all _ P PAT ICE LIBRARY APT W 209 t _ Vol. 48 No. 47 Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Coronation Kicks Off All-American Week CAMP HtLL (Cumberland Co.) - County dairy prineeee es gather for their annual photo betora tonltfif• state compstitlsw hero at thS Radtsson Penn Harris Hotel and Conventfoh Cantor at the start of All-American Weak. The competition will doofdS the state’s new princess. The princesses and their respective counties are, front row from left, Ashley Bird, Centre; Heather Baumgardner, York; Char Ann Foster, Huntingdon; Rachel Ebert, Penn sylvania Alternate, Westmoreland; Raechel Kilgore, Penn sylvania Princess, York; Ashley Chapman, Pennsylvania Alternate, Erie; Renee Norman, Tioga; Beth Zimmerman, Juniata; and Emily Crave, Franklin. Middle row from left Organic dairy production is a highlight in this issue of the Lancaster Farming Dairy Plus booklet. Also included: how direct marketing helps one farm, an outstanding farm family feature, and news and in formation from breed associations and cooperatives. www.lancosterfannlng.cpni Five Sections m Megan-DeMert, Butler; Savannah Wagner, Somers.. Pamela Wertey, Berks; Amanda Kresge, Perry; Victoria Woodhead, Sullivan; Katherine Dotterer, Clinton; Rachel Sellers, Mifflin; Sarah Smoyer, Washington; Meredith Bally, Chester; Angela Compton, Indiana; and Regina Steppe, ympmlng. Back row from left are Carissa Eber sole, Bedford; Monica Franklin, Bradford; Jessica Brass, Lebanon; IMarcia Itle, Cambria; Shana Mack, Susquehan na; Cheryl Curiry, Clearfield; Holly Liggett, Lawrence; Amanda Cooper, Beaver; Denae Johnson, SUN Area; Chanda Stokes, Crawford; Crystal Robinson, Mercer; and Carla Martin, Lancaster. Read more about the All-Ameri can this issue. Hushons Reflect On Amazing Year As They Prepare To Return To All-American CHARLENE SHUPP Lancaster Farming Staff AIRVILLE (York Co.) From a dream of owning “one of those brown cows” as young 4-H members to reigning supreme at the 2003 All-American Dairy Show, for “Brothers Three” Brown Swiss Josh, Jacob, and Joseph Hushon the past year has been one wild ride of accom plishment and amazement. These three brothers from Air- Charlene Shupp Joins Lancaster Farming EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) Charlene Shupp joins the Lan caster Farming full-time staff with a lifetime of agricultural ex perience, including work with the Pennsylvania Department of Ag riculture (PDA). The daughter of Dale and Judy Shupp, Shupp was reared on her family’s registered Hol stein and Guernsey farm in Tunkhannock, Wyoming Coun ty- A graduate from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in dairy science and a minor in commu nication studies, Shupp’s writing Saturday, September 20,2003 ville, York County, have achieved at an average age of 20 what most people twice their age can only dream of. One year ago, in the Large Arena at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, the Hushon brothers took the All-American by storm, winning the first-ever Youth Supreme Champion Award with their then junior 2-year-old Brown Swiss, Brothers Three Wisper OCS, reaching an experience includes work for the PDA as a press aid; free-lance re porting as a special corresondent for Lancaster Farming, Ephrata and the New Age Examiner, Tunkhannock; and publicity writing for several nonprofit or ganizations. Shupp is a member of the Pennsylvania State Grange, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Na tional Holstein Association, American Guernsey Association, the Wyoming-Lackawanna Dairy Princess Committee, Virginia (Turn to Page A 27) $37.00 Per Year All-American Dairy Show Celebrates 40th Anniversary HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The All-American Dairy Show will celebrate its 40th year by presenting a spectacular dairy show Sunday, Sept. 21 through Thursday, Sept. 25 here at the Farm Show Complex. This show offers the highest premiums and more junior activities than any other national dairy show. “For 39 years, dairy cattle from Pennsylvania, the United States, and Canada have been on display, but this our 40th year is very special. We will be pres enting an exposition that will be truly bigger and better than ever,” said Obie Snider, president of the All-American Dairy Show board of directors. In September 1964, the dream Inside The Farmer ✓ Solanco Sheep $ how page A 35. ✓ Solanco Dairy Show page A2l. t ✓ District Dairy Shows pages A 31,32. ✓ Lancaster DHIA page C 4. other benchmark in a successful career of these three showmen. In addition to the Harrisburg win, the Hushon brothers broke the National Brown Swiss Sale record this summer with the sale of their Brown Swiss, Top Acres Coll Party, at the sale price of $86,000 during the Top Acres Farm Dispersal in June 2003. As their mother, Patti, noted, $l.OO Per Copy (Turn to Page A 29) (Turn to Page A 26) Charlene Shupp