Milk dealers review, look ahead
HERSHEY The Pennsylvania
Association of Milk Dealers met
this week at the Hotel Hers hey to
review their 1961 activities and
look toward changes in the future.
One major change the dealers
hope to achieve is the current
workman’s compensation
program. According to insurance
chairman Ray McGarvey, eight
percent of the dealers payroll or $8
per hundredweight goes toward
the program.
“This is a significant amount of
money,” McGarvey explained.
“We’re dealing with the medical
profession and its high cost.”
The rate for the program is set
by the state, said McGarvey. He
explained the state arrives at the
figure by computing an average
which may be high in some regions
of the state and low in others.
McGarvey, who is president of
Meadowforook Dairy in Ene, told
bis fellow dealers that the
association has basically three
alternatives to cut the high coat of
the workman’s compensation
program.
He said the formation of a
captive insurance company,
foreign or domestic could help
reduce costs. He noted that Ber
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but that he did not see a need to
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A second alternative would be to
set up a self-insurance program.
Members would control the fun
ding of the plan and then contract
for services, such as a claims
service. A disadvantage, however,
would result from a large claim or
a successive number of claims
which could wipe out the program.
Pooling or lumping together a
number of insurance companies
may be another way milk dealers
could save money, McGarvey said.
PAMD president Albert Strycula
touched on another topic draining
dealer revenues. Each year, the
loss of milk cases to the general
public costs dealers thousands of
dollars, said Strycula. An amen
dment m the proposed Milk
Sanitation bill will impose more
strict regulations on case use.
However, Strycula added that the
milk case problem resembles
chanty in that “it begins as
home.”
He explained PAMD could
render more programs and ser
vices with additional finances. And
the Milk Marketing Program,
which will be decided by a
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referendum this week, is one
program in which the PAMD
president expressed an interest.
“We want to get into the game
also and not let the farmers carry
the whole ball,’’ be said.
The future of the association,
said Strycula, could find the
PAMD combining milk and ice
cream membership. Presently, the
PAMD carries 53 dealer members
and 30 associate members.
Before the end of the three-day
annual meeting, the PAMD filled
its executive slate for the 1982-43
season. The following is a list of
PAMD officers: President
Albert Strycula, Valley Farms
Dairy; Vice President!eastern)
Thomas A. Laudenslager, Wawa
Dairy Farms; Vice
President (central) Lehman W.
Cnst, Rutter Bros. Dairy; Vice
President! western) James G.
Turner, Turner Dairy Farms;
Secretary Carl A. Colteryahn,
Carl Colteryahn Dairy; Treasurer
Fred B. Dewey, Sr., Harrisburg
Dairies; Executive Vice President
Henry R. Geisinger, PAMD.
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PAMD president Albert Strycula addressed the annual
meeting of milk dealers during their three-day stay at Hotel
Hershey this week. Strycula reviewed legislation and member
activities of 1981.
Angus breeder
wins award
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"Frankie” Flint, a rancher and
registered Angus cattle breeder
from Bard, New Mexico, has been
named seedstock producer of the
year by the Beef Improvement
Federation. The award was
presented to Flint, a pioneer in
performance testing of beef cattle,
during the recent BIF convention
in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Flint, a member of the board of
directors of the American Angus
Association for the past six years,
purchased his first Angus in the
late 19405. The past 30 years his
records show that he has increased
the average weaning weights of his
claves by some 300 pounds.
For 20 years Flint has been
testing bulls at New Mexico State
University’s all breed Tucumcan
test station. During this period the
University’s records show that he
increased on-test weights of his
bulls by 50 pounds and increased
the 140-day off-test weights by 175
pounds. The average daily gam of
his bulls has improved .9 pound per
day and the off-test weight-per
day-of-age of his bulls has in
creased .5 pound. In 1968 he had the
first bull of any breed in New
Mexico to gain 4 pounds per day for
140 days. In the 1971-72 test four of
the bull’s sons had the highest
average daily gam of any sire
group of any breed.
Flint was involved m the
organization of the Beef Im
provement Federation and served
three years on its board of
directors. He has served six years
on the board of directors of the
American Angus Association and
has been chairman of the
Association’s breed improvement
committee. He is a 20-year
member of the New Mexico Beef
Cattle Performance Association
and served two terms as its
chairman
He was on the board of the New
Mexico Angus Association for 15
years and its chairman for 6 years
A member of the New Mexico
Cattle Growers Association for 24
years he also served six years on
their board. In 1980 he was named
cattleman of the year by the New
Mexico Cattle Growers
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