/OL. 28 No. 18
Pa. Holstein Assn, honors Hall of Famers
BY JOYCEBUPP
Staff Correspondent
ERIE - Mabel Z. Rishel, York,
and Earl Groff, Strasburg, were
named to the Pennsylvania
iTolstein Hall of Fame during state
convention award ceremonies
February 25 at the downtown
HUton Hotel.
Mabel and her husband Norman
began dairy fanning .in York
County in 1916. They were in
strumental in founding the county
breed organization and Norman
served as a state director and
county president of the Holstein
Association.
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Production tops farmers’ priority
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LANCASTER Despite the
staggering and much publicized
surplus of milk currently haunting
the dairy industry, fanners
whether unknowingly or through
practice of subterfuge still place
their loyalties with production, as
evidenced by attendance at
Monday and Tuesday’s Lancaster
County Dairy Days at the Farm
and Home Center.
This year the two-day seminar,
featuring production and
management on Monday and
marketing on Tuesday, attracted
Lancaster Farming names
Anglestein to editor post
IJTITZ Richard Anglestein,
404 Owl Hill Rd., Lititz, was named
editor of Lancaster Fanning this
week.
A staff writer for Lancaster
Farming for the past three years,
Anglestein has more than 2S years
of experience in newspaper work
and communications. More than
half of that quarter century has
been involved directly in
agricultural writing and com
munications.
Over tile past three years, he has
covered a variety of writing and
photographic assignments for
Lancaster Farming, ranging from
FFA coverage to agribusiness and
from field crops to the Farmland
Preservation scenic photo series.
In January, he received lus
Honorary Keystone Farmer
Degree from the Pennsylvania
Association of Future Farmers-of
America. Lancaster Fanning was
also honored by the State
Association for its / continuing
support of the FFA.
•Prior to coming to Lancaster
Farming, Anglestem was a writer
and photographer in the Public
.Halatining TVnaHmpol - n). Snerrv
Five Sections
Mabel Rishel
prestigious Master Farmer
recognition. Their registered head.
At Lancaster Dairy Days
more than 400 farmers to Mon
day’s program, but dropped to
about half that figure for
Tuesday’s marketing session.
As partial explanation for the
drastic drop in attendance, Glenn
Shirk, dairy Extenion agent for
Lancaster County, suggested that
“Perhaps marketing is something
of which farmers feel they don’t
have control.”
In the crowded auditorium
Monday, dairy farmers heard
specialists such as Penn State Ag
Engineer ' Robert Graves, Ex-
New Holland, farm equipment
manufacturer. In that assignment,
be traveled widely throughout the
United States and Canada filming,
photographing and writing about
agricultural operations.
His other agricultural writing
assignments included the Lan
caster New Era and the Centre
Daily Tunes, State College. He
received several statewide writing
awards while serving on both
newspapers. He attended Penn
State and received his degree at
Elizabethtown College."
Anglestein also served on the
Public Relations Staff of the'
-Bechtel Corporation, San Fran
cisco, during the construction of
the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power
Plant along the Susquehanna
River in Southern York County.
A native of Whitehall, north of
Allentown, Lehigh County, he was
reared on a general farm in
Southern Northampton County.
His wife, Marlene, was raised on a
farm near Bethlehem. They have
one married son, Vance, living in
Whitehall
Former editor, Sheila Miller,
resumed her position.
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 5,1983
which developed from the original
12 herd, was one of the first tested
and classified in the county. Two of
the three excellent females in the
herd were homebred.•
At one time their herd sire, “Rag
Apple Constellation,” was rated
highest in the state, and at the 1952
Rishel dispersal, sold to Western
Pennsylvania Breeders
Cooperative. From 1946 through
1952, the Rishel’s production and
type in their herd won them the
Progressive Breeder Award.
Mabel Rishel organized and
served as president of the first
Farm Women’s ‘Jociety in York
- County,- founded in 1930. She later
hea3edl»ffi~tHe'Yofk Cffunty and
the state Society, and continues
her interest and participation in
Farm Women events.
Now 92, Mabel Rishel has at
tended 36 consecutive national
tension Veterinarian' Lawrence
Hutchinson, Dairy Nutritionist
Richard Erdman and Dairy
Specialist Michael O’Connor
discuss such topics as good
reproductive efficiency, good
cowmanship and good health,
feeds and feeding,, and en
vironments for good performance.
Tuesday’s highlight was a panel
discussion by dairy specialists
from several milk cooperatives
and USDA answering participant’s
questions on the marketing and
advertising potential of the surplus
situation.
Find complete reports and
pictures from both'programs on
pageA22.
Mine comments
are requested
LANCASTER Written com
ments about the proposed
hazardous waste dump at the
Narvon Mine are being sought
from Lancaster County residents
by the County Planning Com
mission.
Commission Chairman Nancy
M. Puffer said comments from
mdividuals and groups will be
accepted on the perceived long
range effects of the proposed
hazardous waste landfill.
Tbe comments will be used by
the county’s Solid Waste Advisory
Committee as it puts together its
recommendation on the Narvon
Mine which will be presented at its
April meeting, according to Mrs.
Puffer.
Tbe deadline to submit com
ments is Friday, March 18. They
should be sent to John E. Ahfeld,
planning director, Lancaster
County Planning Commission, 50
N. Duke St., Lancaster.
Earf Groff
Holstein conventions and
numerous state meetings. Her
Cattleman of Year, J. Paul Espy, center, and wife, Barbara,
are congratulated by Paul Heffner, association president.
Cattlemen pick Espy
Man of Year at banquet
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE Adynamic
spokesman for the beef industry, J.
Paul Espy, feedlot operator from
Huntingdon County, was honored
Tuesday night as 1983 Cattleman of
the Year.
The honor came at the Annual
Cattlemen’s Banquet the
riiimfl-ring event of a daylong Dairy
and Livestock. Program at Penn
State.
Explaining he started from
scratch. Espy hopes to double his
feedlot operation from its present
1000 head to 2000 head.
The Espy operation covers some
690 acres, which is fanned with the
help of one fulltime man and
seasonal help as needed during
harvesting.
Supporting Espy are his wife,
Barbara, an English teacher, and
a daughter and son, ages 14 and 12.
An outspoken supporter of his
industry, Espy delivers numerous
speeches at various -cattlemen
banquets throughout the year.
"My goals are two-fold,” he
i explains.. . . . . ~
$7.50 per year
continued enthusiasm and support
for the registered Holstein in
dustry have won her respect and
admiration from cattle breeder
across the country.
Earl Groff operated and bred a
registered Holstein herd for nearly
60 years, and served the breed
association as state president,
national delegate and member of
numerous national committees.
A cattle sale pioneer, Groff
founded the successful Garden
Spot sale in Lancaster and the
prestigious JBacvest sale
L 'with
Backus Associates.
Groff was one of the .early
leaders of the fledgling artificial
insemination business. He was
- instrumental. in organizing
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ar
tificial Breeders Cooperative,
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“They are to become more ef
ficient in our own operation and to
promote beef on every table as the
most nutritious and beneficial
food.
Raised with a farm background,
Espy graduated from Juniata
Valley High School in the
Agricultural curriculum in 1955,
where be achieved the. FFA
Keystone Farmer Degree. He went
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Now less than 1
WASHINGTON, D.C. - And now
area fanners are less than one.
The farm population in the
Northeastern states has dropped to
0.7 percent, according to the latest
Census Bureau figures. That
means that less than one person in
a hundred now lives on area farms.'
The overall farm population of
the U.S. now stands at 2.5 percent.
That’s about 5.6 million. In 1970,
there were 8.3 million.
The two highest states with farm
population are the Dakotas and
there fanners number only about
16 percent