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Poultry Manure Management, Use Strategies Focus Of National Symposium
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
OCEAN CITY, Md. It’s a
big challenge: how to move what
some consider “waste” and
others a valuable resource.
Poultry manure.
The problem: of the seven bil
lion broilers produced in the
Nelson Groff, Manheim, is poised to lead, as president,
the Lancaster County Poultry Association, which will con
duct its annual banquet Tuesday evening. Groff, technical
services representative for Heritage Poultry Management
Services, is pictured with his wife, Arlene. Turn to page
A 36 to read more about the Groffs. Photo by Lou Ann Good
World Dairy
Expo Names
Holstein
Supreme
Champion
MADISON, Wis. A 4-year
old cow exhibited by Kent Van
Dyk and Mark Rueth of Jeffer
son, Wis. was selected as the
2000 World Dairy Expo su
preme champion here during
closing ceremonies at the 34th
annual show.
Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise
is sired by Robthom Integrity
and her dam is Vandyk-K
Broker Pansey-ET. The su
preme champion produced a
305-day record of 23,729 pounds
of milk, 849 pounds of fat, and
780 pounds of protein.
The reserve supreme cham
pion honors went to the cham
pion from the Central National
Jersey Show. Waymar Patrick
Nadine is an aged cow owned by
Piedmont Jerseys Inc. of Coa
ticook, Quebec, Canada. She has
a 305-day record of 21,344
pounds of milk, 977 pounds of
fat, and 838 pounds of protein.
Nabdon Master Patrick sired
Nadine and her dam is Waymar
Silver Jay Norah.
A Jersey cow named Robin
Acres Red Alpha lOf was se
(Turn to Pago A 39)
Four Sections
U.S. every year, the manure gen
erated could be laid down in a
pile three feet wide by three feet
high stretching 7,900 miles long,
or about twice the length of the
U.S.
Processing the manure so it
could be used for fertilizer, fuel,
or feed is the greatest challenge.
INTERCOURSE (Lancaster Co.) Fall harvest season is
almost complete as warm weather arrived early this week.
The morning sun created an Indian Summer-like specta
cle.
This has been a record year for corn production in the
state and the country. The USDA notes that a record crop
is in store for Pennsylvania —an average of 129 bushels
per acre, up seven bushels per acre from the previous
record of 120 bushels per acre in 1994. Corn production
nationwide should be 10.2 billion bushels, the largest pro
duction and yield on record (average of 139.6 bushels per
acre for the nation). Other farm reports indicate the corn
harvest is coming in strong at regional feed mills. Rain has
prevented harvest in some areas.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21, 2000
but one that can be technologi
cally met today, according to an
agent with North Carolina Ex
tension Service.
Glenn Carpenter, area agent
Margeaux Firestine and “Miss Universe” stand by the MAP Farm sign in Womels
dorf. Firestine recently won the junior division speech competition at the Hereford
Junior National Expo in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Miss Universe has been a class winner at
several fairs and state competitions. Photo by Michelle Ranck
Speaking Of Beef Have You Heard fibout CHB?
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
WOMELSDORF (Berks
Co.) Heinz ketchup, Idaho
potatoes, and a trip to the gro-
$32.00 Per Year
with North Carolina extension
in Pittsboro, N.C., said Monday
that the technology to convert
the resource is there, but is “not
nearly as good as it needs to be
cery store proved to be more
than simply food for thought
for Margeaux Firestine.
Firestine, 15, combined sev
eral marketing ideas as she de
According to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics
Service, corn for grain production is forecast at 135.5 mil
lion bushels, 120 percent above last year’s crop. The corn
crop was 96 percent dent, 2 percent behind the 5-year av
erage. The corn crop was also 78 percent mature, which
was the same as the S-year average. Twenty-two percent
of the corn acreage was harvested by the end of the week,
8 percent behind the S-year average. Corn silage harvest
was very active and yields looked good. Fall plowing was
59 percent complete.
A sign of some rainy, cooler weather, not to mention
shortening days, ahead ... The photographer caught this
glimpse of the rising sun Monday at the corner of Newport
and Pond roads near Intercourse. Photo by Andy Andrews
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for a long-term, sustained
market of poultry goods,” he
said.
Carpenter spoke Monday
(Turn to Pago A 29)
vised her own plan to market
beef, the basis for her first
place speech at the Hereford
Junior National Expo held in
(Turn to Pago A3B)