—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 4,1971
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Larry High is Named to Receive FFA American Farmer Degree
A Lancaster youth’s farm pro
gram, centered around turkeys
and steers, has earned him
FFA's American Farmer degree.
He is Larry L High, 2490
Creek Hill Road, Lancaster, a
1968 graduate of Garden Spot
High School.
Only one out of every 1,000
FFA members qualify for the
American Farmer Degree and
Larry is one of only 10 FFA
members from throughout
Pennsylvania selected for the
honor this year
He also was selected as Penn
sylvania’s representative for the
North Atlantic Regional Star
Farmer award
High recently bought a 100 acre
farm at fiheems from Paul
Wipple The farm includes a
house, barn and silo
High plans to erect an 18,000
to 20,000 unit turkey house and
move his entire operation to the
new farm.
The plans include about 100 to
150 steers a year. This year he
grew six acres of tobacco He
will cut back on the tobacco
But he will make his own
feed for his turkeys
His operation previously has
consisted of rented land, includ
ing five acres from his father,
Harvey L High, 346 E Main
St, Bareville, 50 acres from Paul
Leaman and aout 42 acres from
John Martin, This year the en
tire Martin acreage was planted
in corn About 30 acres of corn
and 40 beef cattle were carried
on the Leaman acreage.
High adjusts some equipment on his 7>GOO unit turkey
house.
The American Farmer Degree winner is' assisted by his wife, the former Shirley
The present turkey house is
located on his father’s land. He
now has 7,000 turkeys slated for
the Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays.
High’s turkey operation is
geared toward the New York and
Philadelphia markets for the
Jewish Kosher trade. This en
ables him to get one to two cents
above market price, one of his
keys to success with turkeys
Earlier this year, he sold 7,000
for the Easter-Mother’s Day
trade
He says he gets better returns
by dealing with small indepen
dent buyers who buy in small
lots of 100 to 200 birds, although
sometimes he sells as many as
1,000 at a time
But this type of marketing
program places heavy emphasis
on having and maintaining
markets
High is a good mechanic and
maintenance man and makes and
repairs most of his own equip
ment
Early this year, he bought a
second hand field sprayer for $75
and restored it. Young High noted
that a new one would have cost
him about $350 to $4OO
He considers good banking
connections important and deals
with the Leola National Bank
Located in the Conestoga Val
ley School District which doesn’t
Donald Robinson, Garden Spot Young adjustments on his spray equipment.
Farmer instructor, helps High ' akf
have a vo-ag program, High had
to provide his own transportation
to participate in the outstanding
ag program at Garden Spot High
School.
He is married to the former
Shirley Stauffer of Lititz
Active in the Grassland FFA
Chapter, he served as sentinel
and treasurer and was a member
of the state FFA chorus. Ex
hibiting his livestock and poultry
at local and state events, he re
ceived the FFA foundation
award for outstanding achieve
ment in poultry production.
He also placed first in the
state PP&L Farm Electrification
and Mechanics Contest for a
trailer he designed and
constructed
A member of the county 4-H
’livestock judging team in 1988,
be helped that year’s team place
third in the nation at the Chicago
National Exposition
He is an active member of the
Garden Spot Young Farmers,
Pennsylvania Turkey Federation
and the Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation.
> progi^
cashier at the Leola National Bank,
Larry L. High, shown outside his 7,000 unit turkey house,
has been named to receive the American Farmer Degree.
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