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Vol. 41 No. 49
State House Honors Dairy Farmers. Dairy Princesses
State Gov. Tom Ridge meete with 1995 and 1996 Pennsyl
vania dairy princesses, their parents and local representa
tives on the accession of being recognized by the state
House of Representatives for making Oct. 7 state Honor the
Dairy Fanner Day. From the left is Jan Harding, coordinator
of the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Promotion Program
Inc.; Erie County state Rep. Tom Scrimenti, who sponsored
a resolution to create the special day and a citation from the
House to honor 1995 state D4(y “rlnfir Rhonda Kieklak;
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Conservation Awards Highlight Conference Banquet
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Conservationists and many per
sons and organizations who sup
port them were honored at the
awards banquet Tuesday night as
part of the 49th joint annual con
ference of the State Conservation
Commission and the Pennsylvania
Association of Conservation Dis
tricts. The Lancaster County Con
servation District played host to
the conference.
Receiving the outstanding far
mer award is Walnut Acres Farm
in Snyder County. This award is
presented to the farmer who has
furthered conservation through the
establishment and maintenance of
soil, water, and nutrient manage
ment practices. Walnut Acres has
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Pennsylvania Master Com
Growers Association (PMCGA) board of directors unanimously
approved a resolution requesting that Charles Brosius, Pennsyl
vania secretary of agriculture, appoint a committee to study the
feasibility of a state com promotion program.
As a result, Brosius appointed a committee of 22 state farmers
this week to investigate the development of a producer-funded
program to promote Pennsylvania’s com production.
Under the state Agricultural Commodities Marketing Act of
1968, a group of interested citizens may petition the ag secretary
lo consider a proposed program to promote and/or fund research
for specific commodities.
Similar marketing and research programs exist for apples,
dairy, peaches and nectarines, potatoes, and other commodities.
For more com news, in this issue, Lancaster Farming
publishes PMCGA’s Com Talk, a special section dedicated to
ihe com grower. Com talk is published three times per year,
included in this section are reports on the com production year in
Pennsylvania, the uses of narrow-row com, controlling burcu
cumber in com, on-farm interviews, research information, and
advertising messages.
Rye Sections
been a cooperator with the Snyder
County Conservation District
since 1959 and is one of the most
successful organic farms in the
nation. The production from their
cropland is marketed through the
farm store and processing plant in
Penns Creek.
Started 50 years ago, Paul
Keene operated on the belief that
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The All-Eastem Junior Beef
Breeding and steer shows were
held Sunday at the Keystone Inter-
Com Talk
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 12, 1996
High Wins Again
At KILE Steer Show
Richard, Robin and Rhonda Kieklak, Gov. Tom Ridge, 1996
state Dairy Princess Angela Werley, her parents Phillip and
Donna Werley, and Berks County state Rep. Sheila Miller.
On the floor of the state House of Representatives, state
hep. Tom Scrimcnti presents a state House citation com
mending 1995 state Dairy Princess Rhonda Kieklak for her
work to help promote the state’s dairy industry, while
Sciimenti also acknowledges the promotion efforts of cur
rent state Dairy Princess Angela Werley.
using no chemicals and practicing
crop rotation will maintain soil fer
tility and control disease. Today,
Walnut Acres not only advocates
their soil conservation and organic
farming methods, they bring them
to life on their 589 acres.
WATERSHED PROTECTION
The Octoraro Watershed Asso
ciation between Chester, Lancas-
nationai Livestock Exposition.
Casey High, Lititz, had the
grand champion junior market
steer with his heavyweight entry
that was also champion of the Lan
caster County 4-H show earlier this
year.
William Hoff, Purcellville, Vir
ginia, had the reserve grand
champion with the other first place
in the heavyweight divisions.
Justin Conner, Chambeisburg,
had the champion middleweight,
and Shanna Cambruzzi, Darragh,
had the reserve champion.
Jason Mickle, Alum Bank, had
the champion lightweight, and
Hope Long, Quanyville, had the
reserve champion.
In the Angus breeding show,
Diana Covcll, Frederick, Mary
land, had the grand champion with
her late summer yearling. And
Kyle Penick, Hebron, Ohio, had
the reserve grand champion.
In the Limousin show, Ladonna
Miller, Bedford, had the grand
champion with the first place early
spring yearling, and Tammy Jo
Feather, Bruceton Mills, West Vir
ginia, had the reserve grand
champion with the second place
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$27.50 Per Year
ter, and Cecil Counties received
the watershed protection award.
This award recognizes and indivi
dual or organization that has pro
tected a particular watershed
through a coordinated land and
water resource appeal.
Over the past 29 years, the
Octoraro Watershed Association
has promoted better farming prac
Casey High shows the grand champion steer with Tom '
Turner, Judpe and Roxanne Kirst, Pennsylvania Cattle
men’s Queen.
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VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Rhonda Kieklak, the 1995
state dairy princess was cited and
honored Monday by the state
House of Representatives for her
work in promoting the state’s dairy
farmers.
Kieklak, of Erie County, and
current dairy princess Angela
Werley, of Berks County, stood on
the floor of the House of Represen
tatives in Harrisburg as Erie Coun
ty Rep. Tom Scrimenti praised the
work of Kieklak and the dairy prin
cesses in promoting the state’s
dairy industry, the leading sector
of the state’s largest industry
agriculture.
Kieklak not only was honored as
the 1995-96 dairy princess on
Monday, but it was Monday, Oct.
7, state Dairy Farmers Apprecia
tion Day■— a recognition of dairy
farmers that would probably have
not been possible without the
efforts of Kieklak.
Jan Harding, coordinator of the
decs through soil and water con
servation practices and education
Jo improve the water quality wi thin
the watershed. The watershed cov
ets 208 square miles. In the 1980's
the Association won designation
for the Octoraro Creek as one of
the first Pennsylvania Scenic Riv
ers System. Since 1991 they have
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