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Maiyland and Virginia’s Young Cooperator winners are seated, J. Richard and
Naomi Speer. Outstanding Young Cooperators. Standing from left, Thomas and Jen
nifer Lawrence, Ist runner-up; Steven and Marion Jones. 3rd, and Myron and Teresa
Pomraning, 2nd.
Lessons, Last Lifetimes
At Garber Conservation Farm
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MOUNT JOY (Lancaster Co.)
Keep off the waterways Don't
knock down the (Ops of the ter
races Never disk harrow across
the terrace edges.
Jay Garber, son of Clarence
Garber, remembers those instruc
tions from his father. Jay passed
the same instructions to his three
sons and all employees at Spring
Lawn Farm in Pequea Township.
And Jay said it now feels good
to hear his sons telling their
A tradition of passing along tha themes of soil conservation helped garner the Gar
ber family, Including the families of David A. and Joe C. Garber, the cherished 1996
Lancaster County Outstanding Cooperator Award Thursday night at the annual Lan
caster County Conservation District banquet at the Country Table Restaurant. From
left, Yvonne and Joe Garber, Dave and Shirley Garber, and Lois and Jay Garber.
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employees the same thing.
it's that tradition of passing
along the very themes of soil con
servation that helped gamer the
Garber family, including the fami
lies of David A. and Joe C. Garber,
the cherished 1996 Lancaster
County Outstanding Cooperator
Award Thursday night at the Lan
caster County Conservation Dis
trict annual banquet at the Country
Table Restaurant.
Spring Lawn Farm includes 200
acres (128 owned, 72 rented) with
150 cows and 130 heifers. Joe Gar-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 23, 1996
ber is in charge of the dairy herd,
and Dave concentrates on the
crops and fieldwork.
According to slide narrator Ger
ald Heistand, assistant Chesapeake
Bay administrator for the district.
Spring Lawn Farm has the distinc
tion of having some of the “oldest
terraces in Lancaster County.
“In 1939, Clarence Garber was
the second farmer m the area to put
terraces on the land. They were put
in with a pull-type grader.” More
than 200 tons of flintstone were
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EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
WILLOW STREET (Lancaster
Co.) The annual Pennmarva
Young Cooperator contest was
held this week with 21 young farm
couples from Pennsylvania, Mary
land, and Virginia competing to
represent their dairy cooperatives
at future national and regional
meetings and being honored for
their leadership skills and know
ledge of cooperatives.
Pennmarva is the joint organiza
tion of Atlantic Dairy Cooperative.
Southampton and Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Coopera
tive Reston, Virginia.
At the convention, the young
cooperators were involved in an
interview process, and they
attended seminars related to mak-
Centre County dairy farmer Paul Hartle, owner of
Mammoth-Spring Farm, stands with his 13-year-old Audrey
cow, classified 2EX-90, the oldest of three of a five
generation Excellent cow family that he showed to visiting
Holstein breeders from Chester County. See story on page
A 24.
Completed Farm Bill
Expected Next Week
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. A
conference committee of the U.S.
Legislature on Thursday approved
a 1996 Farm Bill Conference
Report which means that a com
plete Farm Bill is expected to be
presented to President Clinton for
signature this coming week.
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ing quality milk. In addition, dis
cussion groups covered topics on
how to use milk futures from the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange and
how to relate to the task of public
relations and marketing for the
dairy industry.
‘That Milk Thing,” MAMMA’S
Disney-like character that entices
children in the Philadelphia school
system to drink milk, dropped in
for the cooperator’s breakfast
Wednesday morning.
At the awards luncheon the fol
lowing couples were named as the
honorees.
For Atlantic Dairy, Kenneth and
Denise Sanner, Kutztown. were
named Outstanding Young
Cooperators. And for Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers, J
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According to a news release
from U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar, who
chaired the conference committee,
the farm legislation “gives farmers
freedom to plant for the market and
ends Depression-era production
controls.”
Whenever the Senate and House
approve almost identical pieces of
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