V 01.43 No. 14 Adams Beef Farmer Has Nutrient Restraints And Management Plans JINNY WILT Adams Co. Correspondent GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.) - A young Adams County cattle man, his herd and land miles from the Chesapeake Bay, is making every effort to keep con tamination from his farm out of the bay and its tributaries by using government-sponsored programs. About 125 Turn Out For Cattle Feeder’s Day ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Beef producers and retail store managers should share one com mon goal, according to a merchan dising manager for a large super market chain: Provide a satisfactory eating ex leriencc. However, unlike the poultry industry, which delivers a consis tent, satisfactory product firOfi) store to store, consumers can walk into a supermarket, purchase five different New York strip steaks, and “some will be terrible, some good, and some will be excellent,” said A 1 Kober, merchandising manager for meat and seafood at Clemens Markets. Kober spoke to about 125 beef producers and agri-industry rep resentatives Tuesday at the Penn State-sponsored Cattle Feeder’s Day at the Farm and Home Center. That “unsatisfactory eating experience,” not necessarily the price, drives a lot of consumers away. And beef producers need to find ways to correct the problems. Clemens Markets manages 16 stores in the northeast Philadelphia area and suburbs in surrounding counties. While he indicated that boneless chicken breast is the “number one dollar producing item in the entire store,” he noted (Turn to Pag* A2B) Roll-Mead TA Jill ET (VB5-VMS) is the new all-breed and Brown Swiss protein record holder under 2-years-old. Her record is 1-11 y 365 d 2x 36,940 m 3.6% 1,335 f 4.1% 1,501 p DHIR. Jill was bred at Rolling Meadows Swiss, Columbiana, Ohio, and Is owned by Flatness International, Inc., Tunk .bannock. See Jw-story on page AJO-.. (/(MM , / # M M M M M ♦ H I M Five Sections Mike and Josie Riser, owners of three acres of land off Tall Oaks Road east of Gettysburg in Adams County, are raising 140 Mike Riser checks the flotation device In his steers’ water trough. Riser is raising 140 steers on three acres of land and has developed nutrient restraints on his feedlot as well as a nutrient management plan for his farm. Avian Health Symposium Reveals Need For Cooperation (Part II) VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff UNION DEPOSIT (Dauphin Co.) The first Pennsylvania avian health symposium held last week at the Sheraton East Harris burg was hailed as a landmark event for all segments of the state’s avian industry. The symposium covered a num ber of issues important to produc ers of all birds, from commercial integrators to serious and hobbyist purebred breeders, as well as ani mal and human health officials. In the Jan. 31 issue of Lancas- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 7, 1998 steers in a recently built bam, along with numerous calves. Mike said, "When we bought it, it originally had a two-story ter Farming the overall consensus of those attending and leading the event, as well as some general gui dance was repented. There were more specific con cerns brought up during the The Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council (PFGC) recently presented scho larships to two Penn State students. Find out the latest on some of Council’s work around the state with the director’s report Included In the special PFGC section, For aging Around , In this Issue of Lancaster Farming. In the photo from left are Damon Harwood, scholarship recipient, a senior In agro nomy; Dick and Ellse Hann; and Mark Mosemann, scholarship recipient and a senior in dairy anlmaj sconce. , , bank bam on it which was in real bad shape, but that's where we originally started out with the steers...and it was to the symposium. Details of New York’s avian influenza import regulations affecting the live bird market, while not discussed in whole dur ing the meeting, were discussed as PFGC Awards Scholarships $28.50 Per Year 600 Per Copy point that we had to do some thing if we were going to raise steers. Then we ended up build ing a new bam.” He notes that it would've been nice to restore the bank bam but the cost was to high. It was after the "new bam" was built that the young couple got involved in the Chesapeake Bay Program and were helped with 80 percent government grant for a concrete pad at the side of the structure to help with water run-off. Vincent McCollum, Nutrient Management Specialist for Adams and Cumberland coun ties from the Cumberland Conservation District, pointed to a "picket fence" at the end of the concrete slab and explained that the small openings between the wooden pickets allow the rain water to trickle slowly, and be absorbed into the crop field, McCollum said. Now, Mike said, he is getting involved in another cost share program—the Pennsylvania Nutrient Management Act Under the Act of 1993, livestock and poultry operations with greater than "2 Animal (Turn to Pag* AM) to their effects on barring Pennsyl vania suppliers from getting birds raised specifically for those mark ets to market. Also discussed were the authori (Tum to Pag* A 27)
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