—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 8, 1977
28
Lebanon County family
typifies FFA honorary
parent award winners
By JOANNE SPAHR
ANNVILLE, Pa. - Victor
Bomgardner and his wife
from Annville R 3, are one of
nine sets of parents in the
Eastern Region of Penn
sylvania to receive the
Future Farmers of America
Honorary Parent award. He
and his family are typical of
all eight others in philosophy
and operation, to a certain
degree.
Bomgardner and his three
Keystone Degree winning
sons, Charles, Carl, and Jay,
work together on their 297
acres of farmland and rent
118 more acres. Their
operation consists of 110
dairy cattle and about 45-46
head of Hampshire sows and
gilts. For crops they grow
corn and alfalfa. And,
starting the first of this year
Hog inventory largest since ’55
HARRISBURG, Pa. -
Pennsylvania’s hog farms
had a December 1, 1976 in
ventory of 700,000 hogs and
pigs according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting
Service. The December 1
inventory is the largest for
the date since 1955.
The 700,000 hogs and pigs
were 40,000 head more than a
year earlier, an increase of
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they went into business
together although they’d
been working together prior
to this.
Bomgardner attributes the
family farm with giving all
three of his sons the en
couragement to become
Keystone Farmers.
“My wife and I and the
boys all worked together,”
he says. “We started them
off in 4-H, which helped
them want to be farmers, so
FFA just came along
naturally.” And, of course,
Mr. and Mrs. Bomgardner
have given them en
couragement and a place to
start business, which really
added to the boys’ interest.
Many of the other
honorary parents spoken to
by Lancaster Farming
expressed the same sen-
six per cent. Breeding stock
on hand was 77,000 head, a
decrease of seven per cent
from 1975, while market hog
numbers were up eight per
cent to 623,000.
Inventory value was
$31,500,000, a drop of 32 per
cent from the $46,530,000 a
year ago. The huge decline in
value was the result of a
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timents. They said that
unless the parents take in
terest in the children and
show the positive aspects of
farming, the younger
members of the family just
won’t want to enter into the
business.
One other parent men
tioned that the FF A helps the
members to leam to speak in
front of others and teaches
them leadership ability. This
is certainly the case for Jay
Bomgardner, the family’s
1977 Keystone Farmer, since
he is president of his county
organization.
For more information on
the Keystone Farmers and
the honorary parents, refer
to separate articles on each
in this week’s issue of
Lancaster Farming.
$25.50 per head decrease to
$45.00.
The Spring pig crop for
1976 was 540,000, up eleven
per cent from the Spring 1975
crop. The 72,000 sows
farrowed produced an
average of 7.5 pigs per litter.
The Fall pig crop at 450,000
was 16 per cent above the fall
1975 crop. Total pig crop for
the year (December 1975 to
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Victor Bomgardner and his sons County Fall 4-H Livestock Roundup
Charles, Carl, and Jay look over their held earlier this year.
Hampshires at this year’s Lebanon
November 1976) was 990,000,
a 14 per cent increase from
the previous year. Intended
farrowings for December
1976-May 1977 are 68,000,
down six per cent from
Spring 1976 farrowings.
The U.S. hog inventory is
estimated at 55.1 million
head as of December 1,
eleven per cent more than a
year earlier. Hie 8.0 million
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breeder stock are five per
cent more than a year ago
and eight per cent above 1974
stocks. The number for
market, at 47.1 million head
is up 12 per cent from last
year, but is one per cent
below the number two
years ago.
The U.S. pig crop for 1976
was 84.6 million head, 19 per
cent above last year. The
Spring 1976 pig crop, now
estimated at a revised level
of 42.2 million was up 19 per
cent from 1975 levels, but six
per cent below 1974. The Fall
1976 pig crop estimated at
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42.4 million was up 18 pet
cent from last year and nine
per cent higher than the 1971
Fall crop.
The 5.9 million sows that
farrowed during June-
November 1976 was 18 per
cent more than a year ago
Average litter size was 7 22
compared to 7.21 a year
earlier.
Hog producers in the U.S
intend to farrow 6.1 million
sows during the Spring of
1977, an increase of five per
cent from the same period
this year and 23 per cent
more than the Spring of 1975
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