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Vol. 40 NO. SO
Harvest Better Than Expected
Corn and soybean harvest has kept farmers busy this week,
and the question about what kind of yields the summer
drought has allowed Is being answered. In many areas, far*
mers are surprised at the yields. For example, In Lancaster
County, some sections have recorded yields. County Exten
sion Director John Schwartz said, “We have run the gamut.
The southern end of the county was drier during the summer.
Other parts have normal yields, and In the northcentral area,
test plots have yielded over 200 bushels per acre, maybe even
better than they have ever been. Yields depend on the rain you
got during the summer,” Schwartz said.
In Crawford County, Ray Kennerknecht, county agent, said
yields are variable and not as good as last year. The earlier
planted crops are better. This even showed In silage produc
tion with variable yields from field to field. Early beans are fin
ishing with more than 40 bushels, but late beans are not very
good.
(Turn to Pago A 32)
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin
Co.) All the talk about how the
state’s agricultural community is
going to benefit Cram exporting
raw or processed goods is nothing
>f there is no action.
Government officials and
elected representatives helped ere
Young Farmers Ag Ed Coordinator: *Reach Out To Urban , City People ’
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
HAMBURG (Berks Co.)
“We as fanners keep to ourselves
too much,” said Richard Hoppes,
newly appointed agricultural edu
cation coordinator for the Pennsyl
vania Young Fanners Association.
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Exporting Opportunities For The Dairy Farmer
ate and get approved the North
American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) and the General Agree
ment on Tarrifs and Trade
(GATI).
But in practice, pursuing a goal
of exporting home-grown products
isn’t simple or necessarily easy.
Given that agriculture is the
common basic foundation to the
‘ ‘ We need to broaden our scope
and reach out to the urban and city
people to let them know what
we’re doing,” said Hoppes.
Hoppes, who raises grain on 220
tillable acres in Hamburg, emphas
izes that the state Young Fanners
Association, an affiliate of the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21, 1995
world’s non-nomadic communi
ties (and to extent even in nomadic
communities), supplying agricul
tural commodities to outside com
munities can only be done if two
conditions exist demand and
ability to pay.
Demand for specific commodi
ties depends on local understand
ing. desire for the product and loc-
National Young Farmer Educa
tional Association, Inc., needs to
branch out and provide education
not only for its own people but for
those who don’t understand
farming.
“We keep updating ourselves
on our own education, but choose
al ability to produce, process and
distribute that commodity.
In other words, if there is to be
success in selling a specific com
modity. people to whom the seller
wants to sell must want it and not
be able to produce it easier or
obtain it less expensively.
Ability to pay depends on local
natural resources, its abundance
not to speak' to people from urban
areas about pesticide use, soil ero
sion, and other issues,” he said.
Hoppes’ involvement in the
state association began in 1969
when he attended meetings of the
local Kutztown Young Farmers
Association. As a dairyman of the
Four Sections
and its value to outside communi
ties. as well as the value of locally
processed goods and services.
The two aspects work together
(with many other factors) to char
acterize and individualize each
specific market
Experts therefore have been
advising American agriculturalists
(Turn to Pago A 24)
time, Hoppes first served as public
relations director of the chapter,
became chapter president, and
then moved on to public relations
director at the state level.
In 1977, Hoppes served as slate
president and became a delegate to
(Turn to Pago A 34)
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