A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 12,1990
Soybean Associations
er operation is under contract with
Wengers Feed Mill and employees
two others full time.
For M & R Grains, Musser
stores 250,000 bushels of grain in
six bins. The bins hold com, soy
beans, wheat, barley, and roasted
soybeans. M & R has about 60 cus
tomers in the Lancaster, Marietta,
Mt. Joy, Manheim, and Elizabeth
town areas.
For his part, Musser has been
heavily involved with the Mid-
Atlantic Soybean Association,
comprised of soybean farmers in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela
ware, and New Jersey. Musser has
been a strong advocate for produc
er checkoffs. He believes investing
in promotion at the regional and
national level.
“A lot of the states in the Mid
west have an automatic checkoff
program,” Musser said. “If you
sell a bushel of beans, 2 cents or 1
cent of that goes toward the check
off program. That’s what they’re
trying to pass in Pennsylvania.”
Money to work
The checkoff would enable pro
ducers to put money to work on
soybean promotion at a national
level.
“In the Mid-Atlantic region,
they’re trying to pass that whenev
er you sell a bushel of beans, auto
matically the checkoff program
gets 2 cents out of the deal. And
that would go for advertising and
research.”
According to the Mid-Atlantic
Soybean Association, this is the
seventh year ASA and DuPont
have recognized outstanding
young agricultural leaders in 26
soybean-producing states through
out the country. In a release, the
organization stated that “consider
ation for the award hinges on the
farmer using his or her leadership
skills to lend direction to the U.S.
soybean industry.”
Musser has also been recog
nized by the Mid-Altantic Soybean
Association for a new manure stor
age system, which holds 330,000
gallons of slurry. The system was
constructed last fall.
Chesapeake Bay Program
“We’re involved in the Chesa
peake Bay Program,” he said.
“They make money available to
help clean up the bay. We got a
grant from the federal government
to help build a storage tank to keep
our runoff out of the stream.
‘ ‘We live right beside Chickie’s
Creek here,” Mussersaid. “When
it rained, anything in our barnyard
washed into the creek. There was
nothing you could really do about
it, unless you had a facility to catch
and hold it. So we built the storage
tank.”
All runoff is diverted into a slur
ry pit. The manure is pumped out
once a week and injected into the
large, round, holding structure.
The manure is hauled out twice a
year, sprayed on the fields, and
plowed under.
Musser understands that
impending legislation may require
farmers to install such a system in
the future. “They aren’t making
you do it yet, but I think the time is
going to come when you’re not
going to be allowed to haul manure
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Runoff from Jim Musser’s farm in Mt. Joy goes into a slur
ry pit. The manure is pumped out once a week and injected
into the large, round, holding structure, pictured behind
Musser. The manure is hauled out twice a year, sprayed on
the fields, and plowed under. Musser believes that impend
ing legislation may require farmers to install such a system
in the future.
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grain in six bins. The bins hold corn, soybeans, wheat,
roasted soybeans, and barley. M & R Grains has about 60
customers in the Lancaster, Marietta, Mt. Joy, Manheim,
and Elizabethtown areas.
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