Garden Spot Chapter
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the student raises a project we
encourage him to show it at the
fair. If he has the chance to be in
further competition, I expect him
to go further.”
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them at their home. “When I visit
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pinpoint where they could be
doing better with their project. I
also can see if they are doing all
that they can within their family
situation.”
For instance if a student lives on
a farm where hogs and beef cattle
are raised. Smith encourages the
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your projects and make sugges
tions. They were on the ball.”
Welk agreed, adding “We had a
really strong ag program. The first
teacher tried to teach the basics in
leadership. Smith taught me how
to try and manage programs and
work with people.”
Both teachers encouraged their
students to look into the future to
see their options. They also tried to
expose their students to various
methods of operating a farm or
business.
“We got to see different opera
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could decide how we’d manage
things on our own place,” noted
Welk.
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his parents’ farm when he’s not in
college. Welk owns a herd of 25
dairy cows of which 15 are leased
to other farmers. The remaining 10
are young stock being raised on the
farm.
In the leasing arrangement,
Welk leases a cow for about $3OO
to $4OO per year, payable in four
installments, to a farmer. The far
mer feeds the cow, pays the veter
inarian bills, and breeds the cow
through artificial insemination to a
bull that he and Welk have agreed
upon. The farmer receives the milk
check and Welk receives the cow’s
offspring.
Welk’s interest in dairy cows
began early as he watched his
father work. Don Welk Sr. owns
and operates Stonehurst Farm
Dairy Sales Inc. He buys and sells
dairy cows and bulls, horses, and
mules.
However, when Wclk became a
4-H’er, he started out with steers.
“But the steers were too big and
too wild and I was too small, so I
decided to stick with dairy cows,”
recalled Welk. He joined the
Red Rose Dairy Club and through
out the years served as reporter,
vice president, treasurer, and
president.
Welk started out with one cow
and tried to increase his herd by
one calf per year. Many of the
calves were purchased however, as
his first cow produced nine bulls
out of the nine calves that she had.
When Welk reached high
school, he joined the Garden Spot
Chapter and immediately became
involved in the club’s leadership.
During his freshman and soph
more years he was the news repor-
ter; in his junior year he was chap
ter and county vice president; in
his last year of high school, Welk
assumed the duties of president.
Welk’s FFA projects included
dairy judging and crop production.
He also was involved in citrus
sales, selling more than any other
Lampeter-Strasburg student each
year that he was in high school.
Among the numerous awards
that Welk has garnered include
Star Greenhand, Star Chapter Far
mer, Red Rose Farmer, and Key
stone Degrees; DeKalb Award;
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ter County Banker’s Award; and
several dairy judging team and
individual wins.
Welk also spent his money
wisely during these years to buy
farm equipment. “We don’t need
all the implements at the farm but I
hope to use them after college
when I go into farming,” he
explained.
He would attend sales and buy
good, used equipment Any that
needing repair or renovation
would become one of his high
school shop projects. Among the
more than a dozen implements he
has are tillage, hay, and tobacco
equipment.
Currently Welk is putting his
leadership and organizational
skills to work for the Penn State
Dairy Science Club. This year he
helped organize the Nittany Lion
Fall Classic, which is a cow/heifer
sale sponsored by the club and the
Pennsylvania Holstein
Association.
Barry Harnish chose another
route than college for his future.
He is working with his father, Nel
son, on the family dairy farm.
“I work for a percentage of the
milk check,” he said. “As the num
ber of cows increase and the milk
increases so does the percentage.”
During high school, Hamish
participated in dairy cow, steer,
and com production projects. He
also became involved in public
speaking, specializing in extem
poraneous speaking in his senior
year. In competitions he placed
second in the county, third in the
area and region, and sixth in the
state.
Hamish received several awards
in FFA including the greenhand,
chapter, Red Rose Farmer, and
Keystone degrees. He also was
chapter treasurer for two years.
In the year after he graduated,
Hamish was the eastern regional
vice president for the state FFA
organization. “I visited schools,
helped plan and run the state con
vention, attended local FFA ban
quets and special school functions,
and judged competitions,” said
Hamish of his duties. He also car
ried the state flag each day at the
national convention that year.
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