84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 29, 1993
Jennifer Grimes Becomes
Berks County Dairy Princess
LEESPORT (Berks Co.)
Dairy Farmers welcomed Jennifer
Grimes as their 1993 Dairy Prin
cess at the annual pageant Satur
day, May IS. Jennifer, daughter of
Kenneth and Barbara Grimes of
Strausstown, was crowned by out
going Princess Sandy Gross. Serv
ing as alternates for the coming
year will be Karen Davis, daught
er of Arlan and Deborah Davis,
Bernville, and Lynne Koinski,
daughter of John and Dorothy
Koinski, Mohrsville.
Four-year-old Justine Stoltzfus
was chosen as the Li’l Miss. She is
the daughter of Glenn and Gail
Stoltzfus, Pennwood Dairy Farm,
Morgantown.
As part of the Dairy Princess
Li'l Miss Justine Stoltzfus is the daughter of Glenn and
Gall Stoltzfus of Morgantown.
competition, Jennifer presented
her milk promotion skit for the
audience. She spoke as a represen
tative of The La Moo Modeling
School in search of models who
need the healthy benefits of milk
and dairy products. She answered
the impromptu question: What is
the most important problem facing
Pennsylvania’s Dairy Fanners and
what can you as Dairy Princess do
to solve it? Jennifer said the worst
problem is milk’s competition
with non-dairy .drinks and sodas.
She believes that the personal
approach to consumers is a great
asset and consumers will remem
ber a live person rather than print
ed advertisements.
Outgoing Princess Sandy Gross
gave a slide presentation high
lighting her reign. The Berks
County Dairy Princess Promotion
Committee recognized the nine
Dairy Ambassadors who assisted
at events throughout the past year.
Gardening
With Children
LEBANON (Lebanon Co.)
Lebanon Valley Ag Center offers a
free class on gardening with child
ren. This class will introduce the
idea of gardening with children as
a beneficial educational, physical,
and social experience. If you have
or work with children from ages 3
to 10, this class will give you ideas
on how to open children’s eyes to
the world of nature.
The class will be held twice on
Wednesday, June 23 10 a.m. to
noon Or 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The farmer’s traditional image
is of a man planting the crop,
operating a tractor or herding the
livestock.
But more than 130,000 of the
2.1 million U.S. farms have a
woman in charge. The last U.S.
agriculture census found that
women farm operators had
increased by more than 10,000 in
five years at a time when the
overall number of farms was
declining.
And women play a major role in
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promote the dairy Industry In Berks County. LI'I Mlea Jus
tine Stoltzfus will help.
Women In Farming
managing many of the other
family-business-style farms that
dominate agriculture in the United
States.
Most U.S. farm businesses,
large and small, are family-owned
and operated, whether they are
sole proprietor, partnership or
incorporated. On many of these
family farms, women co-manage
the family business. Farm women
are often in charge of entire por
tions of the family farm business
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such as all livestock operations, or
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Women spend thousands of
hours as tractor and farm machine
operators and thousands of dollars
as purchasing decision-makers on
today’s farms. Women's roles on
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farm machinery manufacturers do
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