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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
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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
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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
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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
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.and Wool Queen cfown.Carla Okrttar, formar queen, crowned Julie at the Key
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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’
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$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
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