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VOL. 35 NO. 8
The 1989 Alfalfa Growers award winners are, from left, front row: David Hileman, top 10
percent; Al Dugan of Milton Hershey School Farm, grand champion; Carl Krelder, reserve
grand champion; back raw: Allen Baker, Ron Myers, Mark Wolfskin, and Ken Mowry.
New Over-Order Agency Seeks Bargaining
Stance In Western Pennsylvania
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
MEDINA, OH There’s a
new player in milk marketing
activities in western Pennsylvania
that hopes to take over where
RCMA left off.
The Producers’ Equalization
Agency (its organizers hope it
won’t become known by its
acronym) is the latest over-order
bargaining group to be put
together by area dairymen. Like
the Regional Cooperative Market-
Achenbach Joins LF Staff
Vernon Achenbach Jr.
Three Sections
ing Agency, the new agency will
tiy to unite cooperative and inde
pendent dairymen in an effort to
extract higher prices from hand
lers than the minimums specified
by the federal order system. But
its leaders hope to avoid some of
the pitfalls that have wiped out
RCMA ifforts in much of New
York and Pennsylvania.
John Siglow, who was hired
Octoberas the agency’s first gener
al manager, said the new group is
still getting organized. Under the
guidance of Milk Marketing Inc.,
A new addition to the Lancaster
Farming staff is writer Vernon
Achenbach Jr. from Lebanon
County.
An alumnus of Penn State Uni
versity, where he studied biology,
Achenbach began his professional
writing career nine years ago as an
Army journalist. Since then he has
worked for several newspapers,
writing on a variety of subjects
from Army training exercises to
outdoor recreation and organized
sports.
He first delved heavily into agri
cultural reporting about two and a
half years ago and has covered two
state farm shows and various local
agricultural events.
Most recently, he directed a
statewide agricultural radio news
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 30,1989
the region’s dominant dairy
cooperative, bylaws were
approved last December and 20
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1989 A Year Of Triumph And Sadness
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHR ATA (Lancaster Co.) —For
many, 1989 was a year of triumph,
for others it was tinged with sad
ness. As the last minutes of 1989
tick away, many reflect on memo
ries from the ’Bos decade and hope
the upcoming decade will be their
best ever.
We’ve asked several persons,
whose faces have appeared in arti-
Closed
Monday
The Lancaster Farm
ing office will be closed
Monday, in observance
of New Years Day.
Deadlines for the January
6 issue are as follows:
• General News
5:00 p.m. Wednesday.
• Late Breaking News
Noon Thursday.
• Classified Section B
Ads 5:00 p.m.,
Wednesday.
• All other classified
Ads 9:00 a.m.,
Thursday.
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Hershey School Farms
Take Second Trophy
BY LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
ALTOONA (Blair Co.) For
the second straight year, the Mil
ton Hershey School Farm won the
Pennsylvania Alfalfa Growers
grand champion award.
A 1 Dugan accepted the award at
a banquet held at the Sheraton in
Altoona on December 20. The
school farm won the award with a
8.5 ton per acre average for 1989.
The reserve grand champion
was Carl Kreider from Lancaster
County with a 7.4 ton average.
Third place in Region 4, from
which the two championships
came, went to Mark Wolfskill of
Berks County, with a 6.5 ton
average.
In the top 10 percent in Region 4
were Ron Hodge of Lawrence
County and John Yasnowski of
Mercer County. First place went to
John Courtney of Mercer County,
second to Joe Hamraerschmidt of
Lawrence County, and Charles
Miller, third, of Lackawanna
County. The average yield per acre
for Region 4 was five tons.
Placing in the top 10 percent in
Region 3, the southwest portion of
the state, were Elder Vogel of
Beaver County and Vincent Flan
nery of Somerset County. First
place went to Norman Jodinkinos
of Beaver County, second to D.J.
and Orin Claypool of Armstrong
County, and third to Lee Caldwell
of Beaver County.
In Region 2, Jacob StoHzfus
cles this past year, to tell us about
their 1989 highlights, their hopes
for 1990, and their plans to cele
brate the beginning of a new
decade.
For Anne Mitchell of Berks
PA Dairy Princess Anne Mitchell (left) with Jan Harding,
PAPPS director.
$11.5 Per Year
took first place, Ken Mowry ol
Roaring Spring was second, and
Ronald Myer of Clinton County
was third. Also in the region’s top
10 percent were David Hilcman of
Blair County and Allen Baker of
Bedford County.
The awards were presented by
Dr. Sid Bosworlh, assistant profes
sorof agronomy at Penn State Uni
versity. Bosworth stated that the
yield per acre was down in 1989.
“Prior to this year, average was
5.8 to 6.1 tons per acre. In 1989,
the average was 4.4,” Bosworth
said, blaming the drop on the
extremely wet weafher exper
ienced throughout most of the state
during this past summer.
Bosworth also noted the late
first cutting date. The average had
been May 27. This year, it was
June 10.
John Rodgers, an alfalfa pro
ducer, presented green jackets to
the past top state producers as the
meeting marked the end of the
15-year program.
Winners in the past included A 1
Dugan of the Milton Hershey
School Farm, 1988; Allen Baker of
Bedford County, 1982, ’B4, ’B6,
and ’B7; Carl Kreider of Lancaster
County, 1985; Dan Schrack, 1979;
Harold Cayman, 1977; and How
ard Mellott, 1976.
A jacket also was presented to
John Baylor, director of market
development with Beachley-
Hardy Seed Co., for all of his work
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County, being crowned the Pen
nsylvania dairy princess was the
highlight of her year. Despite her
hectic schedule with public
appearances, she will have time to
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