Special Milk Program aims to boost school milk consumption
A USDA study surveyed 8,444 children in 100 schools across ten states including Pennsylvania to assess if the Special Milk Program raises overall milk intake or merely shifts consumption to school hours. About half the schools participated, with ages five through nine.
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USDA
Agricultural Marketing Service
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Mulch Keeps Gardens Weed Free and Healthy
Gardening experts say mulching reduces weeding and helps conserve moisture. It stabilizes soil temperatures and slowly releases nutrients as it decomposes. For best results apply 3 to 4 inches of hay or straw mulch, 2 inches for ground corn cobs or sawdust, avoiding weed seed bearing materials.
County Vegetable Growers Invited To Attend Tour
The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association will hold its annual tour on July 25 and 26 led by Amos Funk of Millersville. The Erie County stop features four top growers with a focus on production and marketing plus roadside markets. Erie farmers cultivate about 7 600 acres of vegetables yearly with a near 25 million dollar crop value. Crops include cabbage potatoes beans tomatoes sweet corn melons cucumbers and asparagus. A bean picker demonstration will take place at James Hall’s 120 acre bean operation and Epoch the new dwarf tomato variety will be shown at another stop.
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Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association
Amos Funk
Millersville
Erie County
James Hall
Select Sires With Caution for Farm Livestock
Extension livestock specialists warn that selecting the sire for beef swine or sheep flocks deserves attention. Buying the cheapest animal often ends up costly, and a second rate sire may be a non breeder or produce the wrong offspring. Buy from reputable purebred breeders who adjust for non breeders.
Wayne Rentschler Accepts Yo-Ag Post at Kutztown
Wayne B. Rentschler former manager of membership relations with Lancaster County Farm Bureau resigns to teach vocational agriculture at Kutztown Area Schools. A Lampeter resident, he served West Lampeter High School 1927 1947, led local farm organizations, and plans to move near Kutztown in July.
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Lancaster Coun Sel Conservation
Paul Herr Bliwood
Dillerville
Wayne Rentschler
Kutztown
Wayne B. Rentschler
Lancaster County Farm Bureau
Rentschler
Lampeter
West Lampeter Community Fair Association
Lancaster County Soul Con
Servation District
County Agricultural Council
Lancaster County Council of Farmer Coopertives
International Farm Youth Exchange Committee
James Hess
Strasburg
Peru
Chicken of Tomorrow
State Soil Conservation District
West Lampeter
Bernville
Tobacco Wheat Share Farm Work Spotlight
Tobacco and wheat shared the farm work spotlight as farmers rushed to finish tobacco planting and start wheat harvest before weather changes. Most tobacco acreage was planted and wheat harvest began midweek with Thorne Dual and Seneca as leading varieties. Pennoll moisture delayed. grain moisture averaged 13 to 15 percent with good quality but lower yields attributed to heavy spring rains. Millers expect a large grain flush next week as corn grows and weeds ease. Late cool nights may slow corn. Washington Boro tomatoes arrive scantily while early sweet corn appears in small lots next week. Second cutting alfalfa is ready on some farms with late cut alfalfa and clover growing fast.
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Washington
Five Day Weather Forecast Signals Warm Up Through Monday
The forecast calls for near normal to four degrees above normal by midweek with temperatures averaging 87 by day and 66 at night. A warming trend is expected Saturday through Monday with a cooldown Tuesday or Wednesday. Scattered thundershowers are possible Sunday night or Monday, with average precipitation under one inch.
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Sam“Strasburg
Ivania
Harry Mumma
Wayne
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