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Maryland’s National 4-H Dairy Judging Team is, left to right, Chip Long; Mike Con
ner; Lee Majeskie, coach; Amy Brown; and Blair Hill.
National FFA Honors Garden Spot’s Erosion Control Project
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
Part 1 of 2
Editor’s note: Many FFA
programs in various high
schools are taking a more active
role in studying and applying
soil conservation technology and
practices to farming.
Dairymen, Inc .
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md. Long
time members and producers of
top-quality milk were honored by
the Middle Atlantic division of
Dairymen, Inc., during its annual
awards luncheon October 12 at the
Holiday Inn. Certificates were pre
sented by quality committee chair
man Myron Wilhide.
Seven memberships were
awarded plaques for half and
quarter-century contracts with
Dairymen and the division’s pre
decessor, Maryland Cooperative
Milk Producers.
Honored for 50 years of conti
nuous membership were Darrell
and Virginia Wolf, Middletown;
Vincent and Daniel Frock, West
New Penn State President Meets Ag Advisory Council
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
READING (Berks Co.) “In
my presidency, I want us to be sure
that as we develop better research
programs, we serve the people with
increasing skill and we don’t
neglect the undergrauate
programs.”
this statement was made by Dr.
Joab Thomas, the new president of
Penn State University, as he met
with the University’s Agricultural
Council on the Berks campus last
week.
“We must continue to provide
the very best in teaching environ
ments on all of our campuses so
that no shadow from research prog-
Four Sections
Recently, Garden Spot High
School in New Holland, Lancas
ter Co., was honored as eastern
regional finalist in a national
FFA program to promote con
servation practices.
In this first of a two-part
series, Lancaster Farming takes
a look at what more than 100
FFA students did as part of the
award-winning project.
Honors Long-Time Members, Quality Producers
minster; Honeyview Farms, Mary
Stonesifer, Westminster; and John
and Donna Yoder, Long Green.
Recipients of 25-year member
ship plaques were Glenn and Jean
ne Beard, Mt. Airy; Laveme, Nor
ma, Brian, and Mark Bupp,
Brogue, Pennsylvania; John and
Thomas Cole, Hampstead; and
Crawford and Elaine Galt,
Chcstertown.
Awards for upholding Dairy
men’s standards of outstanding
quality milk were presented to 27
memberships at the cooperative’s
three levels of quality honors. The
division’s monthly Honor Roll,
established in 1964, requires that
members ship the entire month and
meet the following standards; stan
dard plate count less than 5,000,
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rams is cast on the teaching we pro
vide for students,” Thomas said. “I
also want us to be sure we maintain
high standards.
“One thing I’ve learned in going
back into the classroom is that stu
dents are not working quite as hard
as they once did,” he said. “We find
a deterioration of standards in
every element of our society. At
the same time, we have left our
accademic standards to be low
ered, in some places more than
others. I’m pleased to find I have
not found as much deterioration of
standards at Penn State as I have
found at some other places.”
Dean Lamb Hood introduced
Thomas, an Alabama native with
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20, 1990
TERRE HILL (Lancaster
Co.) A lot of planning, fund
raising, hard work, and cutting
through bureaucratic red tape has
catapulted Garden Spot High
School’s Grassland FFA chapter
into national prominence.
In November, the National FFA
Foundation will announce the win
ner of the Building Our American
Communities (BOAC) national
Gold quality awards went to Dairymen members Dorothy
Strlckhouser, center, and Nancy and Millar Kefauver, right.
Myron Wilhlde, quality committee chairman, presented the
certificates.
Harvard degrees in plant biology.
Hood said this background pro
vides the linkage so critical to Tho
mas’s relationship with
agriculture.
Thomas has held faculty and
adminstrative positions before
becoming chancellor. He was also
president of the University of
Albama for five years. During a
sabbatical, Thomas joined the
plant pathology department at
North Caralona State University.
On September 1, Thomas became
president of Penn State University.
“My philosophy agrees com
pletly with the land grant philoso
phy,” Thomas said. “Programs are
oriented to people and people inter
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Maryland Has Top
National 4-H Dairy Judge
MADISON, WI Two Mary
land team members earned higher
scores in national 4-H dairy cattle
judging competition on Oct. 2 at
Madison, Wis., than they did eight
days earlier in a regional contest at
Harrisburg. These scores were
high enough to boost the Mary
land team to a fourth-place finish.
Amy Brown, 19, of Roxbury
(Howard County) placed first in
the national 4-H dairy cattle judg
ing contest at Madison. She had
been tenth in the overall standings
among 67 individuals from 17
states at Harrisburg.
Mike Conner, 16, of Chester
Harbor (Queen Anne’s County)
was 21st in the Harrisburg contest
as the alternate Maryland team
member. He qualified as a regular
award, which recognizes FFA
chapters that have applied conser
vation practices to a particular pro
ject. Garden Spot recently cap
tured the eastern region finalist and
could win the national competition
at the National FFA Convention in
November.
Garden Spot’s four-year long
BOAC effort involved the study of
—and ways to repair—erosion of
act in a vital way.
“Pennsylvania agriculture is
impressive to me,” Thomas said.
“Farm production and food pro
cessing are amoung the finest in the
nation. Forestry services and horti
culture likewise are very high on
the agenda.
“My grandfather was a big-lime
farmer in that time and also in fore
stry. Maybe that is why the land
grant philosophy is so compatible
with my own. With my father, I
almost grew up as a son of the land
in a strong farming tradition,” Tho
mas said.
Thomas said the knowledge
gained through biotechnology has
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team member at Madison by plac
ing 18th in the overall standings.
There were 148 participants
from 36 states and the Canadian
providence of Ontario in the
national contest. It was part of the
361 h annual National 4-H Dairy
Conference, held in conjunction
with the World Dairy Expo.
Amy Brown’s individual
championship in this year’s
national contest contrasts with her
sixth-place finish among senior
contestants in the state 4-H dairy
cattle judging contest, held Sept 1
during the Maryland State Fair in
Timonium.
On her way lo the overall
national championship at Madi
son, Amy placed third in Jersey
farmland along a Black Creek
streambed. The project was spear
headed by the efforts of advisor
Robert Lauffcr, ag science instruc
tor at Garden Spot, and former pro
ject chair Shelly Ogline, Garden
Spot junior and president of the
Grassland FFA, and Shawn Eber
ly. Garden Spot senior and the cur
rent FFA BOAC chairperson. The
project helped students understand
the problems of erosion and what
efforts could be taken to control it.
The Garden Spot project was
begun in 1986 and groundbreaking
began in August 1989. About
$11,000 —54,000 from the Grass
land FFA Chapter and the rest
from contributions from agencies
and industry was spent on the
project. Major work on the project
was completed last August.
Communicators
Elect Officers
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—At the
annual meeting of the Northeast
Farm Communicators Association
held recently in conjunction with
the Eastern Milk Producers media
banquet, Everett Newswanger,
managing editor, Lancaster Farm
ing, was elected president. Other
officers elected and on the execu
tive committee include: Jerry
Reed, New York Beef Industry
Council, Ist vice president: Jeff
Stewart, Ag Radio Network, 2nd
vice president; Chris Kimball-
Peterson, K-P Ag Relations,
secretary/historian; Vanna Gul
denschuh, New England Farmer,
treasurer; and Tony Schlesier,
Eastern Milk Producers, past
president.
This farm communicators asso
ciation includes members from
Maine to Pennsylvania and serves
as a resource of farm information
to fellow professionals in the gen
eral news and communications
field.
$15.00 Per Year
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