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VOL 37 NO. 27
Serious Beef Breeders Take EPDs To Heart
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LOYSVILLE (Perry Co.)
Small, part-time beef breed opera
tions can transform their operation
from a mere hobby to a profitable
enteiprise if they take expected
progeny differences (EPDs) to
heart when selecting dams and
sires.
The entire Pennsylvania beef
industry, in fact, is at a major
crossroads they must either
Recent Price Gain Makes Year
Look Better For Dairy Farmers
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
FREDERICK Md.—A sharp
turnaround in the Minnesota-
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
pice in April has given credence to
predictions that 1992 will be a far
better year than 1991 for area dairy
All set for a tour of the J. Leßoy Esbenshade farm in Manheim are, from left, Jay
Irwin, former Lancaster County Extension director; Elva Dajludzionek, teacher trainer
from Poland; Jozefa Wilczak, economist from Poland Agricultural Advisory Center;
Jozef Flaga, director of Agricultural Advisory Center; and Betty Irwin.
Ed Board
Puts Ag
In School
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The state Board of Educa
tion Thursday adopted wording
changes in regulations that would
put agriculture into regular school
curricula.
The changes ate to board regula
tions that concern a list of required
subjects schools must offer. The
regulations allow local district
discretion.
Thursday’s action by the board
remains a proposal until given
final approval by several review
ing boards.
However, while the changes are
still to be reviewed, the board also
put them on a fast-track because of
die support for change already
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Four Sections
begin to use EPD and other herd
performance records like serious
breeders in most other states or
suffer in an increasingly competi
tive industry, according to many
experts.
Dr. Burleigh Anderson, VMD,
Meadow Mist Farms, understands
the importance of developing and
using herd performance and EPD
records when managing his stock.
Anderson, who manages a
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fanners.
The M-W, as the {vicing mea
sure is known, jumped 48 cents this
past month, to $11.46 a hundred
weight for 3.5-percent-fat milk.
The U.S. Department of Agricul
ture uses the M-W to set prices in
its nationwide federal order
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Turkey Houses The Length Of Three Football Fields
Perhaps the longest turkey raising building east of the
Mississippi River, the roofs on this pair of 915-foot long
buildings stand out against the less reflective greenery in
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 16, 1992
Ed Gilbert, right, manages the 100-cow Angus beef breeding herd on the Meadow
Mist Farm operated by Dr. Burleigh Anderson, VMD, Loysvllle. Anderson’s cattle are
carefully tracked using herd performance and EPD records. Photo by Andy Andrews
Polish Agricultural Advisors
Observe American Industry
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
In an effort to help Polish farmers,
two representatives from the Agri
cultural Advisory Centre in
Boguchwala toured Lancaster
County farms this week.
Former Lancaster County
Cooperative Extension Director
Jay Irwin hosted the Polish visi
tors, Josef Raga, director of the Ag
Centre, and Josefa Wilczak, eco
nomist and interpreter.
“It’s a delight to have these two
special guests visit us,” Irwin said.
“They were instrumental in help
ing me with my work in Poland.”
Last year, Irwin spent six
months in Poland where he taught
marketing skills and laid the
groundwork for setting up western
cooperatives.
the southeastern part of Lebanon County. The buildings are
actually longer than three football fields stretched end-to
end. See story, page A 26.
60c Par Copy
Irwin took along slides of local
farms, which he used to show the
Polish people how farming is done
in Pennsylvania. One of those
farms was the poultry operation of
J. Leßoy and Judy Esbenshade of
Manheim.
When the guests arrived at the
Esbenshade farm on Tuesday, they
immediately recognized the farm
as the one that Irwin had photo
graphed, which is known as one of
the most attractive farms in the
county.
The Esbenshades cash crop hay,
corn, and soybeans on their
107-acre farm and on an additional
85 acres that they rent. They own
90,000 layers and showed the
guests how the eggs are packed.
The Esbenshade operation is
much larger than those in Poland,
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