V 01.46 No. 28 Growing Soybeans More Than Magical For Reigel Brothers MILLIE BUNTING Market Staff And MICHELLE RANCK Lancaster Farming Staff ANNVILLE (Lebanon Co.) — How many years have gone by since we read a lot about “Soy beans the Magic Beans”? At least IS. There was lot of publicity that soybeans would become a major crop to rival corn and wheat acreage. If anything, uses for soybeans were underestimated. Soybean acreage has in creased substantially every year since the United Soybean Board was established in 1991 and the national soybean checkoff began. First-place winners of the 2000 Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Contest, Jeff and Steve Reigel of Annville are an excel lent example of the trend to the Dairy Farmers Learn Ways To Help Stabilize Milk Prices DAVE LEFEVER Lancaster Farming Staff QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) About a dozen dairy farmers gathered at the Solanco fairgrounds in Quarryville last week to learn about a new pro gram that could help them sta bilize the prices they receive for their milk. The Dairy Options Pilot Pro gram (DOPP) offers farmers an opportunity to use the futures market to guarantee a minimum Kristy Gross is the third sister in her family to wear the Berks County dairy princess tiara, and Caitlyn Pool is the second girl in her r~m:!y to be selected Little Miss. See story page 814. www.lancasterfarming.com yearly increases in soybeans. They took up the challenge on entering the state soybean con test a few years ago. Their persistence paid off. Their 2000 soybean crop, evalu ated by Del Voight, Southeast regional agronomy extension agent, won them the top prize a trip to the 2002 Commodity Classic in Nashville, Tenn., next February. The Classic is the combined convention and trade show of the American Soybean Association (ASA) and the Na tional Corn Growers Associa tion (NCGA). As reported in the January 20 issue of Lancaster Farming, the Reigels used Garst D 398 seed that yielded 70.58 bushel per acres, significantly surpassing the other 24 entries in the con test. (The next highest yield per acre was 67.84 bushels.) (Turn to Page A2B) price for their milk in future months. Dr. Ken Bailey, Pennsylvania DOPP coordinator and Penn State associate professor of dairy and marketing policy, said that the program is being of fered to farmers for protection against a “boom and bust” cycle in the milk market. “The milk market doesn’t change slowly. It crashes,” Bailey said. “Prices are very (Turn to Page A2B) Four Sections Besides working for the family excavating firm, the Reigel brothers produce soy beans, corn, and wheat. They also .maintain 40 head of registered Polled Herefords and grow out 34,000 broilers annually. The soybean field that yielded 70.58 bushels per acre won them first place in the 2000 Pennsylvania Soybean Contest. The Reigels used a commercial seed that yielded 70.58 bushels per acre, significantly surpassing the other 24 entries in the contest. (The next highest yield per acre was 67.84 bushels.) Photo by Michelle Ranch Agricultural Applications Of Technology At Geographic Information Conference MICHELLE RANCK Lancaster Farming Staff BALTIMORE, Md. At the 14th annual Geographic Infor mation Sciences Conference at the Baltimore Conference Center, more than 70 presenta tions featured the applications of geographic information sys tems (GIS) in the world today. According to information Farm Council Discusses Food, Farm Future MICHELLE RANCK Lancaster Farming Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Maria van Hekken, Farmers’ Market Trust repre sentative, spoke about the third annual “Future of Our Food and Farms” summit to a gather ing of agriculture representa tives during a Monday meeting at the capitol. Preceding van Hekken’s pres entation, the executive commit tee meeting of the Pennsylvania State Council of Farm organiza tions included legislative up dates, policy and resolution updates, and executive commit tee meeting notes. Farmers’ Market Trust According to van Hekken, the Farmers’ Market Trust is a non profit organization dedicated to improving the supply of afford (Turn to Page A 23) Saturday, May 12,2001 from the U.S. Geological Sur vey’s Website, a GIS is a com puter system capable of assembling, storing, manipulat ing, and displaying geographical data. For example, a GIS allows emergency planners to calculate emergency response times during a natural disaster, or a GIS might be used to And wet At three months old, Scottish Highland calf “Beaure gard” has many shows ahead. Owner Joyce Harman of Flint Hill, Va., was one of many exhibitors who came to the recent Scottish Highland convention in Harrisburg. See story page A 35. Photo by Michelle Ranch $34.00 Per Year lands that need protection from pollution. Satellites relay information in a GIS system, a computerized mapping system. The way maps and other data have been stored or filed as layers of information in a GIS makes it possible to perform complex analyses. (Turn to Page A2B) 75c Per Copy
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