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01:16 - I'm Dave Williams, your host here in Pennsylvania Country Roads.

01:18 - And this week we're going to travel to Maine.

01:20 - Will Pennsylvania visit with the Sherman farmer multi-generational farm

01:25 - and of course plays a big role with Bloomsburg Fair,

01:28 - many other fairs in the area and showing cattle for many years.

01:32 - And of course, it's all about family farming, all this and much more right down

01:36 - but rainy country roads.

01:37 - Every Sunday morning at 7 a.m..

01:45 - And. You.

02:00 - Will.

02:11 - Welcome back.

02:12 - And today we're out in the country a little bit.

02:14 - Manville, Pennsylvania.

02:16 - And, I got the Sherman family and of course, pretty important.

02:20 - Those all here in Pennsylvania. And I got Rick. How are you doing?

02:23 - I'm doing well. Dave.

02:24 - Good to see you again, buddy.

02:24 - Oh, yeah. And you're like, hi, I'm Deb,

02:29 - hi, I'm Steven, and of course mama.

02:31 - And here's momma.

02:32 - Yeah.

02:35 - You know, it's been quite a few years since I've been here, but,

02:37 - you know, you really got the place looking beautiful.

02:40 - It's crop season.

02:42 - And, that's what life on the farm is.

02:44 - All about, isn't it?

02:44 - It it is. It's it's crop season.

02:47 - And, a lot of the day to day mowing here, mom does and takes care of the.

02:51 - And, Stephen and I is out in the field doing the planting and

02:55 - taking care of the fields and Deb's help and take care of the animals when she's,

02:59 - not teaching.

03:00 - Yeah, well, all the reasons have a role in the.

03:02 - Of course, taking care of the land here that keeps you busy, doesn't it?

03:07 - Yes, it does keep you probably in good shape. Yep.

03:11 - Yeah. I'll keep you going. That's so important.

03:13 - And of course, And, dad, I know you're a big person, and for a giant, I am.

03:19 - I've been a volunteer for each leader for 35 years, and,

03:24 - I'm very active with the for each program in Montour County.

03:27 - Where is your son? Here.

03:29 - You went to Penn State? I believe.

03:31 - Now. I went to Thaddeus Stevens.

03:34 - Oh, all right, all right.

03:35 - But he came back on the farm, and that's that's really important to us all.

03:39 - I mean, that's what we look at, right?

03:40 - Oh, we do.

03:41 - I mean, it's it's a blessing that he come back to the farm.

03:43 - You know, we have the team.

03:46 - Team, approach here.

03:48 - If it wasn't for Stephen

03:50 - coming back and and Deb and Mom all helping,

03:54 - you know, I wouldn't be able to do some of the roles I do off the farm.

03:58 - Well, you know, it takes a family cooperation, really, to run a farm.

04:01 - I don't care who we are.

04:02 - You know, the, and the women, many times they don't get the appreciation.

04:08 - They should.

04:08 - You know, they all the cooking and everything else, taking care of the kids,

04:13 - making sure they get the soccer games or whatever it might be.

04:16 - And of course, for H meetings and all that stuff.

04:19 - But, and of course, having your children come back,

04:22 - I believe your daughter is going to come back to.

04:24 - Well, my daughter, she is a senior.

04:26 - She graduates, Sunday from Penn State with a degree in animal science.

04:30 - I'm not sure what direction she's heading yet.

04:34 - But there's an

04:34 - opportunity here if she decides she wants to come back.

04:38 - But I know she has her

04:39 - her name out there, looking for some other experiences first.

04:43 - And you can't blame her for that. You know, it's a big area, right?

04:46 - As an agriculture is. And you and I both know that. Right?

04:48 - There's lots of opportunities out there.

04:50 - And actually,

04:52 - there's not enough, individuals wanting to go into the agricultural field.

04:55 - There's so many opportunities.

04:57 - And we we really should have, more youth getting involved.

05:02 - Stephen, how do you feel about that?

05:03 - And do you just really want to come back home on the farm?

05:07 - Yep, yep.

05:08 - I, I went off the farm for a year working a full time job,

05:11 - and I didn't take me long to realize that isn't really what I wanted to do.

05:14 - So you figured it out on better.

05:18 - That's what it's all about.

05:19 - Now, tell me a little bit about the crops you grow here.

05:21 - Oh, we're about 1300 acres between my son

05:25 - and I that we farm, corn, soybeans.

05:28 - We, we do swap some ground around with, some other farmers, and

05:34 - and some of the ground

05:34 - gets some pumpkins on it and some ground last year had some broccoli on it.

05:38 - Just for rotational purposes.

05:41 - We grow wheat a little bit of hay, and then we have cattle, dairy

05:44 - replacements and, beef be feeder beef.

05:47 - I know every year I see is all down at the Bloomsburg Fair.

05:51 - You actually hear the oldest people?

05:53 - Well, not the oldest people that

05:56 - but the oldest family showing cattle there.

06:00 - The family that's been showing me.

06:01 - Yeah, we're we're the family that's been exhibiting livestock

06:05 - at the Bloomsburg Fair the longest.

06:07 - That's an honor in itself.

06:09 - And, you know, for your mom, you know, Natalie, were you raised in farming?

06:14 - No, I wasn't, no, no, but, yeah, we loved it.

06:18 - Lived out in the country, but.

06:20 - Yeah, not on the farm.

06:21 - Did you enjoy it all your life?

06:24 - Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, a great life.

06:26 - Raise kids then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

06:28 - All about,

06:30 - you know, for each.

06:34 - I know you love it.

06:36 - You look after so many kids all the time, and, you know,

06:40 - no matter what for age is really a ground factor

06:42 - for so many children to get into agriculture.

06:45 - Right?

06:46 - I've had a lot of kids that we've leased animals to that

06:49 - otherwise would not have learned anything about animals or cows in general.

06:54 - We've leased animals to kids since I think, 1994.

07:00 - Pretty much every year we've leased a couple of animals out

07:03 - to kids to get that experience, you know?

07:06 - And today,

07:08 - some of them don't have the opportunity to understand anything about agriculture.

07:12 - So, you know, having you do that really inspires a lot of young children

07:16 - to think about first generation farming and, or maybe to become

07:20 - a farmer's wife or whatever it might be, or maybe even ag teacher or something.

07:24 - Right.

07:25 - And, you know, Rick, you and I have seen a lot of that online.

07:28 - Oh, we have and like Deb was saying, you know,

07:31 - there's one individual she leases animals off of us right now.

07:35 - And, she, she's looking at going into education and possibly ag education.

07:40 - So there's a benefit.

07:41 - The more individuals we have out there telling our story, helping educate

07:45 - the general public about agriculture, the better off we all are.

07:49 - That's really what it's all about.

07:50 - And, you know, so many times, I don't care who you are.

07:53 - Multi-generational farms inspire people.

07:56 - And now, how many generations are you here?

07:59 - Well, I'm the ninth generation.

08:01 - To my right is 10th, and he probably has a little news just to say.

08:07 - And what is that?

08:09 - Generation 11 is on the way.

08:12 - October

08:14 - number 11.

08:15 - And, boy,

08:16 - another human and this kind of human will here is a man.

08:21 - We're we're extremely pleased and excited.

08:23 - We're looking forward to the addition.

08:26 - And, we couldn't be happier.

08:27 - You know, when you're farm, I don't care who you are.

08:30 - The little things.

08:31 - Life means so much, right?

08:32 - And, I mean, not that that's a little thing,

08:34 - but it really inspires the family.

08:37 - You know, the, I noticed you go to the church

08:40 - right up here in the corner, right?

08:41 - And, you know, baptisms and all that, you know,

08:45 - and going to churches, it means a lot to the families.

08:48 - And, and you see people

08:50 - that have known your family for probably well over 100 years.

08:53 - Well, agriculture is a community driven occupation.

08:57 - I mean, you go back 100 years ago, you know, farmers would help farmers,

09:01 - they would have threshing crews and so forth and so on.

09:04 - And, today, today, you know, we're just trying to carry that legacy forward.

09:09 - And, you know, like I said, we, we swap some ground with some other farmers.

09:14 - That's how it was.

09:15 - And that's how you prosper.

09:17 - Absolutely.

09:18 - And, you know, we have the same thing, you know, of course, I just do hay

09:21 - anymore.

09:22 - I was in the vegetable business for about 25 years, but,

09:25 - I, I enjoy making hay, you know, I've been making it all my life.

09:29 - Kind of like old hat, you know?

09:31 - But if I have a bale to break down or something or something happens,

09:35 - one of my neighbors would come down and bale of hay up for me.

09:37 - And, you know, they don't want no money. They just.

09:39 - They and I do the same for them.

09:41 - It's really about helping each other.

09:43 - And that's what makes the community, isn't it?

09:45 - That's right.

09:45 - You know, we're community driven, whether we're involved with the forest

09:49 - or the fire company or, or any other, civic organization.

09:54 - It's about being community minded and worrying about your neighbors.

09:58 - The Village of Manville course, that's where the fire company is, right?

10:01 - That is where the fire company is. Yes, yes.

10:04 - And you spent some time there, too?

10:05 - Yeah. I've been an active member since 1988.

10:08 - I've been, I've held, several offices and, truck

10:14 - truck driver and, all the good stuff, all the.

10:17 - Well, yeah, that's that's my way of serving, giving back to the community.

10:22 - And I think your dad was involved, too.

10:23 - My my dad was very involved with the fire company.

10:26 - My grandfather actually sold the, chunk of ground

10:29 - where the fire hall is for, a very nominal, fee.

10:34 - I think it was a dollar, to, to help, you know, that's the way it goes, you know?

10:40 - Yeah.

10:40 - Well, you know, so many times we had, my grandfather,

10:44 - a man that, was in the First World War with him, right?

10:47 - He had shell shock, and he would come to the one

10:51 - place there on the farm and sit there and watch the beavers.

10:54 - Right.

10:55 - And my grandfather felt sorry for me, gave him that land.

10:58 - He gave him about two, three acres there.

11:00 - And you know, that impresses you when you see people, you know.

11:04 - Yes. That land means something to you, but it'll mean a whole lot more to somebody

11:08 - to help out. Yes, yes.

11:11 - You know, and that fire company is still enjoying it today.

11:15 - Well, another reason, you know, I'm involved.

11:16 - I mean, we, you know, we're behind us. Yeah.

11:19 - I wasn't around back then. 1966.

11:22 - We had a barn fire,

11:22 - and we lost the barn and the fire company came in the surrounding mutual aid.

11:26 - So this is a way for me to give back.

11:29 - And we've we've dropped what we doing, you know, in the field plant.

11:33 - And the alarm goes in.

11:34 - I have the pager on me right now.

11:36 - It goes off, you know, we're shutting down.

11:38 - We're going to help our neighbors.

11:40 - And that's what it's really about.

11:42 - And of course, I know you've been here.

11:44 - How many years have you been on the farm?

11:46 - It's going to be 16 already since, man, time goes by.

11:49 - Yeah, yeah. 19.

11:51 - I mean, you've seen a lot of things happen here. Yep.

11:55 - And of course we got some cows I think here in the background.

11:58 - They, they moved on up.

12:00 - They didn't want to have nothing to do with it.

12:03 - They're ready and they they want some food.

12:05 - Probably,

12:07 - come on over yet, but, you know,

12:10 - maintenance wise, taking care of the buildings,

12:13 - all that stuff is really what farming is all about.

12:15 - And, taking care of the land.

12:17 - And, of course, you know, about seven generations,

12:22 - 5 to 7 generations from the farm is what most people live.

12:26 - And, you know, the, network, they're not, they're not born on a farm.

12:30 - They never had the opportunity to work on it.

12:32 - And, you know, in our main, inner main with them

12:36 - people, it's so important to let them know what farming is all about.

12:40 - Well, that's the benefit.

12:41 - When we go to the Bloomsburg Fair or the Montour DeLong Fair or Lycoming.

12:45 - County Fair, we've exhibited at all those, our, our children have and,

12:50 - either my wife, my son, whoever's there, even the kids who are leasing animals,

12:55 - they're willing to talk to the individuals

12:58 - who have questions and, and just help educate them.

13:02 - That that's what the fairs are all about, educating the general public.

13:05 - What we do day in and day out.

13:07 - Absolutely. It's our show place. Really?

13:09 - My right. You know, the,

13:11 - Now, of course you're going to have that little baby pretty soon.

13:17 - What's your favorite thing on the farm?

13:20 - Oh, favorite thing on the farm.

13:22 - That's a good one.

13:23 - I think I like doing the the spring planting, spring tillage working,

13:27 - sowing, sowing the seeds for the year and hoping the rest of the year pans out.

13:31 - Well, you know, planting is always fun.

13:33 - You know, I don't care who you are.

13:35 - You plant that seed and then all of a sudden,

13:38 - you know, you see something sprout.

13:39 - And the next step, you know, I, I more or less count my calendar

13:43 - when I see that corn get knee high.

13:45 - I know it's 4th of July.

13:46 - Then it just keeps going, right?

13:48 - And, you know, it's kind of sad in a way,

13:52 - because, you know, the summertime leaving, right?

13:55 - You know, but but we get back to spring pretty quick here.

13:59 - So, that's what really life is all about.

14:02 - Well, I want to thank you all for being on today.

14:04 - And, you know, I know, how many years now has this farm been here?

14:10 - This farm?

14:11 - It's a it's a centennial farm.

14:13 - We just never did.

14:15 - We just never did the paperwork. Dad wanted me to.

14:17 - And just haven't had time to sit down and do it.

14:20 - But you gotta make it a priority.

14:23 - Well, it takes a lot of, you have to look at all the deeds

14:26 - and make sure they're still in the family and all that kind of stuff, you know?

14:29 - But, some of this country down here has been here since William Penn, almost.

14:33 - And and, well, you go back far enough to, to, Rudolf.

14:38 - Schumann, who is 11 or 9 generations back for me.

14:42 - He landed in, Lancaster, and came up into this area

14:47 - six months after that and had a day's walk from William Penn.

14:51 - And, encompasses a huge area, as you read some of the details,

14:56 - and this is some of the last ground that I believe was included in that.

15:02 - And, of course, you know, things were much different in them days.

15:05 - I know when my, my family, they, they actually moved on the farm in 1842

15:12 - and then 1856 on Christmas Eve, they paid it all.

15:17 - They had a land grant.

15:18 - Right.

15:18 - And, that they paid as they went along.

15:21 - Right.

15:22 - And, but when you think of that, you know, they once they had to

15:25 - really work hard because there was nothing there was no house there.

15:28 - There wasn't trees everywhere.

15:30 - You had it cleared the stumps and all that kind of stuff.

15:33 - But, I, you know, when I was a boy, neighbor next door was an old farm,

15:38 - and they had, these star barns, right?

15:41 - They would drill the, the, the, stones with that pounded up and down.

15:46 - And they had a star on the bottom of it.

15:48 - And, they were six foot long when they bought them.

15:52 - And then they were down on about that high, you know,

15:56 - nice.

15:56 - That's always up, man.

15:57 - Them guys was to put some work in.

16:00 - And my, my grandfather told me at night you'd hear the blast.

16:03 - And, you know, they didn't have time to blast in the daytime.

16:06 - They weren't. And probably that was their fireworks.

16:09 - Maybe that's where he bought his life.

16:10 - Fireworks from me.

16:13 - Well, Maysville has anything special going on for the fourth or not?

16:18 - No. Not particularly.

16:19 - They are going to have a car show.

16:22 - I think that's more around Labor Day weekend.

16:24 - They were talking about,

16:26 - fire company.

16:28 - We're we're just kind of doing some trainings

16:30 - and, pump classes and, no community event that I know of.

16:35 - And the noble's, amusement parks right down the road.

16:38 - And that was just voted, Amusement Park of the year in the United States.

16:43 - That's awesome.

16:44 - That it's a great place to go with, you know, free parking, free admission.

16:48 - We go down Friday nights for the fish fish fry and,

16:51 - just just enjoy meets, enjoy life. Yeah.

16:54 - And very scenic.

16:56 - It's a beautiful place to go.

16:57 - Well, I want to thank you all for coming out and sharing time with me.

17:00 - And, as always, I know some big things are in the making.

17:04 - I think you did

17:07 - all right.

17:07 - The Schumann family.

17:09 - And, of course, down at Manville, Pennsylvania.

17:12 - Don't blink.

17:14 - You gotta miss it.

17:15 - But a great place.

17:16 - And really, my country lies all about.

17:18 - We'll be right back.

17:19 - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is about more than farming,

17:22 - where people united around food, the environment and community.

17:27 - Our members include farms of every size and type across the state,

17:31 - as well as families who want to be a part of the state's local food culture.

17:35 - We advocate for farm families to continue to produce quality food

17:39 - for their neighbors,

17:40 - and for rural communities to have the tools they need to thrive.

17:44 - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Growing Communities, Many Voices,

17:48 - United Vision.

17:54 - My dad and I both have a KSP contract, but staff can't come out

17:59 - and check the fields to approve them for us to get paid.

18:02 - We're going through a very bad economic time.

18:05 - If we don't have the funds to support our conservation practices,

18:08 - we're going to see a major drop off in producers, U.S.

18:12 - agriculture. I don't know, guys. This is scary.

18:15 - I got a young family, a young business, and I have no idea what's going to happen.

18:20 - We're back here in.

18:21 - Manville, Pennsylvania with the human family again.

18:24 - We're going to talk a little bit about family history and, rich,

18:28 - rich human, his wife and his son and mama, and they're all here together.

18:33 - But, let's talk a little bit about your family history.

18:36 - Well, for generations,

18:39 - our family has been involved with agriculture.

18:42 - I mean, myself, I've been farming since I graduated, high school.

18:46 - I went to Penn State and got a degree in ag business.

18:49 - My son graduated from Thaddeus Stevens

18:52 - and, got a certificate for machine work,

18:55 - and he worked off the farm in the machine shop.

18:58 - You go back to, my grandfather, Homer Schuman.

19:01 - He worked, as a field man for the vegetable company for for years.

19:06 - My great, I mean, my uncle

19:10 - and and, and, Roger and Marilyn brought, they used to own tractor parts company

19:16 - who was, short line store that had lots of parts,

19:20 - for the agricultural community to go in there and get plowshares and so forth.

19:23 - They sold Kubota tractors.

19:25 - My uncle Clemmy, used to farm, and he went into the assurance agent,

19:30 - and he did a lot insurance coverages for farms around the area.

19:34 - You had somebody in every business on.

19:38 - There was a lot of connections over the years. Yes.

19:41 - It takes to stay in farming too, but it does and it sure.

19:44 - And Horizon Farm credit,

19:45 - I believe also I currently serve on the Horizon Farm Credit Board.

19:49 - Proud to serve on the board.

19:51 - I'm trying to

19:52 - to do what what I think is right for my generation and the next generation.

19:57 - So there's,

19:58 - quality funding and available funding for the next generation of farmers.

20:02 - And not only that, you know, Horizon Farm Credit and institutions

20:07 - like that, they are farmers, and they know how to handle the situation.

20:11 - They can help them.

20:12 - They can actually tell them when they're going the wrong direction

20:14 - and things like that and like that.

20:16 - There's a lot of really good discussion in our board meetings.

20:20 - We have some outside directors also who are professionals in their field.

20:24 - AG finance specialist, IT specialist that we've appointed to the board.

20:30 - But the majority of the board is, farmer members.

20:34 - And I bet you learn a lot from them outside members.

20:37 - I mean, we learn a lot.

20:39 - There's a lot of lot of, industry things out there

20:43 - that go on that as a farmer we're not aware of

20:46 - because we're out planting our our corn and planting our soybeans.

20:49 - So they bring a lot of technical knowledge to the board, to the boardroom,

20:54 - you know, and the farming community is a lot different than just anybody,

20:58 - you know, I know you and I are friends with John Paynter, right.

21:03 - And of course, he's involved with, another bank run

21:07 - and, farm loan bank, and but we're all friends, right?

21:13 - And when we need a lot of a conference about something, you can talk to

21:16 - somebody that you know and find out how they handle it.

21:19 - Right. And that's so important.

21:20 - It's very important to be able to discuss,

21:24 - critical situations.

21:26 - Critical,

21:29 - ideas with, with another

21:31 - institution to make you make both institutions a better place.

21:35 - And all these institutions want to see farming succeed.

21:39 - That's the most important part.

21:41 - You know, America has been strong with

21:44 - actually our our security of the country is the farms.

21:48 - And we need to take care of that. Right.

21:50 - Well, you see the bumper stickers around?

21:52 - No farms, no, no food.

21:54 - And, you know, to me, it's a national security issue.

21:57 - I really believe, you know, we need to keep our

22:00 - our food supply coming from inside our borders.

22:04 - And we need to maintain, that security for our for our population,

22:09 - you know, over the years, of course, now, almost every week I do a show with G.T.

22:13 - Thompson, had a USA committee, and he,

22:18 - he realizes the importance of the family farm

22:21 - more than anybody that I've ever met in politics, let's put it that way.

22:24 - And, but he understands that, you know,

22:27 - without that security, the country could be really in bad shape.

22:31 - And, and that's what it's all about.

22:34 - The number of, on farm or out

22:37 - in the general public hearing sessions that, GT Thompson

22:43 - did across this country to develop this new farm bill is just astonishing.

22:47 - Astonishing.

22:49 - I mean, he did a great job hearing what we needed back on the farm.

22:53 - I mean, I've been I was to several of those hearings,

22:56 - and he would talk to everybody.

22:59 - He wanted to know the most intricate details, so he could,

23:05 - make it make life better, make life better for the farmer.

23:08 - And that's sort of like what it's all about.

23:09 - Now I get the opportunity to talk to U.S.

23:12 - Secretary Brooks, and, she has the same passion.

23:15 - She had a lot of respect for Judy.

23:17 - And, And that's what we need.

23:19 - We need people with respect to it.

23:21 - And, you know, over the years, I've seen agriculture change a great deal.

23:26 - Of course, it costs a lot more money to farm today,

23:29 - and the risks are even bigger than they ever were.

23:31 - But, you know, no matter what way you look at it, it's still a wonderful life.

23:36 - And we want to secure that life for many, many more years

23:39 - and generations and and just keep it going.

23:42 - And, of course, your farm here is an image of that.

23:46 - And, you know, many, many times, you know,

23:49 - I think about my family, my, my great, great grandfather came over.

23:53 - He was a winemaker.

23:55 - We still got trees all over the place.

23:57 - And, but, you know, I never got into making one that's really,

24:02 - you know, perfect.

24:03 - But we had, you know, and they went through the limits, too,

24:07 - you know, he actually made cherry wine, naturally.

24:10 - And they moved.

24:10 - I live in a place called Cherry Ridge, and it was all wild cherry trees everywhere.

24:15 - So he had some sweet pecan for a good many years there.

24:18 - But then and the turn of the century, the blight came and killed

24:22 - every one of them.

24:23 - And he had to change everything.

24:25 - So, you know, they had hard times then, too.

24:28 - And, we survived and, What?

24:31 - Really, that's what farming is all about.

24:33 - You're going to have,

24:35 - times when things aren't great, but we look to the better thing.

24:39 - You got to have that inspiration to keep going, right?

24:42 - Every generation will have a difficult time or time frame.

24:47 - In agriculture, you know, you go back through history, you can you can pinpoint

24:52 - it, it's just weather how how prepared you are to weather that storm.

24:58 - And that's what you got to work on.

25:00 - Yeah, absolutely.

25:02 - Here at the Schuman family.

25:03 - Manville, Pennsylvania. Right, mom? That's right.

25:07 - And of course, with the family.

25:09 - And it's all about the ma and agriculture right here in Pennsylvania.

25:13 - We'll be right back.

25:15 - Everything I do in life, I try to do for my community,

25:18 - to make my community a better place.

25:20 - And that's why I work in natural gas and oil.

25:23 - My job is essentially reviewing data and evaluating technology and innovations

25:27 - to try to reduce our operating costs, improve our operational efficiency,

25:31 - and really lower our environmental impacts.

25:33 - This is basically my backyard look into the environmental impacts

25:36 - we have on and what I can do to make it cleaner and just keep.

25:39 - Northeast Pennsylvania is a great place.

25:49 - You know,

25:49 - one of the interesting things with, First Citizens Community.

25:53 - Bank is a lot of our lenders, a lot of the team

25:57 - that we have can continue to be involved in agriculture today.

26:01 - I think that positions us very uniquely compared to, a lot of our competition,

26:06 - because we are heavily involved in agriculture

26:08 - and we understand what our customers are experiencing,

26:12 - the people they're,

26:14 - treated as, like more than just a number.

26:16 - They took an interest in what we were doing.

26:18 - And, there's much more of a personal relationship

26:21 - than we've experienced with a lot of banks.

26:23 - We talked to many banks about this, about how to finance our our new opportunity.

26:28 - It was just far and away the best fit for us to use for citizens.

26:33 - As challenges arise,

26:36 - there's no one better to help you than people that are farmers themselves

26:39 - and are first citizens. They're farmers.

26:41 - So why not deal with people who understand what you're going through?

26:45 - The friends of the Farm Joe Foundation began back in 2010

26:50 - as a way to support educational events at the annual Farm Show.

26:54 - We work with the leadership of the Farm Show,

26:57 - help them raise funds to conduct in the Farmers Cup.

27:00 - I think what draws people to the annual Farm Show is the vast diversity.

27:06 - It is that diversity of all that equipment,

27:09 - livestock and involvement of the of the friends of the country.

27:13 - A Farm Show foundation, are hugely appreciative of our help

27:17 - to support the annual Farm Show in Harrisburg.

27:29 - This I'm Dave Williams, your host here in Pennsylvania.

27:33 - Country roads.

27:34 - Come and join us every Sunday morning at 7 a.m.

27:37 - on PCN TV as we travel throughout the countryside

27:41 - of Pennsylvania, bring you those heartland stories

27:45 - about the places we love to visit and the people we love to meet.

27:49 - Everything that makes Pennsylvania such a great place to live.

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