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This Dairy of Distinction with attractive fields, buildings and lawn rep
resents the 94 dairy farms across Pennsylvania that have qualified for
the recognition this year. The program rewards farm families who have
farmsteads that look nice and provides encouragment for others to
>eautify their farms. In so doing, It gives consumers a favorable impress
on of the source of dairy products as they drive past the farm. Here the
Kopp family at Stoney Lawn Farm, Dauphin County, get together to
receive their Dairy of Distinction sign from Pennsylvania Agriculture
Secretary Boyd Wolff. (At right) Wolff presents the farm sign to Howard
State Dairy Of Distinction Winners Named
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LITITZ Another successful year for the
Dairy of Distinction program has been com
pleted with 311 applications across the state of
Pennsylvania. Judges in all ten districts eva
luated each applicant’s farm from the roadside.
In addition, dairy sanitarians for each farm were
asked to indicate that the quality of milk from
each farm was acceptable.
When the judging was completed, 94 new
Dairy of Distinction awards were given. These
awards were presented as an incentive to keep
farms beautiful and to help consumers have a
favorable impression of the source of their dairy
products. In addition, the award's provide incen
tive for farmers to tidy up their homesteads to
meet the Dairy of Distinction standards.
Each Dairy of Distinction receives a farm
sign, and a certificate from the Pennsylvania
Here’s Lancaster Farming's tribute
this year’s Dairy of Distinction winners in Pennsylvania
Dairy of Distinction Supplement to Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 6, 1988
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state program. Lancaster Farming provides an
11x14 color farm portrait print to each farm or
district that provides a suitable negative.*
GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION
Robert P. Casey, Pennsylvania’s Governor,
proclaimed August 14-20 as Dairy of Distinc
tion Week. And in his proclamation he said the
hard work of dairy farmers “placed our Com
monwealth in the top five dairy states in the
nation.”
In 1987 Pennsylvania’s commercial dairy
farms produced a record 10.18 billion pounds of
milk, and contributed 1.3 billion dollars to our
state’s economy. Dairy farming has been one of
the key factors in agriculture’s emergence as
Pennsylvania’s number one industry.
“In addition to their efficiency and productiv
ity, however, Pennsylvania’s dairy farmers also
take great pride in the appearance of their
farms,” Casey said. “I urge all citizens to join in
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and Mary Kopp. (In center) Jay and Ann Kopp with children Jayanna, age
14, and Adam, age 9, hold Jayanna’s 4-H project- two-year-old Stoney
Lawn Columbia Raindrop. Raindrop represents the middle of three gen
erations of heifers that started when Jayanna joined the 4-H dairy club
five years ago. Raindrop Is just finishing her first record of over 18,000
pounds of milk and Is quite stylish. (At left) Ronald and Barbara Kopp and
son Brandon, age 6, and Rachelle, age 2. Another son, Galen, works In
the pesticide division of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
Galen and his wife, Lilli Ann, have three children, Ryan, age 14, Sean, age
11, and Mitchell, age 9.
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saluting our dairymen, who richly deserve the
recognition and encouragement afforded by the
Dairy of Distinction program.”
A special place for all state Dairy of Distinc
tion farm families to meet has been planned dur
ing Ag Progress Days at Rock Springs. The time
for this event is August 17 at 2 p.m. in the Spe
cial Events Building.
As in the past, ten district com
prised of volunteer members ran the program in
the local areas. This year the district chairmen
are as follows: District 11, George Wilcox; Dis
trict 12, Wally Jackson; District 13, Jack Erway;
District 14, David Myers; District 15, Sam
McClay-Charles Rohrbaugh; District 16, Ber
neice Gable; District 17, Kevin Barrett; District
18, Alan Roszel; District 19, Naomi Spahr; Dis
trict 20, Russ Rooks.
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