Pomona Grange Awards Honor Local 4H and FFA Members
A 175 crowd attended the Frederick County Pomona Grange banquet at the fire hall on Thursday. Nine awards were presented including Wayne Spurrier and Jo Ann Poole for 4H efforts and Mary Knott for FFA achievements. Junior Grange honors went to Debbie Baugher, Curtis Kuhn, Laura Albaugh, Bruce Roberson, Pam Martin, and Brian Moeer from local Granges. Local officials present included Sen. Charles H. Smelser and delegates Julien Delphey, plus county commissioners. A Frederic County man, George A. Nicholson Jr., was elected to the American Milking Shorthorn Society board. AMSS president Sidonie Colette is noted with pen name history.
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Middletown
Frederick County Pomona Grange
Wayne Spurrier
Jo Ann Poole
Mary Knott
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Debbie Baugher
Curtis Kuhn
Braddock Grange
Laura Albaugh
Bruce Roberson
Glade Valley
Pam Martin
Brian Moeer
Thurmont
Sen
Charles H. Smelser
Frederick
Carroll
del. Julien P. Delphey
Washington
Lawrence A. Dorsey
Board of the County Commissioners
Paul L. Crum Jr
Donald L. Lewis
Frederick County
The
American Milking Shorthorn Society
Springfield
Wayne Sparrier
Pomona
Jamey Moser
Bill Cauley
Thurmont Junior Grange Meets at Trinity Church
Thurmont Junior Grange held its regular monthly meeting at Trinity United Church of Christ in Thurmont with 15 members attending. Laura Wilders reported the bake sale success and Andrea Myers announced attendance at nearby Grange events. The group will sponsor a third annual Bike Safety Poster Contest for ages 10 to 15 in the Catoctin High School feeder area, May by May 31, with entry forms from school art teachers.
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Thurmont
Catoctin High School
The Amariesa Farm and the Changing Face of American Agriculture
A reflective piece traces how American farming has shifted from diverse, labor intensive practices to lean specialized and capital heavy systems. It notes the rise of center pivot irrigation, decline of poultry farming, and increased use of hybrid crops while preserving many family farms. The Drumm Institute near Independence, once a thriving, labor intensive farm for 40 boys, anchors the narrative of change since the writer’s adolescence.
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Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
America
Kansas City
Drumm Institute
Independence
Farming the Frederick News Post model of midcentury family farming
The article surveys U.S. farming shifts from family operations to larger scales, noting government overproduction, cheap food, and slim long term profits. It traces farm numbers and sizes from 1838 to the 1970s, the land grant system’s role, rising capital needs, and generational farms, warning that without investment and efficiency, expansion could fail.
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Dramm Institute
America
U.S.S.R
Pec
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Pomona Grange
Area Grange
Nicholson
Shorthorn
George A. Nicholson Jr
Detour
Willard Gerner
Ft. Atkinson
Wisc
Beverley A. Wicks
Enumclaw
Wash
Max Kimmerling
Beatrice, Ned
Brad Ellsworth
Grass Valley
Calif
AMSS
Jim Foss
Kenyon, Minn
Pen Nanes
Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
Willy
Henry Gautheir-Villars
Colette Willy
Colette
Walkersville
James Mover
Bill Couley
Thurmont Junior Grange
Andrea Myers
Annette Harbaugh
Melissa Harbaugh
National Grange Week
Kim Shaff
Grange
Peggy Royer
Ford
Ford Tractors
Ceresville Motor, Inc
Frederick, Md
By Richard Rhodes
United States
U.S
Corn Belt
Ome Wan
May
Simmental Sale
Frederick Fairgrounds
Langdom Farms
Sherwood
Ownby Auction and Realty Co
Richmond
Virginia
Aram T
Southern States Farm Systems
Recerick
Margin
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