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James Dunn holds the halter of one of the best cows of his milking herd, while standing with his
family and herdsman in front of their Schuylkill County dairy farm. Standing in back of Dunn is
herdsman Richard Hire. James’ wife Tammie stands with the couple’s three sons, who are, from the
left, Joshua, David, and Robert. The cow is Zsa Zsa and her latest dairy production record showed
milk production of 28,677 pounds in 279 days. Her milk tested out with 990 pounds of fat and 898
pounds of protein. She was fresh at 4-years, 7-months. She is classified Very Good 87.
Photo by Vern Achenbach Jr.
Dairyman’s Herd Shows Most Improvement
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW RINGGOLD (Schuylkill Co.) —The most
improved dairy herd in die state is on a farm that is an
apparent paradox to the region in which it is located.
Northeastern Schuylkill County consists of thousands
of acres of steep-hilled, hardwood forest, small mountain
streams, and Christmas tree farms.
Amid all this northwoods setting is a dairy farm that
appears lost It would look more at home in some flatland
valley in southern Pennsylvania
Farmers Should Consider Environment
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
CAMP HILL (Cumberland Co.) Fanners often face
a multitude of dilemmas. What will it mean now that Pres
ident Bush approved a $1 billion credit line to the Soviets?
In what ways can farmers control troublesome weeds,
increase their understanding of nitrates in the soil and how
they may leach into groundwater, and what this means to
Pa. Lamb And Wool Queen Crowned
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Seventeen-year-old
Arlisa Snavely of Lancaster County wears the 1991 Pen
nsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen crown.
“It’s awesome to be named queen,” Arlisa said. “I want
to use my position to make people aware how good lamb
tastes.”
The coronation took place during the Keystone She
pherds’ Symposium, held at the Lancaster Sheraton for
three days last weekend.
Arlisa, the daughter of Jim and Arlene Snavely of Lan
caster, is president of the county 4-H Woolies Club. The
Snavely s live on a small farm, but did not have sheep until
Arlisa was nine and purchased one for a 4-H project.
Her love and success with sheep breeding has grown
Four Sections
Mid-Atlantic Conservation Tillage Conference
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 15, 1990
It’s easy to imagine that some huge hand plucked the
farm right out of the heartland of dairy country and acci
dently dropped it to the earth.
And forgot about it
But the Dunn’s Farm dairy operation is far from an acci
dent, despite its unusual location.
James Dunn, 28, his father Robert and brother Steve
form Dunn’s Farm Inc., an agricultural production and
marketing family business that involves the production of
fruit vegetables, forage crops, beef and, as of three
years ago, milk.
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water quality?
Those were just some of the topics addressed Wednes
day at the 1990 Mid-Adlanllc Conservation Tillage Con
ference at the Penn Harris Convention Center. Farmers
around the region had a chance to seek expert’s views
about farming in the 19905.
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into a 20-head registered Shropshire flock.
“I prefer Shropshires because they are basically an all
around meat and wool breed. They are good natured, easy
to care for, and don’t consume a lot of food.”
Over the years, Arlisa’s breeding sheep have won
numerous grand champion awards at Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Exposition and farmshows at Manheim,
Elizabethtown, Lampeter, and Harrisburg.
She was also named 4-H Shepherd of the Year and has
participated in lead line competitions and in livestock and
meat judging.
A senior at Lancaster Mennonite School, Arlisa plans to
pursue a nursing or occupational therapy career because
she likes to help people.
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York Farmland
Trust Formed
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK (York Co.) In the last four decades, York
County has seen a loss of 39 percent of its farmland to
non-agricultural use.
And, if the rate of loss continues as it has since 1950, a
56 percent loss of the county’s farmland is likely to occur
by the year 2000.
Alarmed at statistics like those, concerned York coun
tians have discussed farmland preservation for the last
several years in numerous meetings and forums. Now,
that concern has come to fruition with the formation of
the York County Farmland Trust. The Trust is a private,
non-profit, member-supported organization formed with
the intent of providing landowners with alternatives to
converting productive farmland to non-agricultural uses.
“Development is needed, but not at the expense of our
best farmland,” said Stanley Brown, Loganville orchar
dist recently elected president of the York County Farm
land Trust. Part of a three-generation fruit production and
retail marketing family. Brown has a deep personal com
mitment to the urgent necessity to slow farmland losses.
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Editor’s Note: In June and in December, the Pen
nsylvania DHIA rrilmber newsletter appears in one of
Lancaster Fanning’s regular issues. This four-page
letter appears this week on Pages D 9-12 as part of the
ongoing goal to make management information
assembled in the DHIA computers available to our
readership and to help the Pennsylvania DHIA com
municate with its members.
In addition, other features about dairymen who
have done outstanding work with their herds and sto
ries about Pennsylvania DHIA’s services appear
throughout the paper. Of special interest will be the
“Herd Profile Tables” on Page C-5 and “A Picture of
Pennsylvania DHIA In Graphs” on Page C-2. Here’s
an index of all the DHIA articles in this issue.
D9-Dl2 DHIA Newsletter:
PA DHIA Board Meeting Summaries.
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Pa. Lamb and Wool Queen Arlisa Snavely was
crowned during the fifth annual Keystone She
pherds* Symposium held at Lancaster December
7,8, and 9.
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