2003; A Year Of Big Changes
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Bloomsburg, was announced as
the new Pennsylvania State FFA
president.
July
A judge from the Bth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals (South
Dakota) upheld an earlier ruling
that the beef checkoff is unconsti
tutional.
Lancaster Farming congratu
lated 16 dairy farms from across
the Pennsylvania for being cho
sen 2003 Dairy of Distinction
winners.
August
Ag Progress Days at Rock
spring highlighted forest prod
ucts, as well as its usual wide
range of farm equipment and
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The Ontario Minister of Agri
culture Helen Johns met with
Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Den
nis Wolff and Pennsylvania ag
organizations to ask for support
in allowing trade to return to nor
mal as soon as possible. Cana
dian cattle exports have been cur
tailed by border closings after the
BSE was discovered in a cow in
Alberta in May.
The PDA and Penn State un
veiled the Samuel E. Hayes Live
stock Evaluation Center during a
ceremony at the new facility near
Rockspring. The building was
named for the former secretary of
agriculture, who helped spear
head the project.
Dr. John Enck, executive di-
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mal Health and Diagnostic Com
mission, told the House
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Comittee that the state’s animal
diagnostic labs need major fund
ing. equipment, and staff updates
in order to “have a chance fight
ing disease” in the event of an ag
roterrorism attack.
Pennsylvania conservation
leaders announced the doubling
of acreage eligible for the conser
vation reserve enhancement pro
gram (CREP) in the state.
September
Fed cattle market prices
reached recordbreaking levels of
$lOO or more per hundredweight.
Carla Martin of Manheim,
Lancaster County, was crowned
Lancaster harming, Saturday, December 27, 2003-A25
Here, the Conestoga River near Farmersville rose to
flood levels after heavy rains followed Tropical Storm
Isabel. Photo by Andy Andrews, editor
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess dur
ing the All-American Dairy Show
kickoff.
About 25,000 acres of corn in
Lancaster County were hit hard
by winds from Tropical Storm
Isabel, with an additional 97,000
acres suffering estimated yield
losses averaging about 15 per
cent, according to Bob Anderson,
Lancaster County crops agent.
While Isabel affected a wide area
in the region, in Pennsylvania
southeastern counties and areas
in Mifflin County reported some
of the worst crop damage.
The All-American Dairy Show
in Harrisburg announced Her
mitage Conciller Sheba, a
5-year-old Jersey from Waverly
Farm, Clearbrook, Va., as su
preme champion.
Ag lender Wachovia an
nounced its plans to exit the ag
loan business in Pennsylvania
and Delaware.
October
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tional Livestock Exhibition in
Harrisburg, longtime banker
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Mike Firestine was named to the
Pennsylvania Livestock Associa
tion Hall of Fame.
Coordinators reported that a
corn harvest aid effort played a
big part in helping farmers in
Lancaster and Chester counties
get their crop in after winds from
Tropical Storm Isabel made
many fields difficult or impossi
ble to harvest with a binder.
Leaders from the Pennsylvania
departments of agriculture and
environmental protection
launched the Water Resources
Planning Act.
Bryan Swistock, water re
sources specialist with Penn State
cooperative extension said 2003
will go down in history as the
wettest year on record for most of
the state, with an average 23
inches of rainfall recorded during
the four-month period of May
through August.
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Lancaster for a raw milk inform
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