Vol. 42 No. 1
Gov. Tom Ridge, left, presents a Century Farm certificate
to Jane Gordon Fletcher, 95, matriarch at Willlsbrook Farm,
with Charles Brosius, state ag secretary. Gov. Ridge pays
tribute to farmers in the story on Page A2O.
The warm, early falMlke weather the beginning of this week gave farmers
a chance to work on season-end fieldwork. The Pennsylvania Crop and
Weather Roundup reported a few farmers were taking a fifth cutting of.hay.
Also, the corn harvest was In full swing, and soybeans and potatoes were
also going In the barn. Hauling manure and seeding barley and wheat were
also among the tasks reported by the farmers who supply this information.
The com crop continues to be reported as mostly good to excellent.
There were a few reports of corn blown down from high winds. But these
same winds helped to dry the corn and Improve harvest conditions. The
soybean harvest was reported two weeks behind normal.
In the U.S. as of late last month, widespread rains over the western corn
belt slowed the row-crop harvest. An early fail snowstrom left fields too wet
Four Sections
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 9, 1996
Some of the members of the Hushon family prepare to leave for Louisville, Kent
ucky, to get a head start on competition In the Southeastern National Brown Swiss
Show, while the rest of the family Is slated to follow later. From the left is Dan and
Jacob, Joseph holding a calf, Patti, and Joshua, holding the halter of Old Mill Jetway
Fancy, one of their show heifers not headed for the southern-states competition.
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
DELTA (York Co.) Six
years ago, virtually no one
involved in breeding Brown Swiss
dairy cattle had ever heard of Dan
and Patti Hushon and family in
Delta.
Hushons Take Brown
Swiss To LouisMte
Dan and Patti had registered
Holsteins and Dan had a year’s
employment under his belt as an
artificial insemination technician
for what has since become the
Cenex artificial insemination
cooperative.
But a lot has changed in six
for harvest in the central Great Plains and Mountain states. Grain moisture
levels remain high in some late-maturing row-crop fields In the central
Great Plains, where above-freezing temperatures left some plants In need
of a hard frost to halt plant growth and aid drying.
In the futures markets, nearby contracts In soybeans, meal, corn, and
wheat were playing around their contract lows. December cattle were In the
mid-range of the contract and hogs were stretching up toward the top quar
ter of the contract range.
In the photo, an Amish farmer west of Lititz chops cornstalks In the.field
to prepare to harvest winter forage and bedding.
Photo by Everett Newawanger, managing adltor.
$27.50 Per Year
years.
Now the name of the Hushons
and their small showstring herd of
Brown Swiss cattle are well known
in Pennsylvania and are getting to
be known nationally.
Some members of the family
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