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Vol. 40 No. 6
Commitment To No-Till Is Commitment To Management
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
CARLISLE (Cumberland
Co.) Preplanning, testing,
scouting, researching, measuring,
keeping records, consulting, and
communicating are a few of the
activities that get heavier emphasis
when cropping fields with no-till
Rodent Control Vital To Poultry Quality Assurance Programs
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Rodent control should top the
list of priorities for poultry produc
ers when implementing quality
assurance programs in their busi
ness, according to two producers
who spoke about their experiences
Lancaster Chamber Ag Position Opens
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) Jay Howes, the agricultur
al director of the Lancaster Cham
ber of Commerce, has been named
to a vacancy in the Pennsylvania
House Ag and Rural Affairs com
mittee staff as a research anaylyst
Howes made the announcement at
Three generations of the Brubaker family gather In the curtain sided,
drive-through free-stall cow barn. The Brubakers milk 300 cows, and
raise 250,000 broilers and 1,200 hogs on their Mount Joy farm. From left
are son Tony, daughter Cindy with husband Marshall and children Lucas
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methods, according to the speakers
at the 21st annual Mid-Atlantic
Tillage Conference, held Wednes
day at the Embers Inn and Conven
tion Center, in Carlisle.
While field skills, a strong
knowledge of equipment capabili
ties and a good sense for soil con
dition are important to successful
at the Farm and Home Center on
Tuesday.
Dale Snader, Dutch Country
Egg Farms, Fredericksburg and
Scott Buckwalter, farm manager.
Espenshade Farms, Mount Joy
emphasized the importance of a
strictly managed rodent control
program in controlling pathogens
the chamber’s board meeting Wed
nesday morning.
“This opportunity arose to be
involved as an advisor to help to
develop legislation that is sym
pathy to the needs of the farmers,”
Howes said. “A great deal of my
work with the chamber has been
'centered around monitoring the
development of legislation in
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 17, 1994
ly raising crops in any situation,
there is more risk associated with
the lower-overhead, higher profit
potential no-till approach, accord
ing to expert and layman speakers
to the approximately 250 particip
ants at the conference.
The only way to counter the
increased risk of problems that
particularly Salmonella enteri
tidis (SE) and Campylobacter—on
broiler and layer flocks.
The producers spoke to 130
industry representatives who
attended the Food Safety Comes
To The Farm meeting.
Dale Snader. who manages a
million birds for Dutch Country
nutrient management and water
use laws. Because I was a represen
tative of the chamber, my voice in
presenting the farmer’s side of
things was much more effective. It
was this part of my job with the
chamber I enjoyed the most, and
now I have the opportunity to do
this in the stale legislature as the
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come with using no-till is to under
stand what those potential prob
lems are for each cron, to have an
intimate knowledge of the land
being farmed, know the uses and
the limits of the tools, and to have a
detailed plan.
Every speaker at the conference,
attended by crop producers from
Egg Farms, said he has become a
“converted believer” in the
importance of rodent control.
“I once thought that a chicken
house without mice is like a chick
en without eggs.” he admitted.
The Lancaster Farming office will be closed Monday, Dec.
26, to observe Christmas Day. Early deadlines for several
departments will be needed the week of Christmas. These
deadlines are as follows:
• Public Sale Ads 5 p.m., Friday, 12/23.
• Mailbox Markets 5 p.m., Friday, 12/23.
Other departments will have a normal schedule as follows:
• General News Noon, Thursday, 12/29.
. Classified Section C Ads 5 p.m., Wednesday, 12/28.
• All Other Classifieds 9 a.m. Thursday, 12/29.
and Zachary; Barb and Luke holding granddaughter Molly whose
parents are son Mike and his wife Lisa, at right. Turn to page B 2 for slory
and pictures of the Brubaker family. Photo by Lou Ann Good.
Four Sections
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia, and a few other
states, said that while no-till farm
ing improves the organic matter
content of the soil, improves is per
meability, nutrient stability and
moisture retention and can result in
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thinking that mice were just a
natural problem that all poultry
producers somehow simply put up
with. But he soon realized that SE
and mice “go hand in hand.”
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Christmas Deadlines
$21.00 Per Year