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Rencken, Natal, South Africa; Bill Pasco, marketing director of Malcomess; Zaag
Nichols, Transvaal, South Africa; and Kenneth Myers.
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African visitors tour
Lancaster Co. dairy Farm
ELIZABETHTOWN - A group
of 20 farmers and farm equipment
salesmen from South Africa found
that farms in Lancaster County
are quite similar to those at home
during a visit to Kenneth Myers’
dairy farm in Elizabethtown on
Wednesday.
Vwillee Mint, one of the South
African farmers on the tour, said
that- farms here are “really
similar” to those at home, but are
“more beautiful.”
The farm tour, hosted by the
Pennsylvania State Grange, in
cluded a walk through the bam,
where Myers demonstrated his
automatic feeding system, and a
visit to the calf pens. Later in the
tour the group was treated to cold
milkshakes prepared by Myers
and his family.
The farm visit was just part of a
larger tour sponsored by
Malcomess Limited, a New
Holland equipment distributor
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based in South Africa. The firm
arranged the tour for some of it’s
outstanding salesmen and for
several farmers as part of a new
product promotion, Malcomess
marketing director Bill Pascoe
said.
A reservation for the trip was
offered at each of a number of
promotional meetings as an in
centive to get farmers and
salesmen to attend.
The three-week tour, which
began in Europe, included stops in
Italy and Switzerland. On Thur
sday, the group toured Sperry New
Holland’s factory and then
traveled to Washington, D.C. and
the Beltsville Ag Center.
Next week the visitors will travel
through portions of the Midwest
where they will tour a feedlot and a
soy bean farm.
Pa. youth win
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -
Pennsylvania youth captured
several top honors at the Big E
Eastern States Exposition.
Miss Jamie L. Frey, member of
the Solanco FFA Chapter at
Quarryville, was named Eastern
Regional Star Agribusinessperson.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernst Frey.
Pennsylvania State FFA
Secretary and former chapter
president, Frey operates a
greenhouse and nursery business
with her younger brothers.
Regional Star Farmer is Wilson
Korth, from a Holsteion dairy
family in Cornwall Bridge, Ct.
The Penn State livestock judging
team defeated teams from 11 other
northeastern universities to gain
top honors.
The 4-H team from Lancaster
County won in the 4-H division.
Pennsylvania also won the
Eastern Regional Future Farmers
of American Livestock Judging
Contest.
Top individuals in the collegiate,
4-H, and FFA divisions of the
contest were respectively: Nelson
Beam, Penn State; Jan Waltz,
Pennsylvania 4-H; and Kurt
Katchmark, Pennsylvania FFA.