ROCK SPRINGS (Centre) More than a hundred dairy farm families
got together In the Special Events Building here at Ag Progress Days
Wednesday afternoon for a fraternal gathering of the Dairy of Distinction
winners. State President Everett Newswanger told the group the event
was planned not as formal meeting but to be bring together dairy farm
families across the state to learn to know each other and to see pictures
of the winning farms.
Lancaster Farming newspaper provides the film and an 11x14 color
portrait of each winning farm. The state district groups take the pictures
after the winning farms have been selected. Newswanger said the prog
ram, totally run by volunteers, Is designed to recognize dairy farms with
good appearances that consumers can equate with the source of dairy
products they buy in the store. In addition, the program provides Incen
tive for other farms to meet the standards set by the Dairy of Distinction
program.
This year for the first time, the Pennsylvania program Included the
milk handlers sanitarium In the judging process. A letterwas sent to each
applicant’s santiarium to ask if there was any sanitary reason why the
farm should not be Included in the program.
New State Poultry Queen
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mer, Lake Meade, East Berlin. She else outside her summer internship
will be a junior this year at Penn with the Department of Environ-
State University where her major mental Resources this past sum
is Environmental Management.. mer. Along with her Queen titles
During the interview session with Valerie received a check for
program emcee Dennis Allen, a $500.00 from the Adams County
radio personality at WHVR- Poultry Association.
WTCR, Valerie related that her Selected as first runner-up in the
main emphasis in her studies is the contest was Lisa Overly, 20,
handling of toxic wastes. daughter of Tom and Hedy Overly,
Valeric’s other interests include
several community projects, but
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Dairy Of Distinction Winners Get Together
Littiestown. Lisa will also be
junior this fall at Penn State where
she carries a major in Food Science
and a minor in Poultry Science.
Lisa has been the recipient of one
of the Adams County Poultry
Association’s scholarships for the
past two years.
Lisa feels that a minor in poultry
science will help her convey the
message of the benefits of the
poultry industry to the consumer.
Lisa is active in the Food Science
Club at Penn State and a member
af the Gamma Sigma Sigma
National Service Sorority. As first
When this year’s 94 winning farms were added to the 96 farms that
were recognized as Dairy of Distinction farms last year, a total of 190
farms carry the recognition In Pennsylvania. Governor Robert Casey
proclaimed Ag Progress Week as Dairy of Distinction Week and Agricul
ture Secretary Boyd Wolff brought greetings from the governor to the
Dairy of Distinction winners.
Dr. Lamartine Hood, Dean at Penn State, also brought greetings from
the university and congratulated the winners.
Sue Reynolds, who is now a deputy secretary of ag markets in New
York State, was honored as the Person of Distinction for 1988. Reynolds
was instrumental In starting the New York program and helped start the
Pennsylvania program two years ago.
In addition to the color portrait, each farm receives a plaque for the
farm office and a metal-like farm sign to be erected at the end of the farm
lane. The plaques and signs are distributed by the local district. The
American Dairy Association and Dairy Council and the Pennsylvania
Milk Promotion program help sponsor the Dairy of Distinction program.
At the end of the meeting, all the Dairy of Distinction farm families got
together for the above photograph.
■unner-up, Lisa received a $250.00
award from the Adams County
Poultry Association.
Second runner-up went to Kris
ten Mummert, Peepytown Rd.,
East Berlin. Kristin is actively
involved in the poultry industry.
She helps with the care and feeding
of her parents, Wayne and Shirley
Mummcrt’s, 6000 poults and turk
eys each summer. She is also a
member of the Adams County 4-H
Poultry Judging Team.
Kristin will be a junior this fall
at the Bermudian Springs High
mcasi
School where she is a member of
the marching, concert, and jazz
bands and is on the yearbook staff.
Kristin received a $lOO.OO award
from the Adams County Poultry
Associadon.
Serving as judges for this year’s
pageant were: Betty Rode, Former
Commodity Queen Coordinator
for the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture; Jodi King, Hock
Supervisor for Perdue in Dela
ware; and Elwood Earhart, Feed
Sales and Service, Quaker State
Farms.
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