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VOL 36 No. 13
Lebanon County Dairy Bowl Teams Capture State Titles
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
NORTH LEBANON (Lebanon
Co.) For the second year in a
row, the Lebanon County Dairy
Bowl team has taken first place in
the state bowl contest.
In addition, the state’s junior
dairy bowl team is also from Leba
non County, making it the first
Maryland
Convention
Details Set
BELTSVILLE, Md. The
1991 Maryland Holstein Conven
tion is set to be held March 8 at the
Turf Valley Hotel and Country
Club in Ellicott City, according to
association officials.
The schedule of events includes
the annual business meeting,
awards presentations, a number of
informational programs and work
shops for adults and youth, a ban
quet and a sale.
The two-day convention is split
with all activities, except the sale,
to be held on Friday, March 8. The
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Equipment Manufacturers Project 1991 Sales
CHICAGO, 111. When pre
dictions made by equipment
manufacturing companies are
consolidated into an industry out
look, unit retail sales in 1991 of
farm machinery and farmstead
type equipment are expected to be
steady to slightly down, with dol
At the 1991 Keystone Cornucopia are, left to right, Sen. Patrick Stapleton, Penn
State Dean Lamartine Hood, Sen. Edward Helfrick, Rep. Jess Stairs, Rep. Kenneth
Cole, Sec. Boyd Wolff and Rocco Pugllese, Council president.
Cornucopia Invites Legislators To Dinner
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —In case state legislators
needed to be reminded that agricul
ture and agribusiness are Pennsyl
vania’s number one industries, the
Five Sections
time that both the state’s senior and
junior dairy bowl teams have come
from the same county.
Both teams earned the titles dur
Forthe second year in a row Lebanon County’s dairy bowl team has won the right to
represent the state in the national dairy bowl contest scheduled to take place in Sioux
Falls, S.D. at the national convention of the National Holstein Association. From the
left are Angie Bollinger, David Lentz, Terry Hill, Duane Nolt and coach Mike Kunkle.
Representatives from Lebanon County also made a ‘first’ in that the junior division
dairy bowl team also comes from that county and will also go to the nationals.
lar volume projected by many
companies to be on par with the
previous year.
Farm equipment sales last year
continued many of the increases
recorded in 1989 15 to 25 per
cent for many product lines. A fa
vorable crop year, good commodi
State Council, of Farm Organiza
tions invited them to dinner. This
happened Monday evening at the
1991 Keystone Cornucopia where
the $4O per plate dinner featured all
kinds of good fruits, vegetables,
breads and meats all produced
in Pennsylvania. The event,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4, 1991
ing the Junior Holstein Associa
tion’s annual convention held last
weekend in Reading. The teams
are to go on to represent the state in
ty prices, increased acres farmed,
strengthened farmer financial
positions and previously delayed
equipment purchases combined to
result in strong sales for farm field
equipment
Manufacturing members sur
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attended by 400 farm and political
representatives, was held in the
Harrisburg Hilton several blocks
from the capitol building in Straw
berry Square.
The keynote speaker, Dr.
Lamartine Hood, dean at Penn
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the national dairy bowl contests, to
be held in Sioux Falls, S.D., during
the National Holstein Convention,
June 24 through 27.
Lebanon County LI’I Miss Dairy Princess Katy Lentz lives
with her parents, Gary and Barbara Lentz, and brother, Dus
tin. The Lentz’s milk 80 Holstelns and farm 130 acres near
Jonestown. Turn to page 810 to read more about Katy.
Photo by Lou Ann Good.
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The members of the Lebanon
senior team team, except for one,
arc the same as last year’s senior
team: David Lentz, Terry Hill,
Duane Knoll, and last year’s alter
nate Angie Bollinger.
Last year’s team didn’t fare well
at the nationals, but with the exper
ience of one national competition
under its belt, members expect to
be better prepared for the national
competition.
On ihe top state junior team are:
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Grandin Warns
Cattle Industry
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —“Bruises cost the cattle
industry large, large, large
amounts of money,” said Dr.
Temple Grandin, assistant profes
sor of animal science at Colorado
State University. Grandin spoke to
about 150 cattle farmers at the
Lancaster Co. Cattle Feeder’s Day
on Tuesday.
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