AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 18, 1991 OPINION Hope Increase Gets To Producer Laic last week USDA Secretary Edward Madigan announced several steps to help alleviate the financial stress experienced by dairy farmers. “The dairy industry is experiencing difficulty, which is creating hardship for our dairy farmers. They need our help, and I’m going to do everything I can, given USDA’s budget ary and legislative constraints, to ease their most pressing con cerns,” Madigan said. According to the National Milk Producers Federation News Letter, USDA will take the following shortrterm relief actions: • Make advance purchases this year for next year’s school lunch and other domestic feeding programs. • Temporarily suspend the resale of CCC cheese and nonfat dry milk stocks so that inventory is isolated from the market while prices are at or near the support price level. • Make dairy products fully available for export credit or food aid donation programs. • Expand the DEIP to include cheese as an eligible export com modity. • Facilitate the use of DEIP by providing risk protection to pri vate exporters who may be harmed by unpredictable future actions of the CCC to adjust the relative price support between butter and nonfat dry milk. • Expand the use of dairy products under the Section 416 dona tion program by including nonfat dry milk as an eligible product for donation. We hope the increase in price expected from USDA’s action gels to the producer and is not all absorbed by the handlers and retailers in the milk marketing chain. Farm Calendar Saturday Mac 18 Armed Forces l)a> Mid-Atlantic Herding Slock Dog Club herding clinic, McVeytown. Bedford Co. Sheep and Wool Field Day, Bedford Fairgrounds, Bedford, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Pa. Hampshire Sheep Association annual Field Day, Tom Nicke son Farm, Wellsboro, 11 a.m. Pa. Young Dairymen’s Associa tion, central district, meeting, Morrow Farm. Bradford-Sullivan Forest Land owners Assoc, Stoll Resource Clearfield Co. estate planning, Mulliservice Center, 7 p.m.-9 - 30 p.m. PcnnAg 1991 Government Reg ulations Conference, Eden Resort Inn, Lancaster, 9:30 Christmas Tree pest management workshop and tour, McCurdy Tree Farm, Dillsburg, 9:30 Clinton Co. Expo ’9l, Lock Haven University, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building 1 E Mam St Ephrata PA 17522 -by- Lancaster Farming, Inc. A Stemman Enterprise Robert G Campbell General Manager Everett P Newswanger Managing Editor Copyright INO by Lancaster Farming * > V! * -*L Thursday. Mac 23 Lancaster Co. Home Horticulture Seminar, Simple Garden Che mistry, Farm and Home Center, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Milk Producers Voluntary Ag Association annual meeting, Baron’s Inn, Greene, N.Y.. Centre Co. Dairy Princess Pageant, Logan Grange Hall, Northwest Keystone Junior Beef Farm Forum Editor, We appreciate the article you wrote in your newspaper regard ing the National Corn Yield Con test that we run at the National Corn Growers Association, enclosed is a copy of an article we received anonymously from someone in Harrisburg, that had a few questions about the contest. The only way we know to get an answer back to this person is by another article in your newpaper. Hoffcr entered a fifteen acre plot in the contest and harvested VA acres. The contest rules To Vote Tuesday, May 21 is Primary Election Day in Pennsylvania. This is the election to determine the candidates for this fall elec tion. Many key local officials will be elected this year. School board members, county commissioners, and judges are a few of offices to be elected this year. These local Classic, Crawford Co. Fair grounds, Meadville, thru May 26. Monday, Ma\ 27 Memorial Day Snyder Co. farmland preservation meeting, Middleburg High School. 8 p.m. EAYFA Ag Issues, “Food Safe ty,” Kreider’s Restaurant, 7:30 a.m. Chester Co. Dairy Princess Pageant, Herr Foods Auditor ium, Nottingham, 7:30 p.m. Bucks/Montgomery Co. Dairy Princess Pageant, Richland Mali, Quakeitown. Wayne Co. Dairy Princess Pageant, Belmont Fire Hall, Pleasant Ml, 8 p.m. (Turn to Page AST) require a continuous plot of at least 10 acres of corn to enter and 1.25 acres of corn must be harvested. He also entered his field in the irrigated class with the intentions of having an irrigated plot. It just happened to be a good year and mother nature was on his side and irrigated the field for him. The irrigated class is defined in the rules as “Mechanical or man made irrigation must be entered in an irrigated class.” David R. Drennan Field Services Director National Corn Growers Asso. officials have a big influence on agriculture. Their policies, alloca tions of resources, views on deve lopment, environment, consumer rights and agriculture will effect the future of your business. Take time to become familiar with the candidates and then vote for the candidates that will best represent your interests. To Use Pesticides Wisely Spring planting season is one of agricultures heavy use period of pesticides. We use them to protect our crops and increase yields. However, to achieve best results while protecting the environment, pesticides must be used correctly. First, always read the label and follow label directions. This must be done every time you use a pes ticide because labels maybe change by the government Atra zine is one example. Labels are developed to meet EPA regula tions and protect the applicator, the public and the environment Secondly, protect your farms underground water. Never fill your sprayer near a well or spring. Avoid spills when mixing pesti cides. Move the location of your mixing site periodically. When WHO’S PUSHING YOUR BUTTONS? May 19,1991 Background Scripture: 2 Cor inthians 5:6-20. Devotional Reading: 2 Timothy 1:8-14. That is the title to one of the chapters in our book, Whau You Need Is What You've Got. In it, my wife Valere and I say: "If you are married to an alcoholic, if you’re the parent of a problem child or the child of domineering parents, if you are a hen-pecked husband or an abused wife, you are likely allowing someone else to press the buttons that control your life both without and within." It doesn't matter what we call it "pulling your own strings," let ling others manipulate you, sur rendering to your fate you are permitting someone or something else to run what God put into your hands alone your life, your self. In counselling others I have often found that many people feel that they have little or no control over their lives. They are what they are because someone made them that way God, parents, teachers, etc. Other people are powerful, while they feel weak and helpless. LEARNED HELPLESSNESS But none of us are bom helpless or hopeless; that is something we learn, according to Professor Mar tin E. P. Seligman of the Universi ty of Pennsylvania. And we tend to team these better than almost anything. The good news is that if we have learned to be helpless, we can also learn to be the opposite. cleaning the sprayer, rinse it at least three times. Always spray the rinse water back on the field where the product was used. By properly using pesticides, we will improve crop performance, pro tect people and the environment and insure the future use of pesticides. To Check Standby Generators The recent storms remind us electricity maybe interrupted any time. If have not been routinely checking your standby generators, you should start now. Make sure they will self start when the electr icity goes off. Make sure you have adequate fuel to run the generators for several hours. Call the electric company to see if your farm may receive a priority rating for restor ing the electricity in case of an outage. Make adjustments on electrical usage in your operation to fit the electrical output of your generator. Finally have someone stay close to the operation when severe weather and thunderstorm watches and warnings are issued. Remember, a watch indicates con ditions are suitable for a thunder storm and a waring indicates thun derstorms are present in the area. The difference lies in what or who we let "push our buttons." For we were not created not any of us! to be manipulated or controlled by anything or anyone. Paul says to the Corinthians: "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (3:17). All of us need to make a dec iaration of independence from our manipulating habits, our imprisoning ’’is and attitudes, and our enslaving emotions. There isn't anyone who cannot do that, if they really want to! Sometimes, particularly if our bondage has been a long-term experience, it seems our bonds are 100 powerful for us to break. So, instead of grilling our teeth and struggling against these negative powers, we need to focus on a positive that is stronger than all the negatives. For example, if right now I command you not to think of strawberry shortcake, I suspect that, no matter how much you might want to comply, you have strawberry shortcake on your mind. You can't defeat a negative with a negative "Don't!" But you can defeat it with a stronger positive "Do!" So, if I ask you to please think of your favorite food, the strawberry shortcake will be gone. IMMERSED IN LOVE That's how we can free ourselves of being controlled by concentrating on a positive that is stronger: the love of Christ. Paul says to the Corinthians, "For the love of Christ controls u 5..." (5: 14). If we immerse ourselves in the love of Christ we will find the negatives will not be able to push our buttons. We will be motivated by it and that will overpower everything else. If we choose to let the love of Christ at the center of our lives, we cannot be victims only victors. (Sued on copyrighted Outline# produced by the Committee on the Uniform Senes and used by permission Released by Community & Sub urban Press) STILL VERY
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