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the hosts of the Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Summer Field Day gather.around the
They are from left, Donald Anderson, Diane McElhaney Anderson, Anglea
Benham, national Shorthorn lassie queen, and seated, Marie McElhaney. David McEl
haney was also a host. Photo by Marsha Chess, Mercer County correspondent.
The Marlin Hoff family will host this year’s Maryland Holstein picnic at Coldsprings
Farms. From left, lan, Marlin and Kathy, and Matt with Courtney, and Debbie holding
baby Brook Hoff. Photo by Karon Butler, Maryland correspondent
The grand champions of the Northwest Championship Holstein Show along with
owners and officials are from left, Fred Strouse, owner, reserve grand champion;
Heather Morrell; Chris Hill, judge; Lacey Zakostelecky, Crawford County dairy prin
cess; Robert Morrell, owner, reserve grand champion; Mark Campbell, owner, grand
champion; Rachel, Sarah, and Mafk Campbell; and Reekie Raffaner, Armstrong Coun
ty dairy princess. See photo report on page A 22.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 1, 1998
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Pennsylvania Cattlemen
Summer Field Day
At McElhaney Farm
MARSHA ANN CHESS
Mercer Co. Correspondent
HOOKSTOWN (Beaver Co.)
Members of the Pennsylvania
Cattlemen’s Association met here
for their 23rd Annual Summer
Field Day at the McElhaney Stock
Farm and the Hookstown Fair
grounds on a hot July Saturday.
The event included the 1998 Pa.
State Shorthorn Show and the
Beaver County Blue Ribbon Pre
view Show, which were held at
the Hookstown Fairground. Back
at the farm cattlemen could parti
cipate in a variety of tours and
workshops including pasture man
agement, water control systems,
fencing systems, estrus synchroni
zation, ova transfer, and hoof
trimming.
A tour of the Duquesne Light
Power Plant was offered
Coldsprings Farms To Host
Maryland Holstein Picnic
KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
NEW WINDSOR, Md. The
annual Maryland Holstein Picnic
will be hosted this year by the
Marlin Hoff family at Coldsprings
Farms, near New Windsor. This
will be the fifth year the state asso
ciation has held a picnic, and
4-500 people are expected to at
tend. The date is Saturday, August
8. Starting time is 10:30 a.m. You
do not need to be a member of the
association to attend the picnic; all
are welcome.
The event offers Holstein en
thusiasts an opportunity to enjoy a
day of fellowship with other
breeders. A barbecue lunch will be
Hedging, Options, Futures
May Spell Survival
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Risk has always been asso
ciated with farming. Farmers,
interested in reducing that risk,
look for ways to ensure a reliable
financial future in farming.
For some, hedging, options, and
futures may spell survival.
But is it for everyone?
And how does it really work?
These issues were examined in
depth during the IX Ag Horizons
Conference held in Harrisburg on
Tuesday. The day-long conference
examined how changing govern
ment attitudes are affecting agri
culture, and how hedging, options,
and futures can be tools to help
farmers.
Russ Redding, deputy secretary
for the Pa. Dept, of Agriculture,
said that government attitudes
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to interested parties. During the
lunch break Mr. Randy K. Hareza,
Attomey-at-Law, Baden, spoke
on “Electric Fence and Other Po
tential Legal Liabilities.” Dr. Ter
ry Etherton, Head of the Depart
ment of Dairy and Animal Science
at Penn State, spoke on “Chal
lenges and Opportunities for
Pennsylvania Animal Agricul
ture.”
Cattlemen members took part in
a Cow-Pie-Bingo contest and con
tinued the workshops during the
afternoon. The cow pic ended up
in an unclaimed square, so the
winners were the Shorthorn youth
who received the prize money.
During the evening the guests
took part in the Keystone Rib-Eye
Steak Dinner and a country hoe
down.
provided, and there will be farm
tours, a cow judging contest, a
meeting for the Maryland juniors,
and door prizes. Agribusinesses
will have a display area set up at
the farm. There will also be a calf
raffle for the Maryland juniors, of
a March "Luke” out of an 88-point
“Aerostar.” The next dam is an ex
cellent Bell.
Coldsprings Farms is widely re
cognized as a premier breeder of
Holsteins. If you have an interest
in visiting a large, successful dairy
with a high herd average and a na
tionally renowned breeding pro
gram that has that has sold about a
dozen proven bulls to studs over
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toward agriculture are changing,
not by choice but forced by budget
restraints.
“The key to improving prosperi
ty for agriculture is to improve
trade,” Redding said in response to
statistics that show that 96 percent
of the the world’s population is
outside of the United States.
Already one-third of the United
States’s agriculture products are
being exported to other countries.
A main focus of the United
States government is to reduce
trade barriers so that agricultural
products can be more freely
exported. Steps in this direction
have enabled the trade segment to
grow faster than any other part of
the economy. An example of the
government’s work to benefit agjs
seen from exempting agricultural
products from trade embargoes
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