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Cattlemen
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Special Appreciation Award.
The couple operate South
Mountain Farm, a 200 acre, 150-
head cow/calf farm. The beef
herd is Charolais based with
Angus influence. They have long
been involved in PCA activities,
including serving beef at agri
cultural events and helping to
plan and implement the ban
quet.
Roy and Jean Fuss, Dillsburg, took home
Commercial Cattleman Award honors.
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The Gross family, Manches
ter, of Cold Springs Farm, was
honored with the Cattle Feeder
Award. Steve and Phyllis are
joined by son Daniel and his
wife Tina, in addition to his
brother Steve and Steve’s wife
Becky.
The family’s feedlot can
handle 700 head of cattle at one
time. Full-time employee Allen
King and his wife Steph also
help with the operation.
They rent 1,200 acres and
own 480, growing most of their
feed and selling the remainder
on the open market. In addition,
Other Environmental Stewardship Award
recipients were the Eisenhour and Sweitzer
families, Wellsville,
and Jim Eisenhower.
they sell their cattle on the open
market. Additionally they have
100 Crossbred beef cows on the
farm.
Daniel, a seventh-generation
farmer, believes that community
involvement is important for
today’s producers.
He credits the older genera
tions of his family with doing a
good job at working with the
younger generations. “It’s gen
erations working together to
preserve the future of our
farms,” Daniel said.
He emphasized that the
farm’s acres are not preserved
represented by Brenda
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Terry Bentz, maintenance, and Harold Wendte, farm
manager, represented Brown’s Ranch, Gettysburg, to
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Grange in conducting a Rally
Day for Agriculture Monday,
April 8, at the Pennsylvania
State Capitol.
The event will begin at 3 p.m.
on the capitol steps. Participants
will be Guy Donaldson, PFB
president; Jim Adams, PennAg
Industries Association presi
dent: Bill Steel, Master, Pennsyl
vania State Grange; Secretary of
Agriculture Sam Hayes; and leg
islative leaders.
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with them following the rally. It
is expected that the rally will
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PennAg will, upon request,
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“This event is an important
step in the agricultural commu
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makers of the importance of
agriculture to Pennsylvania and
its economy,” noted Walt
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dent, PennAg Industries Associ-