Holstein Juniors
At Grand National
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -
Almost 160 young exhibitors
participated in the 1997 Grand
National Junior Holstein Show
held in conjunction with the
North American International
Livestock Exposition in
Louisville, Ky. in November.
More than 245 animals entered
the ring.
Spring Calf - TRI-DAY
BELLE ADEEN-ET, David Day,
Shippensburg, PA; Winter Calf -
ROYALSTEAD G PRUDIE,
Andrea & Ryan Engleking,
Charlottesville, IN; Fall Calf -
BLONDIN STARDUST LASSY
ET, E. William lager, Jr., Fulton,
MD; Summer Yearling - VOSS
MON ASTRE ABIGAIL, Julie
Food For Thought
(Continued from Page A 26)
bilities available for direct market
ing. This project was a joint effort
of Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Pennsylvania Food
Merchants Association, Pennsyl
vania Apple Marketing Board,
Pennsylvania Vegetable Market
ing and Research Program and
Pennsylvania Peach and Nectarine
Research Program. Mr. Patton
will give his views on dealing di
rectly with super market buyers.
Concluding this conference
will be a panel discussion involv
ing some of your neighbors that
are successful in capturing value-
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Waukesha, WI.
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 27, 1997-A
In The Lyons’ Den
You Find What’s Good
In Farming With Family
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average up to a top of 26,800
pounds.
Along the way new facilities
have been built for the cows, dry
cows, heifers, calves, and com
modities. A new farm shop has
been added.
For the Lyons, the emphasis is
on milk production of a commer
cial herd. Every effort on the farm
goes into making more milk. And
everything that is done for future
planning is done with die idea of
passing the wealth of the farm on to
the next generation without a lot of
inheritance taxes and financial dis
ruption should one of the partners
die.
As each boy came of age, he
worked two yean for the partner
ship as a test of his committment to
the farm. If he didn’t want to farm,
that was OK, but each person knew
his committment, once he made it,
was for the long term. And each
boy took whatever time he needed
to decide to join the partnership.
After working away for six
months, the younger brother came
back to join the partnership, and it
was at this time that the brothers
became close-knit partners, and the
family farming operation was on
its way into the future. Today it’s
all for one and one for all.
The thing that has always been
in the back of my mind is what hap
pens to the farm when I’m gone,”
Joe said. *1 have seen so many
cases where the son has stayed on
the farm as dad’s right- hand man
for many yean. Dad doesn’t make
provisions for the transfer of the
farm to the son, and the hum must
be sold to settle the estate. The boy
who worked to build up the equity
in the farm now can’t afford to buy
the place. And everything he work
ed for is gone.
“I live my life for my kids, and
everything I do is designed with
them in mind. You couldn’t do this
in a family that is not pulling
together. But we get along pretty
well. And after the youngest boy
came back and joined the partner
ship, I saw the boys knit together in
a comradeship that makes this kind
of partnership work.
“The boys have been
here to help pay off the
debt, so why shouldn’t
they share in the equity
of the whole opera
tion?” Joe asks.
Basically, the equity
is transferal to the boys
each year up to the IRS
gift limits with the equi
ty pro-rated at the time
each of the brothers
entered the partnership.
Each partner draws a
salary, and life insur
ance covers each partner
in case of an unforseen
catastrophe.
“I’m not looking for
the world,” Joe said. “I
have my boys working
with me, and I can’t ask
for much more. Young
people need help to get
into farming. If my
father-in-law would not
have been there to stand
behind me, I would not
have been able to farm.
He’s the one that pro
vided the financial
backing I needed at the
time. 1 want to pass on to
the next generation the
opportunities that were
passed on to me. And
this is what is working
for us,” Joe said.
As you leave the
“Lyons’ Den,” you get
the feeling that you have
just visited a “pride of
Lyons” that has put into
every day practice the
best of why it is so good
to be farming with fami
ly. And you think you
may have told the story
better if you could have
worked in such phrases
as den mother and
Lyons’ cubs. But that
will need to wait for the
next cup of tea.
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