Conn Farmers Impressed By County Farms Visit
Connecticut visitors toured New Holland Machine Company and Gordonville Ai farm of John E. Esh on their way to the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. They saw Holsteins with a DHIA herd average of 18 250 pounds of milk and 645 pounds of butterfat, the fifth herd average over 600 pounds.
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Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
New Holland Machine Company
Connecticut
Gordonville
John E. Esh
Educator Addresses Youth And Society At DHIA Banquet
Frederick P Sample, supervising principal at Manheim Township High School, urged farm folks at the Red Rose Dairy DHIA dinner to focus on shaping youth as whole persons. He warned against overemphasizing statistics and called for honoring diversity while noting future job trends and the need for character.
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Lancaster County
Linda Welk
Frederick P. Sample
Manheim Township
Sample
Holiday Inn
Lancaster
L. F
Frederick P Sample
Red Rose
Manheiman Township High School
Crop Adjustment Rates Announced For Lancaster County
Lancaster County announces CAP adjustment rates set at 40 percent of county price support loan values for wheat barley corn and grain sorghum. Wheat 0.58 per bushel barley 0.36 corn 0.49 sorghum 0.37. Additional cropland eligible for CAIP payments ranges from 300 to 700 dollars per acre based on land productivity. agreements run five to ten years.
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Lancaster County
Fred G Seldonridge
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation County
Lanester
Extensionist To Discuss Farm and Home Centers Meeting Here
The Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation holds its annual meeting Tuesday January 25 at Hostetter's Banquet Hall Mount Joy starting 6 45 pm open to county residents. Harold Sweet Cornell extension administrator will present an illustrated report on Farm and Home Centers progress and community impact. Foundation president B Snavely Garber will conduct the chief business meeting.
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Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation
Hostetter‘s
Mount Joy
Harold Sweet
New York State
Sweet
Cornell University
Foundation
B Snavely Garber
See Your Problems As Challenges Met Specialist Tells Poultrymen
Poultry management consultant Joe Claybamagh of DeKalb Agri Assn told 1060 area poultrymen at Lafayette Fire Hall Lancaster to view problems as challenges. He said competitors are not ten feet tall and cited varied poultry operations across the country with different challenges including overpopulation and other issues.
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Joecatnor
Joe Claybamagh
DeKalb Agri. Assn
Lafayette Fire Hall
Lancaster
Farm Calendar January 24 24th 26th Conference
Vegetable Growers Conference at the Nittany Lion Inn Penn State University. Ephrata Antult Farm Welding Class at Ephrata High School at 3 30 PM. Installation of Red Rose FFA officers at Lampeter Strasburg High. Page 4.
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Nittany Lion Inn
Pesx State University
Ephrata -Antult
Ephrata High School
Red Rose Ffa
Lampeter-Strasburg High
Lancaster County 4-H Leaders Council elects six directors
Six directors were elected to two-year terms at the Lancaster County 4-H Leaders Council annual meeting held Wednesday at the Production Credit Office. The home economics committee was among the groups receiving new leadership.
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Lancaster County 4-H Leaders Council
Production Credit
Home Economics Coun
Wheat Growers Offered Options In 1966 Program
The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee outlines options for wheat growers under the 1966 voluntary program. Choices include planting on all allotment acres, diverting allotment acres to nonproduction uses for payment, overplanting by up to 60 percent and storing excess for bad years, and substitution.
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Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
Lancaster County Sees Five Day Cold Run Despite Snow Elsewhere
Lancaster County will stay cold for five days with daytime highs near 38 degrees and overnight lows in the upper teens. No significant precipitation is expected locally though coastal areas may see snow Sunday night and mountain flurries.
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Lancaster County
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Everett Newswanger
DHIA
Frey Herd
Harold B. Sweet
Council
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