AlB-Unostef Firming, Saturday, May 16, 1992
GAY BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
BERLIN (Somerset Co.)
Jozefa Wilczak and Jozef Flaga
from Rzeszow, Poland, spent
Wednesday, May 6 visiting
Somerset Co. with Penn State ag
economists Tom Brewer and Lou
Moore.
The purpose of their journey
was to see several potato farms
and the modem Snyder Potato
Chip factory situated at the town’s
east end.
With duties equal to their
United States counterparts in
cooperative extension service
offices, Wilczak is an economics
specialist and Flaga is a director.
Last year they were hosts of Bre
wer and Moore, who were in
Poland to observe, among other
things, that country’s production
of its number one crop
potatoes.
Wilczak spoke the English lan
guage well. She said of her coun
try’s potato industry, “The people
look for new processing lines, but
we don’t have the experience. We
Bonnie Ringler, shown at her computer, says she will do
anything to stay away from the barn.
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make french fries and potato
pancakes.”
As she spoke, Wilczak, like the
others congregated on the upper
level of Jim Ringler’s bam, she
shivered under her raspberry
colored all-weather coat The cul
prit was a damp -east wind that
sliced menacingly through the
parted sliding doors. If she failed
to understand a question, she
simply called, ‘Tom! Tom!” and
Brewer came to her aid.
While Flaga toured the farm
buildings with Ringlet, she talked.
“I would like to receive more
knowledge about cooperative,”
she said. “It is very difficult to talk
to farmers (in her country). I
would like to know who is resoon
sible in cooperative.”
She said potatoes are a big crop
of Poland’s many farmers but they
are looking for a good market In
fact, Poland is said to rank second
in world production of the tuber
vegetable.
The other challenge to Poland’s
potato industry deals with the
need for clean water during pro-
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Standing in front of Jim Rlngler’s barn are, front, left to right, Jozef Flaga, Bonnie
Rlngler, Jozefa Wilczak, Mildred Rlngler, and John Blough. In back are Dan Sharrett,
Jim Rlngler, Tom Brewer, William Rlngler, and Lou Moore.
cessing prior to marketing the var- “Our potato ground is too valuable trial, and error and reading the
ious potato forms. to pasture, that’s all there is to it.” instruction book.
Jim and Bonnie Ringler, even Bonnie said that in the summer Despite her sentiments about
with three hired men, are pretty the cows are put out only at night farming, Bonnie is active on the
much tied down to the family farm «j t * s too hot in the summer,” Somerset County Dairy Promo
— the posterity of countless Rin- sa j,j jj m a Pennsylvania Dairy tion Board. She and Jim, with their
glcr generations inhabiting the promotion Board member, “and f° ur children, have always been a
174 original bicentennial acres, we have plenty of fans in the bam farm family, as were Jim’s Ringler
Besides operating a Holstein to keep them cool. We can keep a ancestors,
dairy, they raise hay, com, small (milk) production ” The offspring, however, aren’t
While she knows everything showin ? m “ ch P«>™se as next-
SS about the business because she’s generation farmers..ln fact, the
s °? “S the bookkeeper. Bonnie said that onl 3[ one coming close; right now
areas are rented. farming ic “V nain in the neck ” 15 daughter, Joyce, who has her
Theirs was one of the two farms ® own livestock artificial breeding
visited by Flaga and Wilczak.
Besides Brewer and Moore, two
representatives from Snyder of
Berlin John Blough and Dan
Sharrett—joined the company of
the visiting couple.
Ringler values the potential of
his land. “There’s no intensive
grazing (of livestock),” he said,
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She says she stays clear of the
bam unless there’s an emergency
situation requiring her to help with
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“My little niche is in the check
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As long as it keeps me out of the
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