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Vol. 39 No. 37
Dairy Princesses gather for a training seminar held at Lycoming College,
Lycoming County. See story on page A 27. Pictured in the photo above,
from left, front row: Farln Weltner, Beaver-Lawrence; Jennifer Lenhart,
Westmoreland; Melissa Bicksler, Berks; Shannon Semmel, Northampton-
Lehigh; Jennifer Blair, Butler; Virginia Morningstar, Mercer; Haley Sankey,
Clearfield; Melissa Hostler, Juniata; Tracy Wagner, Clarion-Venango. Mid
dle Row: Laura Fitch, Tioga; Stacy Krall, Lebanon; Susan Pardoe, Sullivan;
Heather Sleeman, Warren; Monica Qoshorn, Huntingdon; Jennifer Grimes,
Efforts Under Way
To Help Dairy Farmers
With Bottom-Line Skills
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) A group of dairy industry
leaders that included a few produc
ers convened in an ad hoc commit
tee meeting at the PDA building
Tuesday. The meeting was an out
growth of the Dairy Futures Forum
held in Slate College m early June
where those concerned for the
future ol the dairy industry in Pen
nsylvania began an intensive effort
to develop a unified voice for the
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Dairy Princesses Represent Pennsylvania Counties
state’s leading industry.
The meeting this week, under
the chairmanship of Robert Reich,
was called to explore ways to
enhance Pennsylvania’s milk pro
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LOIS SZYMANSKI
Maryland Correspondent
UNION BRIDGE, Md. - Cows
brought them together and cows
still fill their everyday lives.
When Nona and Joe Schwartz-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 23, 1994
The Schwartzbecks Find Peace And Plenty
A pictorial view of Peace and Plenty Farm.
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess; Kathryn Jarrett, Lycoming; Charlene Shupp,
Wyoming-Lackawanna; Kimberly Orris, Cumberland; Stephanie Good
heart, Armstrong; Larissa Mellott, Franklin. Back Row: Erin Goss, Mifflin;
Kelly Jo Myers, York; Yvonne Remlck, Elk; Colleen Mowrey, Jefferson;
Shannon Hoffman, SUN; Rachel Tanis, Centre; Denise Heidorn, Bedford;
Jill Shepegi, Erie; Jamie Rynd, Crawford; Jani Burke, Bradford; Natalie
Welsh, Somerset; Amy Espenshade, Lancaster.
SRBC Tells Staff Consider Alternatives
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Farmers in the Susque
hanna River Basin can be assured
that they arc being listened to by
the members of the Susquehanna
River Basin Commission (SRBC),
according to its secretary and gen
eral counsel.
beck first met it was at a county
fair and each of them showing
their cows. Soon, Joe bought his
first Holstein from Nona. She
would stop in every day to see if
the heifer was fresh yet. Soon she
The members of the SRBC met
July 14 at Easton, Maryland, and
agreed to direct its staff to consider
alternatives to Us proposal to
charge consumptive fees to agri
cultural users of water within the
basin.
More specifically, according to
Richard Cairo, secretary and gen
eral counsel, the staff was directed
got to know the young Schwartz
beck...and the rest is history.
Now, Nona and Joe afid their
sons Richard, (Gus) and Shane
operate their 500-acre farm,
“Peace and Plenty” in Union
Four Sections
lo look at non-fcc ways of includ
ing agriculture into the manage
ment of flows within the basin.
“This represents quite a
response by the commission lo the
outpouring from agriculture,”
Cairo said, relcrnng to the large
and significant response Irom a
variety ol agricultural concerns
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Bridge, Maryland. At the recent
Red and White International Show
held in Timonium, Maryland on
April 11, Gus won Grand Cham
pion with Ladies Continental
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