—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 6,1976
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Garden Spot delights 109 foreigners
By DIETER KRIEG
BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa. -
Three busloads of foreigners
from 32 different countries
had a pleasant visit to
Lancaster County recently,
according to comments
heard here at the Plain and
Fancy Farm Dining Room.
The visitors were highly
impressed with the neatness
of the area’s farms and
fertile farmland. Also high
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on the list of interests were
the Amish people and their
farming methods.
“They’re very enthused
about being in this area, in
comparison to other areas
they’ve visited,” said Doug
Rundle, area market
manager for Shaver Poultry
Farms. Speaking on behalf
of the group, as well as
himself, Rundle announced
that Lancaster County has
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announced the appointment
of Michael J. Lardner as
general manager of the
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Founded 16 years ago, A &
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and services material
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commercial turf equipment.
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the best in the United States.
He was refenring to out
standing farms, particularly
poultry farms, which he and
his guests were most in
terested in.
The 109 foreigners found
themselves in Lancaster
County as an offshoot of a
world-wide, poultry con
ference held earlier in
Toronto, Canada. The
meeting, as well as the tour,
was sponsored by the Shaver
excavating equipment, log
and lumber handling
equipment and dual
hydrostatic mowers.
Lardner was most recently
the regional sales manager
for the DeWalt Division of
the Black and Decker
Manufacturing Company in
Lancaster, fie has held other
marketing and ' sales
positions with Black and
Decker in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Denver,
Colorado, and Kansas City,
Missouri.
Company, which distributes
egg and broiler type poultry
chicks to 87 countries around
the world. Deliveries
anywhere are made within
24 hours from the closest of
any of their six hatcheries.
Among the farms visited
by the group in Lancater
County were Pennfjeld
Farms and Glenn _Esben
shade’s. Rundle described
these operations and others
as “quality type operations
... the better ones around in
the U.S.” Pennlield’s widely
known Hendrik Wentik, who
serves on national poultry
organizations, escorted the
party for a part of their visit
to the area. All of the visitors
were directly affiliated with
the Shaver Company, which
is headquartered in Cam
bridge, Ontario. Its
representative in the eastern
United States, Jay Greider,
Mount Joy, was in charge of'
“local programming.”
While in the area the
visitors left behind some
information regarding the
poultry industry in their
home countries.
The cholesterol issue came
to mind and it was pointed
out that nowhere is it of as
much concern as in” the
United States. One gen
tleman at this reporter’s
table commented: “Other
countries haven’t readied
the degree of over-eating and
laziness as I guess we have
in North America.”
Cholesterol is emerging as
an issue in the more ad
vanced European nations,
but it’s practically a dead
subject in other portions of
the globe.
Basic feeding and handling
of poultry doesn’t differ
much throughout the world,
among the more
advanced states, it was
learned. There are some
differences in housing,
marketing, and preparation,
depending on climatic
regions, cultural differences,
and economic cir
cumstances.
Almost every chicken sold
in the United States for
is reportedly very advanced,
eating is government in- although not necessarily
spected. Many foreign very large in every instance.
. The biggest broiler
'countries do not have such operation, for example, has
rigid control, but some, like 500,000 birds, with 12,000
The Netherlands, have even being pegged as an average
more thorough inspections, figure.
The Dutch poultry industry