[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 15 (Thursday, January 24, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E83-E84]
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                       FARM SHOW CONGRATULATIONS

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                           HON. LLOYD SMUCKER

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 24, 2019

  Mr. SMUCKER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the 
accomplishments of residents from my district, who recently competed in 
the 103rd Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, which is the nation's largest 
indoor agricultural exposition.
   For one week each January, residents from across the Commonwealth 
come to view and interact with the best of Pennsylvania's farming 
community.
   Lancaster and York Counties in the district I represent, proudly 
boast the most fertile soil of anywhere in the world. In our 
communities, our agricultural traditions and heritage run deep.
   We have award winners from all across the district: Steve Topper 
from Hanover won numerous 1st place awards for his chicken entries; the 
Espenshades--Evan, Alan and Charlene of Bainbridge won numerous awards 
for their dairy cattle entries; the Manheim Central FFA Chapter won the 
``Best of Show Award'' for Antique Tractor Restoration; a mother and 
daughter team, Dorothy Martin and her daughter Debra Berkoski of 
Conestoga, won awards for baked goods while competing against one 
another.
   Alpine Heritage Creamery in Paradise had award-winning cheese; 
Kermit Miller of Felton and Charles Hess of Pequea have award winning 
soybeans; and Madam Speaker, breweries and vineyards from across the 
district were remarkably successful--St. Boniface, Aldus Brewing, 
Swashbuckler Brewing, Stoudt Brewing, Mount Hope Winery, Nissley, 
Levengood's and Wynridge all took awards home this year.
   I'd also like to congratulate all the members of the Future Farmers 
of America from my district who received their Keystone Degrees this 
year and who entered exhibits.
   Their dedication of learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live 
and living to serve--the FFA motto--will provide them lessons that they 
will use all of their lives.

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