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Vol. 44 No. 36
Rows of flowers in the field were found on the Aaron F. Stoltzfus dairy farm at
the corner of Horseshoe and Creek Hill roads looking north toward Leola in
Lancaster County. Flowers and bedding plants have become alternate crops as
farmers seek additional Enterprises that bring income from retail markets. Of the
main crops usually associated with dairy farming, corn made the most change in
crop conditions across Pennsylvania this week. In some areas this silage and
grain staple was beginning to. show the effects of stress due to heat and
inadequate soil moisture. Bud An avenage height of 28 inches was well ahead of
last year and the five-year average. According to the Pennsylvania Ag Statistics
Service, soil moisture was rated 27 percent very short, 51 percent short, and 22
Simply Delicious Promotion Has Message For All Pennsylvanians
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
LEWISBURG (Union
Pennsylvania Produce is Simply Delicious, and it deserves to be recognized as
such. As part of the 1999 campaign to help educate the public as to the strength and
quality of fruit and vegetable production in Pennsylvania, a statewide campaign has
been coordinated through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture with the Pa.
Food Merchants, and individual retailers and marketers. Helping to kick off the state
campaign in the Lewisburg Weis Market store produce section are, from the left, Food
Merchants President David McCorkle, Weis Markets President Norman Rich, state
Agriculture Secretary Samuel Hayes Jr., potato producer Keith Masser, and green
beah grower Ronald Copenhaver.
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Co.) A 1999 promotion cam
paign for Pennsylvania produce
growers and retail marketers was
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 10, 1999
kicked off Wednesday at a Weis
Markets store in Lewisburg.
State Secretary of Agriculture
percent adequate. The state's program to encourage voluntary conservation of
water is likely to become mandatory within the next few weeks if significant
rainfall does not come to the area. Soybeans were nearly all emerged and looked
fair to good. Har\ isting of barley and wheat advanced well ahead of the five-year
average. The high temperatures and humidity were hard on livestock and
poultry. Production of milk was down and some chickens died because of over
heated houses. Local fire companies watered down poultry houses to lower the
temperature in the early part of the week but could not return later because of
calls for other emergencies. Photo by Everett R. Newswanger, editor.
Samuel E. Hayes Jr. was joined by
Weis Markets President Norman
Rich, Food Merchants Association
President David McCorkle, two
long-time produce grower
suppliers of Weis, and two local
producers, to bring greater atten
tion to the promotional program.
Under the leadership of Secret
ary Hayes and state Gov. Tom
Ridge, the program is designed to
broaden awareness of the fact that
Pennsylvania producers supply a
great deal of the produce marketed
through local groceries and super
market chains, such as Weis
Markets.
A campaign slogan, “Pennsyl
vania Produce: Simply Delicious,”
was introduced last year to re
energize state and industry efforts
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) Forty-three Pennsylvania daily
farms selected as 1999 winners of Dairy of Distinction awards have been
announced this week.
The Northeast Dairy Farm Beautification Program is an oversight
organization for the Dairy of Distinction Program conducted in Pennsyl
vania, New York, New Jersey and Vermont, and each state conducts its
own awards program.
The goal of the Dairy of Distinction Program is to encourage dairy far
mers to beautify their farmsteads so as to present production dairying in
the best possible light to the road-traveling general public.
The concept is based on a simple human assumption; a good looking
operation must make a good product.
An all volunteer program, in Pennsylvania, the state is divided into 10
districts and each district has a committee that receives applications,
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$31.00 Per Year
Dairy Of Distinction
Announces Winners
600 Per Copy
to promote an awareness that
homegrown produce is not only in
local roadside markets, but in
major grocery chains, and that
Pennsylvania producers are
nationally and internationally
important
It could be inferred that (he cam
paign also carries the effect of sti
mulating pride among Pennsylva
nia consumers and producers in the
fact that the Keystone state does
and can produce high quality,
healthy and desirable fruits and
vegetables.
The program includes coopera
tive in-store promotions involving
more than 900 retail outlets; more
than 300 growers; a young bill
board campaign currently with 90
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