Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, April 24, 1999, Image 11

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    Lehigh County Honors Conservation Farmer
ALLENTOWN operation that has been The district recently
(Lehigh Co.) diligent in applying con- selected David Fink,
year the Lehigh County servation practices and owner of Heidel Hollow
Conservation District has demonstrated com- Farm of Heidelberg
honors an agricultural munity involvement Township, as its 1998
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Conservation Farmer of
the Year.
Heidel Hollow, last
featured in the Nov. 1,
1997 issue of Foraging
Around, which
appeared in Lancaster
Farming, is a poultry,
hay, and cash grain
operation. Owners
David and Sonia Fink
participate in various
conservation cost-share
programs.
In the past they have
completed a long-tenn
agrcment and a Water
Quality Incentive Prog
ram (WQIP) contract
They have also com
pleted a 1997 Environ
mental Quality Incen
tive Program (EQIP)
contract. All those prog
rams demonstrate a
long-term commitment
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to applying conserva
tion practices to the
land.
Cooperators with the
district since 1979, the
Finks operate 947 acres.
Conservation practices
include 191 acres in
contour farming, 22
acres in cross-slope
farming, 0.3 acre in crit
ical area planting, 4,200
feet in waterways, 0.6
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24, 1999-All
acre in obstruction
removal, 1 acre in heavy
use protection, 260
acres in contour strip
cropping, 123 acres in
field stripcropping, 650
feet of terraces, 6,459
feet of subsurface drain
age, and 900 feet of
underground outlet.
In addition, manage
ment practices include
1,801 acres of conserva
tion crop rotation, 471
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X 61/2" thick throughout the entire slat
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For 90 days at participating dealers
acres of conservation
tillage, 254 acres in
residue management,
344 acres in grasses and
legumes in rotation, 1
acre in upland wildlife
habitat management,
and 18 acres in forest
stand improvement.
The Finks have parti
cipated in the Kids to
Farms Program,
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