Erroneous Ballots Sent to Dairymen in Pennsylvania
A printer error on milk referendum ballots caused confusion for dairymen in Pennsylvania. About 200 misprinted ballots were mailed mainly to western dairy farmers. correct ballots feature one side with instructions and a voting face on the other. Call 717-787-4210 to request replacement ballots or to obtain one if none arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Don Kunyon
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Jim McHale
McHale
Marketing Services Division
Department of Agriculture
Harrisburg
Runyon
Cattle Market Up as New Holland Auction Sets Records
Cattle prices rose at Thursday's New Holland auction with slaughter steers about 11.5 higher than last week and near year highs. A load of 27 choice Angus steers sold for 43.05 per hundred pounds, at Lancaster Stock Yards, amid a trend of rising hog prices hitting 35 per hundred pounds.
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New Holland
Lancaster
J. M. Hooker Inc
Sperry Rand Corp
Red Rose DHIA Awards Honor Lancaster County Producers
John Yost of Kinzers Ri tops Lancaster County DHIA with 16 087 pounds of milk and 0 673 pounds butterfat per cow from a 35 cow Holstein herd earning best butterfat and Holstein breed honors. 16 dairymen exceed 600 pounds butterfat for the year and the list includes Nolt Leola, Martin Ephrata, Zimm erman Ephrata, and others across Lancaster County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Rose
DHIA
Aaron Beiler
Paradise
John Lapp
Leola
John Yost
Kinzers
Henry Kettering
Lititz
Kinzers Ri
Lancaster County
Yost
Association
Farm and Home
Ayrshire
Masonic Homes
Elizabethtown
J. Rohrer Witmer
Willow Street
Guernsey
Raymond Witmer
Jersey
Robert W. Ulrich & Son
Quarryville
Harold
Donald Risser
Bainbridge
J.Z. Nolt
Rufus G. Martin
Ephrata
Paul B. Zim
Farm Calendar events span Pomona Grange and Agway meetings
Saturday January 20 at 7 p.m. Pomona Grange 71 dinner at Rhoads Spanish Restaurant Quarryville. Monday January 22 Fulton Grange meeting Oaklyn. Tuesday January 23 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Agway Dairy Livestock Crops Production event.
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Pomona Grange
Rhoads Spanish
Quarryville
Fulton Grange
Oaklyn
Burkhart Wins State Conservation Contractor Award
Donald A. Burkhart of Strasburg earns Pennsylvania’s top conservation contractor honor from the Pennsylvania Land Improvement Contractors Association and the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation District Directors at the state contractors meeting in New Cumberland. He advances to national competition. Kilmer Brothers win second.
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Donald A. Burkhart
Strasburg
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Land Improvement Contractors Association
Pennsylvania Association of Conservation District
Burkhart
New Cumberland
Robert M. Ross
Lancaster County Conservation District
Aaron Stauffer
Ephrata
Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts
Kilmer Brothers
Somerset County
Lancaster County
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Lancaster Farming
J. R. Forman
Dale Heistand
Harry Kreider
Harold Risser
Red Rose Dhia
Ben S. Stoltzfus
Honey Brook
David L. Landis
Colebrook Rd
Aaron E. Beiler
Paradise Ri
Henry E. Kettering
Ben K. Stoltzfus
Gordonville Ri
John Farrington
J. Mowery Frey Jr
Beaver Valley Pike
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