26 Jul 1975
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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1975
Page
1
This issue compiles market notes and sale listings across the farming community. It includes DHIA reports for Lebanon Berks Lancaster and York regions, with editorial notes and homestead tips.
Area farmers face a critical wheat harvest with Southeastern Pennsylvania hit by wet weather risking scab and sprout damage while other regions report high quality grain. Penn Ag Industries provides USDA based notes on Fusarium head blight identifying infection stages, kernel changes, and toxins though impacts vary by livestock.
Orchardmen in western York and eastern Adams counties warn costs have risen about 20 percent while prices for fruit fall. They blame a canned lid shortage and higher sugar costs for weaker sales, with sweet cherries dropping from 20 cents to about 10 cents a pound and grocery prices near 79 cents.
The Soil Conservation District hosted its annual field day on a clear 83 degree day at the Howard Long farm in Columbia. About 40 people attended noting contour plowing and level land plowing contests with Frank Burkhart and Richard Binkley winning first in their events and earning state contest qualification.
Ray Moyer of Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon County has pursued dairy farming since starting FFA projects three years ago. He milks 65 Holsteins on his parents' dairy farm, competes on the dairy judging team, exhibits at Lebanon Fair and district shows, and raises five acres of corn for feed. He represented Cedar Crest and Lebanon County at the National FFA Leadership Convention in Washington, D C, gaining leadership skills and meeting national officers and peers from other states.
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