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00:36 - Dave Williams your host here in Pennsylvania country roads as we

00:39 - were going to head up the tioga county fair

00:42 - where dairy cattle are very prominent

00:44 - and of course we're going to have the opportunity to talk to some dairy farmers

00:47 - and so much more up there

00:49 - and also then we're gonna have the opportunity to talk

00:52 - David Smith

00:53 - because he heads up the Pennsylvania Germans associate only

00:57 - much more

00:58 - right here in Pennsylvania country roads every Sunday morning

01:01 - at seven am.

01:05 - Oh

01:09 - you know

01:09 - one of the interesting things with the

01:12 - first citizens community bank is

01:14 - a lot of our lenders a lot of the team that we have

01:18 - can

01:18 - continue to be involved in agriculture today

01:21 - i think that positions us very unique equally

01:24 - compared to a lot of our competition because we are heavily involved in agriculture

01:28 - and we understand what our customers are experiencing

01:31 - the people there

01:33 - treated.

01:34 - Like more than just a number

01:36 - it took an interest in while we were doing

01:38 - and

01:39 - there's much more of a personal relationship and we've experienced a lot of banks

01:43 - we talk to men banks about this

01:45 - about how to finance our

01:46 - our new opportunity.

01:48 - It was just.

01:50 - Far and away the best fit for us

01:51 - to use for citizens.

01:53 - As challenges arise.

01:56 - There's no one better to help you than people

01:58 - that are farmers themselves and at first citizens

02:00 - they're farmers

02:01 - so why not deal with

02:02 - people who understand what you're going through it.

02:05 - Welcome back and today i got two young ladies up here in tioga county fair

02:10 - and actually your name is

02:12 - Nicole black

02:13 - Simone like d

02:15 - and of course

02:15 - Maltese the best friend's ride

02:18 - and bolted show called

02:19 - yes you do

02:21 - you have a favorite breed

02:23 - red and white.

02:24 - Yep

02:25 - graduate all states no wonder you get along yeah

02:29 - but you know

02:30 - really

02:30 - this beer is a special player.

02:33 - It is and we've been coming here for twenty six plus years

02:37 - showing our dairy cow with it

02:39 - my favorite week of the year

02:40 - when did you start showing your first Derrick

02:43 - do you have any idea how old you are

02:45 - i was six or seven i'm pretty sure it was a probably be like nine.

02:49 - Years

02:50 - or when you could start worrying.

02:52 - About eight years.

02:54 - Your dad is actually president of the bank

02:56 - but.

02:57 - Yes yeah

02:58 - a

02:59 - chuckling.

03:00 - He

03:01 - his hands and clothes dirty all week.

03:04 - I actually worked for him at

03:05 - first citizens community bank as well.

03:08 - Last year i was here and you're abortion cow.

03:12 - Think you're down there.

03:13 - Doing your laundry

03:14 - yes oh yeah we probably both are down there.

03:20 - Are you both

03:21 - interested in the egg business or not

03:23 - oh absolutely i actually met with forty cows twice a day with my

03:27 - dad and my brother.

03:29 - Something we enjoy doing together

03:31 - as a family thing.

03:32 - You don't want somebody gets involved in

03:34 - Hawaii born and raised in the dairy business so

03:37 - i know

03:37 - the feeling you know i like to go into born earlier.

03:40 - Watch the sun come up you know

03:42 - it's pretty peaceful.

03:45 - And

03:45 - you know the canals become your friends do

03:48 - they do we get pretty attached which.

03:51 - Don't it's almost too attached cause they're part of the family

03:55 - because you're caring for them daily or worry about them

03:57 - but.

03:58 - Yeah it's it's definitely rewarding to do

04:01 - i just did a master farmer the other day and his wife told me

04:04 - he thinks more of them cows and he doesn't make.

04:07 - I could probably go for that.

04:09 - You can relate yup oh yeah.

04:12 - But you know

04:13 - accords up here

04:14 - the opportunity is so great you know there's so many cows Europe despair.

04:18 - Many pairs i go to the struggle to have dairy cows than that

04:22 - but here we're fortunate enough to have a great deal and

04:25 - a

04:25 - lot of hogs a lot of everything

04:27 - and

04:28 - then of course the

04:29 - even the old antique writer tumor that's right

04:32 - we liked the antique tractors yep.

04:36 - What is your favorite part of a pair.

04:39 - I

04:40 - think it's the community like when we when we finally get to like see everybody like

04:44 - farmers don't get to have the time to see and visit everybody we have to get up early

04:48 - we have to go to work we have to get

04:50 - night chores

04:51 - and we're trying to do field work so we don't really get that time to

04:54 - be together and so this is like the one week where

04:56 - we you know we get to catch up we sit and chat

04:59 - a lot

04:59 - you can go on the dairy bar you see a lot of

05:01 - farmers sit and chat and

05:03 - that's probably the one time they finally get to visit.

05:06 - Or

05:06 - how about you

05:07 - i would have to say the same and then the memories

05:10 - we make along with it i mean it's a lot of work and

05:13 - the long week but it is definitely worth it for everything we

05:16 - take with

05:17 - kind of like

05:18 - old home week

05:19 - yes

05:19 - exactly what it is

05:21 - yeah.

05:22 - People you haven't seen in years and

05:24 - you

05:25 - it's just great to see the neighbors you know really is.

05:29 - The only time you see the neighbors

05:31 - yeah yup.

05:34 - Well i want to thank both

05:35 - for coming on

05:36 - for having us it'll be showing the house today.

05:40 - I don't see if i can get you out of a room.

05:43 - Yeah

05:44 - there's the tioga county fair couple of the girls that really love farm and

05:49 - they love animals

05:50 - and of course

05:51 - they love the dairy industry

05:52 - it's all about tomorrow

05:54 - we'll be right back

05:55 - Pennsylvania farm bureau's about four of them farming

05:58 - where people united around food the environment and community

06:02 - are better others include forms of every size and type across the state

06:06 - as well as families

06:07 - want to be a part of the state's local food culture

06:10 - we advocate for foreign families to continue

06:13 - to produce quality food for their neighbors

06:15 - and for rural communities to have the tools they need to thrive

06:19 - Pennsylvania farm bureau

06:21 - growing communities many voice Isis

06:23 - united vision.

06:25 - Welcome back and we're still a pair of tioga county fair and of course the.

06:29 - Doorman i see every year up here you want to tell me your name

06:33 - i'm married coolidge

06:34 - and

06:35 - we have a farm here in the

06:36 - county and i had the privilege to serve your.

06:39 - County for twenty eight years as a county commissioner

06:42 - well you know

06:42 - how many years have you been coming to the fair.

06:45 - Oh

06:46 - goodness now we're dating

06:48 - myself a little bit.

06:50 - At seventy two i

06:51 - would suggest about fifty years

06:54 - and now you're your children actually show here right

06:57 - well we've gone through our children now we're into our grandchildren.

07:01 - So it's a pleasure because

07:04 - yes

07:05 - there's competition in all of that is important

07:07 - but i will tell you it's the experience that

07:10 - the fair and for each and all of the involved

07:14 - is what makes it worthwhile

07:15 - the tourists you know people don't realize.

07:19 - Fair not only do you learn where your food comes from

07:22 - but it's the opportunity to see so much more you know

07:25 - a little bit of music

07:27 - little bit of drag and Poland competition

07:29 - but you really get to meet the farmers and you know

07:32 - there's

07:33 - thousands and thousands of

07:35 - lawyers out there

07:36 - thousands and thousands of doctors but there ain't that many farmers anymore

07:41 - it's important that we do have the connection

07:44 - with

07:45 - the place of origin where your food comes from

07:47 - and the confidence

07:49 - you have in that place of origin

07:50 - but more importantly we relate to the public

07:54 - by having programs such as this the fair

07:57 - that let them touch see feel and hear

08:00 - what's going on

08:01 - AI community

08:02 - you can't believe how many times

08:03 - players i see people from the city

08:06 - i can tell by your license

08:08 - and they'll walk right up just to touch your town.

08:12 - Last night there were two little

08:13 - children they were afraid

08:16 - and we ship

08:17 - would you like to pet the capital know

08:19 - but yes they did want to

08:21 - so

08:21 - it was laying down

08:23 - and we

08:24 - worked him

08:24 - so they could get close

08:26 - and they

08:27 - they went away with a smile

08:28 - so they've had to but there have been adults to do the same thing.

08:32 - Well you know what i love to see.

08:34 - So many fairs and that you'll see the boys and girls

08:38 - laying up against their cows

08:39 - taking a nap

08:41 - and

08:41 - to shows the connection.

08:45 - Country fair

08:47 - is really about

08:48 - america

08:49 - all right.

08:49 - You said it most appropriately.

08:52 - You know

08:53 - when a cowlings into you a little bit we're

08:55 - standing here ready to go into the ring or something

08:57 - then they put their face against yours

08:59 - the public needs to understand that's where we come from

09:03 - a gentleman use this phrase and I've repeated it

09:06 - i wish i would have coined it i did not

09:09 - but he was pretending

09:10 - one of the egg organizations I've been part of

09:13 - and he

09:14 - was speaking

09:15 - to all of us let me stop

09:16 - mid sentence he said.

09:18 - If i were to tell you

09:20 - the fact.

09:21 - That

09:21 - just about everything i own

09:24 - i owe to a cop

09:25 - and that's from the dairy side of it or from beef or whatever

09:29 - and boy did he make a statement when he said that

09:32 - and i

09:33 - carried it forward i repeated it i don't take ownership

09:35 - but i certainly appreciate

09:37 - the way he's spoken.

09:39 - The great part of the former.

09:42 - Are true

09:43 - and when you interview.

09:48 - There's really

09:49 - a reason why we should good because

09:51 - in agriculture it's not something you do for money it's

09:55 - something that you do because it's part of who you are

09:59 - and it's a

10:00 - it's the fabric

10:01 - of what makes agriculture what it is

10:03 - you you

10:04 - make an investment of not just money

10:06 - but yourself

10:07 - and then when you see generation

10:09 - our son is

10:11 - immigration new pool the tolo.

10:13 - Eighteen my father went back to eighteen forty three that was about ten years ago to

10:17 - eighteen well yeah we're well over.

10:21 - Eighteen forty three of

10:23 - forty three is not too many years

10:24 - from now will be two hundred years.

10:29 - Forty two.

10:31 - I still have

10:32 - the

10:33 - fifth generation.

10:35 - Like you know

10:36 - or my grandson should

10:37 - actually be said

10:39 - but

10:40 - it's all about tomorrow

10:41 - and it's all about a

10:43 - good friend of cow right you're behind

10:45 - that's one of our grandchildren's cows

10:47 - listening to our conversation i think she agrees

10:50 - with what we're saying.

10:52 - Yeah like i said

10:55 - it's always a pleasure my friend it's always a

10:57 - pleasure to see you thank you for your contribution

11:00 - and your promotion of who we are

11:01 - in the akin.

11:03 - Matters my friend

11:04 - believe it or not

11:05 - i got a little bit of lines

11:06 - this morning but that's fine

11:08 - and I'll tell you what.

11:11 - I enjoy fun.

11:12 - We've known one another for many years and you've always been

11:15 - that steady constant

11:17 - communication

11:18 - on behalf of what makes our

11:20 - our agriculture important to the public

11:22 - you help share that message

11:24 - thank you for doing it my friend important to me

11:26 - i know it is.

11:28 - At the tioga county fair another gentleman

11:31 - playing a big role in agriculture

11:33 - and continue.

12:04 - Working bag and we're still appeared tioga county fair and i got a man that

12:08 - plays a big role in agriculture up here and a

12:11 - painter how you doing.

12:12 - Good afternoon Dave i'm doing well so always apply

12:15 - the theater per

12:17 - well it's always a pleasure to come up

12:19 - with so many people up there.

12:21 - Farming community and you know

12:23 - friendship with everybody you know and

12:26 - over the years we've seen so many great people here

12:28 - and

12:29 - no

12:30 - state officer epa pages one.

12:33 - Reserve

12:34 - champion hard you know

12:36 - and things like that

12:37 - it really make a difference but the camel here

12:40 - unbelievable amount of can

12:42 - all we have our show keeps growing all the livestock

12:45 - animals keeps growing and we get kids from all over and

12:49 - truly an old fashioned hi Lloyd agriculture type of barrier.

12:53 - Really is you know and

12:55 - it's not.

12:57 - High key there's not a lot of bark or anything like that around

13:00 - it's just really an old fashioned fair and you hit it right on the nail head

13:05 - but of course

13:05 - you know

13:06 - people here are proud to show the canal.

13:09 - You can tell.

13:11 - Young girls.

13:13 - I say i'm all out there showing them kettle

13:16 - oh it's interesting fun to watch like you say

13:19 - yesterday was the sheep and the beef show and there

13:21 - were kids all the way down i think five or six

13:25 - were showing their animals and then.

13:28 - There there was a person in the ring there

13:30 - you know was well up into their seventies you know and

13:32 - i think you'll see it here with the dairy show you know

13:35 - people are pretty dedicated to their breed and

13:37 - generational type thing people have gone out and done this for years and

13:41 - they it's

13:42 - it's kind of part of the legislator.

13:44 - Parties we got

13:45 - a real audience.

13:47 - We do have

13:48 - one audience behind us there so

13:50 - this is a group workout

13:52 - done by a family with multi generations here and

13:54 - the grandfather killed here and the parents and

13:57 - now the grandkids are showing.

14:00 - That's what it's all about.

14:01 - I know you know.

14:04 - You've been part of the farming community through the generations

14:07 - and of course.

14:08 - Still on it

14:09 - all

14:10 - i love what we do you know and

14:12 - there are certain days that we

14:13 - like all farms you have days that you don't like what you do but you kind of

14:17 - make for a tough day but you love what you do so you keep doing it and

14:21 - i think the agricultural family is

14:23 - just helps ending it I'll be

14:24 - trying to look out for each other and each other's kids and their grandkids and

14:29 - and

14:29 - yesterday my little grandson history and he kind of snuck away and

14:33 - and everybody was kind of in a panic and

14:36 - my son said the voice and

14:38 - he'll be our he'll show up here nah he was under the bleachers right you're not ten

14:42 - feet away playing with some other kid.

14:47 - Watson interview

14:48 - absolutely.

14:50 - Yeah.

14:51 - I'm sure if she could talk or become interested

14:54 - in the story she could tell.

14:56 - Fair.

14:58 - Share to

14:59 - well

14:59 - then i look towards i always feel at home around these

15:02 - cows and i was born and raised in the dairy industry

15:05 - but

15:05 - this is a great fare

15:07 - great people

15:08 - and so many people that try to help me the other

15:11 - one showmanship and everything else are really

15:14 - a great area

15:15 - gentlemen.

15:16 - You're welcome thanks for coming

15:18 - John painter

15:19 - was a farmer up here in tioga county

15:21 - that is really

15:22 - about tomorrow

15:23 - wherever you're at.

15:28 - My dad and i both have a csp contract

15:31 - but.

15:33 - Check.

15:35 - For us to get paid

15:37 - we're going through a very bad economic times

15:39 - if we don't have the funds to support our conservation practice we're going to see

15:43 - major

15:44 - drop off

15:45 - producers

15:46 - us agriculture.

15:49 - I got a young family

15:50 - business.

15:53 - Welcome back and did they read the app to go and talk to a friend of mine

15:57 - Brenda agriculture

15:58 - statesmen are you doing

16:00 - i'm doing well it's great day

16:02 - but you know were talking on the radio a lot

16:04 - but don't get to see each other that much

16:06 - but you know

16:06 - we're here at the fiftieth anniversary bag progress day

16:10 - great display of a culture isn't it

16:12 - what is

16:13 - it fifty years is so cool i know they had it before and it was rotating around

16:18 - fifty years at this one spot and

16:20 - all that history of of new things every year

16:23 - some of those new things fifty years ago are just a

16:26 - different and now dated now we have incredibly is there a museum that

16:30 - yeah

16:31 - there's there the museum fifty or yes

16:33 - you're right you're right.

16:35 - Yeah you know

16:36 - i remember when i first started milking cows we had the

16:39 - milk cans

16:41 - and

16:41 - carried the milk out and pour the milk into a strainer

16:44 - but the

16:45 - days are long gone

16:46 - and

16:47 - modernization

16:49 - every

16:49 - ten twelve years to make it

16:51 - a little bit easier

16:52 - well you know that's what this is all about it's about showcasing

16:56 - all the newest technology for agriculture.

16:59 - You know the new practices

17:01 - so many different companies in penn state you know there's a land Grant university.

17:06 - Sharing a lot of their information to these farmers

17:09 - these farmers are coming here to learn

17:10 - do they want to learn how to to to make their

17:12 - businesses better and grow better crops and

17:15 - and take care of their cattle better and when they

17:17 - get together like that it don't matter whether

17:19 - politics whether it's

17:20 - religion or anything else they all get along

17:23 - well they're they're passionate about

17:25 - forming about the about

17:26 - producing the food and the fiber they really are they

17:29 - evident an interest they have a natural interest the farmers do

17:33 - and you know

17:33 - the rape part of it is here.

17:36 - You see things that you never could see any place else

17:39 - you know

17:40 - they actually have a

17:42 - display here of all the newest things

17:44 - which i haven't found yet but i'm going to find it today

17:47 - well it's a big place so there's a lot of things

17:49 - a lot of different things here you know and

17:51 - it's

17:52 - it's the whole ag industry in the the mid Atlantic states

17:55 - pulling together either and and showcasing what's new

17:58 - you know the first drive to Riyadh or

18:00 - as i did when i was a kid.

18:02 - Had a crank.

18:04 - The crank and f twenty tried to

18:06 - edit cry get this started

18:08 - and

18:09 - the day

18:10 - you know

18:10 - everything from air conditioning

18:12 - GPS you name it they got it right

18:15 - well

18:16 - that's amazing to me and you know you mentioned about tracks and

18:20 - the way things were

18:21 - so many things are electronic now you mentioned GPS.

18:25 - One of the neat things that is is a

18:27 - relatively new or last five ten years this

18:30 - is an

18:31 - automatic steering i mean they can they can plug in their position with this GPS

18:36 - systems

18:37 - and they can take your hands.

18:39 - Until you get to the end of the row

18:40 - but you can you can take your your your hands off the wheel

18:44 - and it

18:44 - that it will steer that tractor within

18:47 - fractions of an inch of the where it's supposed to go perfect bro

18:50 - yes it is it is

18:52 - and of course that relates back then when

18:54 - cultivation or whatever might be or even

18:56 - that when you harvest a crop

18:58 - you don't have to zigzag

19:00 - zag back.

19:02 - So

19:03 - back in the day when you did some things that

19:04 - probably fell asleep sometimes on your on there well

19:07 - that's the fear now you know if they have this this

19:10 - automatic steering that you don't fall asleep because

19:13 - you do need to monitor some things but there's a trust

19:16 - that

19:16 - one

19:17 - when i was a boy

19:18 - we had horses.

19:20 - We'd planted corn records

19:21 - sure

19:22 - and

19:23 - and of course

19:24 - showing that you're a good horseman was how straight the robot

19:27 - okay

19:28 - that's how they measure whether you're good

19:30 - or not that's right yeah

19:31 - and of course you know as the years go on you see so much change for the better

19:36 - then i think about it

19:37 - you know.

19:39 - Milk for instance you know

19:41 - i can remember when

19:42 - we had power outages or a blizzard i remember

19:45 - a blizzard in particular

19:47 - and

19:47 - of course all that milky eps or what you know because it just didn't stay

19:52 - so we ended up taking all the cream

19:54 - and i my job would turn into butter

19:57 - well now you know

19:58 - you don't have to churn that butter by hand yeah well

20:01 - there's so much technology and mechanism.

20:04 - We were talking about our amazement of things and

20:07 - i i just.

20:09 - I just sit back sometimes and you know the

20:11 - things that we've seen in the last ten years

20:14 - to advanced production practices and things like that

20:17 - what the future may hold is is is absolutely amazing because

20:22 - of

20:23 - it's become more efficient in the acres they use and

20:27 - i i think production increases will continue

20:30 - and it's it's just the the efficiency of the systems and the farmers

20:34 - and they're striving for to make it a better world and of course shows like this

20:38 - they teach farmers how to use less pesticides

20:41 - herbicides and things of that nature nature

20:44 - and how to grow better crops

20:45 - and and how to take care of your land you know that land

20:49 - is back to you

20:50 - and the more you learn

20:52 - especially you know

20:53 - penn state's her.

20:55 - Is i really are

20:56 - a special place in my heart because of what it is

21:00 - but you know

21:00 - so many people don't realize

21:02 - that penn state it

21:03 - is our land Grant college

21:05 - and started all the way back when Abraham Lincoln

21:08 - and if you

21:09 - go through the years you now they were agriculture school before that

21:13 - but.

21:14 - They were the second.

21:16 - Land Grant college in the united states.

21:19 - Well that as you mentioned the the land can't land Grant concept is that

21:25 - there are specific focuses on the production of food for our sliding

21:29 - and and that's their mission.

21:31 - Is to continue that advancement

21:34 - and it is so important for our society

21:36 - to overcome the problems.

21:38 - They do to figure out the problems

21:40 - that make it better

21:42 - on

21:42 - the farm yeah.

21:44 - Well Dave i want to thank you for coming on

21:46 - well thank you for having me David is always a joy yeah well

21:49 - it's always a pleasure totty and of course it's all about

21:52 - the future record

21:53 - it is.

21:55 - In the future or populations.

21:58 - But

21:58 - you know when you see countries that don't

22:00 - have enough food you realize how likely we are.

22:03 - You're correct.

22:05 - Here at the fiftieth anniversary of of

22:07 - ag progress days

22:09 - they Smith played a big role over the years with farming

22:12 - and still forming today

22:14 - and of course

22:15 - it's all about tomorrow and agriculture

22:17 - will be right back.

22:19 - Everything i do in life i try to do for my

22:21 - community and make my community a better place

22:24 - and that's why i

22:25 - work

22:25 - natural gas and oil.

22:27 - My job is essentially reviewing data and evaluating technology

22:30 - and innovations to try to reduce our operating costs

22:33 - improve our operational efficiency and

22:35 - lower our environmental impacts

22:37 - this is basically my backyard looking into the environmental

22:40 - impacts we have on what i can do to make it cleaner

22:42 - just keep northeast Pennsylvania a great place.

22:49 - Welcome back and they were here at ag progress days

22:52 - fifty years of progress in agriculture and i had two

22:55 - young people that

22:56 - are going to play a role in the future of agriculture and

22:59 - your name

23:00 - my name's Garrett called mk

23:02 - and you're

23:03 - i'm serving as this year's

23:05 - Pennsylvania

23:05 - a state sentinel

23:06 - from tioga county

23:08 - so you

23:08 - kind of keeping on

23:10 - what did you say you keep them in line oh yeah you know i try my best i can

23:14 - it's hard with this group sometimes

23:17 - and you're

23:17 - i'm Kayla hide

23:19 - alright i'm serving as the.

23:22 - Pa of a state secretary this year secretary oh man you keep the record

23:27 - i do yeah

23:28 - well

23:28 - you know that's what it's all about and ff pay is such a great organization you know

23:33 - you learn a great deal over the years

23:35 - everything from speaking

23:37 - two

23:38 - actually a lot about apartment

23:40 - a lot about people

23:41 - and

23:42 - and working together i think that's the most important thing

23:46 - you know people throughout the country.

23:48 - They look for ffh kids and for age kids

23:51 - to hire them

23:52 - because they get such good

23:53 - work ethic

23:54 - you feel that right

23:55 - oh absolutely i mean it

23:57 - though what I've learned from

23:59 - growing up in ffh

24:01 - starting in sick seventh grade

24:03 - and it led me to

24:05 - apply for chapter office and then i was able to get a job and interview for there so.

24:10 - I

24:11 - if i'm not living proof i know a lot of people out there

24:13 - also look for that so it's very great

24:15 - how'd you get the job of sentinel

24:17 - sentinel so actually there was

24:20 - this year there was twenty five candidates who ran for state office this year for

24:23 - Pennsylvania and Cale and i were luckily lucky

24:26 - enough to be selected as the

24:28 - seven of them this year and.

24:30 - It's a true honor to be able to be a state officer this year especially because

24:34 - one thing that each of us

24:35 - myself and my teammates do throughout the years ago i remember the eighteen eighteen

24:39 - that weren't selected as state officers because

24:41 - we know that they would have done just as much of a good job as we do

24:44 - we hope to do this year and

24:46 - we always remember them because you know they're going

24:48 - to go do great things in whatever area they choose to do

24:51 - but we always try to remember them and just

24:53 - remember how grateful of an opportunity this is.

24:57 - I have the app paternity i i interviewed many ffh students

25:01 - and

25:01 - presidents and all

25:03 - right down the line

25:04 - and they really learn

25:06 - how to be good citizens i think that's one of the major thing

25:09 - and

25:11 - there's a lot more goes to it also but being a state officer

25:15 - puts your way up yeah

25:16 - you really gotta learn a lot.

25:18 - Oh absolutely we try to humble ourselves that way we keep each other in line

25:23 - it's all about.

25:25 - The members

25:26 - now where do you come from

25:27 - so i'm from wellsboro tioga county alright

25:30 - and

25:30 - I'll be up and i always get them on all at the county fair

25:33 - yes sir it's going on right now the sixty cent the sixtieth annual county fair.

25:38 - Well that sounds good to me well yeah

25:41 - you know i

25:42 - covered a lot of bears and tioga county fair

25:44 - as a tremendous amount of dairy animals there

25:47 - and

25:48 - then of course i know a lot of the people that live up that way and

25:51 - i used to be

25:52 - state director and

25:53 - Pennsylvania farm bureau and got to know a lot of

25:55 - great people

25:57 - pretty land up there

25:58 - a lot of good farmers and that's what it's all about

26:01 - i want to thank both years for coming on.

26:04 - Pleasure

26:05 - thank you very much it was an

26:06 - alright

26:07 - my honor and

26:08 - of course.

26:10 - Through our special effort by state officers of Pennsylvania and of course

26:14 - it's all about tomorrow

26:16 - we'll be right back.

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