Dairymen honor outstanding industrymen
CAMP HILL - Federal milk
pricing policies no longer work In
today’s milk industry and have
caused major problems for today’s
dairy producers, a prominent
dairy spokesman said here
Tuesday evening.
“We need to have a change in the
milk pricing plan based on its
(milks) ability to get the dollar
from the consumer,” Guy Crews,
National All-Jersey, Inc., told the
members of the Pennsylvania
Dairymen’s Association at their
annual meeting and banquet held
at the Penn Harris Motor Inn.
The answer to the pricing
problem may look simple, said
Crews,' but first and foremast the
dairymen must form a unified
front and begin working together
to solve the problem.
“Lack of unity and cohesion is
one the dairymen’s biggest
problems today. Let’s put away
our biased ideas and prejudices
and work together to solve the
problem,’’ said Crews.
According to Crews, this is a
different era for the dairyman and
his product and one in Which over
half of today’s milk is being eaten
and the remainder being drunk.
“Therefore,” be said, “We need a
new pricing policy that will work in
the market place and will work for
the dairyman.”
l>yig ago sold their
milk by volume, however, the
market is no longer a fluid market;
the growth in the industry is in
cheese, Crews noted. And, be
added, even though the cheese
manufacturers are a growing
industry, they still have trouble
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making a profit throughout the
year. Why? Because of the current
pricing system, having to buy less
volume in the winter dne to higher
butterfat tests and buying more
volume in the summer because of
lower tests, be explained.
“Put a' value on the protein,
butterfat and fluid and no longer
will the dairyman need to have
fluid volume to make his money,”
said Crews.
Crew remarked, “With ‘end
product pricing’ we can work
toward a higher minimum stan
dard and set rid of this bur
densome surplus. No longer would
the dairyman have to milk 100
animals for the volume be needs,
but would make his money from
the quality of his milk.
“I am scared for the industry,
but I feel if we make- a more
deliberate effort to change, by
working together to solve this
problem we can do it”
Also, at the annual meeing
several special awards were
presented to several dairy industry
people throughout the state.
John E. Creighton, Wayne
County Extension director, was the
recipient of the 1962 Pennsylvania
Dairymen’s Association
Cooperative Extension Service
Award “for valuable and
noteworthy contributions to the
state’s dairy industry.” He
received a plaque and |lOO.
During the last 12 years, the
Extension agent, working with
members of the Wayne County
Chamber of Commerce, conducted
dairy farm management schools to
promote the dairy industry and
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provide management assistance to
area farmers. He also initiated a
county dairy day which includes
seminars, commercial exhibits
and herd management demon
strations.
Creighton worked closely with
dairymen, veterinarians and Penn
State specialists in establishing a
program to improve bam ven
tilation. Concentrating on air flow
through farm structures, he
developed a worksheet to make
necessary calculations in
designing new ventilation systems.
Dairymen who had recommended
systems installed report increased
milk production and improved
herd health.
A programmable calculator has
been used extensively by
Creighton to teach the principles of
nutrition and provide ration
analysis for dairymen with feeding
problems. This system also has
been used to update or alter
feeding programs where changes
in forage quality occur. Dairymen
estimate this ration formulation
program is increasing their in
come by thousands of dollars
annually through higher milk
production.
Three years ago the Extension
agent assisted in initiating a milk
marketing tour to the Federal Milk
Marketing Order Office in New
York City. Information presented
prior to, during and after the tour
provided a basic understanding of
milk marketing concepts. This
teaching tour technique has been
adopted by Extension agents in
other Pennsylvania counties.
A native of Sharon, Penn
sylvania, Creighton baa been a
member at the College of
Agriculture staff since 1965.
Kenneth Stackhouse of Rl,
Benton, Columbia County,
received the 1982 Superior
Supervisor Award from the
Pennsylvania Dairy Herd Im
provement Association.
The award, “for outstanding
service as a DHIA supervisor in
the Commonwealth,’* was
presented in the form of a plaque
and|loo.
A DHIA supervisor for 37 years,
he currently oversees 29 herds on
test in his circuit each month. He
meets regularly with other DHIA
supervisors to discuss testing
concerns, feeding programs
associated with milk and butterfat
testing results, equipment needs,
and troublabooting.
According to Donald Ace, Penn
State Extension dairy specialist,
the award winner is being dted for
maintaining a fine rapport with
dairymen while exhibiting in
tegrity in his work.
Stackhouse has been a consistent
winner of the Ward of Merit,
presented on the basis of recor
dkeeping practices. He also won
the Distinguished Service Award
for his performance as a DHIA
supervisor.
He works closely with the
Columbia County DHIA board of
directors and Extension Service
personnel to help evaluate
supervisor performance and to
recuit and train new supervisors.
“The award winner’s wife, Jean,
assists in testing DHIA herds,”
Ace pointed out. ‘‘Together, they
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Russell L. Jones of little
Meadows, Bradford County,
received the 1982 Charles E.
Cowan Memorial Award from the
Pennsylvania Dairymen's
Association presented “for
leadership contributing to the
Improvement and promotion of the
Pennsylvania dairy industry."
For 20 yean, Jones’ Holstein
herd has received the Penn
sylvania Dairymen’s Association
Award for production above 600
pounds of butterfat. A recent herd
average of his 86 registered
Holsteins was 19,614 pounds of milk
and 736 pounds of butterfat.
The Penn State dairy science
graduate was president of the
Bradford County Holstein Club. In
the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, he served as
president and member of the board
of directors for 12 years. He was
general chairman of the 1961 State
Holstein Convention.
Active in the Dairy Herd Im
provement Association, Jones was
president of the county board,
district director for northeastern
Pennsylvania, and for six years
was a director and secretary for
the state DHIA board.
The award winner is past
president of the Bradford County
Cooperative Extension
Association, and has been a 4-H
dairy club leader for more than 20
years. He was active in the Nor
theastern Pennsylvania Artificial
Breeding Cooperative and served
as local secretary for many years.
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