V 01.43 No. 30
York County gram and livestock producer Dave Evans was honored earlier this year
for his service to agriculture. Evans and his wife, Janet, farm 900 acres of corn, wheat,
hay and soybeans near East Prospect.
Robert Kratochvll, head of the University of Maryland research and education cen
ters, left, and Tom Moreland, dairy program manager, show one of the research barns
where cows are Individually fed In Intensive feed studies. The special design allows
the feed bins to be rolled Into place and locked In from of each cow.
Maryland University Clarksville
Farm Has New Dairy Facilities
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
CLARKSVILLE, MD. For
the first time in 20 years the farm
and agribusiness public is invited
to visit the University of Mary
land’s Clarksville Research and
Education Center farm that has a
special focus on dairy research and
related uses of forages as a nutrient
management tool. The field day
and facility dedication is scheduled
for July 9, starting at 10 a.m. at the
farm.
Robert Kratochvil, head of Cen
tral and Western Maryland
Research and Education Centers,
conducted a preview tour of the
new three million dollar facilities
on, Tuesday- These, facilities
Four Sections
include new dairy bams, a linear
eight milking parlor, a flush/
separator manure system that is
used to facilitate dairy manure
composting trials.
The 922-acre farm is located in
Howard County and is home to the
university’s 200-head dairy
Dairy Month Issue June 6
A special tribute to the dairy industry is part of the annual June
Dairy Month promotion. Lancaster Farming again plans to feature
dairy in next week’s June 6 issue. We are working to promote the
dairy industry through special visits with farm families, DHIA
reports, farm management reports, dairy recipes, and messages
from our advertisers. Of special note: we plan to introduce the first
module of a dairy management course written by a well-known
dairy instructor that will be published in 10 weekly lessons and
archived on our home page on the Internet for continuing review
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 30, 1998
research herd. The arm’s origin
can be traced to a f .ant from the
king of England to C Varies Carroll
of King’s County, Ireland, who
was father of Char ss Carroll of
Carrollton, one of tlu signers of the
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$29.50 Per Year
Crops, Beef Farmer Receives
York Chamber Award
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
EAST PROSPECT (York Co.)
East Prospect fanner David
Evans claims he never went Car
into the world.
But just a few minutes of visit
ing with this York County crops
and beef farmer, it is evident that,
while he may still reside in the
same home in which he grew up,
he has indeed gone many places
and done many things.
One of the more recent places he
has been was in the spotlight as an
honoree for outstanding service to
agriculture, an award presented
annually by the York County
Two Counties
Now PRY-Free
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The statewide Pseudorabies
Eradication Program continues to
show success as two counties,
York and Schuylkill, become
pseudorabies-free.
According to Dr. Amy Nessel
rodt, USDA veterinary medical
officer and state pseudorabies vir
us (PRV) program coordinator,
Pennsylvania is in Stage HI of the
effort mandatory cleanup of
PRV but more work still needs
to be done.
In the state. Perry County has
one herd that will be testing off
Robert Campbell To Retire:
William Burgess To Become
New General Manager
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
An era in agricultural leadership
and regional newspaper publishing
is about to come to an end.
Robert G. Campbell, general
manager and executive vice presi
dent of Lancaster Farming has
announced that he will retire effec
tive June 1 after more than 43 yean
in the business.
Robert G. Campbell
600 Per Copy
Chamber of Commerce and the
Agriculture Extension Service.
The 1998 Agriculture Service
Award was bestowed on Evans
and his wife Janet during the annu
al York Agribusiness Dinner in
late January.
Evans’ father bought the East
Prospect farm with its picturesque
stone barns in 1937. Co-owner of
York’s Careva Wholesale Plumb
ing, George Evans not only pur
chased the farmstead, he also put a
herd of 40 Guernsey dairy cows in
the barns and hired several
employees to help care for the
cattle and 250 acres of crops.
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soon. Dauphin County has two
herds that should be starting to test
off. In Lancaster County, 13 are
ttill quarantined—of those, 11 are
relieved to be free of disease and
are either in the process of testing
off quarantine or should be testing
off soon. One should be reporting
negative and one still has to be
tested to ensure it is PRV-free.
“The program is doing well,”
said NesselrodL “With the excep
tion of one herd, we don’t see any
real threats from the disease.”
Comparatively, Pennsylvania
remains with Ohio and New Jersey
in Stage 111 of the program. New
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Campbell’s experience in news
papers is vast but he may be best
known for taking Lancaster
Farming to the top of the agricul
tural publishing industry. He
helped start the paper in 19SS and
played a huge role in making it one
of the most successful agribusiness
trade publications on the eastern
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