“Come Alive in 6 85”
COLUMBUS, Ohio Jersey
breeders from across the United
States will gather June 16-19 in
Lancaster, for the 117th Annual
Meeting of the American Jersey
Cattle Club and the 27th Annual
Meeting of National All-Jersey Inc.
The meetings and events will be
headquartered at the Americana
Host Farm Resort in Lancaster.
Pennsylvania Dutch hospitality
will highlight the four days of
meetings, awards, farm tours,
entertainment and sales.
The NAJ Board of Directors will
meet Sunday morning, June 16,
with the AJCC Board of Directors
scheduled to meet that afternoon.
Registration for those attending all
functions will begin Sunday
afternoon. A dinner theater
presentation has been scheduled
for Sunday night.
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Monday, June 17, will be a day of
tours featuring a visit to an Amish
homestead in the morning. The
afternoon tours will bring stops at
four leading Jersey herds in the
area. A family style Pennsylvania
Dutch dinner will top off the
evening.
Tuesday, June 18, will begin with
the National All-Jersey Breakfast.
Featured speaker will be Carl
Wolf, President of First World
Cheese Associates, the national
distributor of Jersey Pride Natural
Cheese. The NAJ Annual Meeting
will follow the breakfast.
Tuesday afternoon will see 50 of
the top pedigreed Jersey heifers
from across the nation offered in
the 28th Annual National Heifer
Sale. The sale will be held at the
Solanco Fairgrounds, Quarryville,
Penn.
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is theme for Jersey meeting in June
The AJCC Annual Jersey
Breeders Banquet on Tuesday
evening will honor retiring AJCC
Executive Secretary James F.
Cavanaugh with the AJCC
Distinguished Service Award.
Wednesday morning, June 19,
will start off at the AJCC Awards
Breakfast, where the seven win
ners of the AJCC Young Jersey
Dairyman Award will be honored.
Th.s year’s winners are: Dean and
NEWARK, De. -
Short-term government
assistance to farms
stressed by high interest
rates and heavy debt is
a subject of heated
debate today, both in
Congress and around
the nation.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 4,1985-Al9
Chris Blackhurst, Pleasant Grove,
Utah; Dennis and Cheryl Cline,
Waterville, Iowa; Ed and Cheryl
Ettinger, Mocksville, N.C.; Roger
and Anita Marcoot, Greenville,
111.; Bill and Kathleen Schaeffer,
Acme, Wash.; Richard and Paula
Schlotterbeck, Lewisburg, Ohio;
and Dan and Connie Schweigert,
Tremont, 111.
Events will conclude with the
AJCC, Annual Meeting on Wed-
specialist Daniel S.
Kuennen.
“Off-farm income is
keeping many farmers
<n business,” he says.
“Net farm income
dropped almost 50
percent from 1981 to
1983. During that tune.
nesday morning. Newell Mills,
Fallon, Nev. will be presented with
the AJCC Master Breeder Award.
For further information, con
tact; The American Jersey Cattle
Club, P.O. Box 27310, Columbus,
Ohio 43227-9987. Phone 614/861-
3636.
Or, in Pennsylvania contact:
Donald Koontz, 3016 Distnct Road,
Fredoma, Pa. 16124. Phone 412-376-
2884.
off-farm income
amounted to about six
and a half tunes as
much as government
payments, even with
increased payments
through the PIK
program. A farm that
stays in business
remains an active part
of the local economy.
When other businesses
in a rural community
fail due to agricultural
losses, off-farm income
may in turn be en
dangered, creating a
negative spiral.”
Currently, conditions
are worst in the Mid
west, where farm-based
banks and Main Street
businesses are closmg
m great numbers.
Twenty-five of the
record 79 banks that
failed last year were
farm banks. The plight
of mid-western farmers
and its effect on the
local economy have
lessons for other parts
of the U.S., Kuennen
says.
For instance, more
than a third of
Delaware’s farmers
report working 200 days
or more off the farm.
Statewide, farm
households had an
average income of just
over $25,700 in 1980. Of
that amount only $9,000,
or 35 percent, came
from farming. “Some
Delaware ' farmers
depend on the diversity
Of their income,”
Kuennen stresses.
Medium-sized farms
with annual sales of
$40,000 to $200,000 ap
pear to be the hardest
hit nationally by the
present economic crisis.
The average Delaware
farm fails easily within
this range, at about
$126,000 gross sales per
farm m 1983, according
to Delaware Depart
ment of Agriculture
statistics.
The farm and the
community depend on
each other. Government
payments to farmers
have increased con
siderably in recent
years, Kuennen says,
but still represent a
relatively small portion
of farm household in
come. Off-farm em
ployment, on the other
hand, brings in an
amount greater than the
net farm income, both
nationally and in
Delaware.
Rural businesses
depend on the financial
health of farmers to
survive, Kuennen says.
Rural development and
farm policy should
reflect this in-