Beef Price Freeze Lifts September 12 Sparked Market Debate
Dick Warner reports on the impending end of the beef price freeze on September 12 with expectations of modest rises in live cattle prices from $50 to $52 and hopes prices won’t surge. Hog prices swing from 61 to 43 cents as producers fear losses. some warn a return to 30 cent hogs could ruin many farms while demand shifts to fish and poultry as red meat consumption drops. Restauranteurs urge lift of the freeze to restore standard pricing, noting menu markups depend on raw food costs and the old method.
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Pennsylvania Restaurant Association
Farm Family Hosts Guest From Poland
Walenty Mazur, a 23 year old Polish chemist, spends nine months in Lancaster County under the Mennonite Central Committee Exchange Visitor Program. He stays with the Wilmer Kraybill family near Elverson and Weaver’s Greenhouse in Lancaster to learn about American farming and agricultural chemicals.
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Poland
Lancaster County
Walenty Mazur
Mennonite Central Committee
Walenty
Wilmer Kraybill
Elverson
Weaver
Lancaster
Kraybill
Upper
Silesia
Garden Spot FFA Awards Highlight Three Students
Three Garden Spot High School Grassland Chapter FFA members earned honors during award week. Ray Martin was named Lancaster County Star Farmer, Larry Ressler Lancaster County Star Agribusinessman, and Robert L. Burkhart won the state proficiency award for agricultural production. Judges included Paul Hornung of Ephrata and bankers and editors from Commonwealth National Bank, Production Credit Association, and Lancaster Farming. Ray Martin works on his family's dairy operation at New Holland RD1 and will take over after graduation next June.
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Garden Spot High School
Grassland
FFA
Mount Joy Vo-Tech
Ray Martin
Lancaster County Star Farmer
Larry Ressler
Lancaster County Star Agribusinessman
Robert L. Burkhart
Garden Spot
Ephrata
Paul Hornung
Robert Bucher
Commonwealth National Bank
Robert Zook
Production Credit Association
Dick Warner
Lancaster Farming
Star
Ray
New Holland Rd1
Eli
Kathryn Martin
Recruiting Drive Set By DHTIA
A DHTIA promoting drive approved at the Red Rose DHIA board aims to recruit new dairymen for a one time free test run by a DHIA supervisor. Open September to December, costs shared by Penn State and local DHIA. Last year 18 new herds joined regular DHIA testing, and the effort continues to expand this year.
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Red Rose Dhia Board of Directors
DHIA
Penn State
Association
Robert Kauffman
Farm Calendar Highlights and Local Events
Farm Calendar lists events across Pennsylvania and Minnesota including the NEBA Open House in Tunkhannock and the Flax Schutching Festival in Stahlstown. It notes the 34th Annual National Plowing Contest at Don Bailey farm Sauk Centre and local meetings at Manheim and Oaklyn with officer elections.
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Tunkhannock
Kempton
Stahlstown
Don Bailey
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Manheim Young Farmer Barn
Luke Brubaker
Mount Joy
Fulton Grange
Oaklyn
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Verawenteerers
Reergee
Courgeane Reasoner
Farm Family
Dhtia
Martin
Jeft
Star Farmer
Vo-Tech School
Bob Burkhart
Sale Register Farmers Almanac
Berks County
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