—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 23, 1976
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LeHi co-op in $l-million
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -
Initiation of a $1 million
plant and equipment im
provement program aimed
at maintaining the
momentum of its recently
achieved profitable position
has been announced by
Lehigh Valley Cooperative
Fanners, according to a
Philadelphia based public
relations firm.
Robert P. Barry,
president, said the in
vestment is being made to
achieve operating cost ef
ficiencies and increase
productivity in an effort to
sustain the turn-around of
the dairy which, only two
years ago, was apparently
on the brink of financial ruin.
Barry took over
management of the finan
cially troubled cooperative
in 1974 when a $3 million loss
was racked up. Since then,
LeHi has experienced a
remarkable recovery,
capped recently by the
announcement of the
cooperative’s first profitable.
quarter.
As a reorganized
management team and
aggressive marketing
programs took hold,
production efficiency and
equipment improvement
Pork show held
Plainfield, Pa. - Entries in
the 1976 Fall Quality Pork
Show which was sponsored
by the South Central Penn
sylvania Pork Producers
Association were judged and
displayed at The Country
Butcher, here, on October
19th.
The first place lightweight
and grand champion of the
show was a 220-pound gilt
exhibited by William lie,
Newburg, Rl. Carcass data
on the champion is as
follows: Backfat 1.1 inches,
length 29.7 inches, lion-eye
area 4.8 square inches and a
ham-loin percentage of 44.4.
The first place
heavyweight and reserve
champion was a 234-pound
Market news explained
NEW YORK, N.Y. - News
about the movement, supply
and demand, and prices
prevailing on the market for
poultry and eggs is a must
for anyone in the business.
To aid those producing,
selling and buying poultry
and eggs, the U.S. Dept, of
Agriculture’s Agricultural
Marketing Service has
released a brochure ex
plaining the market news
service; where and how it
collects market news; "and
how it is disseminated. The
improvement program
became critical in the profit
picture, Barry explained.
The volume of milk
business is reported to be up
by 30 per cent, and a $200,000
capital program was
dertaken in the Lansdale,
Pa., plant to improve
production of blow molded
plastic bottles and to provide
uniform bottling of milk.
The original molds, which
produced a slightly over
sized bottle, were replaced to
produce a perfect container
which includes a handle
shaped out of one comer.
These new bottles are lighter
and require almost 10 per
cent less plastic resin.
Capacity of each machine
has been increased from 20
to 28 bottles per minute, with
the additional output also
available for sale to other
dairies.
With the addition of the
Dolly Madison label to its ice
cream line, extensive
renovations have been un
dertaken in the ice cream
department at the Allentown
plant. Long-neglected
refrigeration equipment,
which under previous
management had received
band-aid maintenance, has
been completely over
hauled, resulting in a jump
gilt exhibited by Clyde
Strock of Mechanicsburg R 2.
Carcass data on the reserve
champion was: Backfat 1.2
inches, length 31.0 inches,
loin-eye area 4.7 square
inches, and a ham-loin
percentage of 41.8.
Other placings in the
lightweight class were 2nd
Steve Keefer, York Springs
R 2; 3rd Daryl Sheiss,
Chambersburg R 5; 4th
Morton Hulse, Aspers Rl;
and sth Steve Keefer, York
Springs R 2.
In the heavyweight class: -
2nd BDM Pork Producers,
Littlestown Rl; 3rd Kenneth
Ketterer, Newville R 2; 4th
BDM Pork Producers, sth
Kenneth Ketterer.
brochure alos lists the ad
dresses and telephone
numbers of AMS’ 26 poultry
and egg market news offices.
In addition, a glossary of
terms used in federal-state
market news reports is given
for those who may not be
familiar with all of them.
For a free copy of “The
Market News Service on
Poultry and Eggs,” write to:
Information Divison, AMS,
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, 26
Federal Plaza, (Room 1653),
New York, N.Y. 10007.
in efficiency and operating
cost reductions, Lehigh
spokesmen announced.
In the processing of cot
tage cheese, standard
operating procedure was to
heat treat skimmed milk,
used in its manufacture, not
once but twice, causing a
reduction in yield. Given the
green light on im
provements, plant engineers
came up with a combination
of some new equipment and
re-engineering of present
machines to develop a new
flow control enabling the
milk to be separated and
sent directly to the
pasteurizer in one operation.
This has served to increase
yield and reduce overtime.
To meet increased volume
of cottage cheese business,
plans are now under way for
expansion of the packaging
line. When completed, the
improvements will bring
capability in cottage cheese
packaging up to 60,000
pounds per day with a
projected potential of 200,000
pounds daily.
Other equipment 'in-'
novations have given LeHi
increased flexibility in the
filling of drums as specified
by customers for shipment of
bard cheese. Engineers also
developed and incorporated
into the equipment a unique
method of removing the
whey from drums, cutting
handling time considerably.
ATTENTION DAIRYMEN
Kick off your fall
and winter cow
feeding program on
yy? the "right foot”.
A Now is the time to
adapt your grain
rST - ration to your new
roughage program in
igr order to reach your
9 winter milk
jl production goal.
- YOU SHOULD ■
* Adjust protein to a proper point, but not an
excessive amount because protein ingredients
are likely to be expensive.
* Provide enough T.D.N. to enable your fresh
cows to peak properly and maintain a high level
of production.
* Insure adequate fiber intake to maintain goock
butterfat output.
‘Regulate proper Calcium and Phosphorus
intake and ratios in your total ration, including
roughages, to aid in keeping your herd healthy
while maintaining high levels of milk production.
The above items are all on our
Dairy Nutrition Programming check list. In
addition, we use Brown & Rea and Red Rose
products fortified with Carnation Lab Mix to
insure adequate Vitamin and Trace Mineral
fortification in a ration “tailor made” for your
herd and available roughage and gram.
If you wish to have an analysis and
program recommendation made, please
call for an appointment.
Red Rose
ANIMAL FEEDS
BROWN & REA, INC.
As an off-shoot of the
facility improvement
program, the development of
a procedure to recycle so
called “cow water” for
steam was a bonanza to the
tune of saving LeHi between
sBo,oooand $lOO,OOO a year in
its heating bill, the
cooperative claims.
Whey, a by-product of
cheese manufacture, is 52
pef cent water. The whey is
condensed into its solid
material by evaporating the
moisture, called cow water.
This previously was
dissipated into the at
mosphere. Now, the cow
water is returned to the plant
boilers to produce steam.
An added advantage is the
fact that cow water returned
to the boilers'does not have
to undergo heating since it is
already at 180 degrees, as.
opposed to city water which
is received at about 50
degrees. Furthermore,
because the cow water has
already been processed,
chemical additives used with
city water have -been
eliminated.
Lehigh Valley, which
represents 600 farmers, is
both a manufacturing and
marketing cooperative and
distributes a full line of dairy
products in five Mid-Atlantic
states. Sale in fiscal 1976 are
expected to reach the $lOO
million mark, Barry has
stated.
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