Matmiofir Saturday/ October 17/ 1959
THE HEART ,pF A DAIRY program is forage, Dean
Hoffer believes. He carefully checks the growth of a pew
seeding of a mixture of rye and oats to be used this fall as
temporary pasture -for his-dairy herd Making every acre
produce to its capacity, Dean seeded 25 acre? of this mix
ture after harvesting a crop of soybeans and sorghum from
this field for silage.'",.'
# Dean Roller
(From page II
the county Holstein breeders
sponsored - a ->mgmber&hip
drive and contest. A pean won
the contest and was present
ed with another calf, a pure
bred Holstein .which, i s now
in the milking 'Stging.
The * chapter a
gain elected him vfCe. presi
dent and the following sum
mer, 1956,
Lancaster County’; FFA. at
the American Institute of
Cooperation in ■' Raleigh,
North Carolina ---
As a senior Dean increased
his dairy herd _to 32 cows
and H calves-<§nd heifers,
and continued with his crop
ping system. ', ,
tlt was during his last year
in high school that ;his lead
ership ability began to be
felt outside they’Manheim
chapter As local.? chapter
president ho was their candi
date for county FFA. presi
dent He won a unanimous
decision and served in that
office for 12 months.
Turning his talent to pub
lic speaking, he won" the area
and district contests and
placed sixth in stale compe
tition in June with a
speech on soil conservation.
He was publicly complimenl--
ed on Ins line presentation of i
the speech by Pennsylvania’s 1
Governor Geoige Leader. j
With bis dairy" herd grown
to 38 cows and ~11 head of 1
calv cs and - heifci s,' Dean be- j
gan planning his long range
forage program -He contm
ued to plant some' grain, but i
inci eased Ins acreage of tem-|
poraiy pasture - I
Keystone Degree Awarded 1
The Pennsylvania Associa-,
tion FFA awarded him its
highest a,\aid. The Star Key-'
stone Farmci, m Jariuaiy '5B \
and elected him president at'
the convention at Penn Siam!
TJmvcvsitv in June ol the,
same jcai _ j
His leadership activities,
had atliacted him to another!
group, and during the same
year ho suceccdc'd ftom the'
post oi pic-ident m (he Man 1
hen i Young Farmers Associa
tion to president of the Penn- •
sjlvama slate association - 6'
the oi gam 'ation
Dm mg his tenure as stal.
P£ A pu-.uV ,u Dean tiavel
ecl m< i c than 9 000 mile
and pi evented o\ ei 50 talks
to eun clubs, faun orgam
zatmu-, and local FFA chan
tens
A' n/iiu.il delegate fiom
Punisv n. 1111,1 to the 1958 Ka
lioji.il E’FA Comcnlion,
Di.'ii ti' ccl on (lie nonunai
lnB c.i'iiijiiiUi <. foi Nalion.il
oilier.- Tl< also hoc uno a
oi Hit Governor''
Con ni < c lot Chilclicn and i
Yoiil'n in preparation for the
3 9(50 White- House* confer '
cnee L
' With all ,his activities
away vfrom home Dean still
fi "Is time to do most of the
wr.k on the 105 acres pn
the home farm and the 20
acres of rented land.
Dean is sole owner of the
62 head of registered Hol
stein dairy animals and the
complete line if grassland
farming equipment. He owns
a ha]| interest in the home
farm on which he raised this
year 40 acres of mixed hay,
34 acres of soybeans and sor
ghum for silage, 11 acres of
Sudan grass for green chop
feeding, and -25 acres of rye
and oats mixture for tempor
ary pasture. He still has 20
acres of permanent pasture,
but no corn or small grain.
With 38 cows-in milk, 13
bred heifers and 11 younger
heifers, Dean feels that it is
more economical to buy what
grain he needs than to raise
it He buys corn and oat"
and supplements them with n
30 *V liquid protein concen
trate gt the rate of 2 pounds
-per animal per day. Dean
believes ho can reduce this
amount of with
higher quality hay and silage
and a good green chop pro
gram Thirty four acres of
alfalfa and orchard grass
were band seeded this year.
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NQ GENTLEMAN FARMER is Hoffer. , His herd- of 38 registered Holstein milk
are accustomed to seeing him in the barn in his work clothes. With his many coi
ments away from home as state FFA and Y oung Farmer presidents, Dean has hi
have gome help with the chores, but when he is at home, the daily routine of cam
the milking string gets- his personal attention
“I would like to eventual- of the Holstein - Freisian
ly work into a zero grazing Breeders -Associations. He is
system*’, says Dean, “But it also on the executive corn
will take some time to get it mittee of the state associa
completely set up.” tion of Young Farmers.
“Improvements take time When asked about bis plans
with me away from home lor the future pean replied,
so much ” Dean explains as “Wejl of course I plan to
he points out the atuomatic stay here on the farm. I
gutter cleaner installed last would like to increase the
winter.. size of the herd .and of course
“Next year I hope to com
pletely fill the trench silo,.
This year we put 34 acres o£
soybeans and sorghum in it
and I think it will hold fifty”
explains Dean, “But those
things have to be worked
out.”
Active in many Farm
Organizations
Dean Hoffer would be a
busy young man even with
out his work in FFA. Some
of the organizations which
claim him among their mem
bership are Manheim Com
munity Farm Show of which
he is director and vice presi
dent, Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association,
Lancaster County .Coopera
tive Youth Council, County
senior extension club, Coun
ty Holstein 4-H club, Mount
Joy Farmers Cooperative
through which he markets
his milk, Lancaster Couni y
Farm Bureau, Eastern States
Cooperative Farmeis Ex
change, Southeastern Penn
sylvania Artificial Breeders
Cooperative, and the county*,
state, and national branches
production per animal. I
want to develop a better
quality forage program and
put more soil building' and
conservation practices on
the land. I have a lot of ideas
in my mind, but it js sort of
hard to put them into words,
and I’m going to be pretty
busy anyway this year,”
As national officer, this
yopng Lancaster county
dairyman will visit most of
the states in the Union be
fore lie passes the gavel on
to his successor next fall.
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