A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novambar 24,1984
Top couples and counties cited by PFA
(Continued from Page Al)
Armstrong, Columbia, Greene,
Juniata, Luzerne, Lycoming,
Mercer, Northampton-Monroe,
Somerset, Tioga-Potter, Wayne
and Westmoreland.
One Star: Bedford, Bradford-
Sullivan, Cambria, Elk, Fayette,
Fulton, Indiana, Jefferson,
Montour, Perry, Snyder,
Washington and Wyoming-
Lacka wanna.
The six young couples who were
honored for displaying noteworthy
farm business skills and leader
ship - prior to the age of 30 - in
cluded Ron and Cynthia Kopp,
Middletown, Dauphin County;
Glenn and Evelyn Moyer, R 1
Friedens, Somerset County; Levon
and Beth Hoover, R 3 Selbisgrove,
Snyder County; John and Cynthia
Kunz, R 1 Centerville, Crawford
County; David and Terry Kromer,
R 1 Easton, Northampton County;
George and Christine Richard, R 1
Elysburg, Northumberland
County.
Reelected president of the 22,800-
farm family organization was
Keith Eckel, left, who has reelected PFA president, with
Peter Hackes, NBC News Correspondent who spoke at
Tuesday banquet.
Presidents from Seven-Star counties include Clifford
Hawbaker, left, Franklin County; and Russel Orner, Clear
field County.
Keith Ecklel, a Lackawanna
County vegetable grower and
dairyman. In his annual address at
a Tuesday luncheon, Eckel cited
some of the PFA-backed ag
legislation which has recently
become law in Pennsylvania.
These included Milk Security
Fund improvement. Avia influenza
aid, ag development fund and state
dairy promotion.
PFA has also continued a
statewide campaign against
roadside litter in support of
mandatory container deposit
legislation, Eckel explained.
Concerning the upcoming 1985
Farm Bill, Eckel said the PFA
“supports a market-oriented hill.”
Citing dairy legislation of special
concern, Eckel said PFA favors an
automatic adjustment of dairy
price supports according to the
level of net dairy products pur
chased by the CCC.
The annual meeting also in
cluded PACMA sessions. Manager
Marlin Miller reported that the
cooperative marketed more than
is given by Keith Eckel to
$23 million worth of commodities
for members during the 1963-84
year and finished with a profit for
the second consecutive year.
PACMA had an eight percent
membership growth and paid a
10.5 percent dividend to preferred
stockholders.
NBC Correspondent Hackes
spoke at the Tuesday evening
banquet session and outlined his
Participating in Women’s Program at PFA Convention are, from the left, Murray Miles,
Tennessee Farm Bureau; Joyce Sankey, State Womenls Chairperson; and Dorothy
Replogle, Vice Chairperson, State Women's Committee, District 11.
Let’s get more
PFA women are
HERSHEY Joyce Sankey,
PFA Women’s Chairperson, called
on her fellow female farming
representatives this week to get
involved in the causes of
agriculture.
“Why are you here?” she asked
at a Women’s Conference session.
“Did you want to get away for a
few days?
“Are you curious about our
organization?
Or is it because you really
wanted to come?”
But remember, she stressed, “if
your name is on the deed, you
should be here.”
In no uncertain terms she told
her all-female audience that the
PFA Womens Committee doesn’t
just bake the cookies and provide
the food for county meetings.
“We help produce the
ingredients for those cookies,” she
said.
“If we are to be true partners,
we must become knowledgeable in
udience.
impressions of the recent election
and what is coming on the national
scene.
“For the nation to survive,” he
said, “the administration must
deal with price supports and crop
target figures."
He said that one dairy option
being kicked about is giving the
Secretary of Agriculture more
discretion in moving supports up
all of the issues affecting
agriculture in our communities,
state and nation.”
She stressed that problems are
just not problems of the dairy
farmer or the grain farmer or
whatever is produced, but they are
issues affecting all of agriculture.
She told her female audience
that PFA womens’ programs
during the coming year will stress
things like marketing and
promotion of products and greater
emphasis will be placed on un
derstanding the legislative process
and the development of skills on
how to communicate with
legislators.
And, the PFA Womens’ Com
mittee will continiue to work in the
important areas of farm safety and
youth, particularly the Ag in the
Classroom program.
Sankey spoke also to county PFA
presidents urging them to utilize
the skills and talents of farm
or down. Also, programs may be
tied to soil conservation, he said.
“But farm commodity costs of
$l2 billion will need to be cut in
half,” Hackes said.
He cited the federal deficits as
the Number One concern in
Washington.
He urged the farmer audience to
get vocal and start writing to their
Congressmen.
involved ,
urged
women in their areas and not to
overlook the potential they have.
“Women have a lot invested in
the farm and are partners that
work by your side,” she told the
male county presidents, “so let us
work by your side in PFA and work
for a better life for our farm
families.”
Sankey cited several female
PFA’ers who have made
significant contributions to the
cause of agriculture and to their
home communities.
She pointed to Dottie Bartels,
Helen Jackson, Jean Tiffany and
Dottie Repogle.
Sankey explained that one of the
keys to belonging to PFA is the
Family Membership.
“That means you,” she told the
womens’ program audience.
“You are an active and vital part
of the PFA program and don’t you
ever forget it.”