Farmer Cultivates Good Will Through Tours
LEWES, Del. “Why are all it was a numbered (ab attached to
those cows wearing price tags?” a the cow’s ear for identification,
first-grader asked Walter Hopkins But for Hopkins, a Delaware dairy
during a recent tour of his dairy fanner, the question was an oppor
farm. It wasn’t a price, of course;
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undar 1. Annie Wertz; 2. Katie Haring; 3.
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Katie A. Rahtsay; 3. Katie Haring.
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ra M Phillips; 2. Laura M. Gingrich, Elizabeth
E Ehng; 3. Katie Haring, Anne Wertz.
Stock Seat Equitation Jr. Dlv. 1. Katie A.
Ramsay: 2. Katie Haring; 3. Susan Braun.
Stock Seat Equitation Sr. Dlv. 1. Laura
M Phillips, 2. Stad Rakowiecki; 3. Kevin
Hauseman.
Western Pleasure Ponies (12.2 hands &
under) 1. Ernest D. Kocher III; 2. Kate O.
Kocher.
Westarn Pleasure Pones (over 12.2 t
not over 14.0 hands) 1. Jennifer Connolly.
Western Pleasure Horses (ever 14.0
hands, Jr. Rider) 1. Katie A. Ramsay; 2.
Susan Braun; 3. Katie Haring.
Western Pleasure Horses (over 14.0,
Senior Rider) 1. Laura M. Phillips; 2. Staa
Rakowiecki; 3. Kevin Hauseman
Western Riding 1. Katie A. Ramsay.
Reining 1 Katie A. Ramsay.
Pole Bending Pony 1 Ernest 0. Kocher,
111, 2 Dylan M. Boltz.
Pole Bending Horse 1 Jenna Miller, 2.
Amy A. Phillips.
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Clover Leaf Barrel Race Pony 1. Ernest
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Clover Leal Barrel Race Horse 1. Lacy
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Raised Box Keyhole Pony 1. Kate O.
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Hunter Horses Under Saddle 1. Tracy
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Working Hunter Ponies 1. Timothy
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Working Hunter Horses 1. Ruth Alkons.
Hunter Hack Ponies 1. Laura M. Gin
grich; 2. Elizabeth E. Ehrlg; 3. Amanda
Gensel
Humor Hack Horses 1. Angie McGinnis;
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Pleasure Pony Driving 1. Ernest D.
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Walk Trot 1. Jared Millard; 2. Margo
DeCesar, 3 Andrea Buler.
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tunity to teach about a subject
close to his heart agriculture.
“You have to really want to tell
children about fanning when you
invite them for a, tour in between
planting com and cutting alfalafa
it’s our busiest season,” Hopk
ins says. Yet he knows that educa
tion is the first step to understand
ing, and a firsthand experience has
more impact than a picture in a
book.
Hopkins graduated from the
University of Delaware in 1970
with ein agricultural engi
neering. After a tour of duty in
Vietnam, he returned to the family
farm. Today he milks a 4SO-head
dairy herd on 1,000 acres in Sus
Delaware dairy farmer Walter Hopkins explains to elementary-school children how
cows are ml|ked in an automated dairy operation.
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sex County near Lewes. Hopkins’
father William, who began farm
ing there with six cows more than
a half century ago, is still actively
involved in the operation.
Hopkins gives dairy tours as a
part of a Sussex County 4-H agri
cultural learning experience. The
tours target children from kinder
garten to second gade. They see
the dairy operation from calving
area to the automated milking par
lor and feeding stations.
Other parts of the tour are hand
led by 4-H’ers, cooperative exten
sion agents, master gardeners and
master food education, who set up
demonstrations and exhibits that
illustrate how much agriculture
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Hopkins, a former 4-H’er who
last year won the state 4-H award
of recognition for leadership and
success in agriculture, says he’s
happy to do his part in helping the
next generation leafn about
agriuclture. Hopkins adds that he
doesn’t have to wonder if his
investment is paying off. He
knows it is.
“When I get the children’s
thank-you letters, drawings and
posters later in the mail, I know
I’m getting through to them,”
Ho;kins says. “Their drawings
show that they’ve learned some
thing about where their food com
es from. It’s worth it.”
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