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Railroads, Wartime, And Long-
Term Career&At The Stockyards
Part 2 of 3
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
Editor’s note: This article is
the second in a series exploAng
historical mid present-day Lan
caster Stockyards. Jdhn M.
Hooter, Melvin Horn, and Bill
Three famiHec work together CO milk 400 Holstelne and terra 300 acree at Wolfe's
Powertlne Dairy, leek, from left, ere Ray; Dawn; and Kathy Wolfe, holding Jello’s halter;
Jennie; Erneet; Rinda; and Dean Wolfe. Front, from left, are Melinda, Taylor, Randy,
Erie, and Deanna Wolfe.
FlvoSocttom
McCoy share their memories of
the business conducted through
the Depression, wartime,
droughts, a fluctuating market
and Ja grating stockyard busi
ness. ■>.'
LANCASTER (Lancaster
£o.) Vestiges of a booming
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 27,2001
About 112 Attend Market, Weather Forecasting Event
Conference Provides Producers With Cautious
View Of Exports, Scientific View Of Weather
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh Co.)
Economic forecast for soy
bean growers in Pennsylvania:
good, and perhaps improving.
Long-term weather forecast:
That’s another story.
Both were the center of pro
ducer attention Tuesday at the
“Decisions: For the Real Begin
ning of the 21st Century” Con
ference at the Days Inn and
Conference Center near Allen
town.
For grain producers who be
lieve ag export markets could
improve price for corn and soy
beans, there’s good, maybe even
great, news.
According to Bob Utterback,
registered commodity broker,
president of Utterback Market
ing Services Inc. in New Rich
mond, Ind., and ag marketing
adviser for Farm Journal Maga
sne, meat consumption in
Ctyna “!» going W grew phe
nomenally in, the next 15 years,”
he told”'About 111 crop produc
ers and agri-industry represent
atives Tuesday morning at the
conference.
There will be “a tremendous
demand for animal feeds in
business still cling to the quiet
stockyards in Lancaster. Rail
cars still rattle past the stock
yards, but no longer stop to de
liver cattle from the West.
Pens still stretch far along the
property, laced with a labyrinth
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$32.00 Per Year
China,” he said, supplied by
com exports from the U.S. that
could bolster domestic markets.
Lebanon Countian Renee Blatt clinched a national
title last week when she was named American Honey
Queen at the American Beekeeping Federation Conven
tion, San Diego, Calif. Turn to page B 6 to read about the
pageant and Renee’s incredible passion for the bee in
dustry. Photo by Lou Ann Good
Three Generations Work Together
On Northumberland County Farm
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Stqff
MILTON (Northumberland
Co.) “It amazes me to see
how much the farm has brought*
us (three families) together, be
cause we must work together to
make it work,” said Melinda.
Wolfe, Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess.
Teamwork is the name of the
game at Wolfe’s Powerline
Dairy, where three generations
operate the recently expanded
facilities. Melinda (better known
as Mindy), her parents Dean
and Rinda Wolfe, her grand
parents Jennie and Ernest, and
her uncle Ray and his family re
cently added a freestall bam to
increase herd size to 400 and a
milking carousel that holds 32
cows.
. The family milks three times
daily, raises alfalfa and com on
the 300 acres, and fulfills the
many behind-the-scenes jobs re
quired for a successful dairy op
eration. s
Melinda has 17-year-old twin
siblings for which she grew up
being the big sister. Now, roles
are becoming somewhat blurred
as her brother is in charge of the
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China, though a major trade
player with the U.S., however,
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morning milking and is “the
boss” when Mindy helps with
the milking.
Hie experience in working as
a team and helping each other
has proven to be an asset in Mel
inda’s new role as the state dairy
princess, who with 44 other
county princesses promotes the
state’s number one industry.
“The dairy industry is some
thing I really believe in. It’s easy
for me to promote the industry,
because I see its importance,”
Melinda said.
“I believe in the value of
wearing a tiara because it grabs
the attention of people, but I
want people to realize that
‘dairy princess’ is a working
title, not a beauty contest,” Mel
inda said. “I believe the dairy
princess program does a lot of
good for the dairy industry. We
have the opportunity to talk
with people that we wouldn’t
have otherwise,” Mindy said of
the attention garnered by the
tiara.
When Melinda was first
crowned SUN dairy princess,
she represented Northumber
land, Snyder, Union, and Mon
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