®liKir uNI ' ,IRSI,v S!me'cOl LFGt Pfl 16802-lW - r ‘ 1 Ji IHW llllill HI imi i VOL 36 No. 1 New Lancaster Holstein President At Home With Cows EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter Co.) —The new president of the Lancaster County Holstein Associ ation is only 29 years old, with a love for his family, his cows and his farm. But Steve Hershey, Eli zabethtown, says you need a lot of help to get started. “There is no way a young person my age can just go out and do something like this without a lot of family help,” Hershey said. “I got started in a partnership with my dad and got a few cows. Then we rented a farm for seven years and as of November last year we live on my wife Heidi’s family farm (Mill er Homestead).” To keep the farm investment lower, the Hershcys use custom equipment for much of their field work. A custom operator lives nearby and the exchange has work ed well. “I pay $2,000 a year to get cus tom work done and that would not even pay the interest on the machines if I owned them,” Her shey said. “I see farmers with 100 FFA Convention Sets Pace For Future KANSAS CITY, Mo. The 63rd National FFA Convention gave FFA members, advisors, alumni and guests the opportunity to celebrate the proud heritage, progressive present, and promis ing future of the nation’s largest industry agriculture. The numerous activities throughout the Nov. 8-10 convention continu ally showed that FFA members will provide leadership for a growing planet into the 21st century. A record 24,130 people attended the national convention, 18,000 of them FFA members. In FFA tradition, they participated in contests, received awards, attended leadership workshops and honored the sponsors who make possible the extensive list of FFA programs. Businesses and individuals who support the orga nization received Honorary American FFA Degrees, Distin guished Service Awards, and VIP Citations. Five former FFA mem Zane Akins Resigns National Holstein Post BRATTLEBORO, Vt. —At its meeting on November 8 in San Antonio, Texas, the Holstein Association board of directors accepted the resignation of Zane Akins as chief executive officer, cllcctivc December 31. Akins began his 25-year career with the association in 1966 as a field representative in Wisconsin and and the upper peninsula of Michigan. He was promoted to a management position at the home office in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1973. In 1978, the board of direc tors appointed Akins to the posi tion of chief executive officer. Four Sections acres and a full line of equipment and I "wonder about that. Ten or 20 years ago you tried to do every thing yourself. But now you need to spread the equipment cost over a lot more acres. The custom opera tor needs me as much as I need him. We are blessed in this area with custom operators that want the work.” The Hershcys milk 65 cows three times a day. When they moved here, they planned the facil ities to accommodate the maxi mum one man can handle in a rea sonable amount of lime. “I had in mind to go to three lime milking because I couldn’t justify the cost of full-time help,” Hershey said. “This way part-time help can do the job.” Without any changes when the herd was put on 3x, a 10 percent increase in milk production was seen in the bulk tank within the first six days. In addition, the Hershcys wanted to put less stress on the udders and thus get lower cell counts. Although Hershey believes 3x (Turn to Pago A2B) bers who have made outstanding contributions to the industry of agriculture were inducted into the National FFA Hall of Achievement. Agricultural education and FFA announced preparations for the (Turn to Page A 29) Holiday Deadlines The Lancaster Farming office will be closed Thursday, Novem ber 23, in observance of Thanks giving. Deadlines for the Novem ber 25 issue are as follows: • Mailbox Market Ads Noon, Monday. • Public Sale Ads 5:00 p.m., Monday. • General News Noon, Wednesday. • Classified Section B Ads 5:00 p.m., Tuesday. • All other Classified Ads 9:00 a.m., Wednesday. Akins was instrumental in implementing effective strategic planning for the Holstein Associa tion, leading it to experience unprecedented growth during the Atlantic Dairy Cooperative Reports $7,85 Million Net Margin LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) — Atlantic Dairy Coopera tive reported a record year of $6OO million in sales and a net margin of $7.85 million to members and guests attending the cooperative’s Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 17, 1990 Steve, Heidi and 2-year-old Philip Hershey with their cows at home near Elizabeth town in Lancaster County. Steve is the new Lancaster County Holstein Association president. Photo by Everett Newswanger, Managing Editor. Williams, Other Ag Leaders Receive Honors At PFA Banquet ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.) To a former U.S. Piesi last 12 years. Program expansion, service quality, and international involvement in the export of Hols tein genetics and dairy technology (Turn to Page A2B) 73rd annual meeting held here this week. The $7.85 million net margin equates to member earnings of 24.65 cents per hundredweight, (Turn to Page A 24) dent’s grandson, the cliche remains the more things change, the more they stay the same. To David Eisenhower, looking into the past and into a former U.S. presidency has shown that, back in Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower’s days, the world faced the same sort of confrontations and challenges that it does more than 30 years later. ‘ ‘The last president to place for ces in the Middle East area with a hostile mission was Dwight D. Eisenhower, on July 14, 1958,” said the former President’s grand son, David Eisenhower. Eisen hower spoke to several hundred farm leaders and guests at the Pen nsylvania Farmers’ Association (PFA) 40th annual meeting on Tuesday night. ‘‘(This provided) a direct precedent for George Bush’s 500 Per Copy actions on August 2, 1990.” Eisenhower said what the for mer president was facing in the summer of 1958 was “an ongoing crisis in Lebanon a friendly government... was overthrown... (and) was asking for American assistance to shore up this regime against a Muslim insurgency in Lebanon.” “The more things change, the more they remain the same. Because in 1958, it was apparent that the U.S. took this action because we were the only country in the world with the abdity to act,” he said. Eisenhower explained that many of the decisions of his grand father’s presidency lie in what hap pened in the spring of 1943 at the (Turn to Page A 24) jHKat' U.S. took action
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