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.
In 1957, 21 years old and re
cently married, Hershey moved
to his own Manor Township farm
to tend to layer chickens and to
get a start in the egg production
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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
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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.
Years later, while studying for
his PhD. at Cornell University,
Dr. Leach was captivated by the
fact that minute quantities of
trace elements could have major
impacts on skeletal metabolism.
This fascination has shaped his
career.
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er in the field of trace element
metabolism. He is most widely
recognized for having identified,
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characterized and named a
major skeletal disease of
poultry know an tibial dys
chondroplasia(TD).
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dustry million of dollars an
nually and Dr. Leach’s re
search has provided
valuable information on the
functional changes that ac-
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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
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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.
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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.
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