C22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29,1980
BYJOYCEBUPP
Staff Correspondent
EVANS CITY - Farm
wives, long viewed as the
salt of the earth, are adding
spice to their lives by pur
suing part and full-time off
farm jobs and hobbies Few,
though, have taken the
direction of Butler County
dairy farm wife Rosalyn
Rummer
Rosalyn Rummer is an
ordained Presbyterian
minister and serves the
congregation of Crestview
Presbyterian Church at
Gallery, north of Pittsburgh
Crestview Church lies just
a mile over the hill from Lee
and Rosalyn Rummer’s 75-
head registered milking
herd at R 2 Evans City From
the doors of Crestview,
Reverend Rummer can look
across the fields to some of
their Leheart Farm’s 340
acres of hay, com and
soybeans She’s also a
mother, with Scott - age 11,
and Jean -9, now in school
nearby
Standing in the pulpit on
Sunday mornings, writing a
weekly sermon, performing
marriages, funerals, bap
tisms and counseling is the
result of an educational
odyssey spanning several
years, two continents and a
variety of universities v
Born on an Erie county
dairy farm, Rosalyn had
grown up as the youngest of
five children and the only
girl So even though the
milking chores weren’t
dependent on her help, f he
excitement on a dairy farm
is always at the bam and not
Farm
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influenced congressmen is
gone and will never live
again But that’s not to say
that farmers are without a
voice or are without in
fluence
It just means they're going
to have to work harder to get
a much smaller voice
listened to, and they’re going
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Farm-wife-minister
Rosalyn Kummer
wears many hats
the house, so of course I was
at the barn ”
Following graduation
from Penn State with a
degree in home economics,
Rosalyn flew with the
college choir to Scotland, the
home of her ancestors While
tracing family roots during
the visit, she looked up some
of her relatives and became
entranced with the country
The brief stay was not going
to be enough, so Rosalyn
decided to stay, providing
for her extended visit by
landing a job as a maid for a
Canadian couple living
there
Part of the Edinburgh
University in Scotland is
New College, a divinity
school Rosalyn signed up
for the first semester that
Fall She stayed a year
"Edinburgh’s the only city
I’ve ever lived in, but I really
loved it It was a really good
year, the kind of year you
look back on later and
remember as a wonderful
time in your life,” she
recalls fondly
Following the year of
divinity studies and before
returning home, she and a
friend, a farm girl from
North Carolina, hitchhiked
some 3,000 miles across
Europe Admitting that they
set out “scared as we could
be,” there was not one un
settling incident and a host
of good memories from the
adventure
Arriving home in Penn
sylvania, it was back to the
home-ec field, this time as
an extension staffer for
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Talk
to have to work liauiei just
to agree among themselves
what it is they want to tell
the politicians
I thinks it will be most
enlightening to everyone to
see survey results of what
farmers themselves con
sider the important farm
issues m this presidential
election year
Phone
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Rosalyn Kummer is successfully combining two
difficult careers: dairy farm wife-mother and full
time Presbyterian minister.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Acting Secretary of
Agriculture Jim Williams
today announced changes in
the 1980 farm programs,
including higher target
prices for wheat and feed
grams.
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Producers who stay within
their norma) crop acreage
qualify for farm program
benefits based upon the new
announced target prices,
Williams said.
“President Carter signed
the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1980 which raises the
1980 wheat target price to
$3 63 a bushel and the 1980
corn target price to $2.35 a
bushel,” Williams said
“We are also setting the
1980 sorghum and barley
target prices at $2.50 and
$2.55 per bushel, respec
tively.”
However, Williams said
producers who want to
receive the higher target
prices must stay within
their normal crop acreage
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“Those who exceed their
NCA will receive benefits
based upon the formula
target in the Food and
Agriculture Act of 1977,” he
said. This formula
establishes 1980 target
prices for wheat at $3 08,
corn at $2 05, sorghum at
$2.45 and barley at $2.29,”
Williams said.
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Williams also announced
1980 target prices for upland
cotton and rice and the loan
price for rice. The target
prices will be 58.4 cents per
pound for upland cotton and
$9.49 per hundredweight for
rice. The 1980 loan rate for
rice will be $7.12 per hun
dredweight.
“The new act extends the
disaster payments program
through the 1980 crop year
for producers of wheat, feed
grains, upland cotton and
rice Producers who plant
within their NCA will be
eligible for disaster
payments on wheat and feed
grains based on the higher
target levels
“However, combined
disaster payments under all
programs will be limited to
$lOO,OOO per person,”
Williams said.
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