DlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28,1981
LEESPORT Herbert A.
Wetzel, Berks County Extension
agent on Penn State’s Extension
Service staff, has been named
county Extension director, ef
fective March 1.
Maryland dairymen
hold line on milk
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Supply
side economics and management
are nothing new for progressive
Maryland livestock farmers, notes
John W. Wysong, Extension farm
management specialist and
professor of agricultural
economics at the University of
Maryland
In recent years, dairymen in the
Old Lane State have unproved their
on-farm efficiency through
“reallocating processes,” Wysong
says, and they set a new state
record of 12,358 pounds of milk per
cow in 1980.
At the same tune, they have
restrained their total marketable
milk production largely in line with
changing total consumer demands
for Class I fluid milk and dairy
product uses in the Mid-Atlantic
milk marketing area
However, at the national level,
dairy farmers in 1980 set an all
time record output of 128.1 billion
pounds of milk with a record
average production of 11,827
pounds per cow This represented
a net expansion of nearly 12 billion
pounds of milk from just five year.:
earlier, Wysong points out.
Last year’s high U S. production
has resulted in a softening of
manufactured milk prices at
wholesale and a buildup of federal
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Wetzel to serve as Berks extension director
Thomas B. King, Penn State
associate dean for extension,
points out that Mr. Wetzel is
responsible for program coor
dination of the Berks County
government commercial storage
holdings, Wysong observes
As a result, milk prices relative
to other animal product pnces
such as beef, lamb, pork and
broiiers-are being reviewed by the
Reagan administration for
possible changes in the support
price levels in Ime with estimated
production costs and historical
parity price relationships.
Class I utilization of fluid milk in
the Mid-Atlantic milk marketing
area (Federal Order 4) has
declined from about 65 percent in
1970 to about 51 percent in 1980 as
total production in the area has
expanded, Dr Wysong points out
These total production increases
occurred even though Class 1
poundage for fluid uses declined
Per capita demand tor fluid milk
also declined during this period to
offset population and consumer
income gains
Meanwhile, Class 11 utilization
increased shaiply from 1970 to 1980
as production of cheese, butter and
dried nonfat milk powder ex
panded to meet market
requirements
This expansion in Mid-Atlantic
area milk output since 1970 has
occurred principally in Penn
sylvania, Wysong says
Extension Service He succeeds
James F Haldemair who retired
last August
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A native of Orrtanna, Adams
County, he has been a member of
the Berks County staff since 1961.
He also served in Delaware and
Northampton counties from 1957 to
1961 and was an officer m the U S
Army.
Wetzel received a bachelor of
science degree in agronomy from
Penn State in 1957 and is com
pleting requirements for a master
of agriculture degree in Extension
education, also at Penn State.
The new county Extension
director coordinates educational
programs for fruit growers in
southeastern Pennsylvania. He
also conducts Christmas tree
cultural programs for growers in
Berks and Schuylkill counties.
Wetzel assisted in the
development of community garden
projects for approximately 400
county residents who grow
vegetables oh land provided by the
County Commissioners and City of
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The Extension agent coaches the
Berks County 4-H vegetable
judging team. He also wi rked with
the area Extension marketing
agent m developing a 4-H tailgate
vegetable marketing program.
Wetzel organized and conducted
a senes of schools for fruit and
mushroom growers, along with
their sons and daughters.
IN 1975 he was state winner of
the' O.M. Scott Professional Im
provement Program for his
educational horticultural
programming.
The agent is a member of the
Pennsylvania and National
Associations of County
Agricultural Agents, Epsilon
Sigma Phi society, and Penn State
Alumni Association.
He is mamed to the former
Patricia Ann Donegan, of
Nesquehoning. They are the
parents of two sons
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