Vol. 44 No. 22 Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen Ashley Shollenberger, right, and her sister Amber are in the midst of lambing season, which sometimes requires bottle-feeding lambs. Turn to page B 2 for a story on the Shollenberger family and about the good and the “baaad” of sheep promotion. Photo by Lou Ann Good Decision To Try Soybeans Instead Gamers State Trophy For E-town Producer ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter Co.) Some blame bad plant population and low yields on the weather. Could you also “blame” the weather for a prize-winning soybean yield? Because of wet conditions late in the spring last year, Jim Her shey, who grows about SO acres of full-season and another 65 acres of double-crop soybeans on his hog and broiler farm near Elizabeth town, decided field com wouldn't do. The fields took a while to dty out enough to plant anything. Windy-Knoll-View Farm Exhibits Grand Champion VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The grand champion of last week's 46th Pennsylvania Holstein Association state spring show in Harrisburg was 7-year-old Windy-Knoll-Vicw GDD Topaz, bred and owned by James and Nina Burdette of Windy-Knoll-View Holsteins in Mercersburg. In making his selection, show judge Curtis Day of Shippensburg said he was going to depart from what others may consider to be his usual tendencies in cattle judging, and he selected Topaz, the first place 125,000-pound-class cow. (The 125,000-pound-class is a competitive class restricted to entry by only those cows that have documented production of at least that amount of milk in a lifetime. It is uncommon, but certainly not *««»»»««w»»»««m»»»««*m«*«m*S-DI6IT 16802 533 P 3 056034 033199 PERIODICALS DIVISION 048 PENN STATE UNIVERSITY WZO9 PATTE LIBRARY UNIV PARK PA 16802 Four Sections So instead of com, Hetshey opted for soybeans on some of his best fields. As a result of the decision, some of his better acres turned a state prize-winning yield last season. Hetshey came in first place in the Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Con test sponsored by the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board. A member of the Pennsylvania Soybean Growers Association, Hetshey attributes the award winning yield to what turned out to be a good growing season after all. “We had good growing condi tions after it finally stopped raining unexpected, for a grand champion to be selected from an entry in that competitive class.) The Pa. Holstein Association’s spring state show at the state Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg started the registered Holstein showing season. There were 207 head checked in for the show, held March 26. For the test of the show season, a series of regional shows are to be held, culminating with the fall state show held in conjunction with the Pennsylvania All- American Dairy Show (PAADS), in Harrisburg. The Burdettes won several awards last week. Not only did Windy-Knoll-View exhibit the grand champion, also the best owned and bred, but they received the premier breeder and premier (Turn to Pago A 24) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3, 1999 last spring,** Hcrshey said. “I give the Lord credit for that.** Soybean yields towered to 80.2 bushels per acre using Pioneer STS 9421 at his farm. Those yields come from a 3-acre plot in a 20-acre field selected for the con test before the harvest date. Overall the weather improved tremendously, resulting in com yield checks of more than 200 bushels per acre on some spots, noted Hershey. This despite a drought year that affected yields tremendously throughout the region. 6 (Turn to Pag* A2B) The James and Nina Burdette family of Windy-Knoll-View Holsteins in Mercersburg win big at the state Holstein Association’s 1999 Spring Show, receiving premier breeder and premier exhibitor awards, exhibiting the grand champion, and the open division junior and reserve junior champions. From the left, with the winning entry in the senior best three females competition class, Nina Burdette holds the premier breeder banner, Jim Burdette holds the halter of the grand champion, Emily Stuff holds the halter of her youth division reserve grand champion (a Windy-Knoll-View bred animal), and brothers Kyle and J. Justin Burdette exhibit one of their homebred cows and display the premier exhibitor banner. $29.50 Per Year Glickman Announces Milk Marketing Order Reforms WASHINGTON, DC - US Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman on Wednesday announced a ma)oi ovcihaul ol the 60-year-old federal milk maiketmg order program According to Glickman, the overhaul will significantly streamline and improve the nation's wholesale milk pi icing system "These ictorms will help make sure that America's dairy farmers receive a lair price and that American consumers continue to enjoy an abundant, affordable supply of milk," said Glickman "Oui changes will also simplify the wholesale milk pricing system, making it more market oriented and more equitable " The milk marketing order program is designed to ensure the fair marketing and pricing ol milk It is not a dairy support As a result of the decision, some of his better acres turned a state prize-winning yield last season. Jim Hershey came in first place in the Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Con test sponsored by the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board. Photo by Andy Andrews 600 Per Copy program The current dairy support program expires on Dec 1999, unless Congress chooses to extend it Milk marketing ordcis classify milk by use. set minimum puces that handlers must pay lor each class ol milk, and provide loi paying average prices to all daily farmers who supply a particulai region Though the program does not set retail prices, these reforms arc expected to reduce the average price ol drinking milk by about two cents per gallon The announced rcloims include • Consolidating the cuncnl M federal milk marketing orders into 11 • Replacing the basic formula price (BFP). which is currently used to establish (Turn to Page A 42)
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