f Meat Goat Judging School In Maryland May 31 McHENRY, Md. The Alter native Agriculture Center at Gar rett Community College (GCC) will host a Meat Goat Judging School May 31 at the Garrett County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The judging school will be a hands-on, practical approach to selection of meat goats. Meat goat producers will gain valuable knowledge for selecting breeding stock and market animals. Meat goats are one of the fast est growing livestock species at fairs and festivals. Many fair offi cials are forced to use dairy goat or other livestock judges for meat goat shows because trained meat goat judges are not available. This is an excellent opportunity for extension agents, dairy goat judges, and other livestock judges and other livestock judges to leam more about judging. Dr. Alan Fires and Susan Schoenian will conduct the school. Fires has been involved in raising and showing meat goats for more than 20 years. He is an official judge with the IBGA, a member of the Herd Improve ment Committee, and a member of the Official Judges and Shows Committee of the IBGA. Fires and his family have a herd of purebred boer goats and are in the commercial and pure blood buck production business on his ranch in Kermit, Texas. Susan Schoenian is an area ex tension agent for sheep and goats with the University of Maryland. She has experience in raising meat goats and hair sheep and has been involved with the Lower Shore Goat Producers Associa tion. Schoenian has also traveled to many Caribbean counties in her extension roles. For the past two years, She served as the judge for the National Sheep and Goat Show in Santo Domingo, Domin ican Republic. In her new role, Schoenian is stationed at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center in Keedysville, Md. The judging school will include classes on judging market weth ers, commercial does and doel ings, and boer bucks. The cost of the school will be $2O, MPWV members and family members $l5, and youth under 18, $lO. The fee will include lunch and materials. gfr HfJtUMr. pPESUEn^ KHRAM CASE tk David. Brown ("BETTER-BILT”) (monosenQ KMZE CORN PLANTERS & GRAIN CARTS m BIN&^®ST i mmmi BRv5« JLNw. i vSpj We can communicate with you by phone 1-800-414-4705, fax 717-626-0996 and e-mail info@binkleyhurst.com For more information or to register, call Willie Lantz at (301) 387-3331. Meat Goat Conference The judging school will be con ducted in conjunction with the fifth annual Meat Goat Confer ence, also sponsored by the Alter native Agriculture Center at Gar rett Community College (GCC). The fifth annual Meat Goat Conference will begin at 3 p.m. at GCC. The conference will feature speakers on meat goat topics such as health, production per formance, scrapie, and meat goat research projects in feeding goats. The cost for the conference will be $lO. The conference will be fol lowed by first annual meeting of the MPWV Chapter of the Mid West Meat Goat Producers Asso ciation, which will feature a ban quet dinner with goat meat. The cost of the meal is $l5. Saturday, June 1, the MPWV Chapter of the Mid West Meat Goat Producers Association will host the third annual Mt. Top Boer Goat Show and Sale to begin at noon at the Garrett County Fairgrounds. Classes will include fullblood and purebred boer does and bucks, percentage boer does, and meat goat classes (bucks, weth ers, or does). At 6:30 p.m., a Boer Goat Pro duction sale will be conducted by the MPWV chapter. The sale will feature approximately 50 ani mals. Animals will be consigned by MPWV members only and will feature the best members have to offer. Members will be selling percentage does and fullblood/purebred does and bucks. For more information on the show and sale, call Willie Lantz at (301) 387-3331 or log on to www.gcc.cc.md.us/agriculture/. EXTENDED PA. STORI To Better Serve You Dui MAY Mon., Tties., Thi Wed. 7am*6pi ■SUNFLOWER BJ[ HARLO 133 Rothsville Station Rd. • Lititz, P\ 17543 717-626-4705 Boer Goat Show by Athens Disk Harrows imhbpl c° uit r Chisels Plows Producer Petition Requests U.S, Justice Dept To Investigate Irregularities In Livestock Markets AMES, lowa A new petition requesting the Department of Justice to investigate irregular ities in livestock markets began circulating among producers Sat urday, May 11, at the Livestock Price Crisis Meeting in Omaha, Neb. “After the packer ownership ban was dropped from Farm Bill legislation, we’ve heard countless producers report that they want the issue addressed,” said Na tional Farmers Organization (NFO) President Paul Olson. “This grassroots producer peti tion requests the United States, Department of Justice to focus its attention on market movement over the past several weeks that has been highly irregular.” Olson said that members he spoke with are determined that they must take control of their destiny, and that this petition is just one of the tools they can use to accomplish that goal. The petition will be circulated in hard copy to farmers and ranchers nationally through nu merous ag groups, and is avail- Red Angus Completes Reproduction Predictions DENTON, Texas The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) is proud to announce the release of the industry’s first Reproduction Traits Sire Evalua tion. The sire evaluation includes genetic predictions for the four economically relevant reproduc tion traits Calving Ease Direct, Heifer Pregnancy, Calving Ease Total Maternal, and Stayability EPDs. Calving Ease Direct pre dicts the ability of a calf to be bom unassisted while Heifer Pregnancy predicts the probabili ty of a sire’s daughters conceiv ing to calve as a two year-old. Calving Ease Total Maternal predicts the probability of a sire’s daughters to calve unassisted, and Stayability predicts the prob ability that a sire’s daughters will stay in the herd until they are six years of age. “The goal of the RAAA is to comprehensively describe the three general areas of reproduc tion, growth and carcass utilizing as few EPDs as possible. In terms tGMT EHL to Matter •e You Are - t’re Never 'oo Far! ©Your Parts Are Just A Phone Call Away! Machinery Sales M-F 7 to 5 Sat. 7 to 11:30 PARTS DEPT. HOURS: Monday-Friday 7 AM to 5 PM Saturday 7 AM to Noon After Hours Emergencies Call (717) 626-0885 (717) 626-5159 Sun. Closed - Lord’s Day able on the Web at www.nfo.orgPetition/ Petition.asp. The petition signa ture deadline is June 14. The livestock producer fairness petition requests the Justice De partment to investigate: • How the ownership or con trol of livestock by packers is ef fecting normal supply and de mand factors in the futures markets. • Whether supply is being ma nipulated to force massive swings in the market. • If there were commodity trading funds taking short posi tions in the futures market in quantities higher than usual. If so, did they represent large agri business interests and is there a conflict of interest or collusion in volved? • Were there any traders in the futures market since March 1 who don’t normally trade live stock futures. Producers believe that since March 1, unexplained forces have driven live cattle and live hog fii- of profitability, reproduction is the most important group of traits in cow/calf production; so objectively describing reproduc tion has been one of the RAAA’s highest priorities”, said Dr. Bob Hough, RAAA Executive Secre tary. “The formulation of these re productive EPDs is the result of ten years of groundbreaking re search by Colorado State Univer sity (CSU), sustained RAAA Board leadership, and dedicated Red Angus breeders building the Grange Congratulates President WASHINGTON, D.C.— Ker mit W. Richardson, president of the National Grange, sent a letter of appreciation to President Bush, congratulating him for signing the 2002 Farm Bill. The bill is considered a com promise but necessary piece of legislation that will direct fed eral farm programs for the next six years. 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The organization points out that those movements coincided with the expiration and subse quent renewal offers of supply contracts that producers first en tered into following the 1998 crash in the hog market, and a market overreaction to foot and mouth testing in Kansas. The Senate passage of the Ban on Packer Ownership of livestock also occurred during the period in question. “Producers can visit the NFO Website and sign the petition electronically by pointing their browser to www.nfo.org and clicking on the petition button in the tan box,” said Olson. Farmers can also print out a hard copy of the petition to circulate and mail to the NFO home office at 528 Billy Sunday Rd., Ames, lowa 50010. necessary database” said Hough. The 2002 RAAA Reproductive Traits Sire Evaluation includes EPDs for 527 sires, and is avail able by contacting the Red Angus Association of America National Office at 940-387-3502, or mailto: info@redangusl.org” info@redangusl.org. programs. The National Grange regards the new Farm Bill as an impor tant part, but not exclusive an swer, for achieving our national goal of revitalizing rural America and returning U.S. family farm ers to prosperity. “The Grange looks forward to working closely with Congress and the administration to ensure other critical legislation gets passed,” said Grange Legislative Director Leroy Watson. Presents GATES OPEN AT 5:00 EVENT STARTS AT 7:00 SHARP Ainl» For More Info Call The Office At (717) 859-4244 or track at (717) 284-2139 1-800-344-7855
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