Al4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980 Young Farmer attends AAW convention BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent HERSHEY - Chester County farm wife Joyce Hershey was one of four agriculture spokesmen participating in a simulated television talk show, held last Thursday in the wrap-up session of American Agri- Women’s annual meeting at the convention center. Moderator for the media formal was nationally known ag spokeswoman Laura Heuser, a Michigan apple grower and one of the founders of AAW. Firing questions designed to put the panelists “on the spot” on agriculture issues, Laura quizzed the women on such controversial issues as land use, erosion and tillage practices, migrant labor regulations and support prices. Following the “interview” Farm City Week (Continued from Page Al) at the Plaza Mall on Saturday. Starting Monday, the farm and industry tours allowed senior citizens and about 130 fanners and industry people to take a look at the other side’s way of life. Farmers toured the Bethlehem Steel Cor poration’s Lebanon plant and Butler Manufacturing, Annville. And industry toured several of the county’s top-notch farms. A job exchange created the banquet’s entertainment as three farmers and three city businessmen shared their eye-opening and sometimes humorous ex periences. One of the exchanges found dairy farmer Donald Bollinger filling in as president of Lebanon Valley National Bank for a day. Said Bollinger, “The question I got most was ‘Did I get any free samples?’. Sure, I got two pens, two bottle caps, and two balloons.” Bollinger told the attentive crowd how he followed the path a check travels from the time it is handed to a bank teller until it leaves the bank. He said he was amazed at a machine called the reader-sorter, designed with each panelist, their responses were critiques by Ann Herr of Lancaster’s WGAL-TV and Ann Kaiser, editor of FARM WIFE NEWS. Other panelists were Julia Hinther, president of Oklahoma Women for Agriculture; Jewel Home, president of Women of National Agriculture Aviation Association; and Jean Ibendahl, president of Illinois Women for Agriculture. In February, Joyce Hershey was chosen the Pennsylvania Young Far mer spokesman, during competition held at the Young Farmer state meeting m Gettysburg. She represented the Octorara chapter of the Young Far mers, and was the only woman in the four contestant runoff. to scan U leeks and sort them according to number codes found on each check “The amazing thing is that this machine can read 1600 documents a minute,” he exclaimed. “I also-learned why in terest rates at banks are so high. You see, inflation in creases the dollar assets of property, but a bank’s assets are, for the most part, strictly dollar bills. “Unfortunately, inflation decreases the value of the dollar every day. So banks have to increase their in terest rates to offset their losses due to inflation,” Bollinger explained. “Now, when I writs a check to cover my farm loan payments it’s still painful but I know why it hurts.” Other job swap experience stones begin on page A-20. Commending Lebanon County on their successful Farm City Week was C. Eugene Wmgert, Region 6 Director of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Dave Wauls, executive director of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce summed up the event saying, “We will continue to work with the business and farming community to make it better through efforts like our first Farm City Week.” On December 6, Joyce will take part in the national spokesman finals, scheduled during the National Young Farmer Educational In stitute being held in Omaha, Nebraska Elanco Products is sponsoring the public relations competition, with 22 contestants entered from across the nation. Spokesmen will first present a five-minute speech and then be questioned for ten minutes on a variety of agriculture issues. AH the contestants will take part in public relations promotional events during the Omaha convention and three top winners will be sent on a media blitz through Cleveland, Chicago and Houston. Joyce and her husband Art have been dairying for 21 years, the last fifteen on their Cochranton R 1 home farm. They have 100 head of registered Holstems, with about 60 in the milking string, and crop 400 acres in hay, com, and pastureland. Also in the pork production business, the Hershey’s fatten between 1300 to 1800 hogs annually. Oldest son, Dwayne, is 19 and helps to run the farming operation. Brad is 17 and a senior at Octorara High School, where he’s active in the wrestling and cross country teams. Ten year old Julie is a 4-H’er with a daiy heifer and helps on the farm with the call feeding chores. Bev is the oldest, married to Critiques to the answers of farm women on controversial ag issue questid were offered by WGAL-TV’s Ann Herr, left, and Ann Kaiser of Farm Wife News. Barry Goodlmg, and at tending Messiah College at Grantham studying home economics. “I prefer to be called a ‘farm wife’,” emphasizes Joyce, “and I personally don’t want to compete for the title of ‘farmer’.” The job of farm wife should be recognized as a vocation, a vitally needed part of the farm contributing to the well-being of the farm family. STEEL FUEL STORAGE TANKS Capacity Dia. Gauge Price 285 550 550 1000 1000 2000 TANKS BEAR UNDERWRITER'S LABC TANKS COATED WITH USED TANKS BC GAS BOY • PUMPS I f Model 1230 C Filter Model 72 Model 1820 GasGoy-Counter Electric Compact Electric Compact *l4o* *34o* *37o* * Additional $25 off when purchased with a tank PRICES FOB QUARRYVILLE HOWARD E. GROFF CO. Over Forty Years of Reliable Service Fuel Oil, Gasoline, and Coal 111 E. State Street, Quarryville, PA 17566 Phone: 717-786-2166 Joyce is head bookkeeper for the farming operation, and labels herself “at the bottom of the totempole” when it comes to being tapped for help on farm chores. Since being selected the state’s Young Farmer spokesman, Joyce has spoked to both Penn’s Agri- Women and the Chester County Farmers Association’s ladies’ day out. A past chairman and NEW UNDERGROUND ; Capacity Dia. 4000 64” 1 10,000 96” ; 10,000 120" \ 15,000 126” ; 20,000 126” ; 30,000 126" 110 205 250 300 370 570 12 10 JRATORIES UNDERGROUND LABEL BUCK ASPHALTUM )UGHT A SOLD current member of the county farmers’ association’s women’s committee, Joyce is also active m community affairs She serves on the West Fallowfield Township recreation commission, a group working toward establishing recreation facihties through an old school facility they’ve purchased. She’s an adult (Turn to Page A 39) Gauge Price 7 950 »/ 4 " 2495 y«" 2250 5/16” 3825 5/16” 4790 3/8” 8390
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