Page 4—Dairy of Distinction Supplement to Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25, 1998
David and Jeanne Moyer and two of their six children, Jerry and
Steven farm 360 acres on this new Dairy of Distinction farm In Bed
ford County. The home place of 137 acres Is located three miles
south of Woodburry. They milk 90 Holstein cows that average 19,000
pounds of milk and have about that many young stock for replace
ments. They feed TMR and house the cows In freestalls and milk In a
The E&N Shaynah Kee Farm near Topton may sound a bit strange
to those unfamiliar with Pennsylvania Dutch. According to Noel
Schlegei, he and wife Elizabeth decided to incorporate the language
into the farm name, reflecting their heritage. “Shaynah Kee” means
“nice cow,” Noel explained. The “E&N” part refer to the first letters of
their names, though Noel said he could have made it “No-El,” though
that hadn’t struck him at the time. The Schlegei family owns about
188 acres of tillable ground and rent about 40 more. Noel and Eli
zabeth Schlegei farm with daughter Shelia, 18. They have two others,
the oldest is married and the second oides recently graduated from
college and works off the farm. The farm has been in the family since
1954, when Elizabeth’s parents farmed it, they rented it and then
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The Moyers transplanted from Bucks County In 1972 and found
the pressures on farming a little less in the Bedford area back in
those days. But today David said the pace has picked up and you
need more cows to produce more pounds of milk per man to keep the
operation going.
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bought it 1976. The Schlegels bought it from them... , ney „ jd
26 stalls and one silo when they moved in'. Noel said it took a lot of
work to modernize and upgrade the farm and landscape. At the barn
is some stone landscaping and a flower bed that frequently draws
favorable comments from visitors and guests. 'The wife and I like to
work in when it’s too wet to work the fields,” Noel said. They keep a
vegetable garden also. The farm lane comes out onto Main Street in
Topton, but the farm is visible from the road, where the white farm
house and silos can be seen in the background. The lane has a cou
ple of trees and farm sign at its end. They milk about 60 Holsteins,
with about 75 percent of the herd registered with about a 25,500
pound-milk rolling herd average.
DAVID MOYER