VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Former state representa
tive Ed Arnold, of North Lebanon
Township, on Monday took over
the reigns of Pennsylvania deputy
secretary of agriculture and is to be
responsible for economic and
market development
Arnold was appointed to the
position that was previously held
by Neal Buss, who left earlier this
year.
Boyd Wolff, state secretary of
agriculture, said in a statement
“Ed has many years of experience
in agriculture. He’ll be a valuable
asset to our management team.”
The 51-year-old Arnold, a
Democrat has been active in local
politics for a number of years,
serving as a commissioner in
Lebanon County for eight years,
from 1979 to 1987, and then
Ag Secretary Wolff Appoints Ed Arnold Deputy
served a 2-year-term in die state
House ofßepresentatives until los
ing a reelection bid in 1992 to cur
rent Rep. Peter Zug, a Republican.
Since September, Arnold has
been working for the agriculture
department as chief of the PDA
Commodity Promotions Division.
In that position, Arnold has work
dl to help support die state com
modity promotion boards erf direc
tors, such as the ones under the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program, the Pennsylvania Apple
Marketing Program, and the Veg
etable Marketing and Research
Program.
Arnold grew up on a dairy farm
in Northern Lebanon Township
and had been in partnership with
his mother, and brother Mike
Arnold, of Arnold Acres, until sev
eral years ago.
Ed and his wife Patricia current
ly live on a 100-acre form in the
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same area and keep a few Holstein
dairy heifers, along with a Jersey
calf one erf their four daughters
uses for a 4-H project animal.
“I’m pleased to try to contribute
to Pennsylvania agriculture in any
way. I feel that with my back
ground in agriculture and govern
ment, I can contribute to the better
ment of Pennsylvania agriculture,”
he said Thursday in a telephone
interview.
His main four areas of concern
are to be assisting Secretary Wolff
in farmland preservation, agricul
tural development, agricultural
marketing and government
donated foods.
“My goal it to assist the secret
ary in completing what he’s really
begun,” Arnold said. “Farmland
preservation has been an aggres
sive program in the state, and I
hope to continue that for the rest of
the Casey administration.”
Furthermore, Arnold said that A 1961 graduate of Lebanon
his experience with the promotion Catholic High School, he received
groups has been rewarding. a bachelor s degree in political sci
“l think the dairy industry can ®oce from Lebanon Valley College
certainly be proud of the program in 1966> Hc ako has 25 y«“*
they have in the Pennsylvania ex ? cr l en ? e in ***
Dairy Promotion Program. I think deluding memberships and
wc hive an excellent staff and their chairmanships of professional
efforts in using the promotion wgamzations. he has served on the
moneys have been putting the Board from
(check-off funds) to good use. 1982 *° 1983 * and was a director
Likewise, the apple program has •“!> vic c president of the Lehigh
progressed,” he saidT Vlll ey Farmers during the same
_ . time.
Dairy Calf Sale Set
CHAMBERSBURG (Franklin
Co.) The 19th Annual Franklin
County 4-H Dairy Calf Sale will
be held on Friday, April 15, at 7
p.m. at the Marion Auction Ser
vice, one mile cast of Marion
along 914 just off 1-81 at Exit 4.
The sale, which is open to the
public, will feature approximately
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Lancnttr Finning, Saturday, April 9.1994-A25
20 potential 4-H and FFA project
calves. Also selling will be semen
donated from several AI studs.
Sale catalogs will be available
at the sale and at the Franklin
County Extension Office, Robert
Eckstine, Mercersburg, is sale
chairman.
For more information, contact
the Franklin County Extension
Office at (717) 263-9226.
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