Vol. 43 No. 2
Cow Milks
245 Pounds,
Sets World
Daily Record
STELLENBOSCH, South Afri
ca In a posting on Dairy-L on
the Internet this week. Dr. Christ
ian Craywagen, University of Stel
lenbosch, South Africa, reports
that a new daily milk production
world record has been recorded
right in the university’s home
town.
A three-and-a-half year-old
Fries ian/Holstein cow with no gla
mourous name, only known as
9405, in her second lactation and
66 days in milk, has produced
111.2 kg (about 245 pounds) on
November 4. This record cow is
being milked 4x.
The report noted an interesting
side stray. The cows owner, Lud
wig van Deventer, is not primarily
a dairy farmer, but a wine farmer.
He decided some years ago to g»»
number of cows to produce man
ure for his vineyards. With 9'
eating 36kg of commercial pellets
for high producing cows, plus 6kg
of alfalfa hay, it can be assumed
she is also contributing significant
ly at the other end towards Lud
wig’s initial goal.
Avian
Quarantine
Lifted
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Ca)
—On Monday afternoon Pennsyl
vania Secretary of Agriculture
Sam Hayes signed a rescission
order that officially lifts the avian
influenza (A J.) quarantine that has
been in place since mid-May this
year in northern Lancaster County.
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Minnesota Judge’s Order
Has Milk Industry In Uproar
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
WASHINGTON, DC Late
last week U.S. Minnesota District
Judge David Doty threw out a
Depression-era system of 32 milk
marketing orders that pay farmers a
price differential for milk based on
their distance from Eau Claire,
Wis. The ruling that a key portion
of the country’s milk pricing policy
is illegal eliminates federal order
class I differentials to all but a few
geographic areas in the Southeast
In the eight-year-old lawsuit by
the Minnesota Milk Producers
Four Sections
Many of tha fields you see in a drive through the country
have already been harvested. Only patches of late com and
soybeans are still standing. The Pennsylvania Agricultural
Statistics Service reports that late planted com la coming to
maturity in moat areas with harvesting of high moisture
com still active. Some problems have surfaced with slow
drying of com tor grain.
According to Brian Kreider in the combine above, after
barley soybeans have dryed out now, but after-wheat soy
beans are still too high in moisture to harvest.
Hard frosts have stopped growth In most parts of the
state, and the area was looking tor the possible first snow of
the fall over this weekend. In fact, earlier Wednesday, a few
snow flurries were reported at the location of this harvest
ing scene In Lebanon County. But when the photographer
caught up with the work-in-progress off route 501 at Reist
ville, the late fall afternoon sun was casting strong shadows
to help emphasize the landscape while a canopy of blue sky
held fluffy white clouds overhead.
Kreider, who graduated from Penn State last spring with
a degree in dairy and animal science, has come home to the
family farm. In his first fall harvest out of school, he was
driving the custom combine for Melvin Zimmerman.P/io(oby
Evantt Nawawangar, managing editor.
Association, Doty ruled that the
milk price system makes no sense.
Fanners from the Upper Midwest
have complained for years that the
system was outdated and discrimi
nated against them. But dairy far
mers outside Minnesota and Wis
consin like the system the way it is.
They don’t want to lose what
they’ve got
“Upper Midwest political lead
ers and Judge Doty don’t fully real
ize the negative economic impact
this will have on producers in then
own home slates,” said Genfe Paul,
National Farmers president. The ,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 15,1997
National Fanners Organization is
headquarted in Ames, lowa.
“Many Minnesota and Wiscon
sin dairy producers are unaware
that they will (also) lose approxi
mately $55 million annually. The
ruling is critically important
because current producer pay
prices are not high enough to cover
their expenses to produce it,” Paul
said.
Because of the immediate
uncertainty the ruling rendered,
some milk handlers were already
refusing to pay established farmer
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$28.50 Per Year
Deadlines Change
For Thanksgiving
The Lancaster Farming
office will be closed Thursday,
November 27 in observance of
Thanksgiving Day. News and
advertising deadlines for that
week are as follows:
• Public sale ads Noon,
Monday, 11/24.
• Mailbox markets —5 p.m..
60# Per Copy
Friday, 11/21.
• General news Noon,
Wednesday, 11/26
• Section D ads S p.m.,
Tuesday, 11/25.
«Farm equipment ads 9
a.m„ Wednesday, 11/26.
• All other classified ads —S
p.m., Wednesday. 11/26.