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VOL 35 No. 10
Gov. Casey Opens Farm Show, Announces Improvements
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Gov. Robert P. Casey opened
the 74th annual Pennsylvania
Farm Show last Sunday, and
announced more than $3.7 million
in funding for improvements to the
Farm Show Complex.
“This year’s Farm Show is
dedicated to the theme of ‘Good
Food for Our Families,’” Gov.
Casey said. “The number of farm
:ng families and, most especially,
the children of those families who
are here means that the future of
farming in Pennsylvania will be in
good hands.
“And as agriculture moves
ahead into the 19905; it’s time that
we made the Farm Show Complex
fit for the next decade."
Gov. Casey said nearly $2.7
million of the renovation funding
will be used to provide the new
roof for the Farm Show Complex,
located on approximately 80 acres
in the city. The complex has
450,000 square feet of exhibition
area, with a large arena fen- show
ing livestock and other events.
Gov. Casey also released
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keefer (right) receive the Charles E.
Cowan Award from Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Assn. Presi
dent Wayne Beshore.
Dairymen Honor Keefer,
Moore And Hand
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.)—The 119th annual meeting
and banquet of the Pennsylvania
Dairymen’s Assn., was held Tues
day evening at the Sheraton Har
risburg East. Three persons were
honored for service to the dairy
industry. They are Earl Keefer,
Millersburg, who received the
Charles E. Cowan Award; H. Lew
is Moore, Professor of Ag Eco
nomics at Penn State, who
received the 1990 Extension
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$715,000 for heating system
improvements in -the large arena.
The project will convert the pre
sent steam heat to a hot water sys
tem.
The governor also released
$350,000 to replace the lighting
system of the Farm Show Com
plex. The project will provide
increased levels and uniformity of
lighting throughout the complex.
It will also include the use of ener
gy efficient, long-life lights.
Gov. Casey said the projects
will be done simultaneously to
increase efficiency of the con
struction.
The governor, during a tour of
the exposition, stopped to sample
a famous Farm Show baked potato
and looked at various farm
machinery.
The governor and Mrs. Ellen
Casey joined Agriculture Secret
ary Boyd E. Wolff and Mrs. Mar
garet Wolff for the tradjdonal
horse-drawn carriage.ride iftlb the
large arena for the show’s opening
ceremonies.
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Award and Dr. Paul E. Hand, gen
eral manager of Atlantic Dairy
Cooperative.
The Charles Cowan Award was
established in memory of a man
who was a longtime secretary and
a leader of the PA Dairymen’s
Association. It recognizes dairy
farmers who have made major
contributions to the state’s largest
agricultural industry.
Keefer farms 300 acres and his
Sycamore Meade herd of Ayr
shires is well known to area dairy
men and to Ayrshire breeders
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13,1990
The first supreme champion of the 1990 Pennsylvania Farm Show was crowned by Gov.
Robert Casey as his official party toured the exhibits Sunday morning, (i to r): James Parlett
Jr. showed the January Duroo gilt, Boyd Wolff, State Ag secretary, Gov. Casey and Gale
BreSSner, Judge. Photo hy EvtrtU Nowtwmgtr
Grand Champion Steer Again
LISA RISSER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
It was just like old times for
19-year-old Mike Messick of Mid
dletown on Thursday. For the
fourth time in five years he para
ded a steer out that became grand
champion of the Farm Show junior
steer competition. Messick and his
steers earned the title in 1986, ’B7,
and ’BB, and he may have won last
year had he brought a steer to
show.
Judge Scott Schaake, from the
University of Kentucky, com
mended Messick’s heavyweight
steer, Simon, for having good mus
cling, being sound in structure, and
having the finished look that steers
going to market should have.
Simon is representative of the
animals bred and raised on Mes
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Mike Messick, right, of Middletown showed yet another
Farm Show grand'champion Farm Show steer. This year It
was 1,285-pound Simon, a Chinanina-Angus, that won the
title. Holding the banner Is Boyd Wolff, Secretary of
Agriculture.
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