HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Clover Hill Vineyards and Winery, Breiningsville, exhibited their expertise in wine making by taking the Best of Show Award at the sixth annual Farm Show Wine Competition at the 86th Pennsylvania Farm Show. Clover Hill’s Chambourein gained gold medal status as best hybrid, leading to a best of show entry. In addition to their Chambourein, Clover Hill exhibited six other varie ties of wine. They were among more than 20 compet ing wineries at this year’s event, where 16 judges sam pled 163 varieties of wine, awarding a total of 118 medals. Established in 1975, Clover Hill was born when John and Pat Skrip took a chance and planted a small vineyard. Success has made Clover Hill an expanding family opera tion, now realizing four vine yards comprised of 55 acres and their winery business. Emphasis at Clover Hill is in cultivating only the finest quality grapes, and winemaker John Script 111 said, “We put the same pride, care, and concern in every bottle we make.” Other honors were given to Adams County Winery, gain ing a Silver Medal and Best AfONOSENI - Configurations to Meet your Planting Need - If you plant a garden p10t... • Asparagus • Beetroot • Carrot • Chives • Cabbage BSSSiS?? Lehigh Valley Winery Wins Top Honors At Farm Show American for their Tears ot e j r chardonnay. In addi- best show-fruit award with awarded a silver medal ani Gettysburg and Manatawny tjon Savior Wine Cellars their Peaches Plus. Presque best sparkling for thei Creek Winery receiving a . ’ home a gold and Isle Wine Cellars was Harbor Creek Red. gold and Best Vinifera for lnc tooK nome a gOIQ a WESTMINSTER, Md. The Carroll County Farm Museum and the Carroll County Arts Council have announced the annual design competition for The Mary land Wine Festival Poster for 2002. Entries for this contest in crease in number each year, with a record of 67 entries re ceived last year from all across the nation. HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Pennsylvania’s pro duction of fall potatoes for 2000 totaled 3,510,000 CWT, up 14 percent from 1999, ac cording to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Ser vice. The value of production was 27.2 million dollars, up 17 percent from 1999. Potato sales totaled 3.301.000 CWT or 94 percent of the 2000 crop. In 1999, 2.877.000 CWT, or 93 per cent of the total production. 3 Point Hitch * Pull-Type * MONOSEM HAS A VEGETABLE PLANTER FOR YOU! • Cucumber • Endive • Spinach • Fennel • Unpelleted Lettuce Potato Production Grows - Seed Metering • Corns Salad • Melon • Turnip • Unpelleted Onion • Pavot DOZENS OF SEEDS! 2002 Maryland Wine Festival Design Competition Announced The winning artist(s) will receive a $l,OOO cash prize. The winning design will be reproduced on posters, T shirts, brochures and various other promotional materials for the 2002 Maryland Wine Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 22, from noon-6 p.m. at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster, Md. was sold. The average price received in 2000 was $7.75 per CWT, compared to $7.55 in 1999. Of the total produc tion, 44,000 CWT were used on the farms where produced and 165,000 CWT went to shrinkage and other losses. Farm use accounted for 31,000 CWT in 1999 and shrinkage and other losses were 172,000 CWT. Nationally, acreage of all potatoes harvested in 2000 totaled 1.35 million, up one percent from the previous • Parsley • Leeks • Peppers • Radish • Tomato 133 Rothsville Station Rd., P.O. Box 0395 Lititz, PA 17543-0395 (717) 626-4705 • 1-800-414-4705 • Fax 717-626-0996 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,2002, Grower and Marketer-2 • Flowers • Squash • Watermelon • Pumpkin • Soybean ONE PLANTER! Any two-dimensional media may be used to design the poster, including paint ing, drawing, collage, photog raphy, computer-generated design, etc. Artists must be 18 years of age or older to enter. Deadline for design sub mission is 3 p.m. Friday, March 15. Interested artists and designers must contact the Arts Council at (410) 848- 7272 or (410) 876-8550 to year. Yield per acre averaged 381 CWT, up 22 CWT from 1999. Production totaled 514 million CWT in 2000, an in crease of seven percent from 'the previous year. The volume of potatoes sold was 465 million CWT, up six percent from 1999. Value of the 2000 potato crop was estimated at $2.59 bil lion, down six percent from a year earlier. The average price was $5.08 per CWT, compared with $5.77 in 1999. • Cantaloupe • Sunflower • Sweet Corn • Cauliflower • Sorghum/Milo receive a copy of the officu design requirements an entry form. At Its Best • Kidney Bean • Sugarbeet/Pickle • Peas • Green Beans • Onion SFarm Plan Wruce o/FPC fj/n;Kni