VOL 28 Ho. 15 Officers elected Pa. YF honors top members STATE COLLEGE - Penn sylvania Young Farmers honored outstanding members from chapters throughout the Com monwealth and elected officers at their annual winter convention in State College on Wednesday and Thursday, Among the top award winners were the Outstanding Young Farmers in the under and over 30- year-old categories, who were picked from candidates representing the various regions of the statewide Young Farmer organization. Winnena in the Under 30 category were Glen, and Barbara Carper, of the West Snyder Chapter. The Carpers farm a 240-acre dairy farm, with 5J Holstein milkers and an equal number of replacement stock. They are active in the Snyder County Farmers Assn., Conservation District and Holstein Assn. Winners in the Over 30 category were Richard andßetty Weller, of the Selinsgrove Area Chapter. The Wellers also operate a dairy farm of 275 acres, with an additional 130 rented. They have 44 Holsteins and 35 replacements. They are active in Dairy-Lea, Fanners Assn, and Weller seves as a Washington Township supervisor. Other awards winners; Robert and Betty Weaver, Selinsgiove Area Chapter - Outstanding Community Service. Blue Mountain Chapter - Out standing YF Chapter in the state. Fred Dillner, Shippensburg Area Chapter, Outstanding YF Advisor. Spokesperson for Agriculture - Dale Lehman, Chambersburg. Dairylea, Agri-Mark contract skims off milk surplus SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Last Thursday Clyde E. Rutherford, president of the 3,300-member Dairylea Cooperative, announced Four Sections Honorary Young Farmer - Cecil Snyder, retired vo-ag teacher. Convention Theme Award - Doreen Rice, Chambersburg. Largest Convention Registration - Shippensburg Chapter. Largest Increase in Membership - Penn Manor Chapter. Largest Membership Wellsboro Chapter, first; Dover, second; and Ephrata, third. In the election of officers, two members of the Ephrata Area Chapter, Lancaster County, were namedtio statewide posts. Tom Zartman, R 1 Ephrata, former regional vice president and chapter president, ' was named president-eject Be will assume the president’s poet at next year’s winter convention. Vernon Leininger, R 2 Denver, also a past Ephrata chapter president, was named state secretary! Jay Grove, Shippensburg, was reelected treasurer; and Larry Hay, of Berlin, was named state PR director. Among regional vice presidents elected were Richard Hamblin, Karl Herr, Daniel Boop, Roger Block and Ronald O’Neil Con tinuing as co-editors of the state magazine are Donald Mooney and Terry Martin Sr. Martin stepped down as president of the Pa. YF at the convention and succeeding him for 1983 was Leßoy Geesaman, of R 1 Fredericksburg. A new chapter in die Com monwealth - the State College Little Lions Young Farmers - was (Turn to Page A 39) that Dairylea and Agri-Mark, the largest cooperative in New England (4,000 members), have just completed a contract that will Lancaster Faming, Saturday, February 12,1983 Lan. Extension celebrates 68th year The Lancaster County Extension Service held their 68th annual services meeting Thursday at the Farm and Home Center to present year-end reports and elect directors. Named were, from left: Delores Hamish, R 1 Willow Street; Allen K. Risser, R 1 Leola; Thelma Hess, R 1 Strasburg; Kenneth Rutt, R 1 Quarryville; and Lilli Ann Kopp, R 3 Mt. Joy. Find complete coverage of the Extension banquet on page A 32. Hog health, stress, welfare highlight York swine meeting BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent BAIR Storm-slickened roads didn’t deter about thirty York County pork producers from taking part in an update on the latest hog-raising techniques presented at the swine meeting held Monday at the 4-H Center. Subjects on the program lineup ranged from hog vaccinating to responses to animal welfarists, with plenty of management tips provide “substantial financial benefits” for both organizations but will, at the same time, remove up to a million pounds a day of surplus milk processing capacity from the New York-New Jersey milkshed. Tbe contract provides for Agri- Mark to lease, for a minimum of 14 months, 500,000 pounds a day of processing capacity at the Dairylea butter-powder plant in Onedia. Dairylea, which manufacturers most of its powder at its nearby Vernon plant, will retain 300,000 pounds of daily capacity for its own use. The plant, operating at maximum load for brief periods, can handle up to a million pounds of milk a day for conversion into butter and non-fat dry milk powder. “The arrangement we have just concluded will keep our Oneida plant operating pretty close to capacity much of the year,” said Rutherfod. “It will provide Agri- layered in between by Penn State’s Extension specialists. A panel discussion by county pork producers included Barry Morton, Dan Buttorff and Larry Seitz, who shared experiences and personal tips on swine management. A regular vaccination program can be of significant economic benefit to a hog operation, ac cording to Extension veterinarian Dr. Larry Hutchinson. While a full spectrum of vaccines are available Mark with a bone for a large quantity of milk for which it does not presently have sufficient plant capacity. It will take Oneida from a sizable negative postion in our profit: loss ration to a modest profit.” The potential crisis, said the Dairylea president, lies in the fact that standby manufacturing capacity for handling distress surplus milk supplies has been reduced by the Dairylea-Agri- Mark arrangement. “Milk production in the Nor theast was up by one billion pounds above the 1960 level at the end of 1962,” said Rutherford. “The rate of increase appears to be ac celerating. October 1982 was 3.9 percent above the same month a year previous. December 1982 was up 4.1 percent over 1981. Mean while fluid sales declined 3.1 percent during the 1981-82 period. The net effect is an increased load on Northeastern states’ $7.50 per year for numberous bog diseases, they are of little value unless used in a comprehensive, planned program. Hutchinson outlined several pointers on the effective use of vaccines, topped off with the recommendation to set up and review twice yearly the vac cinating schedule with the producer’s veterinarian. Obtain fresh, refrigerated vaccines from a reliable source (Turn to Page A 22) manufacturing facilities of 1.3 billion more pounds of milk than we had in 1900. “What we are saying is that as we come into the spring flush when production is at its peak, our in dustry cannot possibly have enough manufacturing plant capacity in this region to handle all of the surplus. Even allowing for the fact that a couple of large volume Italian cheese plants may be coming into production soon, they will not be able to make up the short fall in plant capacity. Ac tually, pizza cheese is generally sold within a month of its manufacture and spring is not a peak sales time for pizza cheese.” Total milk production in the federal milk marketing areas covered by the New York-New Jersey, New England and Middle Atlantic orders, plus the N. Y. State Orders of Buffalo and Rochester, was 23,474,000,000 pounds in 1902, (Turn to Page A2l)
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