Top County FFA Degree Awarded To 45 Youths
The Red Rose Degree, the highest county FFA honor, was conferred on 45 Warwick area youths at Warwick High School. Criteria include a $100 project investment two years of abstaction and demonstrated leadership. County-level degrees cap at 12 percent of members. The session also installed 1966 county officers, sworn in by past president Glenn Weber with new president Robert taking over.
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NEW County
FFA
Warwick High School
Robert Weaver
Garden Spot
Kenneth Rohrer
Manor
Adam Zimmerman
Grassland
William Frey
Solanco
Gerald Hess
Warwick
Jay Fisher
Sentinel
Manheim
Leon Rutt
Elizabethtown
Thomas Zartman
Cloister
Roger Stoltzfus
Pequea
L F
Farmer of America
Glenn Weber
Robert
Farm Calendar of February Meetings and Classes
Farm calendar lists events from February 14 to 16 at multiple locations. Activities include an adult farming welding class at Ephrata High School, fertilizer meetings by Chester County Extension at Russelville Grange Hall and Pickering Valley School, and a Lancaster County SWCD directors meeting at County Courthouse. Continued on page 7.
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Ephrata
Ephrata High School
Lancaster County
SWCD
County Courthouse
Lancaster
Chester County Extension
Pickering Valley School
Hayle
Chester County Extension Plans Farm Meetings Week of February 14
Chester County Extension Service schedules farm meetings for February 14 15 focusing on fertilizer types and application liquid versus dry. Sessions run February 15 at 1 pm in Russellville Grange Hall and at 8 pm in Pickering Valley with a dairy day event listed.
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Chester County Extension Service
Russelville Grange Hall
Pickering Valley
Seven Lancaster Growers Named to 20-Ton Tomato Club
Arnold Grueck, associate agricultural agent, reported that seven Lancaster County vegetable growers qualified for 1965 membership in the Pennsylvania Master Tomato Growers Club. The article lists the Lancaster County members who met the 20-ton club criteria.
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Arnold Grueck
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Farm Problems Highlighted By Ext Association Talk
Boyd C Gartley of Interstate Milk Producers' Cooperative addressed the Lancaster County Extension Association, posing questions about government farming roles and feeding a hungry world. He criticized federal milk policy, noted costly hearings, and warned the U S produces less food than consumed.
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Boyd C Gartley
InteriState Milk Producers’ Cooperative
Lancaster County Extension Association
Bargaining Agency For Agriculture
America
Gartley
Philadelphia
Mild temperatures forecast to last several days
The weather forecast predicts above normal temperatures with little variation, a 30 to 40 degree range, and about 1.4 inches of precipitation. If conditions hold, rain is expected Sunday night and again Wednesday.
Money Talk Opens Farm Meeting At Lincoln Independent
The Lincoln Independent School in Martindale held its first farm and community meeting of the season with a discussion on using money as a tool in farming. Speakers included Raymond Baxter Blue Ball National Bank Paul Whipple Miller and Bushong and Richard Hoover Farmers Home Administration outlining loan types bank risk secured status and common uses such as steer feeding with short term and long term financing.
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Lincoln Independent School
Martindale
Raymond Baxter
Blue Ball National Bank
Paul Whipple
Miller & Bushong
Richard Hoover
Farmers Home Administration
Baxter
Farmer S
Banter
Ivan Stauffer
FHA
L. F. Phote
NEPPCO to Talk Turkey At Conf in Gettysburg
NEPPCO Turkey Division resumes its Mid-Atlantic Conference March 2 at the Gettysburg Holiday Inn. The program focuses on turkey health sanitation and housing with a special seminar on common problems led by turkey servicemen and growers seeking solutions.
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Trenton
Neppco
Turkey Division
Holiday Inn
Gettysburg
Tobacco Sales Lag as Buyers Cite Poor Quality
An unusually late tobacco buying season began slowly in Lancaster County as buyers report the current crop contains a small share of top quality tobacco. The 1965 crop was strong, but late Fall and early Winter warmth and moisture caused widespread shed burst, delaying purchases.
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Lancaster County
Freeman to Speak at National Farmers Union Convention
Orville L. Freeman Secretary of Agriculture will address the National Farmers Union annual convention in Denver Colorado. The event runs March 13 to 16 with Freeman delivering the major address at the concluding banquet on March 16. Esther Peterson Assistant Secretary of Labor is also listed to speak.
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National Farmers Union
Denver
Colorado
Orville L. Freeman
Farm Organizaation
Freeman
Kennedy
Esther Peter
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Chester County Extension Fertilizer Meeting
Chester County
Ext. Assn
Lincoln Indep
Turkey
National Farmers Union Convention
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