AStLancsster Farming, Saturday, February 8, 1992 CAMP HILL (Cumberland Co.) The Pennsylvania Far mers’ Association (PFA) will host American Farm Bureau’s annual Young Farmer and Rancher Lead ership Conference, Feb. 8-11 in Philadelphia. PFA is a voluntary, statewide firm organization which repre sents 23,049 families and is affil iated with the 3.9-million member American Farm Bureau. A total of 423 young farmers and ranchers aged 30 and under will be attending from 22 states, including SS members from Pen nsylvania. PFA’s participants are being sponsored by 27 county far mers’ associations. Boyd Wolff, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture, and Keith Eckel, president of PFA, will be among the dignitaries wel coming the young farmers and ranchers to Pennsylvania. Also greeting the group will be Mrs. Beth Laughlin of Lcwistown, Mif flin County, chairman of PFA’s Young Farmer and Rancher Committee. Mrs. Laughlin, who has attended two previous confer ences. described them as mix of information sessions on timely topics and opportunities for inter action with young farmers from across the country. “You leant as much from meeting other people at the conference as you do from the formal sessions,” she said. “It’s also a great opportunity to improve your confidence in deal ing with a group of that size.” U.S. Congressman Fred Grandy (R-Iowa), will address the group’s opening banquet, Saturday, Feb. 8. Also scheduled to address the conference is Dean Klcckncr, president of American Farm Bureau. The conference agenda will fea ture a balance of fun events such as a SO's style American Bands tand dance and a tour of Pennsyl vania Dutch Country, plus the fol lowing serious topics: representa tives from CEJA the European Young Farmers’ Organization, will.review their agricultural phi losophy and their view of the progress of the GATT negotiations. 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Tim Buskey, an American Farm Bureau area field service director in the Northeast, and Mar leen Bidlack, American Farm Bureau Director of Leadership Development will lead a work shop on improving leadership skills. Dave Barrett, Counsel of Public Affairs, National Grain and Feed Association, will cover the issue of “When Do You Need Legal Counsel?” Richard Denison, General Man ager of PFA’s Members’ Service Corporation and manager of PFA’s Farm Management Ser vices, will explore the history of farm estate planning, the role that inflation has played in creating estate tax concerns, the tax laws now on the books to help reduce those taxes and the overall objec tives a farm family should be CLAYTON, NJ. The 1992 Outstanding Grower Award was presented to Douglas Zee of Gloucester County at the Tri-Stale Horticultural Meeting Banquet in Hershey, Pa. recently. In presenting the award to Zee, Bob Best Jr., president of the New Jersey Horticultural Society, said Zee is being presented this award because of his accomplishments as a grower and marketer of peaches, and his leadership in the Horticul tural Society, the fruit industry, and agriculture. Zee will join the Fruit Growers Hall of Fame and receive lifetime membership and privileges of the See Your White- New Idea Dealer Columbus, NJ Reed Brothers Equipment Airville Farmers Equip. & Supply Inc. Altoona Hines Equipment Bechtelsville Miller Equip. Co. Bethel Zimmerman Farm Service Bloomsburg WJ. Welllver Canton Wynne’s Garage Inc. Carlisle Carlisle Farm Service Chambersburg Chambersburg Farm Service Cochranville Stoltzfus Farm Service Cresson Hines Equipment Dover George N. Gross Inc. Easton Fancy Furrow Farms Ag Equip. Eighty Four Fields Implement Store Everett Sollenbergers Equipment Inc. Gettysburg Yingllng’s Implement Inc. Greencastle Meyers Implements Inc. 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Doug, Jr., Michael, and Theodore, own and operate 500 acres of peaches, nectarines, and apples in Gloucester County. Zee. who refers to himself as a peach grower who has apples, has been involved in growing and marketing fruit for 40 years on the Zee family farm. Zee Orchards has been an innovative operation in the utilization of hunting practices such as concentrate spraying, inte grated pest management, peach variety evaluation and develop ment, and mechanical pruning and MW'' *1 !iK"S ,a * imm* Accurate and precise in no-HU fields, too . New Idea 9000 series planters have gained a well deserved reputation for planting with incredibly ac curate spacing at precisely the right depth in min-till, no-till or conventionally tilled fields. Our short 18" aerodynamically designed seed drop and indepen dently acting walking beam gauge wheels see to it And our low-pressure, air metering system and enterprises for off-farm income. Brad Eckart, American Farm Bureau’s Director of Political Education, will cover the oppor tunities for the farm community in the 1992 elections. Bob Shepard, American Farm Bureau’s Director of Human Resources Development, will dis cuss how official Washington works, thinks and operates. thinning. Best said. "Doug has excelled in the promotion and marketing of peaches. As a grower who markets all of his own fruit, Doug origi nated the famous JerZee labels with his colorful boxes and adver tising logos. The Zees develop and operate one of New Jersey’s most efficient and modem peach pack ing plants. Zee was cited for his work with the National Peach Council for 25 yean as a director, which culmi nated in his ascension to the pres idency in 1980. He was a tongtime director and president of the New Jersey Peach Promotion Council. WpM ■ -r > edge drop seed disc singulates seeds—corn, soybeans, cotton, sorghum, milo, sweet com, popcorn, sugar beets—to avoid doubles or slaps. 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