A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24, 1993
Penn State Alumni
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.)
The Penn State Department of Dairy and
Animal Science has chosen two alumnus
for recognition. James E. Work has been
chosen as the 1993 Distinguished Ani
mal Science Alumnus and Charles C.
Brosius has been chosen 1993 Distin
guished Dairy Science Alumnus.
Work graduated from Penn State in
Animal Husbandry in 1949. In addition
to his keen interest in football and boxing
as an undergraduate, Work was a mem
ber of the Block and Bridle Club and the
1948 meats and livestock judging teams.
He served as Little International Show
manager in 1947 and Block and Bridle
president in 1948.
Work spent eight years as Pennsylva
nia Farm Show Commissioner, from
1956-64. He was recognized as a Pen
nsylvania Master Farmer in 1961 and
became a member of the National Soil
and Water Commission in 1964. He
belongs to both county and state farmers
associations, Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s
Association, and Pennsylvania Lives
tock Association. He is a newly elected
director of the Penn State Stockmen’s
Club. A World War II veteran of the U.S.
Navy, Work serves on the Advisory
Board for the Penn Slate Fayette
Campus.
Jim Work and his wife Joanne live in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he is a
member of the Rotary Club. They own
and operate a 1,200 acre farm, raising
registered Angus and Chiaina cattle and
Yorkshire hogs, in partnership with their
daughter and two of their three sons. All
of their children are graduates of Penn
State University. They also own a retail
and wholesale meat business.
Work is recognized for his dedication
to and involvement in the agricultural
industry.
Brosius graduated from Penn State in
Dairy Production in 1952 and relumed to
Chester County where he and wife Jane
rented a farm and began building their
Guernsey herd. Brosius began as a dairy
man, but eventually put down the milk
ing claw in favor of a miner’s headlamp,
the mushroom grower’s trademark.
Since winters at the dairy were slow,
Brosius and his brother rented one dou
ble mushroom house from their father
who was in the business. They made
more money from that than they had
from a year’s dairying. When the elder
Brosius decided to retire, Charles
returned to the family farm, and the rest
is history. He quickly established him-
Dean Hood
State Budget
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co) In a report of the 1993-94
State Budget Requests from the
College of Agricultural Science at
Penn Slate, Dean Lamartine Hood
told the Ag Advisory Council this
week that since 1989, Penn Slate’s
College of Agricultural Sciences
has had to manage increasing
costs with declining resources. To
meet this challenge, the College
has reduced the scope of its prog
rams and the numbers of faculty
and staff.
The College’s 1992-93 state
appropriation for extension and
research, which accounts for 43%
of its budget, was permanently
reduced by $l.BB million. Federal
appropriated funding, which pro
vides 20% of College budget, but
did not increase. In response to
these declining resources, a hiring
freeze has been implemented. In
addition, the College Future Com
mittee has defined a series of
program eliminations/modifica-
1991-92
Appropriations
Extension 520,505,000 519,787,000 521,494,000 519,787,000(+0 0%) #3019
Research 19,518,000 18,352,000 20,436,000 17,869,000(-2 5%) #3013
self as a force in the Chester County
mushroom industry, built additional
state-of-the-art mushroom houses, and
cooperated closely with Penn State in
mushroom research.
About that time, foreign mushrooms
began to threaten the U.S. market. To
remain competitive, Brosius began
marketing his mushrooms fresh instead
of selling them to a cooperative for can
ning and processing. As business pros
pered, he purchased fresh mushrooms
from other growers and expanded his
packing company. To control the flow of
mushrooms to commercial outlets, he
eventually added a trucking arm to the
business. Over 90 percent of the
mushrooms he currently produces are
sold through a broker to the fresh market.
Packaged under the name Marlboro
Mushrooms, they are sold in Baltimore,
New York, Richmond, and Atlanta.
The old adage, “find a need a fill it,”
was the driving force behind the success
of Charles Brosius, who believes there is
more profit in marketing a product than
there is in growing it. In response to buy
ers who need mushrooms daily, Sunday
through Thursday, Marlboro
Mushrooms are harvested in a manner
contrary to the usual mass harvest. “If we
don’t have the mushrooms when the buy
ers want them,” Brosius says, “they will
try to fill in the gaps by buying from the
competition.”
Charles and Jane Brosius and their
three sons, all Penn State graduates, form
today’s family cooperation, a multi
million dollar enterprise. Each is
involved full-time in managing the farm
operation and business. “We have been
blessed with good luck, good health,
good crops, and good advice,” Brosius
says.
As a student at Penn State, Brosius
was manager of the Dairy Exposition,
and was a member of the dairy cattle
judging team, the Dairy Science Club,
the Coaly Society, and several other hon
orary organizations.
In recent years, Brosius has become
semi-retired and spends more time in a
service role. He continues to be active in
agricultural organizations and as a trus
tee of Penn State. A designated Pennsyl
vania Master Farmer, he has served as
director for Agway, Inc., and president of
the Mushroom Growers Co-op Associa
tion of Pennsylvania and of the Chester
County Agricultural Extension Service.
He has also served on the Pennsylvania
Reports
Requests
tions/reductions designed to bring
programs in balance with resour
ces. Extension, resident education
and especially research programs
are all being adjusted to meet
available resources.
In addition to the loss of perma
nent state support, the College has
been forced to adjust to one-time
reductions that have totaled $2.77
million during the period
1989-1993.
The 1993-94 state budget
request is designed to restore the
permanent funding cuts of
1992-93 in the extension and
research line items and to cover
unavoidable program cost
increases. Without this restora
tion, the College will be forced to
further reduce programs and
personnel.
Hood presented the following
exhibit:
1992-93
Penn Slate
Request
1993-94
Governor's Line Item
Recommendation Number
Honored
Department of Agriculture Research
Advisory Committee, as a 4-H club lead
er, and as coach of a dairy judging team.
Among many other activities, he has
chaired the Penn State Mushroom Indus
try Research Associates and served on
the Penn Stale Mushroom Endowment
Advisory Committee. He is a lifelong
member of the Society of Friends.
Charles Brosius is honored for his
efforts in—among other things—pion
eering changes in an agricultural enter
prise that was seriously threatened by
foreign competition efforts that have
brought him remarkable success.
Moreover, his contributions to Penn
State have been many, and they continue
to this day.
Maryland Holstein Breeders List
20 Years Of Premier Winners
TIMONIUM, Md.—Maryland
Holstein breeders this week listed
the Premier Breeder and Premier
Exhibitor winners for the last 20
years at their State Holstein Show.
As was reported last week, the
Joseph Schwartzbeck family won
both awards at the recent 1993
show. It was the first time this fam
ily won both awards at the show.
However, it was not, as reported
(sorry about that), the first lime
one family or farm won both
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awards in the same year. As you
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The winners over the years are
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1993-Joseph Schwartzbeck
Family, both; 1992-1991-1990,
My Ladys Manor Farm, both;
1989, Coldsprings Farm, Premier
Breeder, Hills-Hope Farm, Pre
mier Exhibitor, 1988-1987-1986,
Coldsprings Farm, both; 1985,
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Coldsprings Farm/Kingstcad
Farms, tie for Premier Breeder,
Coldsprings Farm, Premier
Exhibitor.
1984, Kingstead Farms, Pre
mier Breeder, both; 1983 Gay
winds Farm, Premier Breeder, Eli
zabeth Gillet, Premier Exhibitor;
1982-1981-1980-1979-1978-1977
-1976-1975, Kingstead Farms,
both; 1974, Rinehart Farms, both;
and 1973, Kingstead Farms, both.