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Vol. 39 No. 8
Another Chance At A Championship Brings Umbrells Back To The Farm Show
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Tina, left and Matt Umbrell will be showing these hogs at the Pennsylvania Farm
Show junior competition on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The Farm Show is open for hidglng on
Friday, Jan. 7, opens for the public on Saturday, Jan. 8, and continues through Jan. 13.
Photo by Andy Andrews
1993: A Year To Challenge Understanding
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The past year has been
one which has brought to the fore
front in Pennsylvania agriculture,
if not in all of the United States, a
challenge for better understanding.
Throughout the year, changes in
technologies, politics, treaties, and
realities have been significant.
Polls Show High Confidence
In Dairy, BST Or Not
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Three consecutive national polls
conducted for the Grocery Manu
facturers of America (GMA) have
reported strong milk consumption
and consistently high consumer
“trust” in the milk supply since the
Food and Drug Administration ap
proved supplemental BST on
Nov. 5.
The most recent survey, con
ducted over the Thanksgiving
weekend, found more than nine
out of 10 households-with-chil
dren reported consuming the same
amount or more milk over the past
New Year 's Gneetlngs To One & All
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Four Soctiono
ranging from a three-nation West
ern hemisphere trading alliance, to
the approval of commercial artifi
cial bovine somatotropin (BST).
All year, industry and political
battles have been waged over gain
ing support for a variety of opin
ions on how to address issues, such
as pricing milk to implementing a
' nutrient idanagement plan.
Among all the changes that have
two weeks. Consumer confidence
in the milk supply has remained
strong despite unsuccessful at
tempts by activists to stage media
events in selected cities.
“After several months of anti-
BST extremists trying to mislead
people about the safety of this pro
duct, it's obvious that the public is
smart enough to distinguish be
tween their false ihetoric and the
enormous mountain of evidence
provided by the Food and Drug
Administration, the National Insti
tutes of Health and virtually every
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LincaMar Arming. Saturday, January 1, 1994
taken place, there are those who
decry change and those who wel
come it
We at Lancaster Farming take
the position that all change means
one thing: we are challenged to do
a better job of understanding, of
learning, of listening and thinking,
and ultimately, doing. •
And in that vein, and in our
opinion, 1993 has presented more
than enough challenges to last for
several years.
On March 13, Pennsylvania was
hit with the biggest blizzard of the
century, according to Associated
Press reports.
The snow fell at the rate of up to
4 inches per hour. Accumulations
ranged from 14- to 18-inches in
Centre County, 17 inches in Cum
berland County, 16 inches in Dau
phin County, 11 inches in Erie
(which normally receives a signif
icant amount of snowfall). 14- to
18-inches in Lebanon County, up
to 20 inches in York, and 21 inches
in the Pittsburgh vicinity.
The snow melt caused flooding
of rivers and streams and ground
saturation that delayed some
spring planting.
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60a Par Copy
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) Tina Umbrell enjoyed
last year’s junior market competi
tion during the Pennsylvania Farm
Show so much she decided to
return. And this time, she has
company.
Who’s she taking? Her brother
Countdown
To Farm Show
The Umbrell family In
this issue, along with hun
dreds of other farm fami
lies across Pennsylvania,
are preparing livestock,
crop, and home exhibits
for the 78th state Farm
Show In Harrisburg next
week. The agribusiness
suppliers of machinery
and services have begun
to set up their booths at the
Farm Show Complex, too.
At Lancaster Farming,
our annual Farm Show
Issue next week is sche
duled to be published a
day early to be ready for
you at the opening of the
show. Judging starts on
Friday, but the show does
not open to the public until
Saturday, January 8. Look
for more on-farm inter
views of families who plan
to show their prize lives
tock or produce. In addi
tion, we will have news
articles about the show,
judging and meeting sche
dules, and messages from
commercial exhibitors
who Invite you to visit
them at their booths dur
ing the show.
To help in your
advanced planning to visit
the show, we have pub
lished the layout of the
I Farm Show building and
judging and meeting sche
dules this week on pages
;Cl9-C22.
To accommodate our
early publication date to
meet the opening of the
Farm Show, we have early
deadlines for advertising
and news stories next
week. These deadlines are
as follows:
Public Sale Ads Noon,
Mon., 1/3.
Mailbox Markets Noon,
Mon., 1/3.
General News Noon,
Wed., 1/5.
Classified Section C Ads
5 pja., Toes., 1/4.
All Other Classified Ads—
-9 a.m., Wed. 1/5.
$19.75 Per V Nr
Mali, who learned also by watch
ing 4-H members show their ani
mals. Her resolution for the show?
She’s not going to lose any money.
Last year, Tina’s first year at the
Farm Show, she didn’t place high
enough in the junior show to edm
good prize money, and her hogs
had to be sold at market price.
While she said she may not have
not lost money, exactly, she’s con
vinced she didn’t make any. This
time, Tina said she vows to do
better.
“When I was younger, 1
watched the older members of the
club showing their hogs,’’ said
Tina, 18, daughter of Dennis and
Linda Umbrell, during an inter
view at the farm.
As for last year’s show, held the
morning of January 12, the current
Outstanding Member of the Lan
caster 4-H Swine Club said that
with all the help she has garnered
from the club, and from her work at
home on her parents’ 350-sow
farrow-to-feeder pig herd, she
hopes to improve.
Tina served as Lancaster 4-H
Swine Club vice president, and
also president of die Elizabeth
town High School FFA Chapter. In
1992,'Tina placed first in senior
showmanship at the county round
up, was awarded a blue ribbon for
the top 10 project book two years
in a row, and raised 19 market hogs
in a profitable year.
Matt, 16, is a sophomore at Eli
zabethtown High School and a 4-H
member.
Matt acknowledged that his sis
ter suggested, pretty strongly, that
he can leant a great deal about
showing for future county fairs. In
this case, both Matt and Tina will
each take a hog to the show, which
last year included 339 hogs.
This year, the Junior Market
Swine Show is scheduled in the
Small Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 11 at
8:30 a.m.
Tina is taking along “Dimple,”
her 210-pound York/Hamp/Duroc
gilt. Matt will be exhibiting his
200-pound York/Hamp/Duroc gilt
also at the show.
Tina said she got involved by
watching others and seeing how
much they enjoyed being members
of 4-H. The tremendous benefits of
joining a 4-H club became known
to many others in the county so
much so that the club membership
grew from about 40 members
about six or seven years ago to
about 90 today.
Years ago, many “never got
that opportunity,” said the 4-H’ers
mother, Linda Umbrell. She said
that she would have gotten
involved in 4-H if she could have
when she was a child.
“The club helps newer mem
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