A2B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18. 1994
Noss Is Vice Chairman
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running mountains, really ridges,
on the southeastern edge of the
Appalachian Mountains.
They make a northwestern half
circle and outer border to the rela
tively flat, wide fertile forming
area of south central and southeast
ern Pennsylvania.
It’s kind of like a “Great Wall of
China” that protects the thousands
of acres of farmland from severe
weather storms coming up the
Ohio Valley. As a geological fea
ture, it has many protective and
beneficial attributes.
The Tusprora is also unique in
that the long mountain ridge serves
as the natural and political bound
ary fra* five counties.
The Noss farm is one of many in
the four- to five-mile wide fuming
valley that is formed between the
Tuscaron mountain and the simi
larly stretchy Shade Mountain to
the north.
In the valley that Noss lives, the
community is rural and seemingly
slow paced, compared to the con
gested traffic and residential deve
lopment that has overcome the
state’s southeastern farmland. And
it is quiet
Noss said traffic has picked up,
as everywhere, over the years. The
highway has become more danger
ous and requires more concern
when moving farm equipment
from storage to field.
But many things have changed
over the years. |
Including Noss.
Raised on his father’s
dairy farm, Noss went to
college at Penn State
and then sold farm
machinery for seven
years
Then, in 1978, when
David’s father wanted
to retire from a partner
ship with David’s
brother Larry, David
bought his father’s share
of the operation.
The brothers milk out
of a 51-tie stall bank
bam at the home farm
site and keep heifers and
dry cows at Larry’s
place nearby.
David also sells Pion
eer seed com, and Larry
also has his own sideline
raising breeding stock
chickens to produce
hatching eggs.
In addition, there is
also some custom field
work that gets done to
help pay bills.
Dave’s wife Sharon
works as a manager at
the Lewistown branch
of the Kishacoquillas
Bank. They have a
daughter Karen, who is
a sophmore at Penn
State University, and a
son Ryan, a senior at
Juniata High School.
And while he has
plenty of work on the
farm to keep himself
occupied, Noss has been
active in dairy promo
tions for years at all
levels.
He is currently serv
ing as vice chairman of
the National Dairy
Board, and he is also a
member of the newly
created Dairy Manage
ment Inc. a com
bined overseeing board
formed by a recently
approved merger of
staff and effort between
United Dairy Industry
Association (UDIA)
and the National Dairy
Board.
Although the joint effort, which
is short of an official merger, has
had several questions raised about
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series of intertwining ridges.
In this analgoy, the Dairy Man
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