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
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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
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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,
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