BiC-Lancasiar Finning, Saturday, Fabniaiy 22, 1992
York Extension
(Continued from Pago BIS)
goals. Key Pennsylvania exten
sion issues for the ’9os include.
- water quality;
- nutrition, health and food
safety, from basic home food pre
paration to the food processing
industry, and related issues such
as pesticide usage;
- profitability in agriculture,
incorporating such diverse areas
as herd management, disease con
trol and financial planning;
- conservation and manage
ment of natural resources, espe
cially in areas such as forestry;
- community development,
including public policy, leader
ship skills and agriculture preser
vation efforts.
developing human resour
ces, ranging from 4-H volunteer
recruiting and training to child
care givers to working in tandem
with various social and communi
ty agencies.
- family social and economic
well-being.
To meet such a diverse range of
needs by the extension service,
Roxanne is a firm disciple of dele
gating responsibilities to the coun
ty’s staff of trained specialist
agents.
“They are very knowledgeable
and all have a lot of expertise in
their specially areas. Empowering
them to do what they know best
adds credibility to extension,”
believes Roxanne. “A county
agent used to have to know every
thing about everything. Techno
logical advances have made it
impossible to slay abreast of all
the diverse areas of agriculture.”
Four full-time agriculture
agents and two York-based agents
serving the region have their own
specialty areas, but work together
closely in conducting combined
educational programs.
Jennie Hess, dairy and 4-H
agent, organizes and coordinates
numerous educational programs,
workshops, newsletters, and farm
visits addressing a range ol dairy
industry issues, from production
to marketing. She also coordinates
the 4-H dairy cattle and dairy goat
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With slide programs often
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McFarland assists farmers in
the five-county region In
designing efficient and eco
nomical housing systems.
programs and activities.
Tim Beck, livestock and com
munity development agent, hand
les the full range of both adult and
youth 4-H programs in the areas of
beef, sheepfcswine and horse pro
duction. He also works closely
with community development
issues, including land preservation
efforts.
John Rowehl, agronomy agent,
works with general field crops
management, especially in the
areas of potato, grain, and hay pro
duction, through numerous meet
ings, demonstration plots, and
newsletters, and with related 4-H
projects. He is currently conduct
ing an assessment of the needs of
county growers for a crop man
agement association.
Tom Becker, the horticulture
agent, works with the diverse
needs of both commercial horti
culture production and home gar
deners. Currently on sabbatical for
advanced degree studies, Tom’s
horticulture responsibilities are
being partically handled by gradu
ates of his Master Gardener train
ing programs.
Dan McFarland serves the reg
ion of York, Lancaster, Franklin.
Cumberland and Adams counties
as an agriculture engineering
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A former county 4-H mem
ber, Tim Beck returned to
York from Kansas six
months ago as the livestock
and community development
agent.
agent. He works primarily with
design systems for dairy, swine,
and beef housing, as well as prog
rams emphasizing farm and home
safely.
Regional farm management
agent Roland Freund also serves
the five-county area. He provides
counseling and training in finan
cial management and estate plan
ning, both one-on-one for indivi
dual farm families, as well as in
group programs and seminars on
agriculture profitablity.
Merrill Crone is the county
gypsy moth coordinator and
extension 4-H livestock assistant.
In addition to his management of
the gypsy moth tracking and
spraying programs, Merrill is the
staff liaison to the 4-H Cento*
board and works with various 4-H
programs and activities.
Joann Lamberson is the exten
sion agent for family living. She
coordinates and prepares educa
tional programs conducted
through volunteers, leader groups
and media outreach, ranging from
child care to nutrition and food
safety, from home business opera
tion to financial planning.
Extensions 4-H assistant Jodi
Myers works with area schools on
the 4-H embryology program and
coordinates 4-H programs for the
Children’s Home of York. She
implements the two major 4-H
fundraisers in the county, is the
extension contact for the county’s
Teen Pregnancy Coalition and
works closely with the 4-H Fair
board and numerous project clubs.
Part-time staffer Eileen Smith
works with nutrition and health.
She has trained leaders for the
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“Extension is well known in the
York area; our previous county
directors have done a good job.
We’ll continue to be involved as
in the past and stay in the forefront
of the community,” Roxanne
promises.
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in her family. She and her husband
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