—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4. 1971
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Local Farmers Attend National Education Institute
The fifth National Young
Farmer Educational Institute
was held from November 28 to
December 1 in Greenville, S C ,
and was attended by some 444
1 armors, educators and wives
representing 21 states which have
organized Young Farmer In
struction
Pennsylvania had 24
i epresontatives, seven from
Lancaster County
The purposes of the institute
are
1 To facilitate an exchange of
mloi motion among young farmer
leaders
2 To strengthen young and
adult farmer programs
J To facilitate an exchange of
educational ideas and materials
4 To enlarge the scope of
thought 01 state and national
\oung tanner leaders
") To develop leadership
skills
(i To coordinate the activities
ol stale voung farmer
organizations with the teacher
teachei education and state
vocational agriculture office
staffs
7 'lo establish and maintain
channels ol communications
among states through
cooperation with teacher
organizations teacher education
institutions and slate vocational
agriculture staffs
8 To learn from the farms of
successful 'toeing Farmers in
other stales
l » To learn liom outstanding
leaders in the Industry of
\gr iculture
The Institute was addressed by
4-H Calendar
'1 uesday, Decernbei 7
I pm Lancaster County 4-H
Beef Roundup, Lancaster
Slock Yards
8 pm 4-H Leaders Council
meeting. Farm and Home
Center
U ednesday, December 8
9am— Southeastern District 4-
H Beef Show' and Sale, Lan
caster Stock Yards
Thursday, December "1
7pm Saddle Cinches 4-H
Horse and Pony Club roller
skating party, Mt Gietna
Roller Rmk
7pm New 4-H Horse Club,
second meeting Myers home,
Mailable Road, Columbia
7 30 p m 4-H Holstein Club
Christmas meeting, Farm and
Home Center
Friday, December 10
5- 7 p m Lancaster County 4-H
County Council skating party,
Park City
7pm— Lancaster County 4-H
County Council meeting, Farm
and Home Center.
Conservation District Meets
At its annual planning meeting
at the Farm and Home Center
Wednesday, the Lancaster
County Soil and Water Con
servation District reviewed its
1972 budget and decided to have
20 film strips made
The District previously had
announced six film strips on
conservation practices in Lan
caster County, but voted to in
crease the number to meet ex
pected demand
Present at the meeting was
Richard Vannoy, program
specialist for the State Soil and
Water Commission, who
discussed the state program and
the state’s eagerness to
cooperate with the local district.
It was announced that Mac
Heinman, field representative for
Lancaster County representatives attending the Fifth
National Young Farmer Educational Institute this week in
Greenville, SC., are: left to right, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Robinson, agriculture teacher from Eastern Lancaster
County School District; Forney Longenecker, farmer
the following Paul Harvey, ABC
news broadcaster. South
Carolina Senator Strom Thur
mond Acting Secretary of
Agncultuic J Phil Campbell,
and Florida Commissioner of
Agriculture Doyle Connor
All speakers urged the farmers
of America to educate the public
to the advances agriculture is
making in continuing to provide
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ment helping an industry help
itself ”
“The Egg Industry Adjustment
Act is designed to help the egg
industry help itself,” Fleming
asserted “Government can be
called upon to assist the egg
industry after the industry has
tailed lo adjust itself, and after
the adjustment is made,
government steps out of the
picture ”
Fleming sard another
favorable feature is the two year
time limit The limit was written
into the legislation to dispel any
doubts that this is anything but
emergency legislation, he said
To override some expressed
opposition of broiler interests
Fleming said egg producers have
changed the original wording of
the definition for ‘‘egg
producers” to correct the ob
jectionable wording Ad
ditionally, he said the bills carry
a statement under the
“Declaration of Policy” which
notes “The production of
broilers and broiler breeder fowl
is an industry separate and apart
from the production of com
mercial eggs and is not in any
way covered by this Act.”
The legislation is an outgrowth
of two nation-wide egg industry
meetings called by United Egg
the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources, will
change jobs and move out of the
local district He will be the new
watershed program specialist in
Snyder County.
The district voted to send a
copy of the 1971 Soil and Water
Conservation District Program
and a brochure on the district’s
program to municipal bodies in
the county including borough
councils, supervisors and
planning commissions
It was announced that an
educational meeting will be held
with state Representatives at
Brownstown at 5.30 p.m
Thursday, December 9. A run
down on the local district’s
history and current activities in
conservation will be included.
At 7 30 p m that evening, the
the increasing needs of the
country with fewer farms and
farmers, as well as the efforts
agriculture is and has been
making in preserving the en
\ ironment
Emphasis was made on
developing marketing techniques
and channels that would give the
farmer more influence in
marketing his quality product
producers The first was held in
Atlanta, Georgia on November 6,
at which Phil Campbell, un
dersecretary of agriculture,
outlined a simple proposal for
adjusting the commercial egg
laying flocks of the egg industry
The second meeting was held an
Washington, D.C , November 14,
at which the final proposals for
the Egg Industry Adjustment Act
were outlined. United Egg
Producers was designated by the
egg industry to spearhead the
legislative effort and to coor
dinate with industry trade
associations support for the
measure
The following organizations
had through Monday voted to
endorse the Act Pacific Egg and
Poultry Association, Northeast
Poultry Producers Council,
Northeast Egg Marketing
Association, National Egg
Company, Midwest Egg
Producers Cooperative
Association, Southwestern Egg
Producers, Western Egg Com
pany, Northwest Egg Producers
Cooperative Association, Pacific
Growers, Georgia Egg
Association; Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation; SPICE (a
New York state organization of
poultry porducers), and,
Missouri Egg Merchandising
Council
legislators are slated to meet
with the Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce and agricultural
leaders m Lancaster to discuss
the need for legislation to
preserve agricultural land.
The commission reviewed five
subdivision plans
New cooperators announced
were Leon A. Stoltzfus, Sad
sbury Township, 42 acres, Tom
Conrad, Upper Leacock Town
ship, 65 acres, John Pfortsch,
Martic Township, 40 acres;
Thomas Creighton, Rapho
Township, 11 acres; Robert
Newswanger, West Cocahco
Township, 128 acres, Melvin L
Shertzer, Manor Township, 82
acres, Donald E. Maurer, West
Donegal Township, 165 acres, and
Leon J. Fisher, Providence
Township, 95 acres
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from Lititz; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kline, Lititz farmer; Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Yost, Christiana farmer. On the right is
James C. Fink, state supervisor of vocational agriculture,
Harrisburg.
It was pointed out that the
national average age for farm
managers is 55-58 years old, and
that agriculture needs and has
opportunities and advantages for
young people, but that help is
needed to get young men started
in the business of farming
In addition to the speeches
from these leading figures m our
country, the young farmer
leaders from various states
presented programs which
emphasized Young Farmer
public relations, as well as local
and state educational programs
of work and activities
Tours of outstanding farms in
the Greenville area provided
additional insight into developing
successful farming operations
across the country
Next year’s institute will be
held in Sacramento, Calif The
Institute was held in Lancaster in
1969