pi KinDtUi! s mviMON . w Ml n iMNGVi VANT ;"i SIAIF. UM! VI- F‘ - M v 11 1 W <>;iV p;“i f 1 EE I I i.iRARY IJf'KVFR'-n V f'AKK !'A J6ko?-1:<0' ■HH 0} Vol. 38 NO. 38 World Dairy Expo Names Bupp ‘Dairy Woman Of The Year’ LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff SEVEN VALLEYS (York Co.) —Leroy Bupp hit paydirt when he took a risk and married a teenage bride from a non-farm back ground. That bride turned out to be a hard-working dairy fanner who has been named 1993 Dairy Maryland Crowns Dairy Princess Laurie Zimmerman, center, crowns Maryland Dairy Prin cess Dawn Downey, left, and Alternate Mary Ellen Seray dlan during the pageant held in Frederick, Maryland. Dairy Of Distinction Feature Photographs of the 1993 Dairy of Distinction farms are featured in this issue. Please see the special supplement. Hot Weather•, Ornery Steers Challenge Lebanon Beef Show Exhibitors ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff NORTH CORNWALL (Leba non Co.) Jason Shirk's 1,350-pound Simmental/Angus cross, full brother to last year’s reserve champion steer, according to Jason, won supreme champion beef on Tuesday at the Lebanon Fair. Jason, 11, son of Dawn Shirk and Tom Arnold, Rexmont, picked up the championship from the heavyweight class. He said his grandfather, Leon Arnold, helped him pick the steer. This is Jason’s fourth year showing steers at the fair. Reserve champion went to an 1,105-pound Simmental/Hereford cross, shown by Nathan Spatz, 11, son of Brian and Joanne Spatz, Lebanon. Nathan is a fifth grader at New Covenant Christian School. Tlic steer, from the light weight division, was purchased at 60* Per Copy Woman of the Year by World Dairy Expo. This isn’t a superficial title, but one that Joyce Bupp has earned by blood, sweat, and tears for her exceptional achievements, partici pation, and leadership in dairy and community activites. To our readers, Joyce is probab the Dutch Country Calf Sale in October. __ Both steers were 4-H projects. With many exhibitors sweaty and disheveled, particularly during the showmanship portion of the show from dealing with sweltering heat and ornery, unruly steers, the show judge, Dr. Grskine Cash, Centre Hall, congratulated the exhibitors for doing the best they could under the conditions. The steer shown by Shirk, said Cash, was “representative of the total industry, not a single endpoint in the industry.” He said it had lots of rib, depth of rib, and more body without being “wastey.” Soaked with sweat, this year's champion 4-H showman dealt with an ornery Chianina cross that at times looked like would put the champion out of the competition. But Cash recognized what the exhibitors were dealing with in the (TUrn to Pag* AM) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31, 1993 ly best known for her weekly col umn. “On Being a Farm Wife And Other Hazards.” These weekly columns offer personal glimpses into everyday happenings on the farm. In person, Joyce is just as warm, friendly, and optimistic as her col (Tum to Pag* A 18) EVA MARTIN Maryland Correspondent FREDERICK, Md. Dawn Downey, 17-year-old daughter of Frank and Carolyn Downey was crowned the Maryland Dairy Prin cess at the 32nd coronation held in the Grand Ballroom of the Holli day Inn, Frederick. She was crowned by Laurie Zimmerman, 1992 Maryland Dairy Princess. Downey lives with her parents and three brothers, Kirk, Ryan, and Wade on a 700-acre dairy, beef and grain farm in southern Wash (Turn to Pago A3l) Conservation Commission Appoints Nutrient Management Advisory Board VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Another piece in the basic structure of the state’s nutrient management law was added last week as the State Conservation Commission approved nomina tions to the Nutrient Management Advisory Board. The approval of the board mem bers is a major step in the creation of a nutrient management regulat ory bureaucracy. The nutrient management law, signed by Gov. Robert Casey just prior to his his toric heart and lungs transplant, went into effect July 19. Under the law, the State Conser vation Commission, chaired by the secretary of the Department of 'Jason Shirk, third from left, pieksd up grand champion steer at the Lebanon Fair Beef Show on Tuesday with his heavyweight Slmmental/Angus cross. From left, Amy Clair, Pa. Cattlemen’s Queen; Dr. Ersklne Cash, show judge; Jason; Nathan Spatz, reserve champion; and Jamie Irwin, Lebanon Fair Queen. Photo by Andy Ahdnws. Dairy Woman of the Year Joyce Bupp credits her hus band Leroy for being wonderfully supportive of all she does. Environmental Resources, is to promulagate specific regulations covering the dispersal and flow of nutrients, effectively so as to not exceed levels that are toxic to an existing healthy waterway ecology. Although intensive, commercial livestock production has been the target group of certain political groups, it is not the entirety of the businesses which are to be affected. Under the nutrient man agement law, all non-point sources of nutrients are to eventually be researched and analyzed for possi ble impact to a waterway (surface or groundwater). In the future, it is possible that golf courses, residential areas, feedstuff storage areas, and com Four Sections mercial crop powers who apply commercial fertilizer, as well as other businesses as research indi cates, may be affected. There are 15 members on the board who are to consist of; • five active commercial farm owners or operators representing the livestock, swine, meal poultry, egg poultry and dairy industry nominated by statewide general farm organizations; • one veterinary nutrition specialist; • one representative from the fertilizer industry; • one representative of corntner ical agricultural lenders; • one representative of local government; (Turn to Pag* All) $19.75 Per Year