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
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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
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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.
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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
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Since being selected the
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spokesman, Joyce has
spoked to both Penn’s Agri-
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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
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