A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 20, 1993
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many dairy organizations in Sus
quehanna County. Both serve as
4-H dairy leaders and dairy judging
team coaches. They have received
DHIA awards in herd manage
ment, high herd for milk and high
herd for protein. Loyd serves on
the executive committee of the
Pennsylvania Holstein Association
and Denise is on the State Youth
Committee. They are members of
the Jackson Baptist Church and
have two young children who they
hope will be interested in the dairy
industry in the future.
CONVENTION SALE
Six hundred Holstein breeders
jamed into the ball room to partici
pate in the highly touted conven
tion sale. Two beautiful heifers
topped the sale at $12,300 each.
The first animal in the ring was
Tidy-Brook Sunny Mascot-ET
from Marie Meyers, Greencastle.
Mascot, the four-month-old by
Singing-Brook N-B Mascot and
out of the home-bred Sally Cleitus
cow sold to Michael and Evon
Your Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The first call In the ring, TkJy-Brook Sunny Mascott-ET, brought $12,300.
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Young had an open phone line to
Ken Raney with the bid.
The other heifer at the top price
was Norz-Hill Leader Whissel
consigned by Lester Poust, Muncy,
and sold to Bruce Bollinger, Leba
non. The just-fresh Whissle is out
of Kinglca Leader and an excellent
Ned Boy daughter with an out
standing bottom side of the
pedigree.
Third high was Mowry Mascot
Happy-ET consigned by Steven
Mowry. Roaring Spring and sold to
Hillside Farms and Pen-Col Farm
at Shavertown for $l,lOO. Fourth
high was the first choice of eight
females transferred 10/92, con
signed by James McMath 11, ML
Union and sold to Jonell Syndicate,
Richmond, CT. for $lO,BOO.
The gross sales were $259,900
and the average on 71 head was
$3,628.
Pennsylvania will host the
National Holstein Convention in
Pittsburgh in 1995, and before the
cattle sale here Thursday evening,
space was sold in the convention
booklet as follows. The Cattle
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Farm Forum
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al commented that unnecessary
burdens are put on them by the
pressures of environmental inter
ests. Wetlands preservation is get
ting out of hand. Developers offer
high prices for open land. People
do not need these expensive
houses. Diversification has been
tried but it does not work.
There is much misunderstand
ing of legislation pertaining to
controlling run off from fertilizer
and manure. One farmer men
tioned that experts tell the farmer
how many pounds of fertilizer
they need per acre. Another said
he does not like someone coming
to his farm and telling him how to
use fertilizer and manure. It was
stressed that the fanners are under
Exchange, back cover. $1,800;
Backus Pcdegrces, inside back
cover, $1,200; Noithvlew Farm,
inside front cover, $1,350;
Singing-Brook Farm, opposite
inside back cover, $1,250; and
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undue duress for the pollution in
the Chesapeake Bay. One said
vacationers with money don’t like
the seaweed but it helps to remove
impurities from the water.
Municipal waste treatment
facilities and industrial treatment
plants discharge their effluent into
the waterways. Malfunctions and
overflows caused by flooding feed
pollutants directly into the
streams. Treated leacheate flows
into the Conestoga Creek from the
Lancaster Landfill. Farmers are
taking a disproportionate blame
for pollution. Cooperation
between agriculture, industry and
towns is die only way to solve the
problem.
Chicken and pig manure from
intensive growing operations can
be removed and sold to crop grow
ers who do not have livestock,
such as Delaware.
Tobacco is Lancaster County’s
number one cash crop. Two far
mers said they have not sold their
1992 crop yet Each had only one
buyer come to their farm. They
think the buyers are waiting for
the price to come down. One far
mer said he will not plant tobacco
again because of unstable prices.
In 1991 he got SI.6S per pound
for his tobacco but in 1992 he only
got $.98 per pound for the same
type. There are too few buyers and
too much government interfer
ence. Even the buyers do not
know why the prices are down or
why they cannot buy a particular
type. However, both the state and
federal governments reap much
more in tax revenue per pack of
cigarettes than the farmer gets for
growing the tobacco in it.
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In 1993, milk producers expect
to get 4% to 9% or $.50 to $.60
less per hundred weight of milk
than they got in 1992. Prices are
about $l2. per hundred weight In
1978 farmers got between $9. and
$lO. per hundred weight. The
income from milk has not
improved much but the costs of
machinery, services and taxes
have. Dairymen must keep more
cows because the profit per cow is
less. More milk often results in a
glut of milk on the market with
lower prices. The government will
buy up a percentage of the surplus
milk in order to keep the prices up,
but cuts off at a point to put margi
nal farmers out of business and
reduce the milk surplus. One
added that nutritionists who cau
tion on the consumption of milk
because of its fat and cholesterol
content do not help.
The cost of seed com is high.
Several said that uses for com
other than for feed should be
found. Ethanol which is produced
from com can be used for fuel.
Chemicals made from com can be
made into biodegradable bags.
Large acreages of tomatoes
resulted in a glut of tomatoes on
the market The high cost of local
labor connected with tomatoes
finally mined it. Cantelopes and
cauliflower flood the local mark
ets in summer, sometimes result
ing in almost giveaway prices.
Future prospects for farming in
Lancaster County are not good
because of the tax structure,
crowded conditions and the high
cost of land.
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