t. fIT ~ *nw^Bfc< q i il #*l in \il If IHu Bi .*■■ l »^ 1 *' IMHT i■ if /. L rt ilnl 11 11 1 11 m ■ . VOL 37 NO. 2 Happy Thanksgiving! ADC Challenged To Face Future With 74th Annual Meeting LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (LANCASTER CO.) About 965 members were encouraged to face the future with confidence at Atlantic Dairy Cooperative’s (ADC) 74th annual meeting held Thursday and Friday at the Lancaster Host Resort. “ADC is the largest and most financially sound cooperative in the region,” Dr. Paul Hand, gener Build Relationships, Hood Tells Farmers ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff GUTHRIESVILLE (Chester Co.) Dean Lamartine F. Hood remembered driving across Rt 322 to give a speech to Chester Countians at the fire hall. Along the way, he encounterd the odor of freshly spread manure. ‘ T must tell you, for an old farm boy, it was wonderful,” he said to the crowd of about 400 on Wed nesday night at the Chester Co. Extension dinner meeting. “But I can imagine that for some it might be very difficult” An increasing amount of city Lamartine F. Hood, dean of Penn State College of Agricul ture Sciences, spoke at the Chester Co. Extension dinner meeting Wednesday night. Hood told the countlans the time Is right to “build relationships with those people who live next to our farms.” Photo by Andy Andnwa. Four Sections al manager for Atlantic, told mem bers. “We are facing the future with confidence.” Among a splash of yellow rib bons, Hand gave a passionate plea for unity among milk producers and commodity groups to change national policy to assist dairy fanners. This year, Atlantic and other cooperatives struggled unsuccess fully to promote a two-tier pricing dwellers have relocated to the countryside right next to estab lished area terms. This develop ment pressure has driven some far mers out of farming. Build relationships But Hood, dean of Penn State’s College of Agriculture Sciences, told the countians the time is right to “build relationships with those people who live next to our farms. “Farmland is under enormous pressure in this county,” he said. “It’s declining. But you still have a significant number of high quality areas of good farmland.” Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 23, 1991 system as a means to manage the nation’s milk supply and to increase dairy farmer income. “Such a system would reduce surpluses and bring Class I prices at free market levels well above prices recently experienced by the industry,” said Hand. “There was enough disunity from other milk producers and commodity groups to prevent the (Turn to Pago ASS) Hood called it a challenge for farmers to continue the kinds of traditional agricultural practices ■ “when we have the tremendous pressures we are seeing from not only developing, but from simply having a much more dense popula tion in the area.” Hood recalled speaking with a ‘ urmer recently on a trip to New York, The farmer frequently strives to build relationships with the neighbors who live close the farm. The farmer holds cookouts. provides manure for neighbor gar dens, and “does a lot of things to (Turn to. Pag* ASS) Holiday Deadlines The Lancaster Farming office will be doted Thursday, Novem ber 28 in observance of Thanks giving. Deadlines for the Novem ber 30 issue are as follows: • Mailbox Market Ads Noon, Monday. • Public Sale Ads 5:00 p.m., Monday. • General News Noon, Wednesday. • Classified Section C Ads 5:00 p.m., Tuesday. • All other Classified Ads 9:00 a.m., Wednesday. Five-year-old James Martin thinks feeding com to these capons and ducks is great fun, but the pleasure will soon end for these birds when they become some body’s Thanksgiving feast. Capon meat is tender, flavorable, and juicy and is often used for holiday feasting because it pro vides twice the breast meat of a roasting chicken. Turn to page 812 to read about the capon raising business of Vernon and Sue Martin. Photo by Lou Ann Good. PFA President Keith Eckel, left, presents the Distin guished Service Award to E. Chet Heim, former lobbyist cre dited with establishing the current lobbying and legislative program within the organization. PFA Meets, Sets Policy, Recognizes Dedication VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.) Representatives of mem bers of the Pennsylvania Farmers Association (PFA) met this past week at Hershey Motor Lodge and Convention Center for its state convention. The theme of the convention, ‘Together We’re Making A Dif ference!” was emphasized through numerous statements about the benefits of being united, especially with the economy and farm prices being as low as they have. The convention also reached strong emotional levels along the same theme of unity, loyalty and dedication, during its banquet when its first president and found er, and the man who founded its lobbying efforts were both pre sented with the PFA Distinguished Service Award, normally pre sented to one individual each year. The PFA represents 23,049 farm families in S 4 local associa tions and is affiliated with the 600 Per Copy National Farm Bureau. While most states carry the words “farm bureau” in their own organization names, the PFA was named to avoid confusion with a long defunct commercial business which was called the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. During the PFA annual conven tion, delegates from all of Pennsyl vania’s local (mostly county) orga nizations vote on issues each coun ty group presented for discussion. See. A~Markct Reports Sf General News. Sec. 8... Women's News, Public Sales & Mailbox Market Sec. C... Business News & Classified 4-36. Sec. Declassified 1-3. See Story Index Page A 3. 19.00 Per Year (Turn to Page A 22) INDEX
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