810-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1986
Editor’s Note: Students in Ron
Walton’s sixth grade class at
Eshleman Elementary School in
Millersvllle were asked to write
essays' on “What Farmland
Preservation Means To Me” as
part of a unit on soil and water
conservation. In addition to the
essays, the class raised over $330
for the Ag Preserve Board from
homemade silos they placed in
classrooms and from a musical
they performed in May.
Below are the winning essays,
which provide food for thought
during June Dairy Month.
First Place Essay
By Carol Burkholder
Agriculture is the backbone of
our area. Lancaster County is
strong, prosperous, productive and
beautiful because of Farmland
Preservation.
Tourism is dependant on our
well-cared for farms. Many
tourists are interested in paying to
see our countryside. Our farms are
diversified which many people find
interesting.
Our direct marketing approach
in our country should be preserved
because of the variety of fresh
quality foods. It would cost us
much more to ship foods into the
area if we grow less here.
Farmland Preservation means
saving the most productive land to
raise quality products. It also
means development of homes
should be planned. Home owners
often have problems with odors,
noise, dust and chemicals.
Farmers must be careful of too
many nitrates in our soil and
water. My grandfather is a far
mer. We need to take care of the
land so that the topsoil will be good
for my grandchildren.
Second Place Essay
By Usa Fridlnger
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important part in nearly
everyone’s life. If we didn’t have
any farmland, we wouldn’t have
hardly any food and that would
cause starvation.
Farmland is also a beautiful part
of our world. Can you imagine
looking outside your window and
seeing smog, busy streets, noisy
parties and other distractions
instead of seeing the peaceful
fields stretching out across the
horizon.
Farmland Preservation means
different things to different people,
but I think that these are the most
important and I wish that more
people would get involved with
farmland preservation. It would
make the world a better place to
live.
Farmland preservation means
saving our farms. It means
keeping already existing farmland
and developing new farming areas
in our state. In order to do this, the
people of Pennsylvania must help
farming to become more profitable
for farmers.
Farmland is a very important
part of everyone’s life after all
without farmland there would be
no corn, wheat or other important
crops that we need.
Many farmers can’t make a
living off farming because many
times they can’t get a good enough
price for their crops. Other times it
doesn’t cost as much to buy crops
overseas. Farmers may be forced
to sell their land to people or
companies that want to do other
things with the land than farming.
Without farmland our state
wouldn’t be half as beautiful and
scenic as it is now. Also our state is
considered a market basket state,
which means we buy and sell crops
more than most states in the
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Third Place Essay
By Rebecca Stoler
'What Fanning Means To Me'
Preserving quality farmland today will insure a steady supply of food for our growing
population in the years to come.
U.S.A. and we should keep it that
way. .
Fourth Place Essay
By Brian LaPierre
Farmland Preservation means
to me life, for without food there
could be no life.
It also means an American
heritage and tradition handed
down from father to son,
generation to generation. It is a
worthwhile thing to preserve
because our nation was based upon
the family farm. We should respect
the land and not abuse it.
It also means a job and way of
life for some people all they know
is farming. That is what farmland
preservation means to me.
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Little Lions FFA
The State College Little Lions Duck, chaplain; Ed Maxwell,
FFA elected officers May 20. The sentinel; and Tammy McTavish,
new officers are: Emily Fetters, parliamentarian,
president; Brian Harpster, vice- The meeting was followed by
president; Leigh Fyock, refreshments supplied by the 9th
secretary; Bob Rider, treasurer; and 10th grade members.
Paula Miller, reporter; Mark
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