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VOL 35 No. 14
State Five-Acre Corn Winner Grows Only Record Over 200 Bushels
BY ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) Some
sport teams have a “magic number” that will
either ensure their hopes for championship
playoffs or the championship itself.
For M. Lamar Miller, com growing con
testant, the magic number is 7877. Cargill
7877, that is.
“This variety turned out the best, so I
entered it in the contest,” said Miller about
his entry in the state farm show a few weeks
ago in Harrisburg. At the show, Miller won
the Five-Acre Com Club contest, producing
209.4 bushels per acre. In the 1989 growing
year, hampered by a dismally wet spring, his
entry was the only record over 200 bushels
per acre in the ear regular harvest class.
High in awards
So how did he do it? And how does this
Manheim-area cash crop and dairy farmer
place so high in awards both in the state and
the nation?
According to Miller, it’s a combination of
obtaining good soil fertility, the right seed
genetics, and the bushel yield advantage
from his “no-till” planting method.
‘The quality of seed is important,” said
Miller, “but the top yield nutrients have a tat
More Vegetable Growers
Needed For Dutch
Country Growers Co-op
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
QUARRYVELLE (Lancaster Co.)
“Why spend $3,000 to truck produce from
California when it’s right at our door?” asks
Gideon Stoltzfus.
Stoltzfus is president of Dutch Country
Growers, a co-op for vegetable growers. He
said, “When the co-op began six years ago,
members knocked on buyers’ doors, but
now, buyers are knocking on our doors.”
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After Additional Tests FDA Says National Milk Supply Safe
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md. “Much
ado about nothing” may be the
conclusion of most people in the
dairy industry to the latest national
flap over the issue of drug residues
in milk.
Last week the federal Food and
Drug Administration, responding
to claims that the nation’s milk
Atlantic Breeders
Show Good Year
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
MT. JOY (Lancaster Co.)
Semen sales were strong in 1989
for members of Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative (ABC), according to
officials. Butmembers will have to
be prepared to make decisions
about the future.
Members of Region 4 ABC
were told they are to receive a
$383,256 return on business last
year. A printed report showed that
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to do with how the crops will turn out. The
no-till com has a 10 to 20 bushel per acre
yield advantage over tilled stock. And I was
able to obtain more even seed emergence on
Standing outside the dairy bam with hjs dog, Cody, M. Lamar Miller owns
and rents land for cash crops and dairy farming near Manheim. Miller won the
Five-Acre Com Club contest at the State Farm Show in Harrisburg, producing
209.4 bushels per acre with Cargill 7877 variety using no-tlll planting. “The
quality of seed is Important, but the top yield nutrients have a lot to do with
how the crops will turn out," he said. Phot • h And, A*tnw*.
supply was compromised by
minute quantities of antibiotics,
issued a statement upholding its
integrity. The FDA said its study
of 70 retail milk samples from 14
cities turned up no evidence of sul
famethazine and no confirmation
of any positive readings of other
antibiotics.
“Our study indicates that the
American dairy farmer is using
net savings from the year’s busi
ness amounted to a patronage
dividend of 6.7 percent. They were
given the message during the
cooperative’s annual banquet
meeting, held to review business
and honor oustanding members.
According to Alan Bair, in
charge of member and public rela-
tions for the cooperative, the
cooperative “saw extremely good
growth in techincal service and the
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1990
animal drugs carefully and con-
scientiously and that the milk
supply does not contain unsafe
drug residues," said Gerald Guest,
director of FDA’s Center for Vet-
State Young Farmer winners named at the annual banquet Thursday evening are: (I to r), Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Moyer, Myerstown, Lebanon Co., under age 30; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Weller,
Middleburg, Snyder Co., community service and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Zug, Peach Bottom,
Lancaster Co., over age 30. Other stories and photographs from the state Young Farmer Con
vention held this week in Lancaster are found on Pages A-34, A-36 & B-18.
the field where I picked the winner of the
contest.”
Fertility is essential, and Miller obtains a
soil test every year. To improve the soil test.
erinary Medicine.
The agency conducted its test
after the Wall Street Journal, in a
front page article Dec. 29, reported
evidence of contamination in a
Five Sections
Miller spreads a liquid cow manure. Mill
er’s soil has tested high for nitrates, pho
sphorous, potash, and “micronutrients”
such as zinc, magnesium, calcium, and
other minerals. Sulphur, combined with the
nitrogen, improves nutrient efficiency.
Quality of seed
The quality of seed is important, but the
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PSU Dairy
Science Club
Sets Contest
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.)
Penn State Dairy Judging Contest is March
24, 1990. The Penn State Dairy Science
Club will be holding its annual Spring
Judging Contest on Saturday, March 24,
1990 at the Penn State Ag Arena, at 10:00
a.m. This event is open to all 4-H and FFA
members.
The contest consists of five divisions: Sr.
4-H, Jr. 4-H, FFA, Collegiate Amateur, and
Professional. There have been
some changes in the Jr. 4-H division. Fol
lowing lunSh at the Ag Arena, there will be
a workshop on judging and oral reasons for
the Jr. 4-H contestants and coaches. How
ever, some requests have been made for the
Jr. 4-H’ers to give reasons in the contest
Therefore, Jr. 4-H division contestants will
have the option to give one set of oral rea
sons or else attend the workshops. They
cannot do both activities. Their reasons
scores will not count in calculating high
individuals and teams in this division.
However, the three highest scoring indivi
duals in junior reasons will be awarded. Jr.
4-H contestants giving reasons must be pre
en tered and designated on the entry form.
You cannot sign up the day of the contest to
give Jr. 4-H oral reasons.
(Turn to Pago A 25)
similar study it conducted in con-
junction with the Center for Sci
ence in the Public Interest, a
Washington-based consumer
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$12.50 Per Year