814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12, 1988 New officers elected to head the Elizabethtown Farmers Association include from left: Jim Hershey and Joe Wlvell, co-chairmen of public relations and activities; Dennis Dra ger, treasurer; Mel Hoffer, vice-president; Bob Brandt, sec retary; Ken Myer, president, and Neal Buss, Deputy Secret ary of Agriculture. Neal Buss, (left) Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, told the Elizabethtown Young Farmers that the day farmers depend upon the government to bail them out of trouble, the coun try will then be in trouble. Mel and Marilyn Nlssley, a poultry farmer, brought the youngest attendee, nine-week-old Jeremy, to the annual banquet. Glimpses Young Mitchell Kopp was one of the lucky door prize winners. Of The Elizabethtown Farmers’ Banquet mixed grasses and mixed legume; Carl and Dale Brandt, high cow for milk production; William Helstand, hay-grass; Robert Brandt, greatest Increase herd average in milk and also In fat production; Joe Wivell, high cow for fat; Galen Kopp, field corn-ear. Harvey Espenshade received the Con servation Award. ence gathered at Country Table, Mount Joy, that it would take 203,000 tractor and trailer trucks, lined up from the Pennsylvania turnpike to Los Vegas to cany all the milk that the state produces In one year. Robert Brandt was named the outstanding young farmer of the year for Elizabethtown Young Farmers. Brandt was also president for the association this past year. Brandt, left, Is pictured with his wife, Renee, and Robert Kratz, Eli zabethtown High School's principal. :*v
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