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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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