Dale Pride Holstelns Shows Grand Champions At Lebanon Fair
(Continued from Pago A3O)
5-YR-OLD: 1 Paul Horning, 2 Daniel Eberty;
3 Kendra Reist.
6-YR-OLD: 1 Jeffrey Hostetler 2.Klinedell
Farms; 3 Dale Hostetter.
100,000-LB. MILK LIFETIME: I.Dale Hostet
ter; 2. Adam & Lisa Sonnen; S.KHnedell Farm.
SENIOR BEST THREE: I.Daie Hostetter:
2.Loving Meadows: 3.Turnpike View
(Homing).
DAIRY HERD: I.Daie Hostetter: 2.Adam &
Usa Sonnen; 3.Tumpike View.
PRODUCE OF DAM; I.Timothy Vail;
2 Ktinedell Farms; S.Stony Pillar Holstelns
DAM. DAUGHTER: I.Kurt Hostetter;
2 Ammon & Brenda Peiler; S.Timothy Van
SENIOR CHAMPION. Dale Hostetter, senior
3-year-old.
RESERVE SR CHAMP: Dale Hostetter.
senior 3-year-old.
GRAND CHAMPION: Dale Hostetter
RESERVEGRANDCHAMP; Dale Hostetter.
PREMIER BREEDER: Hostetter family.
PREMIER EXHIBITOR: Hostetter family.
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) International trade nego
tiations scheduled for the end of
this year in Geneva may have an
impact on Pennsylvania farm
ers, according to an agricultural
economist in Penn State’s
College of Agricultural Sciences.
The coming round of World
Trade Organization negotiations
will examine tariffs and trade
restrictions on a variety of prod
ucts, including agricultural com
modities and processed foods.
David Blandford, head of
Penn State’s department of agri
cultural economics and rural
sociology, said Pennsylvania
farmers should lend the
American delegation its enthusi-
AlanHostetter,who>. the halter iebest ed and owned Holstein of the Leba- astic support,
non Area Fair, also the grand champion, Alan’s wife Robin, show judge David Castro- “Many of Pennsylvania’s com
giovanni, Lebanon County Dairy Princess Amanda Martin, Li’l Miss Dairy Princess modifies are highly protected in
Lydia Smith, county Dairy Maid Hannah Bomgardner, and Li’l Miss Dairy Princess Sar- international markets,”
ah Smith. Blandford said. “We face disad-
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Farmers Should Watch
Trade Negotiations
vantages because of very high
tariffs on things like dairy prod
ucts, which often reach 300 per
cent or more in key markets.
There’s no way we can compete
internationally with tariffs that
are so high. During this round of
trade negotiations, we need to
get those tariffs down.”
Blandford said that fruits
and vegetables are also subject
ed to tariffs in many foreign
countries, as well as a variety of
processed foods all important
Pennsylvania exports.
“Pennsylvania farmers and
the agriculture industry need to
lend their support to these nego
tiations,” Blandford said.
“President Clinton has been
having a tough time getting
Congress to give him the negoti
ating authority. It’s crucial that
Congress gets the message that
these tariffs are important for
agriculture. We need to give the
president the authority to nego
tiate on trade by contacting our
members of Congress and by
making sure that our profession
al and trade organizations are
also getting the message to leg
islators.
“Agricultural trade has been
heavily protected since the
19305,” Blandford said. “Most
nations around the world —
including the United States—
use import barriers to protect
their local food production and
processing industries. It’s only
since we completed the last
round of trade negotiations in
1994 that the U.S. began to
make some progress in opening
up foreign markets to U.S. farm
exports. We have a chance to
make some significant progress
this time around. American
markets are not totally open, of
course, but we’ve changed some
of our domestic agricultural poli
cies, and we’re moving toward a
more open market position.”
Blandford said to expect long,
difficult negotiations as coun
tries wrangle to make the fewest
concessions on their own mar
kets, while gaining the best pos
sible opportunities to export to
other countries.
“It will be give-and-take,” he
said. “Obviously, well have to
make concessions on our own