VOL 27 No. 49
It’s been a year of Holstein family affairs
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MANHEIM It wasn’t another
“father-son act,” it was still a'
family affair -in the Holstein
competition at the Manheim Farm
Show Thursday afternoon.
And it took a whole year for-the
family to get their act on the local
dairy show stage,too. ,
Winners of the grand and
reserve championship in the large,
Holstein competition at Manheim
were Dennis and David Kulp, sons
of Robert and Ruth Kulp, Power
Road, R 1 Manheim.
Dennis, 23, had the grand champ
and younger brother, David, 19,
had the reserve.
The brothers were both ready to
come on to the local Holstein
showing scene at last year’s
Manheim Farm Show, but a
sudden wind storm that tore up the
dairy tent postponed their plans for
a year. .
“After showing mostly at the
other end of-the classes, we felt we
SYRACUSE', N.Y. - It may, be
proper to celelirate a 60th an-
gift.bijt
' Producers
.president Michael
OonoVan presented more than 750
members with: some good news
during their 60th Anniversary
meeting.
Oonavan told the group their co
op just received the green light
from the New York State
Agriculture Commissioner to
proceed with their purchase of the
co-op’s first bottling plant.
Before the two<lay meeting
ended, Eastern delegates and their
board overwhelmingly approved a
resolution to oppose the 50-cent per
hundredweight assessment on all
Governor Dick Thornburgh signs the proclamation designating Oct. 14 as Farm Women’s day.
Official witnesses of the ceremonial signature were state Secretary of Agriculture Penrose
IHallowell; Farm Women President Marie Baughman, left, First Vice President, Naomi Bupp,
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Four Sections
were ready last year,” David Kulp
said.
“We felt we had some good
entries last year and had a good
chance.”
But then the storm canceled the
show.
In the meantime, Dennis bought
his first “show cow,” Stewhills
Envoy Stacy, VG-85, at the Spring
Promise Sale at the Guernsey
Pavilion in April. Bred by. Michael
Stewart, Airville, York County, she
went on to take Manheim’s grand
championship as a four-year-old. '
The reserve grand champion,
owned by David, is junior two
year-old, Kulp-Dale Jemini Babe,
a home-bred.
So'even though the Kulp brothers
had to wait a year and the entry list
increased sharply at this year’s
Manheim Farm Show due to the'
new pole bam facility, they were
ready to do their “family thing.” -
In three- previous Lancaster
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Eastern’s purchase highlights 60th year
milk shipped. Ironically, their
guest speaker for the meeting was
: Edward, Coughlin, director 'of
’'USD'A’s. dairy division, the
department responsible for ad
ministering the amended dairy
support program.
“We had been negotiating with
Kraft Foods, for their Homer, N.Y.
milk plant since last November,”
explained Eastern spokesman Len
Zemaitis.
He noted the co-op needed state
approval fprliscense transfer-. But
after a recent hearing in which
private dealers tried to block the
purchase, the commissioner ruled
in favor of Eastern.
“It’s important for a co-op to
own that plant,” said Zemaitis.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9,1982
Grand and reserve champions of Manheim Farm Show Holstein competition include Dennis,
right and grand, and David Kulp, R 1 Manheim.
“Kraft has been gradually getting
out of the activity of bottling
milk."
According to Zejnaitis, the
bottling plant secures a market for
nearly 100 Eastern shippers. The
plant has been bottling under the
Sealtest label and Zemaitis
reported the co-op will continue
bottling for Sealtest. .The fluid
product is then handled by 10
distributors.
The 60-year-old co-op, with a
membership of approximately
3,500, originated as a bargaining
tool for northeastern dairy
producers. But a growing trend in
marketing has changed all that.
“We’re physically handling 84
percent of milk produced by
members. That’s up 50 percent
from a year ago,” Zemaitis
reported.
Not including the recent Homer
plant purchase, Eastern has ac
complished a 50 percent increase
in supply contracts with Kraft
.Foods which furnishes a market
for an additional four million
pounds of milk monthly to the
Kraft Company.
Eastern’s Leprino cheese plants
average approximately 54 million
pounds per month! In addition,
International Cheese Corporation,
operating a plant at Hbiesburg,
Vermont, earlier this year signed a
5-year supply contract with
Eastern. .
Just as their markets continue to
grow, so does the co-op’s concern
over the pending 50-cent
assessment, which will be levied
nationally on December -I of this
year.
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Governor proclaims
Farm Women’s Day
By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
HARRISBURG - With a
flourish of his black pen. Governor
Dick Thornburgh signed a ,
proclamation this week
designating Oct. 14 as Farm
Women’s day in Pennsylvania.
That proclamation was the
result of action taken by Marie
Baughman, president of the
Pennsylvania Society of Farm
Women, to win recognition for the
efforts of the more than 4,000
members in 189 local societies
upholding the goals and philosophy
of the agriculture tradition.
On hand at the Governor’s of
fices in the Capitol for the
$7.50 per year
Edward Coughlin
ceremonial signing were state
Secretary of Agriculture Penrose
Hallowell, state Farm Women’s
First Vice President Edith Diehl,
Shippensburg.
According to Mrs. Baughman,
also of Shippensburg, the idea was
sparked by a group of her friends
who asked about the background of
the Society and their suggestion
that the women should have their
own day of recognition.
Pursuing that suggestion, Mrs.
Baughman had the proclamation
written up in official style and sent
a copy of it to the Governor’s office
in early September.
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