My Year as Susquehanna County Dairy Princess

 

My name is Taylor Sebring, Susquehanna County Dairy Princess. My parents Brad and Cindy Sebring, and my four siblings, Dylan, Alexis, Madyson, and my twin sister, Samantha resides on our farm in Dalton. We all live and work on our farm, Sebring Family Farms. I’m currently in the eleventh grade attending Abington Heights High School. Along with attending school, I have a part time job and attend church at Peckville Assembly of God. I participate in 4-H raising and showing livestock and dairy animals and have had the honor of being the 2015-2016 Susquehanna County Dairy Princess.

I was first introduced to the Susquehanna County Dairy Promotion Program by Katrina Vidota, a fellow dairy promoter, currently reigning as a Dairy Ambassador in Susquehanna County. It took me a year to actually get involved in the program and there is not a day that goes by that I do not appreciate all that this program offers and does for me.

Throughout my reign I have had the opportunity to work with both children and adults promoting the dairy industry in Susquehanna County. Some of the highlights was meeting and having ice cream with the Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Russell Redding, making many new long-lasting relationships, and most of all, promoting the fabulous dairy industry! Although my reign is coming to a close soon I plan to still be involved in the dairy promotion program as a committee member helping the dairy promotion court during their upcoming promotion year.

This program has taught me responsibility, leadership, confidence, patience, and so much more! I was so blessed by having this experience and now I will pass my crown on to a new Princess who will take this and so much more from the dairy promotion program.

Members of the 2016-2017 Court will include Brooke Marvin to be crowned Dairy Princess, Dairy Ambassadors Emory Bewley, Alivia Hughes, Elizabeth Chidester, Dana Nunemacher, Mary Catherine Chidester, Krista Jones and Kendra Brant. Joining these girls as Dairy Maids are Katelyn Farley, Kaelynn Brant and Courtney Marvin.

I would like to invite family and friends of the dairy industry to attend the 2016 Susquehanna County Dairy Princess Pageant. This event will be held at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall on Church Street in Montrose on May 27^th, at 7:30 P.M.

Hope you can join us at this year’s pageant and don't forget your 3-Every-Day servings of dairy!

 

 

Blue Ridge Pre-K Visit Brant’s Dairy Farm

Submitted by Kendra Brant, Susquehanna County Dairy Maid

The Blue Ridge Pre-K students made their annual field trip to Brant’s Dairy Farm on the morning of March 24, 2016.  The kids came to learn how the farm works and what we do every day.

Dairy Promoters Kaelynn B. and Katrina V. visit
with Pre-K students.

I am Kendra Brant, a Susquehanna County Dairy Maid and 6^th grade Blue Ridge student. I was joined that morning at my family farm with Brooke Marvin, Alternate Susquehanna County Dairy Princess as well as Katrina Vidota, the Dairy Ambassador, and my sister Kaelynn Brant, also a Dairy Maid.  Evie Goff heads up the Susquehanna County Dairy Promotion program and helped get everything organized to go smoothly that morning. My parents Keith and Pam, and brother, Kyle, were also there helping at stations throughout the farm.

Blue Ridge Pre-K students and teachers at Brant's Dairy Farm.

I spoke to the students about the baby calves.  We discussed what the calves eat and drink.  We also talked about their ages and how old they have to be to move to a different pen.  Kaelynn and Katrina’s station focused on milking the cows and they showed students how to put the milkers on the cows and how the milk gets transported through the pipeline to the milk house.  Brooke talked with the kids about the milk storage, how it is put in the tank and then leaves the farm and heads to the milk plant.  Our employees Maria Diaz and Lisa Zurn also helped out at the stations. Maria spoke to the children about what the cows get to eat to help them make the most milk and Lisa helped me at the calf station. My brother and father showed students the farm tractors and helped them get up in them to pretend drive. The students were able to play on a large hay fort that my dad had built for the occasion.   

Christopher K. learns about
the milking a cow!

When we finished the stations, everyone had some snacks.  We enjoyed a dairy treat, Gogurt, and the kids were reminded to have 3 servings of dairy per day.   At the end, we had a huge Easter egg hunt in the yard.

My family and I plan on continuing to partner with Blue Ridge and give young children the opportunity to visit a working dairy farm.  It was a great day and there were many smiling kids who enjoyed it.