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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.
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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
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$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,
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Charlene Shupp