B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3, 1973
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from Lo«ql Ac* Teochern
The article this week was
prepared by August Birchler,
teacher of agriculture at Penn
Manor High School.
Rural Leadership
“1 believe in leadership from
ourselves and respect from
others I believe in my own
ability to work efficiently and
think clearly, with such
knowledge and skill as I can
secure and in the ability of
progressive agriculture to serve
our own and the public interest in
producing and marketing the
product of our toil.” The
paragraph above was written for
the FFA Creed. I believe that that
paragraph states a lot about the
character of rural people.
*T believe in leadership from
ourselves.” Today farming
families cannot afford to let
someone else make the decisions
that affect their communities.
For far too long non-agricultural
interests have had the loudest
voice in matters that directly
affected the farm: zoning boards,
township governments, boards of
adjustments.
What must we do’ We must
become active members of those
agencies that exert an influence
within the community. How then
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can the Agricultural program
that is offered in many schools
help? By teaching more than just
production agriculture subjects.
By teaching a young man or
woman to think and to speak. By
preparing the agriculture
students to stand and speak, we
as teachers may be helping more
towards providing the leadership
that is needed.
Production agriculture will
teach a student about soils and
their properties, land uses and
management, pollution and
controls, money management
and planning. These areas of
information can be transferred
directly, and with much benefit to
those agencies that make the
decisions that farmers must live
with.
If the agricultural community
is to continue as a strong segment
in Lancaster, then the farming
community must encourage
those people within its scope to
become the loudest and best
informed voices on those agen
cies that make the decisions.
If the agricultural community
accepts this responsibility then it
will have leadership from itself
and respect from others, and will
serve itself as well as the public
interest.
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