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Ag Forum Brings Exploits Of Congress,
Susquehanna Water Commission Into Focus
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —An intense discussion of the
Susquehanna River Basin Com
mission’s proposed water use fees
and the impact of the attempted
government overthrow in the
Soviet Union formed the basis for a
much larger than expected atten
dence at the Ag Issues Forum
breakfast Tuesday morning.
Michael Brubaker, agronomy
consultant and founder of the for
um, said 10 reservations came in
advance for the meeting at Willow
Valley Restaurant. But before US
Congressman Robert Walker and
Robert Bielo and Richard Cairo,
executive director and secretary,
respectively, of the commission,
took the stand, 50 farmers and agri
business persons filled the small
room behind the bakery.
Milk Board Shows Support
For Drought-Stricken Farmers
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) There is no drought of talk
of support for Pennsylvania’s
dairymen who could be facing a
fall and winter with strained
income and empty feed bins.
At least from public officials.
But the private citizen has an
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Regina Landis’ Hampshire ewe lamb (“Amber”) won supreme champion sheep
honors at Elizabethtown Fair on Wednesday. Regina, a sixth grader at Locust Grove
Mennonite, has been exhibiting sheep four years and will show sheep at the Manhelm
Fair in October. At tight Is Dirk wise, Judge for the show.
Four Sections
“What’s happening in the Soviet
Union will impactUS agriculture,”
Walker said. “The Soviet Union is
a very important market for grain
and under more recent credit
oriented grain selling programs, I
think it is questionable that the
Congress would extend credit to
the new regime should the coup
stay in place.”
Walker said the reduced exports
could force the US government to
buy more surplus grain. But by
Wednesday, reports of the coup’s
failure to keep control of the Soviet
government allayed these fears and
sent November beans limit up on
the Chicago Board of Trade.
On a national drought assistance
program, Walker said he didn’t
expect a decision to be made for
several weeks. “We know we have
a drought situation in many Pen
nsylvania counties,” Walker said.
opportunity to be heard also an
informal hearing by the Pennsyl
vania Milk Marketing Board
(PMMB) is still going on and is
open to the public.
The PMMB is an agency which
was created to protect Pennsylva
nia’s dairymen. It sets prices and
regulates the industry, and
attempts to ensure fair prices and
high quality product
The current drought hearing, as
such, started August 15 as an infor
mal hearing and has continued to
remain open. It means that the
board is still accepting any and all
testimony from the general public
about the effect of the drought on
dairymen.
Those wishing to provide testi
mony may write to the board.
Envelopes should be addressed to
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 24, 1991
“But the overall national situation
still has not been fully assessed. If
we have significent losses over the
nation, I think there will be consid
erable pressure for a national
drought program.”
DAIRY PROGRAM
Walker said the national dairy
The Hamming family had roots m Holland and Canada before coming to America In
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parents Janet and Ike Hamming, with a favorite member of the dairy herd, Foothill
Acres Starwars Genie (VGBB-EX Mammary).
Hamming Family’s Roots In Holland ,
Have Successful New Jersey Dairy
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
WANTAGE, N J. When you
talk cows with Dee and Bruce Ham
ming, you get a feeling of interna
bill that did not get out of commit
tee had both economic and political
ramifications. “Economically, the
bill went in a direction that we in
this nation have long rejected,”
Walker said. “It imposed enforc
able guarantees in the market place
and was specifically an attempt by
the mid-West to redefine the
tional roots that have grown into a
very practical registered Holstein
family farm. And when you walk
through the bams, you see the
strength, dairy character, and good
udders on these cows that let you
know why this is the top 1990
DHIA herd in Sussex County.
From the time he was 18 years
old, growing up in Holland, Ike
had the desire to immigrate. And
when he was 24 years old, he found
his wife, Janet, who had the same
desire. So after the immigration
papers were in order, they were
Regina Landis Brings Home
Supreme Sheep At E-town
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) Regina Landis showed
total surprise and astonishment at
clutching the coveted trophy. She
admitted that she did a lot better
this year than last, picking up
supreme champion sheep at the
Elizabethtown Fair Wednesday.
Regina, a sixth grader at Locust
Grove Mennonite, exhibited her
Hampshire ewe lamb, “Amber,” in
the middle of one of the longest
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national market in ways so that
they can introduce their porducts
into what has traditionally been
Northeast markets.
“Everybody in the Northeast
needs to understand what’s hap
pening here,” Walker said. “I real
ize a lot of dairy co-ops could care
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married and left home to cross the
ocean on a nine-day trip to Canada.
“It was a big honeymoon
cruise,” Ike said with a laugh. “Six
of the nine days we were seasick.”
After the Hammings arrived in
Canada, Ike worked in a coal and
lumber yard for a year and then
became a herdsman for two years
before coming to America in 1956.
Soon they started farming and rais
ing their family of children, which
includes Peter, Margret, Bruce,
Renee, and Ray.
“It’s complctly different now
and largest sheep shows in Pen
nsylvania. The Landis family,
including brother Wendall, nearly
swept the awards in the Hampshire
breed class.
Regina, daughter of Abe and
Dottie Landis, Manheim, has exhi
bited four years at the Elizabeth
town Fair. The family manages 60
Hampshire sheep at West View
Acres, and she plans to show at the
Manheim Fair m October. Regina
also showed for two years at the
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19.00 Per Year
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