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VOL 37 No. 16
New Officers, Award Winners Named
At Maryland Holstein Convention
EVA MARTIN
Maryland Correspondent
NORTHEAST, Md.— The
annual convention of the Maryland
Holstein Association was held this
week at the beautiful Sandy Cove
Bible Conference Center on the
banks of the North East River with
Cecil County serving as host
William Allen, chairman of the
nominating committee, conducted
the election of new officers. Oren
PVATA Needs Your Help
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Voca
tional Agriculture Teachers Asso
ciation (PVATA) has about 160
members, all teachers or teacher
educators of agriculture.
Generally, the purpose of the
organization is to provide leader
ship and support for agricultural
education instructors and their stu
dents, statewide.
For the first time officially, the
group has hired a lobbyist to furth
er their goals for better agricultural
education within the entire school
DHIA Annual Meeting Set
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
The Pennsylvania Dairy Herd
Improvement Association’s fourth
annual meeting is set for March 6
and 7 at the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center. The conven
tion theme this year is “Let DHIA
Many Factors Determine High Corn Club Yields
Lloyd Zook, a hog and beel farmer In Oley, left, was honored with first place In the
three-year average class for shelled corn by the Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers
Association Five-Acre Com Club. The award will be presented at the 1992 Pennsylva
nia Com Conference on Tuesday at the Embers Convention Center in Carlisle. At right
is Zook’s wife, Ruth Ann. Photo by Andy Androw*.
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Four Sections
Bender from Accident will serve
as president Vice president will be
Charles lager from Fulton and
Anita Hill of Emmitsburg will
serve as secretary/treasurer.
Progressive Breeder Registry
Awards for 1991 were presented
by Thomas Dum, consultant from
the National Holstein Association.
Maryland breeders who received
this award and the number of
years they qualified were: Maple
curriculum —to create better
“agricultural literacy” among all
Pennsylvanians.
Previously, the group had a legi
slative action committee and it
realized some measure of success
with certain issues but having
fulltime ag teachers serve as lob
byists is a difficult situation, at
best
Those wishing to join the orga
nization, or donate funds to sup
port its legislative efforts, should
call G. Lowell Morton at (717)
867-1970 r-or write to Morton at
1068 E. Main St, Annville, 17003.
Help Round Up Your Profits.”
On Friday morning, meetings
for new local committee members
and directors will be held from
8:00 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. The
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 29, 1192
Lawn Farms, Inc., Fulton, 24 yrs.,
22,009 m; Marlin Hoff, New
Windsor, II yrs., 22,843 m; Carl
L. Bender, Accident, 9 yrs.,
23,226 m; Joseph A. Schwartz
beck. Union Bridge, 8 yrs.,
23,321 m; Del-Myr Farm, West
minster, 7 yrs., 22,375 m; Donald
L, Wilcom, Ijamsvilie, 7 yrs.,
22,572 m; My Lady’s Manor
Farm, Inc., Monkton, 6 yrs.,
22,373 m; University of Maryland,
Ellicott, 6 yrs., 25,045 m; Jason &
Donna Myers, New Windsor, 5
yrs., 23,377 m; Dennis E. Savage,
Keymar, 2 yrs., 23,783 m; Savage-
Leigh Farm, Knoxville, 2 yrs.,
23,491 m; Wayne E. Schrock,
Grantsville, 2 yrs., 24,721 m; Roy
W. Crow, Kennedyville, 1 yr.,
23,352 m.
Jeff Myers, chairman of the
Breed Improvement Committee,
presented the production awards
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Nutrient Management Aired At Forum
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.)
Nutrient management laws and
regulations arc certain to play a
bigger role in agriculture in the
years ahead, Michael Brubaker
told a breakfast meeting of the
Agricultural Issues Forum held at
Kreidcr’s Restaurant. What con
cerns the agricultural community
is that nobody knows exactly
where the regulations will come
from, nor what they’ll say.
Brubaker, a Lititz agronomist
who is the Forum’s managing
New officers, left to right, Charles lager, vice president,
Oren Bender, president, and Anita Hill, secretary-treasurer.
director, was summing up a fast
paced 45-minutc meeting in which
an attorney, a solid waste marten*
gcr, a county agricultural agent, a
conservationist, an environmen
talist and a legislator/farmcr, in
addition to Brubaker, presented
their sometimes conflicting views
of House Bill 496 and the larger
issues surrounding it.
After an introduction by the
meeting chairman, Jay Howes,
manager of agricultural services
for the Lancaster Chamber of
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
OLEY (Berks Co.) Seed
salesmen, take heed—you have to
consider the many varied condi
tions of a farmer’s land before you
can close the sale.
And it is a combination of fac
tors, including soil conditions, fer-,
tilization programs, management
practices, and weather patterns
that go into a successful com crop.
“I think some farms will grow
different types of seeds better than
others,” said Lloyd Zook, a hog
and cattle farmer in Oley. “Sales
reps will argue with me on that, but
I think that I can do better with
Pioneer seeds on this place than I
can with any other company."
That’s Pioneer hybrid 3241,
which netted Zook first place in the
three-year average class for
shelled com harvested from a less
than three acres sample. Zook
obtained a three-year average of
185.3 bushels per acre off of 1989
and 1990 yields (average for 1991
was 201.8 bushels per acre).
Five-Acre contest
Zook will join others who will
be honored with awards by the
Pennsylvania Master Com Grow
ers Association Five-Acre Com
Club contest at the 1992 Pennsyl
vania Com Conference on Tues-
60s Per Copy
Commerce and Industry, Lancas
ter attorney Jay Humphries called
a “gentle” approach to
nutrient management.
In today’s agricultural parlance,
“nutrient management” means
controlling how, when and were to
spread manure on farmland. HB
496 would require Pennsylvania
farmers to have nutrient manage
ment plans drawn up to provide
guidelines for the disposal of ani
mal manure.
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day at the Embers Convention
Center in Carlisle.
While Zook said that other seed
companies provide good seed,
after several years of trying diffe
rent varieties on his land and under
his growing conditions. Pioneer
proved the best
About 3-4 acres is dedicated to
com test plots on the Zook farm,
which he maintains “because it
tells me where Pioneer is at with
their numbers, and it gives me a
good idea of what’s available to
plant next year.”
But variety alone won’t neces
sarily make a winner it was a
host of factors, from planting to
harvesting, that created a winning
combination.
Blessed with rain
Weather factors in to the equa
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INDEX
Sec. A... Market Repons
& General News.
Sec. B... Women’s News,
Public Sales & Mailbox
Market.
Sec. C... Business News
& Classified 4-36.
Sec. Declassified 1-3.
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