Leiby named director of Lehigh
County extension
UNIVERSITY PARK - Robert
E. Leiby, Lehigh County Extension
agent, was named County Ex
tension Director earlier this
month.
As extension director, Leiby is
responsible for coordinating the
entire extension program in
Lehigh County, including
programs on agriculture, family
living, 4-H and community
development.
A member of The Pennsylvania
State University’s Cooperative
Extension staff since 1975, Leiby
has been coordinating Lehigh
County’s agricultural programs
for nearly a year. Because of the
diverse population in the county,
he has emphasized strong
farm/city relationships, as well as
special programs and agronomy
and horticulture.
Leiby also brings strength to the
county extension programs with
his expertise in computers. In
addition to spending a year as a
computer support agent at Penn
State’s University Park campus,
Case organization
formed in Ohio
SIDNEY, OH - A new
organization open to all persons
who are interested “in the
restoration, preservation and
historical background” of
machines and related items
bearing the name of Jerome In
crease Case and his companies
recently was incorporated in Ohio
and is seeking members world
wide.
Officially named the “J. I. Case
Collectors Association, Inc.,” the
not-for-profit group was formed
following an organizational
meeting held at the Darke County
Steam Threshers Association show
in Greenville, Ohio, last year.
The group honors the memory
and the heritage of J. I. Case, who
was one of America’s foremost
inventors and producers of farm
engines and machinery during the
last half of the 19th Century.
According to the association’s
by-laws, principal purposes of the
new organization are to foster the
“exchange of information and
materials” and to provide “op
portunities for recreation and
education for individuals...with an
interest in equipment and other
matters associated with J.I Case
companies.”
Case steam traction engines,
gasoline tractors and machinery
were featured at Darke County’s
1985 event; and several of that
show’s organizers are charter
officers of the new J. I. Case group.
They are- D. A. Nealeigh,
president; Bruce E. Davis,
treasurer; and John W Davis,
secretary. The board of directors
includes Clarence E. Christian,
Jr., David T. Erb (who serves as
editor of “Old Abe’s News,” the
association’s newsletter), and
Helen Case Brigham (a great
granddaughter of J. I. Case I
Membership dues currently are
$l5 a year, including a subscription
to the quarterly newsletter Ad
ditional memberships in a family
group may be obtained without the
newsletter subscription for $lO a
year
Persons interested in obtaining
membership applications or
learning more about the
organization should write to Bruce
E. Davis, Treasurer, Case
Association, 14377 Sharp Road,
Sidney, Ohio 45365.
Those interested in advertising
or contributing material for
publication in “Old Abe’s News”
should contact David T Erb,
Editor, Route 2, Box 242, Vinton,
Ohio 45686. The newsletter is
named for the original J. I. Case
Company trademark (an
eagle/“Old Abe” perched on the
globe), which lyas first used in
1865
Leiby was an integral part of the
College of Agriculture’s computer
display at the 1986 Farm Show. He
worked with the College’s com
puter support service to demon
strate the Pennsylvania Extension
computer network to thousands of
Farm Show visitors. The computer
system is now available to public
at no charge.
Leiby began his Extension
career working with 4-H programs
in County. Some of the 4-H
programs he initiated include the
black locust project, the holiday 4-
H bowling tournament, 4-H skiing
and the 4-H embryology project.
He received a bachelor of
science in agronomy from the
Delaware Valley College of
Science and Agriculture, and a
master’s degree in agricultural
education from Penn State. He is a
member of both the Pennsylvania
and National Associations of
County Agricultural Agents, and
the Pennsylvania and National 4-H
Agents Associations.
In his new position as county
Robert E. Leiby
extension director, Leiby replaces
Betty Heinbach, who recently
retired as director after 30 years
with the Cooperative Extension
Service
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DON'T USE FWADAN
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Bill would change
WASHINGTON - To correct a
provision in the 1985 Farm Bill
which would reduce payments for
corn, wheat, rice and some cotton
producers, lowa Senator Chuck
Grassley is co-sponsoring a bill
which would particularly protect
lowa’s high-yield corn growers
Under old laws, deficiency
payments for farmers were based
on average yields over a “rolling”
five-year span, with the oldest year
dropped from the calculation each
new season. The new formula uses
a “fixed” five year span, dropping
the years of highest and lowest
yields.
The new formula would thus
eliminate many lowans’ best crop
years from the formula, with new
averages based on low-yield years.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture estimates that the new
formula would cost farmers $1
billion if not corrected. lowa’s
share of that loss, said Grassley,
would probably amount to “tens of
.of these four-leaf
field, you’re in luck,
even luckier if the
>’t find it first
deficiency rule
millions of dollars."
Although Grassley won several
improvements in the 1985 Farm
Bill, he ultimately voted against
the legislation “because ol
numerous provisions which were
not in the best interest of far
mers.”
The reform legislation m
troduced this week and co
sponsored by Grassley would
require USDA when evaluating
farmers to use the 1985 program
yield formula or the 1985 Farm Bill
formula, whichever is higher,
protecting tens of millions of
dollars in income for lowa corn
growers
Grassley said stakes of the
reform legislation “go far beyond
lowa, because wheat, cotton, rice
and other feed grain producers are
in the same boat as lowa corn
growers They’re all jeopardized
by this new formula, and should all
carefully evaluate implications for
their sectors.”
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