I aacastfifl^Farimtia jd.«<aUoPSlw IJwv - »' -1 M VOL 37 NO. 51 Ringler Gives Farewell Address At Grange Convention Ruth Osborne, winner of the 1992 Granger of the Year Award. Madison Calls President ‘Farmer Friendly’ EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) —U.S. Secretary of Agricul ture Edward Madigan, on the road in 42 stales for the Bush/Quayle reelection campaign, made a stop at Hershvale Farm Monday at noon. With about. 7S fanners, partisan politicians, and agribusiness lead ers sitting on hay bales and feed bags in the upper floor of the bank dairy bam, Madigan called Presi dent Bush “Farmer Friendly” and said, “We are not in a recession. “What everyone is calling a recession is not a recession because we have positive econom ic growth in the U. 5.,” Madigan said. “A recession is when you have negative economic growth, and our growth is positive. But we have a terrible time getting out that message.” Madigan blamed the national media for the negative economic stories, quoting inaccuracies in the media organization report of the 2,793 economic reports on net work news, they all have been negative. “I even saw a lead story on CNN about how hard the reces sion has been on dogs and cats,” he said. He said many people think the economic slowdown is only in the U.S. But there has been inflation and high interest rates all over the world in the last 10 years. “We have brought our inflation of more than 14 percent to less than three percent, and we have brought interest rates down from 21' per cent to 6 percent,” Madigan said. “In the ’Bos farmers were leaving the farm at the rate of 12 percent per year. Now this is down to less than one percent. In 1987 we had $l5O billion of farm debt Today we have less than $lOO billion. (Turn to Pago A 23) PERIODICALS DIVISION FT-NNSYL VANIA OTA It UNIVt-.RSI i Y WDOV PAT IEE LIBRARY UMTVERbI 1Y PARK PA iASOR-IBOD Four Sections U.S. Ag Secretary, Edward Madigan, center, visits with the Hershey family, from left, Larry, Krista, Bonnie, Gerry and Donald. Lancaster Poultry Association Recaps Accomplishments LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff WILLOW VALLEY (Lancaster Co.) Outgoing president of the Lancaster County Poultry Associa tion Tom Pantano set the stage for banter when he broadcast live from “Chicken Talk, Pennsylvania,” Lancaster Farming Celebrates 37! It was 37 years ago on Monday, November 4,1955 that the first issue of this farm newspaper began to appear In rural mailboxes. Since that time, on a weekly basis, Lancaster Farming has supplied news, advertising, and markets to a growing readership. Nearly 50,000 copies of the newspaper are distributed each wiek. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 31, 1992 WILLIAMSPORT (Lycoming Co.) After four years in office, William H. Ringler stepped down as master (president) of the Pen nsylvania State Grange in a farewell address at the Scottish Rite Consistory to more than 600 Grangers this week during the state session. “Among my goals when I assumed die mastership of Pen nsylvania State Grange was to help save the family farm,” Rin gler said. “While the general publ ic is more aware of the problem of surpluses, the fact remains some important changes and some important steps have to be taken if our food supply is to remain abundant ‘The truth is our young people who are of farm background are not remaining in production agri culture. I believe the next several decades will be decisive ones rela tive to production agriculture. Simply stated, the farmer is not being jusdy compensated for his investment and for his hours of during the industry’s annual ban quet on October 27. An on-the-spot survey conducted by Pantano reve Lancaster County Poultry Association board member Guy Martin, talks with Lancaster County Poultry Queen Mary Sauder, left, and Pennsylvania Poultry Queen Melissa Dawn Yoder, who received scholarships from the associa tion at the annual banquet. labor,” said Ringler, a potato far mer in Somerset County for 47 years. In order to help save the family farm, Ringler said the Grange has worked closely with other agricul tural organizations, promoted proper legislation, spoke at civic organizations to inform urban people of the difficulties of farm ing, impressed upon young people the importance of agriculture, as well as supported the Foundation for Better Living which sponsors Ag in the Classroom. Hiller Elected Master A Williamsport resident has been elected to the highest office in the Pennsylvania State Grange by the delegate body during the 120th annual State Grange Session. Gordon Hiller has been named Pennsylvania State Grange Master (president) for the next two years. In this position, Hiller will be responsible for supervising the state office in Harrisburg and overseeing all state grange prog- aled that most of the 500 persons attending the banquet support reelection of President Bush. 609 Per Copy rams, as well as visiting Granges, hearing concerns of rural Pennsyl ■ vania, and helping members solve problems. Hiller is a retired farmer, retired conservation program specialist for the Department of Environ mental Resources, and retired Pennsylvania Department of Agri (Turn to Pago A2B) FFA’ers Compete At Manheim ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) In any contest, chance favors a pre pared mind and no minds had a better chance to get prepared than those at the five-county Agricul tural Field Day held at the Man heim Fairgrounds on Tuesday. About 500 FFA’ers represent ing schools from Berks, Lebanon, York, Schuylkill, and Lancaster counties competed in a wide array (Turn to Pag* A2S) Dairylea Reports “ Good Year SYRACUSE. N.Y. “The 1992 fiscal year was one of sub stantial growth for our coopera tive,” announced Dairylea Chief Executive Officer Rick Smith at the cooperative’s 1992 annual meeting held mid-October in Liverpool, N.Y. Dairylea is a Syracuse-based dairy cooperative with 2,500 far mer members and affiliate mem bers throughout the Northeast and it participates in a milk marketing network stretching from Maine to Maryland to Ohio. More than 800 member farmers and industry guests attended the two-day event, which included a management presentation by (Turn to Pag* A 22) On the serious side, members of the association chose Mike Har rold of Intervet to be president of the association for a three year term. Other members newly elected to the 12-member board include Guy Martin of Sauder Eggs, Mark Price of Pennfield, and Robert Armstrong of Garber Farms. The annual banquet, held at Wil low Valley Palm Court, is primari ly a social event and a time to recap the poultry industry’s activities during the past year. Pantano reminded members that the association sponsors Poultry Progress Day, the largest poultry seminar held in the Northeast: pre sents Poultry Family Spirit awards to poultry farms that have remained in the family for two or more generations; holds a teach er’s institute to educate 100 home economists about safe food hand ling; provide scholarships to poul (Turn to Paga A 24) $19.00 Par Year
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