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MMvin Wenger, Ml, received the Lancaster Chamber’s
Gsorga C. Ddp Award tram MMWp at tbs annual ag/
industry banquet.
Brant Honored By York Extension
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
BAIR (York Co.) York
County’s Cooperative Extension
Service has named Tom Brant the
latest winner of the Extension
Involvement Award.
The surprise honor was
announced as the highlight of the
York Extension Service’s annual
meeting, held Nov. 10 at the York
4-H Center.
“No task is too small or too
large for Tom Brant,” said exten
sion horticulture specialist Tom
National Grange In Harrisburg Adopts Policy, Elects Officers
On the left, National Grange Master Robert Barrow and
Pennsylvania State Grange Master Gordon Hiller join in a
milk toast with Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Rhonda
Kieklak.
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Becker, who made the presenta
tion. “He is instrumental in pro
moting agriculture in hundreds of
ways, often working out of the
limelight.”
Brant has been involved in
extension.programs for 35 years,
beginning as a 4-H member ex
hibiting a beef club steer. As man
ager of D. E. Horn and Company
of Red Lion for nearly 20 years,
he supported extension efforts in
numerous ways, including support
and sponsorship of many 4-H
activities and ever*.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novambar 25, 1995
Wenger Receives Delp Award,
Lancaster Century Farms Named
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) Since the Lancaster
Chamber of Commerce and Indus
try is the only county organization
of this type in the nation to have a
full time agricultural services man
ager, the annual ag/industry ban
quet Tuesday evening became a
platform for recognizing the
cooperative and interdependent
efforts that exist between farm and
city.
“People who work together and
share common destinations get
there quicker and easier if they
travel on the thrust of one another,”
said Louis Varljen, chairman,
chamber board. “In Lancaster
County we have 5,030 farms with
421,000 acres; $7Ol million in
sales that help to create 30,000
non-agricultural jobs. Everything
you touch has ties to agriculture.”
Jim Shirk, ag services manager,
agreed. “We believe a strong agri
culture is important to a strong
Lancaster County economy,”
Shirk said. “We are committed to
insure a viable, profitable ag eco-
He has served as president and
vice president of the Extension
Association, served on the agro
nomy and livestock advisory com
mittees, and represented the coun
ty at various regional and state
cooperative extension activities.
Brant has further served as a board
and executive board member of
the 4-H Center.
Brant’s involvement also
includes serving as a director of
the Pennsylvania Livestock Asso
ciation, co-chaired its popular
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HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) National
Grange policy was developed this past week in
Harrisburg as hundreds of members and dele-'
gates attended the organization’s annual
convention.
The National Grange is a 129-year-old the
- nation’s oldest general farm and rural family
organization with 300,000 members in 37 states
representing 3,600 local Grange chapters.
Ending this week, it had been more than 30
years since the national convention was last held
in Pennsylvania. This year it was at the Harris
burg Hilton and Towers.
Policy is developed and approved locally and
submitted to state organizations, where it is
refined, and ultimately is proposed before the
delegate body for consideration as national
policy.
Five major policies were approved during the
* convention.
Hiose policies focus on private property rights
and environmental concerns; parental rights; the
treatment of the dairy industry in the new Farm
Bill; simplifying taxes; and establishing a
means-testing to determine commodity support
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
nomy in the county for generations
to follow.”
Six yean ago the chamber estab
lished the George C. Delp award to
recognize individuals who have
From the left, Pennsylvania Apple Queen Kristen Johns
ton, state Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brosius and
state Alternate Dairy Princess Heather Oberholtzer display
Pennsylvania dairy and apple products during a special
unveiling of a PDA 100th anniversary commemoration dis
play. See story on page A 31.
Four Ssctionr
made outstanding contributions to
die agricultural industry of Lancas
ter County. Ken Meek, chairman of
the ag committee, anounced the
payments to achieve directing support toward
those who need it (i.e. family and smaller local
farms.)
As far as its dairy policy, the delegate body
approved a policy to maintain the current mark
eting order system and make the export market
more accessible for the dairy industry.
This comes against efforts in Washington
D.C. to strip the Farm Bill of all dairy marketing
orders in effect to deregulate the industry
and to allow the industry to reform as the’mark
et, (financial and regulatory) ability, and oppor
tunity allows.
Some speculate that such deregulation of the
dairy industry could mean the cessation of inde
pendent dairies and family dairy farms.
The potential effect of deregulation with
cooperatives is not asclear, but with dairy futures
trading possible, and contract dairy production
being considered more likely, some paint a sce
nario of a few large dairy corporations becoming
established, with perhaps early drops in retail
dairy prices, but eventually higher consumer
prices than what a more competitive (as is now
the case) production industry would demand.
Also, there is a possibility that more imported
dairy products could enter the market, further
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