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Ag Week
NOV. 8-14
ENVIRONMENT
Efforts to improve
water quality
EMPLOYMENT
The future of
industry jobs
BUSINESS
The faces of
county farming
CROPS
Farm-to-table
dining trends
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Ag Week Schedule
Contents
MONDAY
THURSDAY
ENVIRONMENT
EMPLOYMENT
8
10
12
14
BUSINESS
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TUESDAY
n Event/focus: Agriculture
WEDNESDAY
n Event/focus: Ag and
the environment/Lancaster
Chamber issues briefing
Location/time: Southern
Market Center; 7:30-9 a.m.
faces of a billion-dollar
enterprise/agribusiness tours
Locations/times: Assorted
businesses and times:
SAUDERS EGGS
790 Schoeneck Road, Ephrata
7-8 a.m. omelets; 8-9 a.m. tour
of the facility
KREIDER FARMS
1463 Lancaster Road, Manheim
Tour times: 9:30 a.m.,
11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.
Banquet
Location/time: DoubleTree
Resort, Willow Street, 5-9 p.m.
SATURDAY
food
WENGER FEEDS
101 W. Harrisburg Ave., Rheems
Tour time: 2-3 p.m.
Special info: Participants
should not have been near live
poultry in the past 72 hours.
FRIDAY
n Focus: Celebrating local
food
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Environment
AD CRABLE
ACRABLE@LNPNEWS.COM
BAY WATCH
Federal crackdown has state, county conservation groups hustling to help
farmers curb pollution of Chesapeake, assure their efforts are counted
LINDA DAVIDSON
An aerial view of a sunrise over the northern tip of Talbot County, Md., flanked by Eastern Bay, which connects with the Chesapeake.
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There has never been a more appropriate time to give thanks to the farmers that
give us so much. It is your commitment to agriculture that keep us standing strong
so that we can continue to celebrate all that we are thankful for.
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In a recent canvassing of 480 farmers in Earl and East Earl townships, the
Conservation District received about 80
requests for help in drawing up the required plans, a project funded by a state
grant.
The Lancaster Farmland Trust also
visited more than 1,000 farmers in eight
townships.
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suppliers to address new Manufacturer Dealer Agreements including
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Employment
GROWING
OPPORTUNITY
Ag study projects tens of thousands of job openings
as boomers retire, need for skilled workers grows
AD CRABLE
ACRABLE@LNPNEWS.COM
elp wanted for Pennsylvania agriculture over the next 10 years: about
75,000 workers.
Retiring baby boomers and a growing demand for skilled people to
service automated equipment could result in a manpower shortage
with the potential to significantly affect Pennsylvanias agriculture and related
food-processing industries, state ag officials warn.
The human capital pipeline in all industries will be severely impacted. Companies will not only run out of skilled
people to operate technology, but there
will be more general labor shortages of
Satero LaCruz works in the milking parlor at Oregon Dairy in June. Approximately 75,000 job
openings, from traditional farm tasks to skilled service work on equipment, are expected in the
field over the next decade.
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Mechatronics
Theres even a new field, called mechatronics, which Sheely describes as a
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AG WORKERS
IN DEMAND
Skills training
The ag department is in the process of
researching how to deploy educational
training so people can learn the skills
that will be so in need.
So many partners have asked about
more career information, Sheely notes.
Where do you train for these jobs, do
you have to go to college? If not, where
can you get additional training? How
can it fit into high school curriculum?
It will be a broad approach and ag officials are working with the military, hoping
to steer veterans into these kinds of jobs
once their service to the country is over.
The state departments of education
and labor and industry also are partnering to address the ag and food occupations shortages.
Its a work in progress, but this department is really taking it seriously to
make sure we have the agriculture and
food resources we need over the nest 10
years, Sheely says.
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Business
From
FARMER to ENTREPRENEUR
Stories abound of small farming operations that became so much more
CHAD UMBLE
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Bob and Ruthie Fox stand in a field of alfalfa at their Clay Township farm, where they recently opened Fox Meadows Creamery & Cafe.
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Evolution of a farm
Coleman himself is an example of a
farmer who created a whole new business down on the farm.
Now in its 20th year, Cherry Crest Adventure Farm and its corn maze have
become a fall tradition attracting nationwide attention to the farm Coleman
owns with his wife Donna.
Elsewhere, Meadow Creek Barbecue
Supply in New Holland has garnered a
national reputation among professional
barbecuers for its smokers, pig roasters, barbecue pits and grills. That business began in 1980, when Earl Township
farmer Ivan Stoltzfus welded together a
roaster for a neighbors pig roast.
Today, Stoltzfus son Melvin owns the
business, which has a 12,500-square-foot
manufacturing shop outside New Holland
and a retail store on Main Street.
In another example, Clay Township
dairy farmers Bob and Ruthie Fox co-
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Business
FACES FARMING
of
AD CRABLE
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From first-time tillers to those whose forebears worked the land for generations, todays
Lancaster County farmer is anything but stereotypical. Heres a look at the lives of people
who work the soil and make Lancaster farming such a richly textured community.
NEW FARMER
RETIRED FARMER
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n a Monday at the New Holland Sales Stables, buyers from all over the
East Coast gather around the auction ring to wait for the next sale to start.
But they didnt travel all the way from New York City, New Jersey or
Boston to buy feeder cattle or hogs theyre in the market for goats.
Lancaster County, unbeknownst to many locals, is home to one of the largest hubs
for goat sales on the East Coast. According to some experts, the New Holland Sales
Stable is the second-largest auction for live meat goats in the U.S.
Were kind of the only game in town,
says Michael McDermott, office manager
at the New Holland Sales Stable. On an
average week, we sell about 1,700 goats.
Those numbers can fluctuate, especially
on major religious holidays when demand
is high from Middle Eastern, Greek and
other immigrant communities.
In September, in the weeks leading up to
Locals, too
While many of the goats sold come
from out of state, local farmers are starting to get in on the action.
Raising and selling goats for meat,
thanks to changing tastes and changing
demographics in the U.S., is one of many
burgeoning niche markets in the County.
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Herr says. Its one of the most expensive meats that you can eat, because
theres so much demand and there is not
enough of it.
Were only producing in this country
about 50 percent of all the goats were
eating. The rest of them are coming from
Australia, New Zealand, and China.
Herr is an expert on all things goat.
He has traveled the country consulting farmers on best practices for raising
Many people have the tin can mentality, Herr says, referring to the cartoon misconception that goats are happy eating anything, including tin cans.
He says farmers too often give goats the
leftover hay and feed while giving the
best to other livestock.
But they respond to the way you care
for them, Herr says.
Goats are also very susceptible to disease, and can have difficulty acclimating
to new environments and circumstances, Herr says, which can make goat-raising a risky venture.
But if a farmer has a program to acclimate newly acquired goats and is smart
enough to follow the various religious holidays when goat prices will peak, theres
an opportunity for high returns Herr says.
This goat market has developed such
a demand that little goats that we used
to pay $30 for now would be well over
$100, Herr says.
And with continued changes in U.S.
demographics, Herr is sure that trend
will continue.
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added Romanesco cauliflower to the broccoli salad. This fall version of the salad has
roasted broccoli, cauliflower and Romanesco, dinosaur kale with a bagna cauda dressing (a buttery, Italian vegetable dip).
Before the Romanesco became the fall
addition to a $15 Brooklyn salad, it traveled 150 miles on a truck from a warehouse in Leola. The day before, it was harvested by hand from a farm in Kirkwood.
The farms like the one raising that
cauliflower continue to cover Lancaster
County, making the local vegetable crop
the most valuable in the state, according
to the latest agriculture census. Some of
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But when people talk about farm-totable eating, are they are talking about
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FARM-TO-TABLE
CAN GROW HERE
Alex Wenger says theres an
opportunity in the farm-to-table
movement for Lancaster-based
farmers, chefs and consumers.
I was just in Oregon, and
Ive spent a lot of time in the
Philadelphia and New York
food scenes in the past year,
Wenger says. The more I see,
the more confident I am that
Lancaster and the Mid-Atlantic
region in general could become
a strong local food community
to the point where it could be an
example for other regions.
Here are four reasons for his
assessment:
n Lancaster has some of the
worlds best farmland.
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small, diversified vegetable
operations.
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