: ' i'«v'.' ;, '« , i , \ v;-,u!>v,’"' 1 11 ’ 1 >^=r ~^>
,A ■-victQi»^iiCaiimmfi
- 3SSP^ss^s^ - iOwn— JClr*m€ «.B
■pl Tn Nil TlimnrK3HKdßKßl^^l^MPtQS^.
VOL 36 NO. 14
John Peter Stees was recently honored as Conservation Farmer of the
Year by the Chester Co. Conservation District. Stees’ work on rebuilding
the farm, In cooperation with the district during the past 24 years, garnered
the dairy farmer the award recently at the Chester Co. Crops Day. Photo by
Andy Andrews.
JUDY PATTON
Centre Co. Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The Pennsylvania Young
Farmers’ Association (PYFA)
honored fanners with the Out
standing Community Service and
Outstanding Young Farmers
awards at the 31st annual PYFA
banquet here on Feb. 6.
The convention, held from
February 5 through 7 at the Days
Inn, also featured educational
workshops and speakers, farm and
Dairy Of Distinction Seeks
Farms For 1991 Recognition
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
COVINGTON (Tioga
Co.) —The Northeast Dairy Farm
Beautification Program, Inc., is
ready to receive applications for
1991. This program rewards clean,
well-kept farmsteads to help with
consumer acceptance of dairy pro
ducts in the store.
State President Dan Baker,
dairyman from Covington, Tioga
County, said the program has
received great acceptance in the
past and officers look forward to a
good response again this year.
“There are plenty of good looking
dairy farms out there that have not
been judged,” Baker said. “And
Five Sections
State Young Farmers Hold Convention
Penn State tours, election of new
officers and a variety of social
activities.
The Outstanding Community
Service Award went to Don and
Cherrie Wenger of Manheim.
Cherrie is the assistant director of
Living Water Ministeries in Main
tenance, a rehabilitation center for
women. Don also helps at the
Ministries, is a part time driver for
Graybill’s Dairy, assists with local
FFA projects, and umpires com
munity softball games.
even those who have entered the
selection process in past years
should enter again.”
The program provides rewards
of recognition to producers who
maintain attractive production
sites. This recognition benefits the
entire dairy industry as well as
individual dairymen. Not only
does the favorable publicity gener
ated by the program in the general
press help bring modem farm prac
tices to the attention of urban peo
ple, farmers lise the distinction to
promote their own operation or
seek and hire farm labor.
Paul Nichols, the secretary for
the Pennsylvania program, said
applications may be sent in now to
(Turn to Page A2O)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, 6, 1991
Together the Wengers coordi
nate Family Fun Night activities at
the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Phil and Cindy Garber run a top-notch farming operation
with dad James and brother Roger. They farm 1,000 acres In
additional to truck, feed mill, custom combine, and poultry
operations. The Garber family Includes, from left: Scott,
Cyndl, Ryan, Rodney, and Phil. Turn to page B 5 for story.
Photo by Lou Ann Good.
Effort By Conservation Farmer
Restores Farm Vitality
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ATGLEN (Chester Co.) Conservation fanning know-how and lots of hard work
helped John Peter Stees lake an eroding, dilapidated beef farm in shambles and turn n into
a strong and successful dairy operation.
Stees’ work on the farm, in cooperation with the Chester Co. Conservation District
during the past 24 years, garnered the dairy farmer the Conservation Farmer of the Year
Award recently at the Chester Co. Crops Day.
Stees milks a herd of 50 registered Holsteins on a 106-acre (70 tillable) farm m West
Fallowfield Township, where he lives with his wife Sally and two sons, Hutch, 14, and
Clinton, 12.
Stees has managed the farm since 1965. He took grazing pastures that showed clear
signs of erosion and ‘ ‘gullies that we could drive a little Ford tractor through,’ ’ he said,
and turned them into grassland waterways and contour strips.
First Maryland Farm Families
In Hall Of Fame
BALTIMORE, MD. Three Maryland farm families were inducted into the first
ever Maryland Agriculture Hall of Fame on February 7 near Baltimore. Over eight
hundred people attended the fifth annual Maryland Agriculture Dinner in honor of Gov
ernor William Donald Schaefer, members of the Maryland General Assembly, and the
U.S. Congressional delegation. Sponsored by Maryland Agriculture Week, Inc., the
purpose of the evening was “to celebrate the importance of Maryland agriculture, its
people, and its products.”
The first ever inductees into the Governor’s Agriculture Hall of Fame represented
various facets of the industry from dairy to sheep to gra«ioperations. Maryland’s Sec
retary of Agriculture, Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., introduced the recipients of certificates
from the Governor, who said that “it’s important to give credit to people who work hard.
These fanners are symbolic of farmers who work so hard.”
Y.D. Hance said he was “overwhelmed and humbled by receiving the honor.” The
Calvert County farmer was the first secretary of agriculture in the state. He also raised
grain and sheep.
They milk 25 Brown Swiss cows
and raise crops on 130 acres.
Winner of the Outstanding
50t Per Copy
(Turn to Page A 36)
SHARON B. SCHUSTER
Maryland Correspondent
(Turn to Page A 26)
$15.00 Per Year
Young Farmer Award in the
Under 30 category was John
(Turn to Page A 34)
Pork
Congress
Set
CAMP HILL (Cumberland Co.)
The 13th annual Keystone Pork
Congress (KPC) will be held
February 20 at the Penn Harris Inn
in Camp Hill.
This year’s KPC will feature a
trade show with more than 40 exhi
bits, a “Pork Bowl” contest and
public speaking competition for
4-H and FFA members, education
al seminars, and the annual ban
quet of the Pennsylvania Pork Pro
ducers Council.
Dr. Kelly Donham, a veterina
rian from the Institute of Agricul
tural Medicine at the University of
lowa, is the featured speaker on the
educational program and will dis
cuss “Human Health Risks in Your
Swine Facilities.”
Banquet speaker is Jane Hicb, of
Slone Meadow Communications
in Strum, Wis.
For a program copy, contact
your county extension office. To
make banquet reservations, call
Stephen Burkholder, (215)
682-2871.