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Vol. 44 No. 3
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Continues To Grow
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HERSHEY (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau leaders on Tuesday pre
sented a message to delegates,
members, state legislators and
friends that the organization is
healthy and has come of age as a
representative of agricultural com
munity consensus.
The message was especially
delivered by PFB President Guy
Donaldson in two speeches made
Tuesday during the Monday-to-
Wednesday PFB 48th annual con
vention at the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center.
Tobacco Marketing Cooperative
Asks Farmers To Join Now
EVERETi rsEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
PARADISE (Lancaster Co.)
The formation of a tobacco market
ing cooperative in Lancaster Coun
ty received a push forward this
week as the financial pressures of
the unsold 1997 crop lying in bams
under the hanging new crop
brought 125 farmers (mostly
Amish) out to an organizational
Wengert’s Dairy receives the Lebanon County Conservation District’s Clean Water
Farm Award for its streambank fencing and cattle crossing work. From the left, Dis
trict Naturalist/Forester Leigh Beamesderfer and District Director Charles Wertz pre
sent the award to John B. Wengert, president of Wengert’s Dairy. See story page A3O.
Photo by Vern Achenbach Jr.
Lancaster Farmland Trust
Preserves 100 Farms In 10 Years
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
STRASBURG (Lancaster Co.)
“Last year, (at the nincth annual
meeting) we looked at the possibil
ity of preserving 100 farms in 10
years," said Tom Stauffer, cxccu
Four Sections
During the President’s Lunc
heon event, Donaldson talked
about the strength of the organiza
tion in its membership campaign,
and how the services and programs
and effective promotion of Farm
Bureau policies have helped to
boost membership.
He reported that the organiza
tion had 26,149 members for 1998,
and that 47 out of 54 county groups
met their membership goal.
Additionally, 50 counties
reported at least one additional
member over last year, and that 17
counties reported all-time high
(Turn to Page A2B)
meeting at the Paradise Communi
ty Building Wednesday night. And
many farmers handed over the $5O
membership fee on the spot with
several hundred agreements taken
along to be returned later and dis
tributed to neighbors and friends.
The new cooperative to be
organized under the name of Pen
nsylvania Tobacco Marketing
(Turn to Page A 24)
live director of the Lancaster Farm
land Trust “And here we are (at the
10th annual dinner), and it looks
like we will have 95 farms pre
served by the end of 1998 with five
more farms under agreement to be
recorded by the end of January,,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 21, 1998
The past several weeks a lot of turkey growers have been preparing for the holiday
season, the busiest for the processors and retailers in terms of sales. The weeks pre
viously Lynn Horst had shipped out a great deal of birds for Wampler Foods, of which
he is under contract, to New Oxford. A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving Horst
was busy caring for seven-week-old hens, British United Turkey breed. Horst poses
with his son, Jeffrey in front of the farm sign. Photo by Andy Andrews
1999.1 consider this to be amazing
success.”
The Lancaster Farmland Trust is
a private, non-profit organization
working to preserve the rich and
productive farmland in Landaster
(Turn to Page A 27)
$29.50 Per Year
This Year Excellent
For Turkey G, owing
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co)
May 1997 seems farther away
than about a year and a half for the
Horst family.
That month, a fire broke out in a
faulty brooder stove and ignited
dry shavings on the floor of a two
story wooden brooder bam, ignit
ing the dry wood in there. “The
bam went in no time,” said Lynn
Horst. “It made a hot fire ”
Lynn, with wife Starla and
children Stacy, 6, in the first grade
at Hanover Mennonite School; Jef
frey. 3: and Chad, 1 year, don’t
look on the disaster of that spring
as devastating. In fact, for the turk
ey farmers, two weeks after the fire
“we were moving dirt,” said Lynn,
Deadlines Change
For Thanksgiving
The Lancaster Farming
office will be closed Thursday,
November 26 in observance of
Thanksgiving Day News and
advertising deadlines for that
week are as follows
• Public sale ads Noon,
Monday, 11/23
• Mailbox markets 5
p m Friday, 11/20
600 Per Copy
installing a new bam, finished in
September 1997.
The new bam is a blessing in
itself —the old building measured
40 by 300 feet in sire. The new
brooder bam measures 50 by 300
feet, enough for 2,000 more buds,
Horst said.
The past several weeks a lot of
turkey growers have been prepar
ing for the holiday season, the
busiest for the processors and
retailers in terms of sales. The
weeks previously Horst had
shipped out a great deal of birds for
Wampler Foods, of which he is
under contract, to New Oxford. A
couple of weeks before Thanks
giving Horst was busy caring for
seven-week-old hens, British
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