Don Hershey Receives PennAg Industries Distinguished Service Award HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Lancaster County’s Don ald C. Hershey received the 2001 Distinguished Service Award for Industry Accomplishments from PennAg Industries at its annual convention Sept. 16-18 at the Po cono Manor Inn and Golf Resort. Presented annually by the as sociation, the award is its highest acknowledgment of lifetime achievement in agribusiness. Hershey has dedicated his life to the development of the poultry industry in Pennsylvania. Bom in Lancaster County in 1936, he went to work on a crop and tur key farm in Washington Boro when he was 16. At the age of 19, an eastern states feed representa tive and poultry farmer hired him to farm and tend his layer flock near Millersvillc. 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Martin, Randy Ranck, Auctioneers The Kirkwood Ag Auction for providing auction services and equipment. business. After many years of tending to his own layer and egg business, Hershey began to service and in stall equipment for other layer and broiler farms. He formed Hershey Equipment Company in 1964. In 1973, Hershey Equipment Co. became the Big Dutchman distributor for the Mid-Atlantic region and, by 1977, it was the leader in Big Dutchman poultry equipment sales and service worldwide. Hershey’s company now em ploys more than 100 persons full time and contracts an additional 100 individuals that design and build operations for the largest egg, feed and grain producers na tionwide. They are recognized in the poultry industry across the country for providing quality products and professional install ation services. Dr. Leach Honored For Poultry Research We'll build you any • Diamond flooring • Pull out panel tailgates • Any size grain chute Hatfield Packing Prevent Distributors Herr and Leaman Equipment Bank of Lancaster County James G Kreider Hoober, Inc Paul Risk Associates Edgar M Herr, Inc Spring Hill Farm Milky Springs Dairy Stnckler’s Barber Shop Breezy Hollow Farm National Bank of Rising Sun Southern End Self Storage Jeff Peinhardt Jeff Derr Elaine Knight Dr. Roland M. Leach, Jr., Penn State professor of poultry science, received the 2001 Distin guished Award for Non-Industry Accomplishments from PennAg Industries for his achievements that have benefited agribusiness. Leach has an outstanding re cord of research accomplish ments in poultry science span ning more than four decades. It all started for him at the age of seven when his grandfather, whose trade was farming, gave him a few chickens to start his own egg business. 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Adams Receives PennAg Past Presidents Award Jim Adams, vice president and chief operating officer of Wenger Feeds, located in Rheems, re ceived the 2001 Past Presidents Award from PennAg Industries for his time and devotion spent over the past year for the ad vancement of the association. Adams’ dedication as presi dent has resulted in many accom plishments over the last year. A successful merger of the former CORN TALK INCLUDES PMCGA NEWS \ Corn Talk, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Master Corn V RSUn. Growers Association (PMCGA), is included with the Oct 13 issue of Lancaster Farming. Scheduled are several features, including one on corn maze marketing, grower news from a WuH| drought year, seed placement strategies, and National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and PMCGA news 601 Overly Grove Rd.. New Holland, PA 17557 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 6,2001-A43 Ag Coalition with PennAg took place. Adams saw this as a posi tive move that strengthened a legislative voice and blended the best of the two groups. Also, the PennAg web site, a new service in 2001, continued to expand its usefulness to PennAg members, governmental personnel and the general public. Pennsylvania agriculture is reaching global markets now more than ever before. Adams sees Pennsylvania agriculture’s position in the global market place as one of the key factors of future success. Adams will go on to become a member of Penn Ag’s Past Presi dents Council. Dennis Mullane, Taylor By-Products, Inc. located in Wyalusing, is the incoming PennAg president for 2002. For All Your Concrete Walls And Construction Needs stone Concrete Products h't:.
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