Poultrymen Plan Education Meetings This Winter
The Lancaster County Poultry Association announces three educational meetings in January and February. January focuses on business and management with Herb Jordan and Homer Bixler at Lititz Recreation Center. February topics cover marketing strategy with Kermit Birth and Larry Yeager, and trends with Sam Berenson and Richard Ammon at Lititz Recreation Center and Farm and Home Center. All begin at 7 45 p m with refreshments and possible invites to Berks Lebanon and York Counties.
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Herb Jordan
Homer Bixler
Litjtz Recreation Center
Kermit Birth
Larry Yeager
Liutz Recreation Center
Sam Berenson
Richard IT Ammon
Farm & Home Center
Claude Hess
Berks
Lebanon
York Counties
Persuading People To Accept New Farming Methods
Agricultural economist Dr. John Sjo of Kansas State University urged expanded Social Science emphasis in college agriculture. He called social, economic, cultural, and political behavior central to modern farming challenges highlighted at a Conference on Undergraduate Teaching in Agronomy with AS A, CSSA, and SSSA meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Kansas State University
John Sjo
Soil Science Society of America
Sjo
Farm Calendar January 3 1968 Meeting Dates
Farm Calendar lists events for January 3 and 4 1968. Northeastern Weed Control Conference in New York City at the Hotel Commodore. Southeastern Pa Nursery Meeting at Presidential Apts Philadelphia. Yo-Ag teachers meeting at Pequea Valley High School. Lancaster County Poultry Directors Meet at the Farm Credit Building.
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Hotel Commodore
New York City
Southeastern Pa
Presidential Apts
City Line
Schuylkill Expressway
Phila
Yo-Ag
Pequea Valley High School
Lancaster County Poultry Directors
Credit Bldg
Local Hogmen To Start Self-Help Program
A voluntary self-help program to raise hog profits begins January 1, 1968. The Nickels For Profit plan, backed by the Lancaster County Swine Producers Association, unites hog farmers for quality improvement and product promotion with a contribution of five cents per market hog or two cents per head.
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Lancaster County Swine Producers Association
Soil and water plan gains urban rural joint role
Pennsylvania adopts House Bill 1511, making urban representation mandatory in soil and water conservation at local and state levels. The program is producer financed with proceeds from hog sales funding state and county efforts, and only hog producers may serve on boards. Local hog groups and dealers coordinate nickel collection with 1 cent to National Livestock and Meat Board, 0.36 to Pennsylvania programs, 0.04 to National Pork Producers.
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Hansburg
Pennsylvania
Siste
Raymond P. Shafer
Leland H. Bull
National Livestock and Meat Board
Henkel
Park Association
Cool-Headed Cows Give More Milk, Study Shows
A USDA ARS study with the University of Missouri found cows produced 15 to 20 percent more milk when their heads and necks were cooled to 60 degrees Fahrenheit than in an 85 degree barn. Lead researcher G LeRoy Hahn showed zone cooling boosts production without full barn air conditioning.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
G LeRoy Hahn
USDA
Agricultural Research Service
University of
Hahn
Missouri Climatic Laboratory
Mr. Hahn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lancaster County Poultry Association
John H Henkel
Strasburg
Kungler & Co, Inc
Ezra W Martin Company
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