Fanners To Descend On Nation’s Capitol To Add Their ‘Two Cents’ Worth’
WASHINGTON, D.C. In
an appeal fqj; Congress to make
long overdue changes to farm
policy, Farmers Union members
will be offering their “two cents’
worth” in response to the failed
Freedom to Farm legislation dur
ing the Sept. 10-13 legislative fly
in.
During their visit, family
farmers and ranchers will meet
with Congressional representa
tives to deliver their “Two Cents
Worth” message along with bags
containing commodities pro
duced on America’s farms.
“Just as time is running out on
this Congress, it is also running
out for family farmers and
ranchers,” said National Farmers
Union (NFU) President Leland
Swenson. “Before our represen
tatives in Washington adjourn
the legislative session, this citi
zens lobby intends to not only
make them aware of the crises
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impacting family farmers and
ranchers, but also (to) urge im
mediate action on some solutions
to the rural challenge.”
Farmers Union has spent the
past month reaching out to poli
cymakers with their Two Cents
Worth Campaign to draw atten
tion to the core agricultural is
sues faced today in rural Ameri
ca.
The rural citizens lobby fly-in
will continue the call for Con
gress to pass legislation that will
raise loan rates for commodities,
increase dairy support prices,
prohibit packer ownership of
livestock, and promote compet
itive markets.
In addition, participants will
tell lawmakers that Freedom to
Farm lacks an adequate safety
net to support farmers during
sharp downturns in prices. Par
ticipants will also push for tools
to manage large supplies that
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have driven down prices, such as
a farmer-owned renewable fuel
and humanitarian grain reserves
and a short-term conservation re
serve program.
“Soon, members of Congress
will return home to face their
USDA Wants Drug-Tainted Cows Destroyed
WASHINGTON, D.C. The destroyed.
USDA is preparing to stop pack- Agriculture Department offi
ers from selling any meat from dais said the policy would apply
carcasses in which excessive to all livestock, but it would pri
chemical residue is found. marily affect slaughtered dairy
Under current rules, packers cows, the source of about 40 per
can throw out the part of an ani- cent of the nation’s hamburger
mal that is tested for drug resi- meat.
due, typically the liver or kidney, USDA officials say the intent
and sell the rest. is to bring their procedures into
The new policy, which could line with the Food and Drug Ad
be made final as early as
next month, would require
that the entire carcass be
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constituents in the time-honored,
democratic tradition at the ballot
box,” said Swenson. “This year,
they can do so with the knowl
edge that ‘rural votes count’ and
rural residents are looking for
leadership to make rural Ameri-
Judge Steve Wood of Littlestown, Adams County; John
Burket of Burket Falls Farm in East Freedom with five
year-old supreme champion dairy cow “Maria,” Aaron
Gable of the Snider Homestead in New Enterprise RD with
his four-year-old reserve supreme champion “Altann,”
and Blair County dairy princess Diana Bigelow of Williams
burg. (Photo by Amy Snyder.)
Burket Supreme Champion
At Martinsburg
LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
MARTINSBURG (Blair Co.)
The Open Class Holstein
Show at the Martinsburg Dairy
Show culminated in a five-year
old Holstein named “Maria”
and owned by John Burket of
Burket Falls Farm in East Free
dom being named the supreme
champion.
Aaron Gable of the Snider
Homestead in New Enterprise
showed the reserve supreme
champion, a four-year-old
named “Altann.”
Other Holstein winners were
as follows:
Junior calves; Amanda Cessna (top
three places).
Intermediate calves: Amanda Cessna,
Burket Fails Farm, Ross Black.
Senior calves; Paul Fredrick, Joshua
Smith, Meagan Bert.
Summer yearlings: Curryview Farm,
Mark Frednck, Charann Foster.
Junior yearlings: Desire Hillegass,
Cessna Brothers, Sue Betts Farm.
Intermediate yeariings: Ronnie Morse,
Erin Shaw, Scott Fisher.
Senior yeariings: Amanda Cessna, Tyler
Cogan, Doreen Delp.
Junior champion; Fall yearling, Amanda
Cessna
Reserve Junior champion: Spring calf,
Amanda Cessna
Junior best three females: Amanda
Average Farm Feed
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To help farmers across the state to
have handy reference of commodity
input costs in their feeding operations
for DHIA record sheets or to develop
livestock feed cost data, here’s last
week’s average costs of various ingred
ients as compiled from regional reports
across the state of Pennsylvania.
ca more prosperous.”
Fly-in activities will also in
clude a briefing with Agriculture
Secretary Dan Glickman and his
top deputies on Monday, Sept.
11.
ministration’s policy on chemical
residues in food. FDA sets the
limits, or tolerances, for drug res
idues in food animals.
About 0.2 percent of the cattle
tested in 1997 had drug residues
in excess of FDA limits, or
12,400 of the 6.2 million cattle
slaughtered that year. Animals
are tested for more than 50 dif
ferent compounds.
Cessna, Globe-run, Sue Betts Farm.
Four-year-old and under dry cows;
Cessna Brothers, Rodney Metzler.
Rve-year-old and over dry cows: Keith
Fisher, Amanda Stanton, Cessna Brothers.
Junior two-year-olds; Jared Hillegass,
Eric Fredrick, Erin Shaw.
Senior two-year-olds: Amanda Cessna,
Joshua Smith, Cessna Brothers.
Junior three-year-olds; Eric Frednck,
Ronnie Morse, Joshua Smith.
Senior three-year-olds: Sue Betts Farm,
Burket Falls Farm, Samantha Foster.
Four-year-olds: Charann Foster, Enn
, Shaw, Ernest Bert Jr.
Five-year-olds; Burket Falls Farm, John
Foster 11, Russell Wyles.
Aged cows, Six-years and older, Scott
Fisher, Sue Betts Farm, Ronnie Morse.
125,000 Class: Sue Betts Farm, Saman
tha Foster, Sue Betts Farm.
Senior champion five-year-old; Burket
Falls Farm.
Reserve senior champion: Senior three
year-old Sue Betts Farm
Grand champion five-year-old; Burket
Falls Farm.
Reserve grand champion; Senior three
year-old, Sue Betts Farm.
Senior best three females Globe Run,
Cessna Brothers, Sue Betts Farm.
Breeder's herd: Sue Betts Farm, Globe
Run, Five Forks.
Produce of dam: Amanda Cessna, Globe
Run, Cessna Brothers.
Oaughter/dam: Amanda Cessna, Burket
Falls, Joshua Smith.
Supreme champion: Burket Falls.
Reserve supreme champion; Aagon
Gable, with a Gable.
Premier breeder and premier exhibitor
was Sue Betts Farm.
Remember, these are averages, so you
will need to adjust your figures up or
down according to your location and the
quality of your crop.
Corn, No.2y 2.10 bu., 3.76 cwt.
Wheat, N 0.2 —1.94 bu., 3.24 cwt.
Barley, N 0.3 —1.35 bu., 2.88 cwt.
Oats, N 0.2 —1.25 bu., 3.91 cwt.
Soybeans, N 0.1—4.18 bu., 6.98 cwt.
Ear Com —68.37 ton, 3.42 cwt.
Alfalfa Hay —115.50 ton, 5.78 cwt
Mixed Hay 96.25 ton, 4.81 cwt.
Timothy Hay —lOO.OO ton, 5.0 cwt.