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108— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 16,1977
Atlantic honors Sam Guss
MOUNT JOY, Pa. - Penn
State University’s former
Extension veterinarian. Dr.
Samual B. Guss, was
honored by Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative last
month for bis contributions
to the cattle breeding in
dustry. The citation was
presented during the
Cooperative’s 13th annual
meeting, held here at
Hostetter’s Dining Hall.
Guss joined the Penn State
staff in 1955 and retired last
year. For more than 20 years
he devoted most of his time
to dairy and livestock health
problems, working closely
with private and public
organizations, such as
Atlantic Breeders. Prior to
his coming to Penn State, he
was a practicing
veterinarian with 12 years of
experience.
The recognition extended
to Guss by Atlantic Breeders
is just one of many citations
the now retired Extension
veterinarian has received.
He has earned the
Pennsylvania Dairymen’s
Association Award, the
American Association of
Extension Veternarians
Award, The Pennsylvania
Veterinary Medical
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FAVORABLE YEAR
REPORTED
The annual meeting was
called to order by Herman
Stebbins, president of the
board of directors for ABC.
Stebbins told the gathering,
which included numerous
Extension personnel from
southeastern Pennsylvania
as well as from Penn State’s
University Park Campus,
that the Cooperative had a
“very favorable business
year during 1976.”
“Atlantic’s 33rd year of
operations, was one of the
most successful in your
Cooperative history. Total
units of semen sold in
creased over 1975 and
progress was achieved £y all
divisions of the daily
operations. For the second
consecutive year, revenue
exceeded $3,M0,000 and the
net margin was over
$500,000.” ABC reported.
A total of 709,3318 units of
semen were marketed by
Atlantic, or two per cent
more than the previous year.
Sam Guss
About half of this volumn
was used through
Professional Technician
service and sales direct-herd
breeders. The other half was
shipped to the Noba and
Louisiana studs in NAL
Affiliated Breeders, other
domestic distributors, and
export distributors. Major
gains in marketing volume
were through direct-herd
breeders and foreign
customers.
Non-return rate on first
services by professional
technicians was 71 per cent
the same level as in 1975.
Hie average professional
technician breeding fee per
service last year was $6.72,
and the service volume by
fee category is as follows: $4
young sires - 5.6 per cent $5
regular - 28.0 per cent; $6
special - 34. 1 per cent; $8
premium - 7.9 per cent; $lO
premium - 23.6 per cent.
Technicians reported
11,959 farm visits in their
continuing quest of more
business, or 60 per cent more
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the Farm Women Calendar.
than a year ago. They also
measured 16,683 cows for the
Mate-Rite program, an 88
per cent gain. During the
year, a unit survey program
was carried out to more
clearly define the potential
for future sales effort and
design effective methods of
follow-up contacts with the
best prospects.
In tiie growing sales effort
outside of Atlantic’s service
area, two additional
domestic distributors and
three foreign distributor
ships were established.
Considerable work was done
to not only complete the
detailed arrangements for
numerous foreign ship
ments, but to also provide
information and training for
overseas customers.
Stebbins noted that
“Although expenses again
increased by 6 per cent, your
Cooperative has paid
another 15 per cent
patronage refund, equal to
the return for 1975. Twenty
cents of each refund-dollar is
returned in cash and the
remaining eighty cents is
issued as a certificate to be
revolved in cash when
declared by the Board of
Directors. The Cooperative’s
financial statement con
tinues to be especially
strong.” Guest speaker for
the program was Dr.
William Baumgardt, head of
the Department of Dairy and
Animal Sciences at Penn
State. His topic was “How
Penn State Relates to the
Animal Industry of the
Future.” He spoke of
existing programs and op
portunities at the College
and what the University had
to offer to the increasing
number of students in
terested in agriculture.
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Deficiency payment not needed
for 1976 com and soybean crop
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Bob Bergland, recently
announced there will be no
deficiency payments made
for 1976-crop corn and
sorghum. Under current
legislation, deficiency
payments are made to
producers when the average
market price received by
farmers for corn and
sorghum during the first five
months of the marketing
year (October-February) is
less than the established
‘target price’.
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years of the program.