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Farm Calendar
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Host Hotel, Sturbridge, Mass.,
thru Dec, 16.
Dairy-MAP winter meeting,
Somerset County Area Vo-
Tqch School. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Leadership Lebanon Valley Ag
Day. Lebanon Valley Ag
Center.
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Dairy-MAP winter meeting.
Bonanza Family Restaurant,
Lyndora, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Westmoreland County Coopera
tive Extension dinner meeting.
Mountain View Inn, Greens
burg, 7 p.m.
Veterinary Nutrition Forum. Days
lage Conference, Ramada Inn,
Hagerstown, Md.
Pa. Holstein board of directors
meeting. State College, 10:30
a.m.
Pa. Seedman’s Association annual
meeting, Eden Resort Inn,
Lancaster.
Dairy-MAP. Washington County
Extension Office, Washington,
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
National Satellite Videoconfer
Farm Forum
(ConUAuad from Pago AID)
per ewt on the milk you produce.
Now, from what I’ve read in the
papers the U.S.D.A. says it might
be one cent per cwt. What a dif
ference! National milk says they
want another National Dairy
Board to two R&ibn
of milk from the so-called surplus
pile. The board will attempt to
develop new markets, both
domestically and in foreign coun
tries. This scheme will be financed
by another $.lO per cwt assess
ment oft dairy farmers milk.
According to news releases issued
by Pro Ag and other organizations
these two billion lbs. of milk were
removed from the so-called surp
lus pile by the commodity credit
THANK YOU TO THE 1993 SOLANCO FAIR
LIVESTOCK BUYERS
• Herr and Leaman • Messer’s • P.L Rohrer • Joe Strickler • B & R Cattle Co. • New Holland Sales Stable
• Fowl's Feed Service • Blue Ball National Bank • C.B. Hoober •
• Keystone Farm Credit * Darcie Stolz VMD • Walter and Dunlap • Edgefield Farms • Fred Crider • Herr Hope
Farms • Lancaster Ford • Hess Mill • Edgar Herr Inc. • Hostetter Grain • Agway • Hamilton Bank • Century 21
Wagner Hatton • Bill McCauley RMP • James G. Kreider & Son • Fowl's Feed Service • Welk Livestock • Herr
Foods • Pre-Vent Distributors • Bank of Lancaster County •
• Keystone Farm Credit • James G. Kreider and Son•Agway • Farmers First Bank • Hostetter Grain • Fowl's
Feed Service • Walter and Dunlap • Bank of Lancaster County • Robert and Donna Kreider • New Holland
Sales Stable • Ross H. Rohrer and Son • Huber Builders«Welk's Livestock • Lancaster Ford • C.B. Hoober
• Pre-Vent Distributors • Welk's Butchering • Maplehofe Dairy • Hamilton Bank • Larry Housekeeper
• Representative John Barley • K and S Equipment • Jerome Rhoades • Risser Grain • Donald Sweigart
• Enck Bros. Drywall • Bart-Star Farm • Triple H Equipment • Rye-Ridge Farm • New Holland Sales Stables
• Herr and Leaman • James Hostetter CPA • Welk Crest Holsteins • Hess Mills
ence. Worker Protection Stan
dard for Agricultural Pesti
cides, Penn State Great Valley,
Malvern; Berks Campus, Read
ing; and Allentown Campus,
Complex, Harrisburg, 8:45 a.m.
Dairy-MAP winter meeting.
Somerset Area Vo-Tech
U. of Md. Eastern Shore, Prin
cess Anne, Md., 9:30 a.m.-4
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Breeding Priorities for the Com
mercial Dairyman, Franklin
Co. Human Services Building,
10 a.m.-noon.
Swine meeting. Country Table
Restaurant, Mount Joy, 9
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Alternative Field Crops Seminar.
Begins Fire Company Hall,
Begins. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
corporation. So what difference
does it make who removes die two
billion lbs. of milk from the pile.
Well it does matter, because under
Self-Help all dairy farmers will be
assessed to help fund the Dairy
Boards Program. ■ -r
Even with the milk out of the
way; dairy farmers prices were
still at the 1979-1980 period, c
That’s what I call progress. Now
it’s revealed that the Self-Help .
Program calls for the market
administrator to deduct even more
money from our milk checks to
“balance the market”.
Recently, the market admini
strator revealed that on January 1,
1994 we will have class m A pric
ing. This means milk used for
STEERS
GRAND CHAMPION FERGUSON AND HASSLES
RESERVE CHAMPION K & S EQUIPMENT
LAMBS
GRAND CHAMPION DR RICHARD ALBRIGHT
RESERVE CHAMPION WEAVER INSURANCE AGENCY
HOGS
GRAND CHAMPION HATFIELD QUALITY MEATS
RESERVE CHAMPION HESS BARBEQUE
Auctioneer: Lloyd Kreider
Ridge Presents Ag Issues At Forum
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
STRASBURG (Lancaster
Co.) —The featured speaker at the
monthly Ag Issues breakfast was
Tom Ridge, Republican guberna
torial candidate, and U. S. rep
resentative (PA-21). Ridge has
been an announced candidate for
neatly a year, and the first coalition
he developed in his campaign was
with agriculture.
Ridge said that often agriculture
and business are projected as hav
ing separate interests, but he said
agriculture is big business, and
when you merge at the bottom line,
the'motivation for both is the same.
“Businessmen and farmers both
want to make a profit, and they
want government to get out of their
way so they can operate and make
investment decisions,” Ridge said.
“We have to have a new mind-set
that the needs of agriculture are the
same as the needs to operate a busi
ness. You need a consistent public
policy that has stability and predtc-.
lability so you can go about the
operation of your business.”
Ridge pledged a well-staffed
department of agriuclture in his
administration with people from
agriculture and agri-business to
non-fat dry milk powder will com
mand a cheaper value. Even pos
sibly lower blend prices.
Early in the fall the co-ops bloc
voted the other National Dairy
Board into continued existence.
Didn’t the co-ops also support
8.5. T.? I’ve checked it out and it’s
true. All dairy fanners in order #2
lose at least three cents per cwt on
our blend price, so the market
administrator can pay the order #2
cooperatives four cents per cwt. to
help fund the co-ops for market
wide services for all dairy farmers.
Class 111 A juicing, B.S.T. 2
National Dairy Boards Self-
Help Program (worth 1 cent per
cwt.).. Farmers paying for the cost
of balancing the market, and dairy
farmers pay price at the
1979-1980 level. Is this what our
co-op jrayment provision money
goes for?
i.ilcp. I said Something is
wrong!
Lloyd Gustin
jge, iepu , gi
sent* ideas at the Ag Issues Forum.
help oversee and operate the
department. He also made a differ
ence between promoting and
marketing agricultural products.
“Pennsylvania is not doing as good
a job as it should be doing in selling
Pennsylvania made goods, includ
ing exports,” Ridge said. “We are
the fifth largest state in the country,
but we only rank 11 or 12 in
exports. With all the agriculture in
Pennsylvania, the number one
industry, only five percent of the
value of goods we export are agri
cultural products. We can do bet
ter, and I will run an export {nog
ram directly out Of the governor's
office.”
On the subject of wetlands,
Ridge said four points are impor
tant; we need standard definitions,
consistently applied; we need one
agency to make the call; we need to
recognize that all wetlands are not
created equally; we need to ack-
nowledge this fact and classify
wetlands according to environ
mental and ecological importance;
and we need to have no taking of
private property without just
compensation.
Ridge called DER a job
crushing, community-harassing,
regulatory agency that would be
restructured into a service agency
in his adminstration. “We need
rigorous enforcement, but we need
to use some energy and commit
ment to help Pennsylvanians to
understand and comply with the
law,” Ridge said. “DER will no
longer exist in my government
The agency needs to be more than
enforcement police. DER should
work with and for the people.”
The Ag Issues Forum is a group
of farmers and agri-business lead
ers who meet each month to hear
and discuss subjects of interest to
agriculture.
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