VOL 37 NO. 19
Extensive Conservation Work Garners Honors For Harnish Family
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) The R. Edwin Harnish
family of Nine Points was honored
with the Outstanding Cooperator
Award at the4lst annual Lancaster
County Conservation District din
ner meeting Thursday night.
More than 200 people attended
the event, which honored several
district members for their involve
ment in a multitude of conserva
tion programs.
The Outstanding Cooperator
National DHIA Recognizes
Individuals, Elects Officers
MADISON, Wis. The
National Dairy Herd Improvement
Association (DHIA) presented
three prestigious awards during its
National DHIA Convention
Awards Banquet, held March 17 at
the Holiday Inn - West, in Middle
ton, Wis.
The association was formed for
the purpose of maintaining accu
rate records of the performance of
animals within the various dairy
cattle breeds so as to improve the
breeds through selective breeding
programs based on genetically
influenced performance.
During the 27th annual meeting,
members who attended also
reviewed audited, financial state
ments for 1989, 1990 and 1991,
Susquehanna Co. Dairy Day Draws 600
RONALD CLARK
Susquehanna Co. Correspondent
FACTORYVEJLE (Susquehan
na Co.) The third annual Sus
quehanna County Dairy Day was
held at the Elk Lake High School
late last week. The feature speaker
Byron and Pat Hunslnger and their sons Leslie, 13, and
Brandon, 10, received honors in their home Susquehanna
County this week for owning the top DHIA herd in the Pen
nsylvania.
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Award honors a farm family for
their conservation efforts
throughout the years.
The Harnish family Edwin,
Arlene, Jenny, Jill, and Brian
operate Spruce-Edge dairy farm on
the southeast comer of Bart Town
ship. Edwin and Arlene began
farming in 1966, when they began
renting the farm from Edwin’s
father. Edwin Harnish has been a
member of the district since 1971.
Spruce-Edge Farm, comprising
190 acres, manages 55 cows and
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reviewed its national activities,
reviewed the value of national DHI
records, and voted on officers and
proposed amendments to its resol
utions and bylaws.
Donald W. Long, a 52-year-old
Holstein breeder and past presi
dent of the Wisconsin Dairy Herd
Improvement Cooperative
(WDHIC), in Weyauwega, Wis.,
was this year's recipient of the H.
Victor Joachim Distinguished
Leadership Award.
This awar d goes to an individual
who has shown exceptional leader
ship and guidance in all areas of
the DHIA.
In speaking about Long, Pete
Giacomini, WDHIC chief execu-
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of the day was Boyd Wolff, state
of Pennsylvania Dairy and Agri
culture,” Secretary Wolff review
ed the vast changes which have
taken place in the dairy industry
during the lives of many of those in
attendance.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21, 1992
The R. Edwin Hamlsh family of Nine Points was honored with the Outstanding
Cooperator Award at the 4lst annual Lancaster County Conservation District dinner
meeting Thursday night. From left, Jenny, Edwin, Arlene, Brian, and Jill. Photo by Andy
Andrews.
Ohio Dairy Breeders Propose
Herdbook For Unregistered Holsteins
First of two parts
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C. If a
cow looks like a registered Hols
tein, produces milk like a regis
tered Holstein and, most impor
tantly, is bred like a registered
Holstein, is it a registered
Holstein?
secretary of agriculture.
In presenting his address, u State
While stressing that family
farms are still dominant in the
state, he referred to the days when
changes were made Grom backyard
dairies of one or two cows, to the
days when largo* herds took over
and milk was sent to local creamer
ies in cans. From those methods
we have now progressed to much
larger herds, from cans to bulk
tanks, from shovels and wheelbar
rows to bam cleaners to liquid
manure storage; from individual
milking units to parlors and pipe
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Staff Members
Recognized
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
This week, two staff members at
Lancaster Farming received rec
ognition for their reporting efforts.
Editor Everett Newswanger won
the 1992 Northeast Farm Commu
nicator’s Nor’Easter Contest
photo/joumalism award, and staff
writer Andy Andrews received the
FFA honorary membership award
from the Grassland Chapter at
New Holland.
Earlier this year Newswanger
also received the public relations
award from the Pennsylvania State
Association of County Fairs.
Andrews’ recognition comes from
Garden Spot High School from
where he was graduated.
Now for the first time, registered
Holstein breeders across die coun
try are grappling with these ques
tions. Breeders from Ohio have pu*
forward a proposal that the nation
al Holstein Association consider
establishing a second herdbook for
at least some of the vast population
of grade, or unregistered, black
and white cows nationwide.
As was the case in 1988, the last
time this issue came before the
association as an official proposal,
the Ohio plan is generating consid
erable debate and some controver
sy among local members. Several
breeders attending a recent Winter
Forum in Frederick, Md.. one of a
Ephrata H.S. Discontinues
Relationship With
Young Farmer Program
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
On Monday night the Ephrata
School District board of education
agreed to substantially decrease
the funding and discontinue its
relationship with the Ephrata Area
Young Farmer Program (EAYFP).
The program, with 123 mem
bers in the region, asked for
approximately $75,000 for fund
ing in the 1993-1994 fiscal year,
but was granted, under an agree
ment, only $28,Q00.
The program funds obtained
from the district at the meeting will
be used to hire an advisor to over
see the possible formation of a
committee to direct the duties of
the director, according to Nevin
Homing, Lititz, president of the
EAYFP.
Homing told Lancaster Farm
ing that the young fanners are in
the process of forming that com
mittee, but the details and pro
jected dates have not been estab
lished as of presstime. Homing
said details will be worked out in a
series of meetings in the near
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series of such meetings held across
the country, spoke out bitterly
INDEX
Sec. A... Market Reports
& General News.
Sec. B... Women’s News
Sec. C... Business News
& Classified 4-36.
Sec. Declassified 1-3.
Sec. E... Public Sales &
Mailbox Market
See Story Index Page A 3.
future.
According to Ackley, the school
district has been trying to disasso
ciate itself of the young farmer
program for “quite a few years,”
he said. According to Gary Krafft,
board president, the idea of separ
ating the EAYFP from the school
district had been under delibera
tion for a number of years.
The Young Farmer program has
been identified by Drew Myers,
curriculum and instruction com
mittee chairman, as a type of
“booster club” for the high school
students’ FFA program. Accord
ing to Ackley, the EAYFP serves
farmers in the region with a wide
array of programs beneficial to
area farms and agribusiness.
Homing said the organization
operates Tent City at the Ephrata
Fair, which is a major source of
their funds, and many other
programs.
“It’s a whole new ballgame
now,” said Homing, though he
said he wants the program to con
tinue as it has been.
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