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Vol. 44 No. 8
Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association Presents Awards
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) In a change from previous
years, the Pennsylvania Dairy
men’s Association held its annual
awards banquet last week, along
with the Pennsylvania Dairy
Futures Conference, sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Dairy Stakehol
ders at the Penn Stater Conference
Center Hotel instead of holding it
in conjunction with the Pennsylva
nia Farm Show in January.
Since 1976, the Dairymen’s -
Association presents the Charles
E. Cowan Memorial Award each
year to a Pennsylvania dairyman
who contributes to the improve
ment and promotion of the Pen
nsylvania dairy industry. Other
annual honorees are the Pennsyl
vania Distinguished Dairy Woman
and the Extension Agent Award.
This year, Richard Waybright
from Gettysburg was presented
with the Charles C. Cowan award
for his superior management capa
bilities as shown with his owner
ship and management of the 365
acre Mason Dixon Farms, Inc., and
State Agriculture Teachers Attend National Conference
Lehmar Metzler, president of the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of Agriculture Teachers, left, accepts the distinguished
state association award from Mike Cox, president-elect of
the national association.
Special Pages/Advertising/News
Deadlines For Holidays ,
Farm Show Issues
A ""mhw of special pages are planned tot Lancaster Fanning in the
next few. weeks. In addition, the New Year Holiday and our annual Pen
nsylvania Farm Show issue bring special deadline schedules, too.
In this the Dec. 26 issue, we dedicate a few pages in section A to the
inti*vtiM*inn of the Pennsylvania Young Fanner Convention to be
hosted by the Manheim Chapter in early February. We have registration
forms and a review of the program, hi addition, messages from the spon
sors of this state-wide event are part of the advertising base with these
rages.
The issues for the first two weeks in January will have features and
advertising messages related to the Keystone Farm Show and the Pen
nsylvania Farm Show.
Four Sections
his outstanding leadership quali
ties within the dairy industry.
The recipient of die 1999 Pen
nsylvania Distinguished Dairy
Women Award is Elaine Sollcn
berger of Everett. Elaine, along
with her husband Ray, have had
lifelong involvement with the Pen
nsylvania Jersey Association.
And the 1999 Extension Agent
Award recipient is George C. Wil
cox, senior extension agent in Erie
County.
Today, Waybright's farm has SO
employees to care for the needs of
2.000 milking cows and 1,700
replacement heifers. They manage
2.000 acres of alfalfa, grass and
com to supply forage to the dairy
herd. He is known nationally and
worldwide as a progressive inno
vator in production agriculture.
In 1979 Mason Dixon Farms
built their own animal anaerobic
digester system to produce biogas
that' is used to produce all the
electricity for the farms and four
homes. Because of this achieve
ment, in 1980 the farm received the
“White House Award for Biogas
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 26, 1998
The Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association presented its annual awards last week.
From left, Frank Orner, president; Lori Sollenberger accepting the Distinguished
Dairy Women award for her mother Elaine Sollenberger; George Wilcox, extension
award recipient; and Richard Waybright, recipient of the Charles E. Cowman Memor
ial Award. * «m» *
NEW ORLEANS, La. Mote
than 400 agricultural education
professionals from all 50 states
attended the 50th annual National
Association of Agricultural educa
tors (NAAE) Convention earlier
this month. Among the local teach
ers attending were MecCcc Baker,
Greenwood; Christine McCahren,
Lampeter; Lehman Mctzler, Lan
caster; and Gerald Reichard,
Chambersburg.
The teachets and state staff
gathered for a national meeting
that provided teachers with profes
sional development opportunities
to strengthen local educational
programs. Highlights of the meet
ing included sessions on partner
ships between agricultural educa
tors, agribusiness leaders, and loc
al, state, and national policy
makers.
1998 Probably
Warmest
On Record
ITHACA, N.Y. - With .five
days left in the year, it appears
probable that 1998 will be the
Northeast’s warmest year since re
cords began in 1895, according to
the climatologists at the Northeast
Regional Climate Center at
Cornell University.
Up to now, 1953 was the re
gion's warmest year on record
with an average temperature of
49.5 degrees Fahrenheit. So far
this year, the Northeast's tempera
ture averages 50.2 degrees, just
seven-tenths of a degree above the
1953 mark.
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“The exchange of ideas is an
important function of the confer
ence,” said Duane Fisher, NAAE
Dale and Janie Martin with their children Becky, 10;
Matthew, 8; and Michael, 6, celebrate the Chriatmaa they
thought they would never have together. Read about thia
dairy farmer'e battle with a malignant brain tumor and the
new perepective the family aharea on page 82. Photo by Lou
Am Good.
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president from ML Auburn, lowa.
“This meeting provides teachers
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