Vol. 40 NO. 22
Young Holstein Breeder
Winners Scorched By Fire
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
LITTLESTOWN (Adams
Co.) —Chris and Steve Wood can
count another blessing in their
lives as one of the state’s outstand
ing young dairy families.
In February, the Woods, of Lit
tlestown, were named Pennsylva
nia Holstein Association’s Distin
guished Young Breeder award
winners. Their Penn Gate herd is
one of the best known on the Pen
nsylvania show circuit, with a host
of premier breeder and exhibitor
banners to its credit over the past
several years and several out-
Grumbine Is Named
Farm Show Director
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —Agriculture Secretary
Charles Brosius today announced
the appointment of Dennis Grum
bine of Myerstown as director of
the Farm Show Bureau.
Assisted by a 50-member staff,
Grumbine will oversee the daily
operation of a state-owned facility
maintained to advance the inter
ests of Pennsylvania agriculture
and other industries of the com
monwealth. In addition, he will
work with the Farm Show Com
mission, a 14-member board that
determines policy and governs the
overall operations of the Farm
(Turn to Pago A 27)
While their Amish owner took an Ice cream break in at the
farm house, this seven-mule team rested their reactivated
muscles in the middle of a field of spring plowing after a
winter lay-off. They posed Monday aftemobn at the corner
of Kissel Hill Road and East Oregon Road In Lancaster
County, south of Lititz. Because of the mild, open winter, a
lot of horse plowing is already finished, but spring field
work is underway In all Amish firm communities across
Pennsylvania and bordering stales.
And even though temperatures dropped into the winter
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standing cow families. And their
sons, Clayton, 8, and Corbin, 4,
are healthy, happy youngsters
who thrive on their family farm
environment.
Their latest blessing came last
Saturday morning, when the noted
Penn Gate herd came perilously
close to destruction by fire.
“Scott is our hero,” says Chri§
Wood of their tenant Scott Doody,
who came home from work at
12:30 a.m., about two hours ear
lier than he usually returns from
his job with a Taneytown, Mary
land, pump manufacturer.
(Turn to Pag* A3O)
Dennis Grumbine
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 8, 1995
Surrounded by their beloved herd, Dietlnguiehed Young Holstein Breeder award
winners Chris and Steve Wood, with four»year-okJ Corbin, find they can smile again
after facing terror by bam fire.
Keystone Farm Credit Charts Course
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) —Keystone Farm Credit held
its annual stockholders’ meetings
in two locations this week. Stock
holders attending the Montgomery
and the Lancaster County banquets
charted the course for the upcom
ing year by voting for directors and
for members of the nominating
committee.
Phil Kimmel. president and
CEO of Keystone Farm Credit,
zones over the middle of the week, “English” farmers were
seen working their tractors in the field too. One large Mary
land grain farmer said he was “itchy” to get the no-til planter
into the field, but he resisted the temptation to break his set
rule to never plant corn before the-15th of April. Come to
think of it, that’s next Saturday.
As for the Amish ice cream break— chocolate? strawber
ry? or vanilla? —we have no official report on the flavors
consumed. Photo by Evaratt Nawawangar, managing adltor.
Five Sections
gave a synopsis of the annual
report to the more than 800 people
who attended the banquets heldpn
April 3 and 4.
Penn State Trustees ’
Ag-Interest Newsletter
DAVID MORROW
Penn State Trustee
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) —This newsletter is written
on behalf of the trustees who rep-
$21.00 Per Year
Kimmel said that earnings were
good at $2.1 million despite stiff
.gsmpptition from banks. The asso
(Turn to Pago A 33)
resent agriculture on the Board of
Trustees: Charles Brosius, Guy
Donaldson,' Gordon Hiller, Roger
Madigan, David Morrow and
Obie Snider. Trustees Donaldson
and Snider were elected in 1994
for three-year terms. Trustee
Madigan is a candidate for re
election in- May 1995. Trustee
Brosius, whose term expires in
1995, has been named Secretary
of Agriculture and will serve on
the Board in that capacity. His
current position on the Board will
be filled in the May 1995 election.
The Board acknowledges the lead
ership of retiring Secretary of
Agriculture Boyd Wolff.
(Turn to Pag* A 32)
Last Call For
Dairy Of Distinction
Applications
The deadline for dairy farmers
to submit their application for the
Dairy of Distinction recognition is
upon us. The program that is
designed to draw consumers’
attention to beautiful, well
maintained, dairy farms has a
deadline of April IS. That’s next
Saturday. So you need to act now
to be included.
To date, more than 1000 farms
in New York, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey have joined this effort
in rural beautification and milk
promotion. The full details of the
program {hat include the rules and
an application blank are published
in this issue of Lancaster Farming
on page D 6. Fill in the application
and send it to the appropriate prog
ram secretary today.