Lancaster FFA’ers
BY LAURA ENGLAND
LANCASTER Lancaster High Schools spent the morning
County FFA members put their taste-testing 10 samples each of
taste buds to the test Wednesday milk, cheese and cottage cheese,
morning as they judged samples of In addition, they completed a 30-
milk, cheese and cottage cheese question written test and judged
during the county’s annual dairy sediment cards for milk quality
products judging contest held at and cleanliness.
Penn Dairies Inc., Lancaster. The students’ scores, which
Approximately 35 students from included a numerical rating of the
the Ephrata, Garden Spot, product and a description of the
Lampeter-Strasburg, Lancaster product’s quality, were compared
Mennonite, Manbeim, Penn 1° those prepared by Dan
Ready to sample dairy products are individual winners,
from left, Greg Kerdeman, Manheim, first place; Tim Herr,
Solanco, second place; and Tracey Landis, Solanco, third.
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Manor, Pequea Valley and Solanco
put their taste buds to the test
Hamilton, quality control director
for Penn Dairies. A total 570 points
was possible, however, the winners
were those with lower scores - the
best individual ratings at 100 points
or less.
The top 10 individual dairy
products judging winners each
scored below 100 points. First
place went to Greg Kerdexnan, a
sophomore at Manheim High
School. A first-time dairy products
judger, Kerdeman scored 80
points. Tim Herr, a junior at
Solanco High School, was second
with 83 points, while teammate
Tracey Landis, also a junior, was
third with 90.
The other top 10 winners, from
fourth to tenth, were; Tom Wiker,
Pequea Valley; Billy Martin,
Ephrata; Dave Fisher, Garden
Spot; Mike Hershey, Pequea
Valley; Mike Cassel, Manheim;
Neal Benedict, Manheim; and
Karen Shertzer, Lampeter-
Strasburg.
In team competition, it was the
combined talents of Tim Herr,
Tracey Landis and Fritz Frey
which earned the championship
trophy. Representing Solanco High
School, the trio scored 275 points.
Second place went to Ephrata High
School, with 326 points, and third to
Penn Manor with 328.
For its win, the Solanco team
received a rotating trophy,
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 21,1984—127
Oan Hamilton, right, quality control director for Penn
Dairies Inc., presents the first place dairy products judging
trophy for Solanco FFA members, from left, Tim Herr, Tracey
Landis and Fritz Frey.
sponsored by Penn Dairies, which students were given a list of 14
it will keep until next year. A cheese varieties. They then had to
school winning the contest for identify 10 samples correctly,
three consecutive years keeps the These included mozarella,
trophy permanently. processed American cheese,
In both the milk and cottage muenster, swiss, provolone, cream
cheese contests, the students dneese, monterey jack, sharp'
tasted samples demonstrating cheddar, mild Cheddar and colby
qualities of oxidation, rancidity, cheese,
foreign material, garlic and onion The individual and team winners
taste, high acidity, saltiness, of the county contest will advance
flatness and bitterness as well as to state competition slated for June
normal quality samples. during the FFA Summer Con-
For the cheese contests, the vention.
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