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
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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
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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
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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
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to their effects on barring Pennsyl
vania suppliers from getting birds
raised specifically for those mark
ets to market.
Also discussed were the authori
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