Vegetable Field
LANDIS VILLE (Lancaster
Co.) The 1997 Pennsylvania
Vegetable Field Tour is planned
for Tuesday, July 29. The tour is
being sponsored by the Pennsyl
vania Vegetable Growers Asso
ciation (PVGA).
Hie tour to Lancaster, Lebanon,
and Dauphin counties features vis
its to two farms and roadside mar
kets. a vegetable processing plant,
variety trial gardens and a re
search center.
The itinerary is as follows:
8 a.m. Registration at the
Penn State Southeast Research
and Extension Center in Landis
ville.
8:30 a.m. - Buses depart
Landisville Center.
9 a.m.—Arrive at the Seedway
Trial Grounds at the Milton Her
shey School in Hershey.
10:45 a.m. - Arrive at the
Risser-Marvel Roadside Market
and farm in Campbelltown.
11:45 pjn. - Arrive at Frey’s
Farm Market and farm in Leba
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here.
2:15 pjn. Arrive at Funks
Farm Market in MUlenville.
3:30 p.m. Return to the
Southeast Research and Extension
Center in Landisville to tour vege
table research and demonstration
plots and equipment demon
strations.
4:30 pjn. Depart for home.
Registration, which will cover
the cost of the charter bus, box
lunch and refreshments, will be
$25 per person for PVGA mem
bers and $3O for nonmembers. Re
servations made after July 22 will
have a $5 late fee added.
If you are interested in at
tending this tour, call PVGA at
(717) 473-8468 (day or evening)
to preregister.
Following is a detailed des
cription of the five stops on the
tour.
• Seedway Trial Ground*. Her
shey. Hie Trial Grounds of Seed
way, formerly Agway Seeds, have
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• 2”x2" tube frame chute
• chute measures 75”x28”x75"
high
• 4” casters for cradle fold-up
• Two hydraulic cylinders for
extra stability
• tool box for D.C. pump
and battery protection
• manure grate to keep work
area clean
• fold away side gate
• removable head board
• 45 min. video from
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School of Canada
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Tour
been located on the Hershey
School grounds for the last 15
yean. The site houses several
greenhouses which are used to
start vegetable transplants in the
spring for transplanting in the
field from April through June.
Seedway not only trials their own
new vegetable varieties but also
their competitors* materials.
Many of die common vegetable
varieties are planted on the five
acre site throughout the growing
season. The trial gardens will have
in excess of4oo sweet com varie
ties in trial in 1997 and tropical
marigolds that can grow as util as
12 feet which can dramatically re
duce nematode populations in a
single year.
• Risser-Marvel Roadside Mar
ket, Campbelltown. This farm and
market has been in the family for
the last 70 yean. Bob Marvel
grows a variety of vegetables for
his farm market but has significant
acreage in sweet com and canta
loupes. Marvel sells many types of
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• Double swinging hay
hauling tailgate
• Barn door type tailgate
• Slide out cattle chutes
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I.H. RISSLER MFG. COMPANY
448 Orchard Road
Mohnton, PA 19540 Phone: 717-484-0551
plastic mulch to the general farm
population across the nation and
naturally grows many of his vege
tables crops on plastic mulch with
drip irrigation.
• Frey’s Farm Market, Leba
non. Harold Frey began growing
vegetables more than SO yean ago
and has developed a successful
fanning operation coupled with an
attractive roadside market and
greenhouse complex. Frey still
dabbles with the flowen in the
greenhouse, but his sons Leslie
and Dennis tun the farming and
market operation.
The Freys grow a fair amount of
peppers on plastic, early sweet
com on plastic, and cantaloupes.
They also have a smaller array of
other vegetables to supply their
farm market The relatively large
greenhouse is used every spring to
start flower and vegetable trans
plants and produce hanging bas
kets.
• John Cope’s Food Products
Inc., Rheems. John Cope Food
Products is a food processor that
cans and freezes sweet com, peas.
lbs, comi
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• Diamond flooring
• Pull out panel tailgates
• Any size grain chute
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July t 9, IM7-A25
and lima beam. In the’Bos, Cope*
grew several hundred acres of
PcnnFresh ADX sweet com to
produce high sucrose dehydrated
flour that was shipped to Japan.
Copes currently contracts with
growers from many of the Mid-
Atlantic states for their taw prod
uct which keeps the factory oper
ating 12 months of the year.
• Southeast Extension and Re
search Center, Landisville. The
Southeast Extension and Research
Center is one of several research
facilities Penn State maintains
around the state to enable re
searchers to conduct research
under the same conditions as
major production regions of the
state.
Call PVGA at (717) 473-8468
with your reservation by July 22.
Mail reservations to PVGA at RR
1 Box 392, Northumberland, PA
17657-9723.
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Applicants for the
award are judged by
committees who evalu
ate the farms' roadside
appearance, as well as
the cleanliness of the
grounds and buildings.
Winners receive offi
cial 18x24 “Dairy of
Distinction" signs
'which ate mounted at
Ithe roadside for all to
see. Award-winning
.farms are also visited
annually by the judging
J committee to ensure that
[they continue to meet
the standards of excel
lence set by the
program.
The 1997 Pennsylva
nia Dairy of Distinction
winners are: District 11:
Craig Hayes, Edinboro;
Douglas Stanhope.
Linesville; and Dennis
Rynd, Cochran ton.
District 12: Charles
Carr, New Alexandria;
and Albert Fritz.
Valenica.
District 13: Duane
Ilgen, Centre Hall.
District 14: Vaughan
May, Breezewood; Jer
ry and Joan Bechtel,
Martinsburg; Kurt
Walker, Somerset;
James Sechler and
Bradwin Winters,
Somerset; Dennis
Brumbaugh, Martins
burg: Mark and Tammy
Martin, Berlin; George
and David Smith, Mar
tinsburg: Jay and Kirk
Hillegass, Berlin; Hairy
Mosholder, Rockwood;
and James and Keith
Snyder, Rockwood.
District IS: Roy
Coale 111., Littlestown.
District 16: Lloyd
Zimmerman, Danville.
District 17; Paul G.
Robbins, Ulster.
District 18: Joseph
Pavelski. Susquehanna.
District 19: Lamar
Gockley, Mohnton.
District 20: William
and Karen Boyd, Mert
ztown; Michael Diet
rich, Kutztown; Peter
Market, Breinigsville;
and Melvin Stoltzfus,
Cochranville.