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VOL. 35 No. 48
Mum Farm Blooms With 3,000 Varieties During Fall Season
In 1958, Harold Krelder and his wife, Esther, planted some mum cuttings
beside their chicken house. When they began to cross pollinate the fail flow
ers, people from near and far came to admire them. Their hobby turned into a
Participating In a ceremony dedicating the plaque honor
ing members of the Pennsylvania Livestock Association
(PLA) Hall of Fame are, from left, state Agriculture Secretary
Boyd E. Wolff; Peter Krall, a PLA director; and Dennis
Grumblne, association president. The plaque, located in the
small arena of the Farm Show Complex, was dedicated dur
ing the 34th annual Keystone International Livestock
Exposition. The portrait in the center Is of Lester Burdette,
1990 Livestock Man of the Year.
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Lancaster Fanr'ng, Saturday, October 13,1990
Burdette Named 1990 Livestock Man
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Lives
tock Association (PLA) has named
a veteran extension livestock spe
cialist to its Livestock Hall of
Fame and dedicated a plaque hon
oring all winners of the award.
In a ceremony at the 34th annual
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition (KILE), Lester A. Bur
dette, extension professor emeritus
at Penn State, was named 1990
Livestock Man of the Year. Due to
a prior commitment, Burdette was
unable to attend the program.
A photograph of Burdette,
which was unveiled during the
program, will be added to the new
Hall of Fame plaque, mounted on
the east wall of the small arena in
PAFC Honors Stainbrook And Marvin
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The message fanners have
for consumers is complex and not
emotional enough to be attractive.
But Stephanie Peters, represent
ing Dupont and the Ag Council of
America, told farm leaders at the
annual meeting of the Pennsylva
nia Association of Farmer
Cooperatives (PAFC) last week
thriving business with more than 3,000 varieties now planted in their fields
located on a Litltz farm. The story about a visit to the Kreider Farm can be
found on Page B-2. Photo by Lou Ann Good.
the Farm Show Complex. The
large red-and-green unit features
individual photos of other winners
of the award.
Many of the previous winners
attended the dedication.
Burdette, currently a resident of
the Huntingdon County communi
ty of Pennsylvania Furnace, holds
Eastern Milk Pays Profits
SYRACUSE, N.Y. —Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative paid
out $1.2 million in profits to dairy
farmers in the form of cash bon
uses over the past fiscal year, co
op officials announced at Eastern’s
annual meeting on Sept. 27.
That payout is the largest since
that science is on the side of agri
culture and consumers, and the
media is responding to facts and
taking a more balanced approach.
“Agriculture is, by far, the most
efficient and successful renewable
industry,” Peters said. “We need to
correct the flow of misinformation
and comfort the American public
by putting credibility into the sci
ence part of our message. We need
to demonstrate the technological
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bachelors, masters, and PhD
degrees in animal husbandry from
Penn State University.
After Army service, he was an
assistant agriculture agent in York
County from 1957-1958 and
extension livestock specialist at
Penn Stale from 1958 until his
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the co-op started to use profits for
ongoing bonuses. Eastern Presi
dent Lewis Gardner said.
In 1987, he said, the board of
directors decided to return profits
monthly to member farmers in the
form of cash premiums, rather than
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benefits to the public and commu
nicate facts about the existing safe-
ty mechanisms that are in place.
We need to stimulate pndc in the
American agricultural system and
simplify the message so consumers
can understand and believe our
reports.”
Peters said the Ag Council of
America has sponsored the Food-
Watch Program to address food
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$15.00 Per Year