A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 20, 2002
4-H, FFA Members Will Be Recognized At Fair Banquet
VIRGINVILLE (Berks Co.)
In addition to the outstanding
farm family, 4-H’ers and FFA’ers
will be recognized at Wednes-
day’s banquet.
The outstanding 4-H members
to be recognized this year by the
Reading Fair Board will be
Heather Seifrit and Jared
Treichler.
Jared’s main 4-H focus has
been the 4-H swine project where
he has won two grand champion
and one reserve champion 4-H
swine project awards.
Jared was a member of the
Berks County 4-H Swine Club
for seven years and a member of
the Berks County 4-H Sheep
Club for one year.
He was the high scoring indi
vidual in his age division of the
4-H Swine Skill-a-thon for five
NFU Says Farm Disaster
Needs Remain Unmet
WASHINGTON, D.C. Con
gress missed a chance to provide
much-needed disaster assistance
for farmers as the Senate passed
the defense supplemental bill last
week, National Farmers Union
said.
“While Congress has assisted
other emergency losses, the natu
ral disasters that devastate crop
and livestock producers are still
ignored,” said NFU President
Dave Frederickson.
Montana Sens. Max
Baucus and Conrad
Burns offered a bipar
tisan amendment to
tV\e defense supple
mental bill that would
have provided $l.B bil
lion in emergency as
sistance for crop pro
duction loss due to
natural disasters and
$5OO million to live
stock producers forced
to liquidate herds or
purchase additional
feed rations because of
grazing and haying
losses. The amend
ment was not consid
ered due to a proce
dural move.
Montana Farmers
Union President Del
Styren, a fourth
generation wheat and
barley farmer from
Brady, Mont., has ex
perienced the drought
effects first-hand.
“In 2001 I could
only harvest 25 per
cent of my acres, and
crop insurance hardly
covered the produc
tion costs so there was
little to nothing to live
on,” Styren said. “In
an average year I can
yield at least 45 bush
els (per acre) of winter
wheat and 60 to 65
bushels of barley. Last
year I got 15 bushels
of barley and no win
ter wheat ”
Styren said some
parts of Montana are
facing a fourth year of
drought conditions. In
2001, the agriculture
secretary declared the
entire state a disaster.
More than 1,500 U.S.
counties were also de
clared agricultural dis
aster areas due to
drought, disease and
insect infestations.
Although Baucus
tried to address the sit
uation with $2.4 bil-
consecutive years. Jared served
the Berks County 4-H Swine
Club as vice president in 2001
and was a teen leader for three
years. A 2002 graduate of Fleet
wood Area High School where he
was a member of the varsity soc
cer, football and baseball teams.
He plans to attend Fast Strouds
burg University as a biology
major in the fall.
Jared Treichler lives with his
mother and stepfather, Sandy
and George Stump, and his older
sister, Melissa, in Fleetwood.
Jared’s father and stepmother,
Rodney and Lonna Treichler, re
side in Virginville.
Heather Seifrit is a 10-year
member of the Top Notch 4-H
Equestrians Club where her main
4-H focus has been 4-H horse
projects. She has completed proj
aster relief in the Senate farm bill
proposal, the House of Represen
tatives rejected the provision in
conference and removed it from
the final version of the bill.
“The farm bill is a step in the
right direction, but disaster as
sistance is needed now,” said Sty
ren. “Five years means nothing to
anyone who won’t be here in two
years. People are hanging on by a
thread.”
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ects in both the performance (rid
ing) and production (breeding)
divisions. She was successful in
her riding and raising of horses,
qualifying to exhibit at the State
4-H Horse Show five times.
She was named the Outstand
ing 4-H Horse Club Member in
the junior, intermediate and sen
ior divisions by the Berks County
4-H Horse Program. Heather
served her club as president, vice
president, secretary, news report
er, sergeant at arms, and was a
teen leader for six years.
Heather is a 2001 graduate of
Daniel Boone Area High School
where she was a member of the
softball and bowling teams and
active in French Club and Key
Club. She currently attends Penn
State Berks/Lehigh Valley Col
lege with a major in criminal jus
tice.
National Farmers Union has
strongly supported supplemental
emergency disaster assistance
through letters and testimony be
fore Congress. Frederickson said
his organization will now work
toward a disaster assist-
ance amendment to the
upcoming agriculture ap-
propriations bill.
Heather lives with her mother
and father, Betty and Kenny
Seifrit in Douglassville. She has
an older brother, Harry and an
older sister, Debbie.
Anson Dietrich, Kutztown
FFA, has been active in the FFA
for the past four years, having
served as reporter and historian.
The scrapbook he prepared this
year placed second in state com
petition. He has also chaired the
citrus sale, pumpkin judging,
awards banquet, and window ex
hibit committees.
He has won many awards at
the Reading, Kutztown, and Al
lentown Fairs for tabletop dis
plays. Anson placed first in meat
evaluations at Penn State FFA
Days and received a silver medal
at National Convention. He also
attended the FFA Leadership
Conference in Washington, D.C.
Anson is a member of National
Honor Society and received the
Dekalb Award for agriculture
and the top accounting award at
graduation.
Anson’s SAE project is raising
broilers and he is also employed
in his family’s business. Diet
rich’s Meats and Dietrich Family
Farms. He is an active member of
Virginville Grange and helps at
fairs and banquets.
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Anson is the son of Marlin G.
and Dawn M. Dietrich.
Andrew Dietrich, Kutztown
FFA, has belonged to FFA since
ninth grade having served as
chaplain, treasurer, and reporter.
He also served on the citrus sale
and window exhibit committees.
Kutztown FFA’s window ex
hibit received first place at the
2002 Pennsylvania Farm Show.
He also has won many awards at
the Reading, Kutztown, and Al
lentown Fairs for tabletop dis
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Penn State FFA Days and re
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Andrew’s SAE is raising hogs
and he is also employed in his
family’s business, Dietrich’s
Meats and Dietrich Family
Farms. He is an active member of
Virginville Grange where he
serves as steward and also helps
at fairs and banquets.
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