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lawyer. It defines the status of
each member of the partnership,
as well as the partnership itself.
Both father and son feel the
agreement is a good way to do
business, and the Board of the
Naitonal FFA evidently agrees.
In considering Earl’s farm
program, the FFA board also
looked for evidence of com
prehensive planning, detailed
records and an increase in the
scope of operations.
Earl is presently handling most
of the day-to-day details of
running the 68-acre Sunny Craft
dairy farm because his father is
working as a genetic consultant
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for the Holstein-Friesian
Association.
The Stauffers have 30 Holstein
cows on DHIA test and 30 heifers.
Nearly all the feed is grown on
the farm. This year corn is being
grown on 37 acres, alfalfa on 27
acres and sudangrass accounts
for about another five acres.
Most of the crops go into the
farm’s silos, although some hay
is baled.
Some indication of Earl’s skill
with crops can be seen from the
fact that last year he took 8.4 tons
of hay out of a one-acre alfalfa
field.
In addition to the cows and
crops, the Stauffers produce
137,000 broilers a year, 28,000 at a
time They’re also serving as an
outlet for the Pennsylvania
Farmer’s Association, selling car
(Reg. 189.95)
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and truck tires and batteries to
neighboring farmers.
They use no hired help,
although sometimes they do
exchange labor with a neighbor.
Earl is 20 years old, a 1969
graduate of Ephrata High School
and is married to the former
Barbara Bixler from Fairfax,
Virginia.
In school, Earl held many
positions of leadership in the FF A
and vo-ag programs. He was
president of Ephrata junior ag
club, vice-president of Cloister
FFA in his sophomore year and
president in this junior year. In
1968 he was vice-president of the
Red Rose FFA district, and in
1969 was state treasurer for the
FFA.
The Pennsylvania Holstein
Association named him its
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distinguished junior member for
1971-72, he’s a member of that
organization’s youth committee
and is active in the Ephrata area
Young Farmers Association.
One of Earl’s hobbies is
showing hogs. He says he likes
the challenge in growing hogs for
show. However, the Stauffer
operation isn’t geared to porkers
so Earl limits himself to a very
few animals. This year he only
has two pigs. In 1970, also, he only
had two, and he showed them
both.
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