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Brian Lake specializes In obtaining boar semen from six
commercial breeds and selling It across the country to
breeding operations. For 2l, son of
Donald and Mama Lake, Big Cove Tannery, will be named
FFA Eastern Star Farmer at the 6Sth National FFA Conven
tion, which begins next Thursday and lasts through Satur
day in Kansas City, Mo.
Tour Investigates
Deer Damage Problem
LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
BEDFORD (Bedford Co.)
Seeking a mutual solution to a
complicated problem, farmers,
hunters, conservationists, politi
cians. and other interested indivi
duals took a bus tour of Bedford
County recently to survey deer
damage.
“Deer are changing agriculture
in Bedford County,” said Richard
The state meat Judging team practices for the national competitions by Judging
retail cuts of meat at Stoltzfus Meats Inc. in Intercourse where coach Jeff Craig works
as a butcher. From the left, clockwise, are Wendali Landis, Dwain Livengood, Tracy
Bollinger, Angela Erb, coach Anita Meek, coach Craig, and Chester Hughes, coach
and Lancaster County Extension livestock agent.
Four Sections
Hershberger, standing near a
damaged cornfield on his farm
located just south of Everett
“Neighbors quit growing com
because of the deer damage. Con
sequently, they all moved into our
fields. We sold off our dairy cows
because we could no longer pro
vide feed for them.”
Com crop loss on the Hershber
ger farm was estimated to be
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7, 1992
FFA Eastern Star Farmer
Specializes In Selling Swine Semen
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
BIG COVE TANNERY (Fulton
Co.) —Just like the dairy industry
uses frozen semen obtained from
bull studs, Brian Lake knows the
same can be applied to swine.
That is, semen from boars can
be easily transferred to sows. And
this FFA’ers’ business, B.L. Lake
Co., specializes in obtaining boar
semen from six commercial breeds
and selling it across the country to
Milk Programs Debated
At Historical Society Meeting
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
PHILADELPHIA—The pros and
cons of government programs in
the dairy industry were debated at
the monthly meeting of the Phi
ladelphia Society for Promoting
The All-MD 100,000 lbs. cow is Savage-Leigh Glenview
Linda for Christopher Savage. Photos of both the All-
Maryiand and the All Pennsylvania Holstein winnerers are
presented on Pages C-10 & C-12 and D-4, D-5 & 0-8.
breeding operations.
For his efforts, Brian, 21, son of
Donald and Mama Lake, Big Cove
Tannery, will be named FFA East
ern Star Farmer at the 65th Nation
al FFA Convention, which begins
next Thursday and lasts through
Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.
Brian is a member of the War
fordsburg FFA Chapter."
Brian told Lancaster Farming
that he got the idea for using boar
semen when he visited two farms
Agriculture in center city last
week. And for the sake of debate,
two general managers of dairy
cooperatives took opposing views.
Dr. Paul Hand, secretary and gen
eral manager, Atlantic Dairy
Cooperative, spoke for the prog-
Meat Judging Team
Goes To Nationals
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
INTERCOURSE (Lancaster
•Co.) Four Lancaster County
youths are to leave hoe Tuesday
for Kansas City, Kan., to compete
in the national 4-H meat judging
competitions.
About 20 teams from across the
United States are expected to
attend the several day event to be
held in the Food Bam Meat Ware
house, a large wholesale meat
distributor.
According to Chester Hughes,
Lancaster County Extension lives
tock agent and coach, the team has
a strong chance of finishing in the
top five.
Almost all four team members
have had experience at the national
level and have been practicing at
several locations meat shops in
Lancaster County and at the Penn
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in Ohio. In 1983, Brian visited the
farm of Don Veihoff, in Ottawa,
and purchased his first Spotted
Swine boar. Since then, he has
increased the size of his operation
from one boar to about 400-500
head of swine, including about 300
Spotted Swine and the rest from
the Duroc, Landrace, York, Hamp
shire, and Poland China breeds.
Right now he is collecting
semen from 25 boars, which he
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rams, and Robert Vaughn,
secretary/trcasurcr and general
manager, Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Cooperative, took
the negative view.
They focused on the milk mark
eting orders and the price support
program. Hand said these prog
rams have changed over the years
to meet the changes in the dairy
industry. “Milk and milk products
still are an important part of a
healthful diet for American con
sumers," Hand said. “And milk
products continue to be produced
at fair and reasonable prices.
“On the other hand, the prices
generated by the two systems have
been at sufficient levels to bring
forth an adequate supply of milk.
The volumes of manufactured pro
ducts purchased by the Commodi
ty Credit Corporation proves that if
prices exceed those needed to pro
duce an adequate supply, more
milk will be produced than will be
sold in the marketplace. Those who
would criticize the programs must
look to different standards than
those contained in the laws author
izing the two programs. Efficient
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State Meat Lab at University Park.
The members of the team ate
Wendall Landis, Dwain Liven
good, Tracy Bollinger, Angela
Erb. Team coaches are Jeff Craig
and Anita Meek.
The Lancaster County team has
come a long way since the mid-80s
when Hughes was able to get help
in developing the program.
According to Hughes, the coun
ty had a meat judging team go to
compete at the state prior to 198 S,
but the current local support and
consistent availability of up-to
date local judging knowledge was
non-existent
In 198 S, Duff George, a summer
assistant and then-student of ani
mal science at Penn State Univer
sity, came to work for Hughes.
Hughes gave him the task of deve
loping the county 4-H meat judg
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