Reading Fair honors Sattazahns, 1981 Farm Family
B Y LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Staff Correspondent ✓
FLEETWOOD Hie Reading
Fair Board of Directors honored
the 1981 Farm Family, 4-H Boy and
Girl and FFA and FHA Boy and
Girl during their annual pre-fair
banquet on Monday, here at the
Fleetwood Grange.
Selected from among other
Grange entries, the Clarence
Sattazahn family of RI
Womelsdorf, members of Marion
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Grange were this year’s Heeding
Fair Farm Family. Their selection
made them the 26th farm family to
be honored by this occasion. In the
audience were members
representing all 25 previous farm
family winners.
The Sattazahns, Clarence,
Marlene, and their children,
Kai;en, Kevin, and Kirk, farm 310
acres and are presently milking 95
Holsteins. Their rolling herd
average for 1980 was 16,479 pounds
Near-record
New CCC corn, sorghum pricing
policy put in place
On July 17, USOA announces a
new policy tor selling CCC stocks
ot com and sorghum. To avoid
market disruptions, only a portion
ot the stocks will be sold at
minimum sales prices, which will
be calculated at lib percent ot the
county loan rate plus carrying
' charges tor interest, storage, and
handling. While minimum sales
prices will vary by location, the
national average minimum sales
prices will be $3.13 per bushel tor
com and $3 tor sorghum.
Bids for additional amounts will
be accepted at higher prices, or at
later dates. This pricing strategy
will let the market determftie how
much and Where gram will be sold.
The new policy aUows the CCC to
accept bids as small as 1,000
bushels. This will help tanners,
particularly tarmer-teeders, to bid
tor CUC offerings. Contact your
ABCS office tor further in
formation.
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milk and 560 pounds buttertat.
Their cows are kept in free stall
housing, divided into three groups
and milked in a carousel milking
parlor. The groups include cows
producing over 50 pounds milk per
day, cows under 50 pounds milk
per day and dry cows. The Sat
tazahns outfit high producers with
magnets, enabling them access to
more feed. ■
Their crops include 140 acres of
corn which yielded 24 tons of silage
per acre last year and 140 bushels
of grain per acre. They also have
75 acres of hay, harvested as
haylage or baled m large round
bales, 25 acres of wheat, 50 acres of
pasture and 20 acres of woodland.
They have three silos used for
haylage, com silage, and high
moisture com.
Clarence does his own artificial
insemination and presently has
four bulls on the fann. He has been
a member of the Marion Grange
since 1954 and has been Master for
three years.
He is a member of St. John’s
United Church of Christ, Host, like
the other members of his family,
and belongs to-many other farm
related organizations such as the
Conrad Weiser Young Farmers,
various Holstein associations,
Berks County and Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Associations, Berks
DHIA, Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative, the Dairy Shrine
Club, and also the Manon Town- -
ship zoning board.
Marlene is a member of Farm
Women Society 5 as well as the
Grange and church. She is active
in the farm operation, milking
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The Clarence Sattazahn family was honored as the Farm
Family of the Year. Seated are Clarence and Marlene with
children, Karen, Kevin, and Kirk..
morning and evenings, keeping the
records and .doing the banking.
This farm wife' also cans and
freezes her garden produce and
helps with general upkeep and
fieldwork.
The Sattazahns eldest child and
only daughter, Karen, 21, was the
1980 Berks County Dairy Princess.
She is presently a senior at Kutz
town State College, majoring in
elementary education and library
science. Karen was involved in 4-H
for ten years, was elected to the
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National Four Society and served
as a director to the Berks County
Junior Holstein Club for three
years. She presently is the Dairy
Princess Promotion coordinator
for Berks County.
Kevin, 18, who was a 1980
graduate of Conrad Weiser High
School, helps full time on the farm.
He is a -director of the Junior
Holstein Club and was a 4-H
member for 10 years. Kevin is a
member of the Conrad Weiser FFA
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