Vol. 41 No. 14
Pork Expo
Program Listed
For Feb. 14
andy Andrews
innwhr Earning Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Leba
non Co.) —Registration is free for
pork producers at die 18th annual
Keystone Pork Expo (formerly
Keystone Pork Congress) on Wed
nesday, Feb. 14 at the Lebanon
Valley Expo Center at the Lebanon
Fairgrounds.
A highlight of the Expo, spon
sored by die Pennsylvania Pork
Producers Council (PPPC), is a
new silent auction, held in con
junction with die annual Legisla
tive Activity Fund Auction, sche
duled for die expo-center’s West
Hall, the live auction, to feature a
variety of items for business and
home, is scheduled for 1:15 p.m.
Harry Bachman is auctioneer.
At the silent auction, bidders
can indicate in writing then bid.
Top bid takes the item, to be con
ducted after the live auction. Bid
ding for the silent auction closes it
1:45 pjn.
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Grazing Livestock Is Combination Art , Technical Application
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) The definition of a “gra
zier” is “a person who grazes
cattle,” according to Webster’s
New Collegiate Dictionary.
It doesn’t say how much.
The reality of using grazing to
reduce dairy and livestock produc
tion costs has been maturing into
mote than a fringe, back-to-nature
movement of a herdsman or she
pherd following the animals and
moving them from pasture to
State Farm Council Meets, Hosts Cornucopia
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pasture.
But is some of that, according to
a speakers at the two-day South
east Pennsylvania Grazing
Conference.
Held Monday afternoon and all
day Tuesday, the event is spon
sored by the Lancaster County
Grazers, and carried a theme of,
“Profitable Grass Fuming.”
Speakers were Richard Trium
pho, a New York dairyman who
switched to grazing after visiting
New Zealand and who also is a col
umnist for Hoard’s Dairyman;
Lancaster Arming, Saturday, February 10,1986
Tom Calvert, a retired consultant
for the USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service, who also
practices grazing; and Alan Hen
ning, a grazing consultant who has
his own grazing dairy operation
and cheese business in Wisconsin.
Two other speakers were locally
practicing dairymen who have
switched to relying more on graz
ing to feed their milking string and
replacements John Ocker, and
Forrest S trickier.
Dairy farming is not the only
application where grazing has
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania State
Council of Farm Organizations
held its annual meeting and Cornu
copia for state legislators Monday
in the East Wing of the Capitol
Building.
In the business meeting, Laura
England, president, announced
that Patricia Sueck, the executive
director of the Agriculture Aware
ness Foundation of Pennsylvania,
has been named to fill the position
of executive director of die coun
cil. Ken Brandt had announced last
year that he wanted to step down
from the position and a search
committee had been named' to
review possible candidates.
Sueck has close ties to the Coun
cil through the Ag Awareness
Foundation, and she also serves
many other organizations, as well.
Sueck is president of Penn’s Agri-
Women and a member of the plan
ning commission of the USDA Ag
in the Classroom National Confer
ence. The first vice president of the
At 71, Bishop
Keeps On Hauling
JOANNE E. MORVAY
Adams Co. Correspondent
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
—Bob Bishop celebrated his 71st
birthday with 26 calves, a few
unruly steers, and a slice of raisin
pie.
While that might not sound like
much of a party to some, you don’t
become one of the area’s busiest
livestock haulers by taking time
off to mark the passing of another
year.
Livestock auctions have a sche
dule, and Bishop learned long ago
not to let to let the events in his life
interfere with it
He’s been trucking stock since
he was just a boy. Of course, back
then it was his feet that absorbed
the wear and tear of driving cattle
to auction.
“My dad had cows out every
where for the calves,” Bishop
said. When die late Mervin B.
Bishop was ready to move some of
been receiving increasing atten
tion, but it is probably the most
significant
While the concept of grazing is
not new, the presentation of it has
contrasted sharply with the pre
scribed dairying practices that
have developed in southern
Pennsylvania.
With smaller average farm
sizes, decreased profit per hun
dredweight of milk sold, many
have gone to high-density confine
ment operations in an attempt to
maximize milk production per acre
Pa. Association of Conservation
Districts, Sueck is also a director of
the York County Conservation
District where she serves on the
stewardship, awards and Chesa
peake Bay committees and the
York County Farm Bureau as the
information and government rela
tions directors.
In die past, Sueck has served on
the Ymk County board of the Farm
and Natural Lands Trust Company
and the Penn State Extension Fam
ily Living Committee and the
American Farm Bureau Rural
Health Committee for three terms.
As a nurse, Sueck has many
areas of service to the community
that include the court appointed
special advocate for abused child
ren. She is a member of the alum
nae association of the St Joseph
Hospital, and an Eucharistic
Minister of Sl Joseph Church.
The Council recognized Brandt
in appreciation for his three-year
term as executive director.
Candidates for the state office of
attorney general, treasurer, and
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his animals, “we used to start
before daylight to go any distance.
“At that time, everybody had
fence, so after you got ’em on the
road, they had nowhere to go,”
Bob said.
But getting the herd to cross a
bridge was another story.
Mervin Bishop drove on ahead
in a car, dropping hack to help his
son only through the toughest
spots.
The experience taught Bob at a
young age how to push through
life’s troubled waters. He also
learned the true meaning of hard
work.
“We’d come home and I can
remember him saying, ’The
cattle’s played out ami the boy is
too,’” Bob Bishop said with a
laugh.
The first father-son livestock
hauling team in the Bishop family
got its first truck in 1942. Up to
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and thus cash flow.
However, some with limited
ground have been significantly
reducing the amount of crop land
devoted to traditional grains and
forages and converting prior row
crop areas into grazing beds.
Again, while some have been
advising the practice of grazing
any grass species that grows when
first converting to grazing, others
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Dan Wolf is one of the
newest directors of the
Pennsylvania Master Corn
Growers Association.
“Com is king” where the
Wolf family farm in York
County. Read about this
operation and a lot more
“Com Talk” in the special
section with this issue.
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