C36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 15,1981
CAMP HILL There is a new
person ‘sitting’ in the Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association
president’s chair. Keith Eckel, 34,
of Clarks Summit, Lackawanna
County, was elected to the position
by PFA’s 16-member board during
a special meeting held last
Thursday.
Eckel succeeds Eugene
Thompson who resigned the
previous week in order to assume
the position of Acting State
Executive Director of the USDA’s
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service.
Eckel, who had been serving as a
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Eckel assumes PFA president post
PFA State Board Director since
1976 (representing four nor
theastern counties), will face
another election for the
organization’s presidency in
November when voting delegates
from the 54 county associations
convene for the annual meeting.
Along with his father and
brother, Eckel assists in the
operation of the family’s dairy and
cash crop farm. They milk 90 head
of Holsteins, sell more than 800
tons of high moisture corn, 100,000
boxes of tomatoes and 400 tons ot
pumpkins annually.
Eckel holds a B.A. degree in
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