9t—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1978 Farming has always appealed to this FFA ’er By KENDACE BORRY KUTZTOWN - To Dale G. Siegfried, Mertztown R 2, one of the most important things tb?t be has learned through the FFA program was the value of honesty. He claims that he believes that fanners are the most honest businessmen in the world today. The 21 year old member of the Kutztown FFA Chapter has been named as a winner of the 1978 American Far mer Degree. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Siegfried, Kutztown, he is in partnership with his older brother, Paul, Jr. There the two of them are involved in what he calls “mostly a crop farm, with hogs and steers raised also”. The crops include com, wheat, hay, barley, and potatoes, while both Yorkshire breeding stock and fattening hogs are raised along with some marklet steers. He was bom on the farm that he is involved in running now and he took the vo-ag courses offered in high school. He stated that when he was in high school, he wanted to do three things in his life-be a mechanic, farm, and be a truck driver. Now as a farmer, he ex plained, he can really do all three. Farming is number one in his book, though, because he just likes being outdoors and enjoys the jobs that are involved with farming. As a member of the Kutztown FFA, he served as vice president and sentinel as well as county delegate. In 1976, he was named the star Farmer of Penn sylvania, and later named the Eastern Coast Star Farmer, an area that covers 15 states. He is also a member of the Yorkshire Club, the Pa. Holstein-Fnesian Club, the Kutztown Grange, the All- Terrain Vehicle Club, the 4- H Eastern Berks Dairy Club, the Kutztown Area Young Farmers, the Kutztown Jaycees, 'and the Berks- Lehigh Pork Producers. He likes what he is doing, be stated, and told that he had learned a lot from the FFA program, including the value and opportunities available to help "the com munity. Speaking of farming, he said, “Farming is a gamble. Sometimes yhou hit it, sometimes you don’t. I’ve learned to listen to both the advice of businessmen and farmers.” The youngest member of his family, he has been named the oustandmg FFA boy at the Reading Fair m 1977, and was second in the running for the outstanding Young Farmer award presented by the Pa. Jaycees, an award he won on por saf®® BIGGER PROFITS Thru BETTER FEEDS and HEALTHIER STOCK MELCOWAY! Assured quality control from ou NEW PRECISION MILL OPER COMPLETE FORAGE TESTING AVAILABLE TEST COW HIGH QUALITY BULK FEED by melco • COMPLETE FEED 2 Blends avail balance forage feeding prograi . NO FILLERS Top Quality result' higher consumption • NO FORMULA CHANGES WITH SEASONS Less diet changes for • ALL NECESSARY NUTRIENTS IN' Sava i monay and tlnu. Better feeds mean B PROFITS for the far 6RAIHEXCHAIMEPRI VVe allow an excellent premium toi ihas gram to exchange against TES additional cost CALL US TODAY ItMKMB ffIWWEtSbBi ELEVATOR and LUMBER COMPANY Mouaansvide Md * FKDS * FERTIIIZER * SEEDS * AGRICULTURE SUPPLIES g e Md. . DUMBER • POLE BUILDINGS • ROOF TRUSSES _||||A • WASHINGTON COUNTY MD • FRANKLIN C E FULTON COUNTY PA fP • BERKLEY t JEFFERSON COUNTY W. VA (301) 739-4220 the local level from the Kutztown Jaycees. Besides his farm duties, he is also involved in doing custom wet lime spreading and custom seed cleaning and treating. “I guess I’m always busy,” he noted. “I do enjoy meeting people.” Looking to the future, Dale shares a dream with many young farmers today. “I guess I’d really like to get started on my own someday”, he explained. “Even though I’m happy where I am, maybe some time in the future I’ll have my own farm.” Dale Siegfried, ML ;own R 2, a Kutztown FFA’er and winner of the 1978 American Farmer award, stated that he believes that farmers are some of the most honest businessmen today. BAYMIX® CRUMBLES WIDE SPECTRUM WORKER *24*6 iPER BAG 20 BAGS OR MORE REG. 29.50 10-19 BAGS 25.71 treats approx 10 COWS PER BAG SIX DAY WORMER NO WITHDRAWAL FOR DAIRY OR BEEF CATTLE *bsfer I B (I n baymix l -' brumbies w V'" I
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