Avalong Fights Milk Board Action in Court and Sign War
Avalong Farms vice-president Clyde Long vows to contest a May 19 Commonwealth Court injunction barring sale of milk below minimum prices. The Milk Marketing Board says Avalong sold beyond the farmer exemption and without a license. The case centers on a 99 cent milk sign and a limited two gallon per customer rule.
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Milk Board
Supreme Court
Clyde Long
Avalong Farms
York
Lancaster Farming
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board
Long
Harry E. Kapleau
Kapleau
Clyde Leng
Avalong
Substantial Rise in Conestoga Creek Sedimentation
The Conestoga Creek sediment load has doubled over ten years, with current levels at 530 tons per square mile per year. A USGS report notes the basin drains about 500 square miles and 11 sampling stations are in use including three in the main creek and eight at tributary mouths.
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Lancaster County Conservation District
U.S. Geological Survey
Conestoga
Craig Kachel
Franklin and Marshall
Kachel
Rachel
Muddy Creek
Little Muddy Creek
Cocalico Creek
Hammer
Poultry Queen Contest Entries Due June 20
Lancaster County Poultry Association seeks candidates aged 17 to 23 who reside in Lancaster County and are linked to poultry industries or related producers. John Melhorne, board member, oversees the contest and can be reached at 653 1102 in Mount Joy for entry details before the June 20 deadline.
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Lancaster County
John Melhorne
Melhorne
Lancaster County Poultry Association
Mount Joy
Farm Calendar Sparkles with June County Gatherings
Calendar notes June events across Fulton Oaklyn Berks and Lancaster including a Grange meeting and ice cream festival on Monday, a Farm and Home Foundation directors meeting Tuesday at the Farm and Home Center, a Berks Wool Pool Wednesday at Reading Fair Grounds, a Poultry Federation annual meeting Thursday at the Sheraton Harrisburg, and the Lancaster Dairy Princess contest at Farm and Home.
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Fulton Grange
Oaklyn
Farm and Home Foundation Board of Directors
Farm and Home Center
Pennsylvania Price Index Rises for Farmers in May 1972
The Pennsylvania index of prices received by farmers rose three points to 280 percent of the 1910 14 average for the period ended May 15 1972, driven by higher prices for steers heifers and hogs while milk and eggs fell. Nationally the index gained four points to 123 percent with hogs beef cattle cotton cantaloupes and watermelons driving the rise and milk lettuce and sweet corn offsetting some gains.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service
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Conestoga Creek
Poultry Queen
Lester Bingeman
Bingeman
Russell H. Keith
Raymond Lauder
Lititz
E. J. Lawless, Jr
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
PEMA
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