to show farmers how they can survive in spite of these issues. “In general, consumers are Agriculture Committee, acknowledged RCMA’s stabiliz ing influence in the milk market place of the Northeast. Sen. Hoffmann, a member of New York’s Agriculture Commit tee and a longtime supporter of RCMA, pointed with pride to the premiums disbursed by RCMA to dairy farmers. “You have proven through your efforts that dairy farmers can work together to help each other,” she Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 16, 1983 500 Per Copy h Holiday r Sf Deadlines I The Lmmemtttr I Frnmtmg office wfll be y doted Monday.* M Daoamber 23, In cheer- ; C vance of Christmas. t ■* Deadline! for the \ December 30 itiue ere as follows; Cf* • Mailbox Market t SpAds 5:00 p.m.ri Si Friday. (j • Public Sale Ads | tf 5:00 p.m. Friday. 1 • General News 5:00 p.m. Wednesday. Y • Late Breaking M News Noon JK Thursday. £ O • Classified Section B Ads 5:00 p.m., k Wednesday. AL • All other classified r FJAds 9:00 a.m., j Thursday. * ignorant. They know very little about the food chain. Most con sumers are not familiar with farm ing. It’s up to you to educate them,” advised Kathy Zar Peppier of Zar Communications, Toledo, Ohio. With groups such as the Nation al Resources Defense Council (NRDC) using such scare tactics as ‘our children are being poisoned at the dinner table’ because of pesti- said. RCMA distributed nearly $42 million to its 22,000 dairy farmer members during the fiscal year that ran from July 1988 through June 1989. Nearly $67 million was paid to dairy farmers in two complete years of RCMA efforts. “That’s the success story,” Senator Hoffmann told the dele gates gathered at the Sheraton Inn in Syracuse on Dec. 8. “You were able to provide premiums to dairy Julio MausVfromJSomarsat County, wears the 1989-90 Pennsylvania Lamb .and Wool Queen cfown.Carla Okrttar, formar queen, crowned Julie at the Key stone Shepherds’ SympeSlumJheldlmLancastenDn December?, 8, and 9. Turn to page 83, to learn more about ~JuHe*>n.«> by i*. Ann go*. cide use, specifically Alar, and being able to obtain an annual budget of $ll million to launch further campaigns, the time for far mers to prepare their own public relations push is now. Farmers’ ‘right to farm’ is being questioned by more groups than the NRDC. “For instance, 215 dif ferent organizations had position papers related to the 1983 Food Security Act and over 100 groups farmers when they needed addi tional money.” President William G. Zuber echoed those thoughts during his address to the delegates. “No other organization can claim that kind of success,” he said. “No other or ganization can claim that kind of direct financial support for dairy farmers. “While we were putting mil lions of dollars into dairy farmers’ (Turn to Page A2l) $12.50 Per Year had lobbyists in our nation’s capi tal working the issue. No wonder it is no longer known as the Farm Bill,” Jim Porterfield told the con ference attendees. Porterfield is the association director of the American Farm Bureau’s Natural and Environmental Resources Division. The interest of outside groups will be even greater in the 1990 farm legislation, according to Por terfield and Peter Myers who is president of The Farm Credit Council in Washington, D.C. Myers, formerly a crop and lives tock fanner from Missouri, has been serving agriculture in Washington, D.C. since 1982 when he became chief of the USDA’s Soil Conservation Ser vice. He also served a year as assistant secretary of agriculture and nearly three years as deputy secretary of agriculture. Myers reiterated the advice from Peppier that farmers should (Turn to Pago A2B)