BOWMANSVILLE Already at
just 17 years of age, Mark Weber,
of R 1 Mohnton, can be classified as
a genuine steward of the soil.
A vo-ag transfer student at
Garden Spot High School, New
Holland, Mark is in his second year
of farming 45 acres in the
Bowmansvdle area.
And he does it with the most
caring of principles of soil
stewardship, which are generally
ascribed to farmers many years
his senior.
His example gives credence to
the belief-that such stewardship is
something that one is born with
and nurtures into deeper and
deeper meaning much as the ac
tual work with the land nurtures
the bounty that springs forth each
year.
As he walks across the land and
reaches down to grab a handful of
the plowed earth, this caring
clearly comes through. The con
tours and grassy strips that stretch
off into the distance are strong
testimony to his efforts.
Winner of this year’s crop
proficiency award of the
Grassland FFA Chapter, Weber
blends together a combination of
classroom and cultivation.
“It gives me an opportunity to
put a lot of things into practice
which I’m able to learn in the
classroom,” he said.
He does a variety of cropping -
oats, clover in wheat to be followed
by alfalfa and corn.
Lake many other soil stewards,
he already experienced some of
the disappointments thatcan come
and has already learned to balance
them with an optimistic outlook.
“The corn was sort of
discouraging lastyear,” he said.
“Bull hope to have better yields
this year.”
And he expresses such optimism
in a “colorful 17 way.
..“There’s nothing as nice as
seeing a field of good, dark green
coloring when the corn is (
growing,” he explained.
“I just like to see hardy, healthy
plants coming up through the soil.”
But Weber’s stewardship
policies extend beyond the soil to k
the tools he uses to work that soil.
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A steward
He’s already acquired a good
basic foundation of equipment
purchased at sales. Most of it is
about one to four years old.
“I want to keep it in .good con
dition and use it later when 1 go
into dairying,” he explained.
' Thus, in addition to being a soil
steward at 17, Weber already is
clearly mapping out his future
road to follow.
His father, Floyd, had a dairy
herd until selling out m 1978.
“I grew up with dairying and
knew it was something that I
wanted to do,” he said.
The Webers still have some
heifer stock, which they’ve been
selling off when they become fresh.
Mark has a couple of Holstein
heifers and a year ago won an
Ayrshire chain calf.
He figures that with his equip
ment and experience with 'crop
ping, he’ll be better able to move,
into dairying when the time comes
and concentrate then on building a
herd.
It’s a good bet that the same
sound pnnciples he’s already
applied In his cropping activities
will be earned over into his up
coming dairying.
For even now f he’s keepmg his
eye on such things as the ad
vancing technology in embryo
transfers.
“I fmd it sorta fascinating,” he
said..
“Getting as many calves out of
your best cow is the way to go.
“I like to try new things. You
gotta always be ready to try
something new or else the job -
~ any job-can get boring.”
What a combination of
philosophies. He’s a Future
Farmer with his feet firmly
planted in a tradition of soil
stewardship and his eyes firmly
fixed toward helping to advance
the dairy industry of tomorrow
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of the soil at seventeen
Already at seventeen, Mark Weber, of R 1
Mohnton, feels a close and caring association
with the soil he works. A vo-ag student at
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