Jennifer Yaple to Promote Milk as Clearfield County Dmey Princess
CLEARFIELD - The 1986
Clearfield County Dairy Princess
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Jennifer Yaple, second from left, back row, was recently named 1986 Clearfield
County Dairy Princess. Also pictured, from left, back row, are Shell! Durandetta, con
testant; Holly Wriglesworth, 1985 dairy princess; and Elizabeth Milchak, contestant. In
front from left, are Renee Curry and Becky Shaw, 1986 dairy maids, and Shannon Curry.
1985 dairy maid.
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1985 Clearfield County Dairy
Princess Holly Wriglesworth
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during the annual contest at the
multi-service center in Clearfield
June 14.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Yaple, of Yaple Family
Farm, Houtzdale, Jennifer owns 10
Guernsey cows. Her parents, raise
Guernseys, Holsteins and Ayr
shires.
Jennifer attends Moshannon
Valley Junior and Senior High
School, where she has been a
member of the concert band, band
front, Spanish Club, Varsity Club
and basketball team and creditor
of the yearbook. She is also a
member of the 4-H dairy club.
Following high school, Jennifer
plans to attend college to major in
television production.
Selected alternate princesses
were Shell! Durandetta and
Report Examines Delaware Ag Situation
NEWARK, Del. -At the agriculture and the state’s
recent Friends of economy as a whole.
Agriculture Breakfast in “Delaware Farm
Dover, Delaware, Financial Conditions and
Governor Mike Castle Public Policy Implications
released copies of a new for State Government” was
bulletin which analyzes written by University of
local farm financial con- Delaware extension
ditions and their potential economist Gerald F.
impact on Delaware Vaughn. The 21-page
publication summarizes
AFTER FEED COLLECTOR
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jana 21,1956-A37
Elizabeth Milchak.
The evening’s activities also
included a Dairy Maid Contest for
8-, 9- and 10-year-old girls. Con
testants were required to write an
essay on the importance of dairy
products.
The 8-year-old Dairy Maid is
Renee Curry, the daughter of
Melvin and Joan Curry of Cur
wens ville. The 9-year-old winner is
Becky Shaw, the daughter of
Dennis and Janet Shaw of
Grampian. Both girls were
crowned by last year’s Dairy
Maid, Shannon Curry.
Entertainment for the evening
was provided by the Swan
Brothers, a gospel group from
Mahaffey. An ice cream social
followed the pageant.
the results of two surveys
of farm lenders and farm
operators conducted in
January 1986 by the
Delaware Crop Reporting
Service.
On balance the Delaware
farm economy is healthier
than agriculture elsewhere
in the U.S. However, the
surveys show that as many
as one in five Delaware
farmers with debt could be
in financial trouble, and
that one in 10 of all farmers
in the state expects to leave
farming in 1986 if current
income trends and ex
penses persist.
Among other things,
Vaughn says the surveys
revealed a higher than
normal turn-down rate for
new farm loan applications
and requests for additions
to existing loans 22.4
percent compared to the
usual refusal rate of about
18.0 percent. Lenders said
they expected 6.2 percent
of their farm borrowers to
be unable to qualify for
financing in 1986. Usually
about 4.6 percent fail to do
so.
Of the farmers who don’t
qualify, 67.8 percent have
inadequate income
prospects and 18.4 percent
lack sufficient equity. The
rest have a poor per
formance record in
repaying previous loans or
are otherwise a poor risk.
It is estimated that 13.6
percent of the Delaware
farm operators with debts
are in trouble; another 6.8
percent may be.
“Perhaps the most
revealing measure of
stress among farm
operators,” Vaughn says,
“is their estimation of how
long they can continue
farming if recent trends in
income and expenses
continue. Of those sur
veyed, 9.8 percent expect to
be able to continue farming
only one more year; 28.7
percent think they’ll stay in
business two to five years;
4.9 percent plan to continue
for six to 10 years. The rest
either expect to be farming
more than 10 years, or
expressed no opinion.”
After summarizing the
findings of the two surveys,
the economist discusses the
implications of this in
formation in terms of farm
.family stress and impact
on the state’s agricultural
industry and other sectors
of the Delaware economy.
Copies of the bulletin are
available from county
extension offices in
Newark (451-2506), Dover
(736-1448) and Georgetown
(856-7303), as well as from
the Delaware Department
of Agriculture.