Wheat Agreement Spells Trouble For Farmers
Group leaders at the eighth Summer Youth Institute of the Pennsylvania Association of Farm Cooperatives meet at Shippensburg with Daryl K. Heasley to discuss responsibilities. Charles B. Shuman warns a new international Wheat Trade Convention will hurt U.S. producers by pushing minimum prices above world levels and reducing exports.
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Pennsylvania Association of Farm Cooperatives
Shippensburg
Daryl K. Heasley
Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth Risser
Leola
Averiil Royer
Oregon Pike
Lancaster
Lynn Heistand
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
State Farm Bureau Information Directors
Austin
Texas
U. S. Senate
Johnson
U.S
Shuman
Farm And Home Directors Hold Monthly Business Meeting
Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation directors met to hear Levi Brubaker read about a court award of 50 000 from the Esbenshade estate. Judge Bowman ruled release of funds after Esbenshade’s matching gifts plan and death.
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Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation
Farm and Home Center
Levi Brubaker
Elmer L. Esbenshade
John L. Bowman
Brubaker
Esbenshade
Lancaster County Farm Calendar Highlights by Date
Farm events listed for Lancaster County include Swine Day at Stauffer Homestead Farm East Earl on Saturday July 20 at 10 am. National Farm Safety Week runs July 21 to 27. July 22 features 4H Photography Club at Eric Sower home 1051 Eden Rd at 7:30 pm and Red Rose FFA Chapter meeting at Elizabethtown High School at 8:00 pm. Tuesday July 23 shows Lancaster County listing at 10:45 am.
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Lancaster County
Stauffer Homestead
East Earl
National Farm Safety
Eric Sower
Eden Rd
Red Rose
Elizabethtown High School
Newcomer Wins Tri State FFA Public Speaking Title
Nelson Newcomer, a Penn Manor High School senior, won the Tri State FFA Public Speaking contest in New Brunswick New Jersey with the topic A World Divided. He advances to the national semifinals in Massachusetts this September, one of several regional champions from Maryland Virginia West Virginia and New England at the Eastern States Livestock Exposition in Springfield Massachusetts.
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Penn Manor High School
FFA
Future Farmers of America
New Brunswick
N. J
Nelson Newcomer
Earl L. Newcomer
Washington
Bero Rl
Nelson
Massachusetts
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
New England
Springfield
Mass
Wheat certificate value set at 1.38 per bushel
The Agriculture Department announces wheat certificate payments for the 1968 program at $1.38 per bushel. The rate reflects the difference from the July 1 1968 parity price of $2.63 per bushel.
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U.S
Wheat allotment notices mailed to farmers on July 19
ASCS News reports the 1969 wheat allotments will be mailed to county farmers on July 19. The notice includes a pamphlet explaining the 1969 wheat program and states that farmers who plant within the allotment can earn certificate payments on 43 percent of the allotment by diverting 15 percent.
4 H Youth Demonstration Teams Dominate District
Lancaster County 4 H youths won six first places at the district contest held Tuesday at Owen J Roberts High School Chester County. Hugh Wenger Quarryville R2 scored 955 points for Mounting of Adult Insects. Marvin Nisley Mt Joy R1 Dale Bushong Columbia R2 teamed for 95 points on Controlling Internal Parasites in Cattle.
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Lancaster County
Owen J. Roberts High School
Chester County
Hugh Wenger
Quarryville
Marvin Nisley
Mt. Joy
Dale Bushong
Columbia
Huge Holstein pair shipped to Vintage Sales Stables
A pair of massive Holstein steers nearly six feet tall at the withers and weighing 2870 and 2695 pounds with 30 inch horns arrived at Vintage Sales Stables last Friday from New York State. The steers originally...
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New York State
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Manheim
Recorder
Eugene Bollinger
Denver
Lancaster Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Commonwealth
New York
New Jersey
P.A.F.C
Penn State College of Agriculture
Farm and Home Directors
Thomas J. Monaghan
M. M. Smith
Phares S. Risser
B. Snavely Garber
Buckwalter Construction Co
Ascs News
Maine
Ken Hershey
L.F
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