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Recipients of the Farm and Home Foundation $4,000 scholarships must pursue a
degree in agriculture or home economic-related fields. That requirement is easy for
these high school students, who have already made strides in their career directions.
Kevin Pfautz is surrounded, from left, by Amanda Sue Lloyd, Stephanie Feister, and Amy
Elizabeth Myers. See story page A 36. Photo by Lou Ann Good, food and family foatuno oditor
Milk Marketing Board Hears Testimony From Dairy Industry
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dwphln
heard diverse Iggamony from
five dairy induSf^'n^jjm.ttla».
tives gathered for a pumfc'hear
ing here Wednesday.
The board gathered informa-
Biosecurity,
Coordinated
Vaccine
Programs Can
Control ILT
ANDY ANDREWS
Editor
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
To ward off threats of a po
tentially deadly disease, poultry
producers should look closely at
their dead bird disposal or com
posting operations and keep an
eye on the movement of person
nel and equipment.
Combating infectious laryn
gotracheitis, or ILT, on farms
requires proper biosecurity and
timed vaccination programs, ac
cording to Dr. Nathaniel L. Ta
blante Jr., assistant professor/
extension poultry veterinarian,
Virginia-Maryland Regional
College of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Maryland.
Tablante spoke Monday to
about three dozen poultry pro
ducers and agri-industry repre
sentatives at the Poultry
Management and Health Semi
nar at Kreider’s Restaurant in
Manheim.
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tion from the representatives to
determine a new over-order
premium price to be paid to
Pennsylvania milk producers
beginning July 1.
The over-order premium is
the additional milk price paid to
Pennsylvania producers above
the federally mandated mini
mum price (federal order). The
Farm Market Poster In Grower Section
Five Sections
current over-order premium in
Pennsylvania is set at $1.40 per
hundredweight and is due to
expire on June 30.
An additional fuel adjustment
premium of $.25 will continue
indefinitely until fuel prices
have stabilized, according to
PMMB director of Consumer
Affairs Tracy Jackson.
Saturday, May 19,2001
Erin’s Law Increases
Sanitation Requirements
For Animal Exhibitions
DAVEtEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) A proposed law recently
introduced in the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives would
require stricter sanitation stand
ards for animal exhibitions in
the state.
Introduced by Rep. John
Lawless (R-150), Erin’s Law was
drafted in response to an out
break of E. coli bacteria that was
reported to have caused serious
illness in Erin Jacobs, a 3-year
old Montgomery County girl.
The illness was allegedly associ
ated with contaminated animal
manure at a petting zoo in
Montgomery County last fall.
According to Lawless spokes
man Todd Abele, the outbreak
resulted in at least 60 other con
firmed or suspected cases.
In the draft language of the
law, the term “animal exhibi
tion” includes, but is not limited
to, a petting zoo, animal exhibit.
Representives of the Pennsyl
vania State Grange, Dairylea
Cooperative, and Pennsylvania
Association of Milk Dealers
(PAMD) asked the board to
maintain the over-order prem
ium at $1.40 per hundredweight,
while the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau (PFB) and Land-O-
Lakes Inc. asked that the prem-
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
As the hillsides and pastures
change into deeper hues of
green, as the young corn plants
begin showing their tender
shoots, and as flowers burst
into full bloom, produce stands
begin cropping up along road
sides across America.
An important source of
income for farm families, these
markets supply fresh flowers,
fruits, and vegetables to
passersby.
Bedding plants, asparagus,
spinach, sugar peas, and rhu
barb are the principle offerings
this time of year as stands
begin to open for the season.
From large to small scale,
from flowers to onions, these
stands represent the diversity
of roadside stands in Lancas
ter.
The Grower & Marketer sec
tion in this issue of Lancaster
Fanning features a full-color
poster of market stands located
throughout the county. The
poster begins in the section on
page two.
$34.00 Per Year
open animal forum, and a farm
that is open to the public. Ac
cording to Abele, local fairs and
the state farm show would be
implicitly included under the
law, though some of its terms
could be open to interpretation
by the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture (PDA).
Animal exhibit regulations
specified in the draft of the law
include:
• All animals at an animal
exhibition must be under the
care of a licensed veterinarian.
• Adequate handwashing
facilities must be conveniently
located at an animal exhibition.
• Eating areas must be sepa
rate from animal areas.
• Owners must post appro
priate notices explaining that no
food or beverage may be served
or consumed in areas occupied
by animals.
• Appropriate adult super
vision and physical barriers
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ium be reduced to $.BO and $.55,
respectively.
Requesting Status Quo
Art Zug, Juniata County
dairy farmer and Grange repre
sentative, said that the current
over-order premium has not
flooded the market with milk or
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Identification of the photos
are as follows, from top left to
right: “Flowers of New Dan
ville,” owned by Shelley
Rhoades; Village Farm
Market, owned by Allen and
Erla Mae Burkholder, Ephrata;
and Shenk’s Farm Market and
Greenhouses, owned by Jack
and Fran Shenk, Smoketown.
The second row, from left,
features a produce stand
owned by Edwin and Miriam
Newswanger, Narvon; a stand
owned by Joseph Stahl, Lititz;
and ReifFs Farm Fresh Pro
duce, owned by Reuben Reiff,
Ephrata.
The third row shows a stand
owned by Elam Fisher, Stras
burg; a display at Rohrer’s
Family Farm, a stand owned
by and Nelson Rose Rohrer,
Lititz; and Martin’s Produce,
owned by Lloyd and Annetta
Martin, New Holland.
Pictured in the fourth row is
Sunny Slope, owned by David
and Annie Esh, Intercourse; a
stand owned by Amos and
Lydia Esh, Paradise; and
Nolt’s Produce and Green
house, Ephrata, with Nancy
Nolt pictured.
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