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VOL 36 NO. 11
For the first time on record, two students from the same FFA chapter won both top
FFA state awards. The Mohawk Chapter FFA winners are Edward Clark, left, named
State Star Farmer, and Robert Hodge, named State Star Agribusinessman. Read
about these ambitious teens on page 83.
Swine Producers Should
Sign Up For Pseudorabies Program
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Secretary of Agriculture Boyd
E. Wolff urged swine producers in
northern Lancaster County to join
a voluntary vaccination program
designed to stop the spread of
pseudorabies.
“The Department of Agricul
ture, the Lancaster Pork Producers
Council, and the Pennsylvania
Pork Producers Council have
joined forces to eradicate pseudo
rabies,” Wolff said.
“Our efforts are in tune with the
national PRV eradication prog
ram,” he said.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
has created an area vaccination
program for swine producers
north of Route 30 in Lancaster
County.
Together with the Lancaster
Pork Producers Council and the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers
Council, the Bureau of Animal
Franklin Co. Cow Has Best Udder
BONNIE BRECHBILL
Franklin Co. Correspondent
CHAMBERSBURG (Franklin
Co.) A fancy 3-year-old cow
earned both the reserve grand
champion and the best uddered
cow rosettes for her owners in the
Holstein competition at the Pen
nsylvania Farm Show.
Happy M Chapel Mitzy, owned
by Craig and Nikki Woodring of
Chambersburg, produces about
19,000 pounds of milk and 700
pounds of fat. She is 45 days fresh.
The Woodrings purchased her
from Stonehurst Farm of Stras
burg, Lancaster County, in Octob
er 1990.
The Woodrings farm with
Craig’s parents, Merle and Nancy
Woodring of Ment-Wood Farm.
Craig, 30, has been showing his
cows at the Farm Show for the
past five years. While he and his
father have a shelf full of trophies
bom the Franklin County Fair,
this was their first big Farm Show
win.
Five Sections
Industry considers all of Lancaster
County north of Route 30 as a
PRV epizootic area, and is encour
aging vaccination of all swine for
nsendffl-flhir.s within this area.
• This will be a voluntary prog
ram to vaccinate all PRV
susceptible swine in this desig
nated area until PRV has been
reduced to a prevalence level
compatible with more definitive
eradication measures. Swine pro
ducers have been advised to use
genetically engineered “marker”
vaccines that make possible dif
ferentiation between hogs infected
with the field virus and nonin
fected vaccinated hogs. Each
“marker” vaccine has its own
unique differential test kit. The
use of these products will require
record keeping on the part of the
herd owner.
• The department’s Summer
dale Laboratory is being equipped
“We got two or three offers to
sell Mitzy after she won the
3-ycar-old class,” Woodring said.
He admitted to being “a little
scared” during the 3-year-old
class. By the time he paraded Mit
zy around the ring in the champ
ionship class, though, he figured
he “had a shot at it. It was down to
three cows, the judge eliminated
one, and it was between the
5-year-old and the 3-year-old,” he
said.
Woodring said he was not dis
appointed when the judge went
with the 5-year-old. “I was full of
smiles,” he said. “Then he turned
around and gave her (Mitzy) the
best udder of the show.”
“That meant as much as any
thing,” his father said. The senior
Woodring had fitted Mitzy for the
show.
Nikki was also leading a cow in
the championship class. C North
Star SBuck Duchess, a 4-year-old
dry cow, had won the 3- and
4-year old dry cow class.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26, 1991
to perform these tests. Differential
testing at the Summerdale Labor
atory should be available by early
1991. It will be absolutely essen
tial that these vaccines and/or syr
inges and needles used to adminis
ter PRV vaccine do not come into
contact with other farm animals
such as cats, dogs, cattle, sheep,
etc. PRV vaccine accidentally
injected into species of animals
other than swine may result in
pseudorabies infection. There is
no threat to human health from
these products.
• All herds will be vaccinated
and monitored according to a plan
approved by the Pennsylvania
Swine Producers Pseudorabies
Eradication Committee. The plan
will be part of a cooperative agree
ment between the Department, the
producer, and the herd
veterinarian.
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Craig and Nikki Woodring’s 3-year-old cow, Happy M Chapel Mitzy, was named
reserve grand champion and best-uddered cow in the Holstein Show at the Farm
Show.
500 Per Copy
Agribusiness Responds
To Hiring Survey
LANCASTER, (Lancaster Co.)
Although many economists are
predicting a downturn for the U.S.
economy, hiring activity within
agribusiness appears to be strong.
Of those firms responding to the
“Hiring Intentions Survey,”
38.5% indicated that they plan to
increase the number of employees
in 1991; 49.7% indicated they
plan no change in the number of
employees. Only 4.5% indicated
plans to reduce the number of
employees, and 7.3% indicated no
Cornucopia Approaches
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Since 1981, the State Council
of Farm Organizations has been
pairing agricultural and food
industry leaders with state legisla
tors and policymakers over plates
of Pennsylvania produced delica
cies. The Keystone Cornucopia
has become the premier food
celebration for the agricultural
industry.
This year’s dinner is scheduled
for February 4th and will be held
at the newly opened Harrisbuig
Hilton Hotel! The location on
Market Square, attached to the
Pork Congress Set
CAMP HILL (Cumberland Co.)
The thirteenth annual Keystone
Pork Congress will be held Febru
ary 20, 1991 at the Penn Harris
Inn in Camp Hill. This year’s KPC
will feature a trade show with
more than 40 exhibits, a “Pork
Bowl” contest and public speak
ing competition for 4-H and FFA
members, educational seminars
and the annual banquet of the Pen
nsylvania Pork Producers Coun
cil. Dr. Kelly Donham, a veterina
$15.00 Per Year
decision had been made regarding
the size of their work force.
The “Hiring Intentions Survey”
is conducted by AGRI-associates,
Lancaster. They survey firms in
the agribusiness industry con
cerning the size of their work
force and other issues relating to
hiring employees. In this year’s
survey, 179 responses were
received.
Of all respondents, 26.8% indi
cated plans to add personnel in
(Turn to Page ASS)
Strawberry Square parking gar
age, and only a few blocks from
the Capital is guaranteed to be
attractive to both agricultural
groups and to state officials. Park
ing in Strawberry Square is inex
pensive and convenient; simply
exit the parking garage elevators
in the “Arcade” level, turn right,
and continue to the Hilton
entrance.
The menu for this year will
include entrees of chicken, pork,
and bwf as well as Pennsylvania
potatoes, vegetables, fruit, and
(Turn to Page A 23)
rian from the Institute of Agricul
tural Medicine at the University of
lowa is the featured speaker on the
educational program and will dis
cuss “Human Health Risks in
Your Swine Facilities”. Invited
banquet speaker is Jane Hieb, of
Stone Meadow Communications
in Strum Wisconsin. For a prog
ram copy, contact your county
extension office. To make banquet
reservations, call Stephen Burk
holder '(215) 682-2871.