B4*Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 7,1989
Sue Beshore
'(Continued from Pag* B 2)
dated with Willow Creek worked
with both large and small animals.
Although she worked primarily in
accounting, Sue’s
acquired from her work there has
proven helpful in their own herd.
After marriage and a move to
York County in 1979, Sue worked
in the Camp Hill headquarters of
the Purina company for two years.
Then, the opportunity to work in
dairy promotion proved irresist
ible to this former Berks County
dairy princess, and she accepted a
position with the Federal Order 4
Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing
Association.
Organizing promotional events
and working with several dairy
princess programs brought Sue to
Farm Show in yet another role.
She helped coordinate MAM
MA’S milk promotion booth
geared to spreading the dairy mes
sage to the thousands of non-farm
consumers who attend Farm Show
annually. It pleases her to see the
cooperation of several milk prom
otion groups, working together in
recent years, to organize and staff
the popular, consumer-oriented
dairy display.
Sue keeps her own hand in milk
promotion with nursery school
tours of the Beshore farm, offered
several days each week during the
month of May.
“Sue and fun are our require
ments,” she emphasizes. “We only
have tours if the sun is shining,
and we try to make it fun.”
About 300 children, mostly age
three to five, visited the Beshore
herd last May. Jed’s mother, Athe
na Beshore, first hosted the chil-
dren of the downtown Harrisburg
Neighborhood Center several
years ago, and still assists with the
larger groups of small visitors.
“We start at the calf hutches,”
explains Sue, “and try to put
everything in terms they can
understand. They can hold a bottle
and pet the calves. Then we ‘fol
low the milk route,’ from the cow
to the tank, and hold each one up
to see the milk in the tank. They
also like to sit on the tractor and
‘beep’ the horn, and they always
play with the kittens.”
Milk and cookies follow the
hands-on visit, and visitors go
home with “I Love Milk” stickers
and rubber cow erasers. Angie,
already a veteran dairy promoter,
takes special pride in distributing
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Both Sue and Jed are in the bam
for both daily milkings of their
top-producing herd of 46 head.
“It’s a great time for us to com
municate,” she said in regards to
sharing the bam chores. Calf rais
ing and the farm accounting are
also ha responsibility, though she
willingly pitches in with most
jobs, if necessary.
“I only have two ‘don’t’s’ - I
don’t throw down silage and I
don’t drive tractors.” is the cou
ple’s understanding.
Sue serves on York County’s
dairy princess and promotion
committee, and coordinates the
county’s advertising program in
the state Holstein’s PROFILES
magazine. This year, she agreed to
be “room mother” for Angie’s
nursery school class of 20 young
sters at the nearby Salem Com
munity Nursery School.
But, for this upcoming week, it
is Farm Show that takes prece
dence at Beshore Farms. Three
generations of family cattle enthu
siasts will gather to cheer on the
farm’s entries and enjoy the fel
lowship with other breeders.
And, as Sue Beshore sums it up;
“It’s fun to show when things go
well; and just not quite as much
fun when things don’t go well.”
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