SPECIAL SECTION LANCASTER FARMING MARCH 7 advertisers PLAN NOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE PHONE 717-626-1164 OR 717-394-3047 DEADLINE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 IN McPhersons Cultivate A-Maize-Ing Entertainment JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent NEW PARK (York Co.) Don’t cut through the com. Don't pull off my can. No run ning. No cigaieltesi Got those rules? Then you're ready to take on the challenge of Maize Quest. After an introductory initia tion to the fine an of safely ne gotiating their way through a com field, including a pointed warning about how cigarettes cm start fires in a dry field, several thousand people did just that last fall at the McPher son family's Maple Lawn Farms, New Park. The south ern York County com maze was one of several such con sumer-entertainment out reaches that have been culti vated around the region in the 4 last few yean. Com rustled as a brisk, fall th* John S. Nolt term north ot Now Hollind. _ • FE»n» S . ,NFOR «ATION feature interviews • STATE & NATIONAL ASSOCIATES NEWS • PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER ORNIALK PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC, INC. Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24. 1998 breeze stirred through the dry ing stand of upside-down ears and drooping, brown stalks. A cricket dashed across a packed path, seeking a haven from a pounding by passing sneakers. And a gleeful cluster of chat tering church-group members gathered to add yet another section to their map of the intri cate com maze. If they could complete the map. it would show them the way out Maize Quest was truly a family endeavor of the Paul md Gail McPherson dm, longtime advocates of educat ing the consuming public about where food originates. From their U-pick orchard to period ic newsletters sent to a wide mailing list of customers, the McPherson’s Maple Lawn fruit and grain operation has always been oo the leading edge of ORN Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 11,1997 agriculture-education activism. Sharing in the major plan ning md implementation of Maize Quest, with its heavy emphasis on information along with entertainment, were sib lings Hugh and Cretcben Mc- Pherson Hugh, a recent Penn State graduate with m ag busi ness degree, combined his interest in undertaking a new farm venture with the art de gree of his sister, Gretchen, who lives in California. Their brainstorming birthed the Maize Quest idea months before the first com seed went into the soil. Hugh had heard about other mazes in the area and saw hum extension and alternative uae of the farm's normal planting of a large acre age of grain com. They envi sioned a com maze that would not only entertain visitors, but (Turn la Pat* Z) New PMCGA President Wants Vote Lancaster Farming Staff SHELOCTA (Indiana Co) Chns Kimmel is steadfast about bis plans The new president of the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Association (PMCGA) intends, within the next two years, to put a referen dum before the state com growers That referendum will address die question, will Pen nsytvania have a corn checkoff? Already, die PMCGA knows the direction it musltake Althe Crops Conference in Grantville tarty Uus year, com growers _• • "-m< heavily in Checkoff On Corn crops, including about 800 in com The passing of a checkoff, calculated at point of sale and based on a similar program in Maryland, would mean a lot to the commercial growers who want to see better promouon of the product, m addiuon to money for research at land grant universities (Those same universities are already exper iencing the withdrawal of gov ernment money those dol lars have to come from somewhere.) ANDY ANDREWS This is the first lime Kunmel has served as president of PMCOA, although he has served as vice president for a few years He serves on the com'' ' h '
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