DlB-Lancaster Farming Saturday, November 18,1989
MIFFLINBURG (Union
Co.) — Change often brings
improvement, and the Mifflinburg
Young Farmers Association has
found a good way to promote
change during its 50 years of oper
ation, according to Wayne J.
Sprick, executive director of the
National Young Farmers Educa
tional Association.
Speaking to 160 Mifflinburg
Young Farmers and their guests at
the association’s golden anniver
sary banquet at Mifflinburg Area
High School, Sprick said the local
chapter has created a friendly,
informal atmosphere for the
exchange of information. He told
members that their “three E’s”—
“eat, entertain and educate”— are
agood way to foster positive
change and learning. ■
The group holds monthly din
ner meetings with educational
programs as well as evening clas
ses. Topics range from milk pro
duction to soil conservation to nit
rogen management. On-farm
instruction is included.
To effect change, Sprick told
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Mifflinburg Young Farmers Celebrate 50 Years
members to decide what should be
done and where and when to do it
Develop a plan for change, make a
commitment to the plan and work
to see it become reality, he said.
The national official recom
mended assigning tasks to busy
people to assume that they’ll get
done, using time-management
skills to achieve change, and being
prepared to deal with change once
it occurs. He cautioned against
excuses to avoid change, such as
“we never did it that way before”
or “we’re not ready for that.”
Sprick encouraged members to
learn from past experiences as
they move toward the future.
Dr. Glenn Stevens, the Mifflin
burg vocational agriculture teach
er who developed the part-time
adult education program for far
mers SO years ago, traced the
organization’s history. The group
began meeting January 2, 1939,
for a series of classes on getting
started in farming. The concept of
evening adult vocational classes
had been introduced the previous
summer by Dr. R.W. Gregory, a
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Stevens noted that the model of
adults learning along with school
students is worthy of study by the
nation’s governors and President
Bush as they seek to improve edu
cation. Both adults and students
can gain from such a cooperative
approach, Stevens said.
The Mifflinburg Young Far
mers Association is the oldest
continuously operating Young
Farmers chapter in the state and
possibly the nation, according to
its current advisor Glenn
Spangler.
During its 50-year history, its
membes have seen increasing spe
cialization in fanning, the growth
of specialized services for far
mers, the sophistication of farm
financial record keeping, and dra
matic advances in plant and ani
mal genetics and other technolo
gies, Spangler said.
Over the years, Mifflinburg
members have helped to establish
the Pennsylvania Young Farmers
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