A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3,1982
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
DOUGLASSVILLE - “If you’re
going to do something, do it right.”
His own words, the epitome of
his lifestyle, have left their mark
on everything Jesse E. Terry,
Polled Hereford breeder from
Berks County, has done on his
seven-year-old farming operation.
At first glance and almost
every glance thereafter
everything on the farm seems to be
done ‘right,’ or at least done for a
very good reason.
A visitor to the J.V. Farm
(named for Jesse and his wife
Verna) gets his or her first taste of
this commitment when they pull
onto the driveway off the mean
dering country road called Route
562. The entrance is graced on both
This come-on-in view which beckons to curious passers-by,
is the first tast of J.V. Farm that visitors get when they begin
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sides with an iron fence held in
place by a red brick base, the half
mile driveway is paved and bor
dered by huge, lush green trees,
and the winding drive offers the
visitor such sights as grazing
cattle, a large, lazy pond, and
finally a spotless, kempt farm
the perfect scene for a picture
postcard.
“Picky” is the word many
visitors might ascribe to Terry’s
style, but this tall, robust farmer,
sporting Wrangler jeans and a JV
inscribed belt, prefers to consider
himself ‘meticulous. ’
When the Terrys decided to go
into fanning full time, they looked
at 90 farms before deciding on the
now J.V. Farm, and said Terry, he
took advantage of his flying ability
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to help himeself find the ‘perfect’
farm.
Meticulous? Yes. “I have my
own plane so I would fly around
looking for a farm. I picked my
farm because of the 1and...1
wanted good ground to farm. That
was the big priority. When we first
moved here, this farm was in bad
shape, but we fixed it up," he
explained.
Perhaps this drive for perfection
came about during Terry’s earlier
A visitor would have to look long and hard to
find an unkempt area on the J.V. Farm in
Oouglassville. Berks County. The buildings are
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years when he ran his own retail oil
beating home business, when he
developed two industrial parks, or
when he worked in developing
housing. And of course perfection,
when it meant the difference
between survival and tragedy, was
probably the goal of every Navy
man in World War n especially
for this deep sea diving instructor
whose duties were to teach young
recruits how to escape sub
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done for a pre-determined reason. And this
technique is incorporated into his production
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But this seemingly unwavering
drive toward quality seems to belie
Terry’s personal people-oriented
attitude and easy-going manner.
He proudly talked about the
work he did with the Eotarians
during the Agnes Flood of 1972.
“We organized districts into
helping other families. We helped
50 families revitalize their homes,
and when we were done, we stood
on the front porch and banded
them the key to their home. We
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