VOL 28 No. 19
New Guernsey president Albert Hack, left, is congratulated
by PGBA business manager Lee Yost and wife, Martha. Yost
is due to be honored at national convention in Ohio.
PFA cites 2-phase milk reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association has called for two
phased reform of the federal milk
support program in order to bring
supply in line with demand, and to
maintain that balance.
Keith W. Eckel, president of
PFA, made the proposal Thursday
before members of the Penn
sylvania congressional delegation
and some 200 farmers at a
breakfast here at the Capitol
Holiday Inn.
Phase One of the dual-faceted
program- calls for a $2.00 per
hundredweight reduction in the
milk support price for those
producers who exceed their 1981-82
production average.
Trish Williams joins staff
as new dairy writer
LANCASTER Trish Williams,
of Hockessin, Del. joined Lan
caster Fanning this week as a
staff writer, specializing in the
coverage of dairy news and events.
Also joining the staff is Robin
Phillips, of R 1 Mohrsville, as
Berks County correspondent.
Ms. Williams has a strong farm
and dairy background, growing up
and working most of her life on her
family’s dairy farm located in
northern Delaware.
“My roots are m farming,” she
explained, “and the principles of
the agrarian way of life are deeply
ingrained in me and have guided
my education and career growth.
Ms. Williams has completed the
course work for a master’s degree
in Extension Education at Penn
State. She is presently finishing up
research on agricultural direct
marketing to complete the
requirements for her M.Ed.. Her
course work at Penn State stressed
agricultural media and com
munications.
A graduate of the University of
Delaware, she recieved a B.S. in
Fiv« Sections
And tor those producers who
reduce their production by 10
percent, there would be a $2.00
increase in the milk support price.
This phase would remain in
effect until the net CCC purchases
of surplus milk would be reduced
to 3.5 to 4 billion pounds annually.
Adjustments in the milk price
supports would be marts quarterly.
Under Phase Two, parity milk
support price levels would be
placed on a sliding scale based on
the net surplus purchases by the
CCC.
The scale would range from 60
percent of parity if CCC purchases
are over the 11%-billion-pound
level to 80 percent of parity if CCC
Irish Williams
1980 with a double major in animal
science and agricultural business
management. Active in ex
tracurricular activities, she was a
member of University of
Delaware’s Collegiate Dairy
Products Evaluation Team,
competing in the 1976 in
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12,1983
Guernsey head boosts promotion
By Donna Tommelleo
Staff Correspondent
LANCASTER In one of his
first duties as new Pennsylvania
Guernsey Breeders president,
Albert Hack, of Berwick, Columbia
County, called for membership
support to back a nationwide man
datory 15-cent per hun
dredweight deduction for
promotion of milk sales.
Hack’s action came during the
52nd Annual Meeting of PGB A, last
Saturday, in Lancaster.
“This should set a pattern to say
that dedicated dairy farmers are
working in the best interest of
promoting our products,” said
Hack. The new president explained
he hopes to get solid support from
all breeds.
A second resolution, which
purchases drop below the two
billion-pound level.
Adjustments in this phase would
be made annually. PFA met with
Pennsylvania congressmen! to
push for the two-phased dairy
reform program and to discuss
other farm issues. PFA is af
filiated with the American Farm
Bureau Federation and has 54
county units throughout the
Commonwealth.
“The (dairy) program as it now
stands does not work,” Eckel told
the congressmen. “It has created
the present situation of surplus
product, which continually in
creases the milk stockpiles pur
chased and held by the Commodity
Credit Corporaton (CCC).”
Under the proposal put forth by
the Administration and passed by
the Congress the government
would “penalize” farmers 50 cents
a hundredweight of milk if they
failed to reduce production. Eckel
said the proposal is “doomed to
failure.”
“Farmers who reduce
production stand to lose more than
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It’s a St Patty’s tobacco seedbed celebration
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER - With quotas
soundly turned down in .Penn
sylvania and Maryland, Lancaster
County tobacco growers can
proceed with their traditional
celebration of St. Patty’s Day this
coming week by putting in their
seedbeds.
In Lancaster County, 733
growers voted against quotas in
last week’s referendum and 153
voted in favor. Across the state’s
seven tobacco growing counties,
including Lancaster, the overall
vote was 788 against quotas and 167
in favor.
In Maryland, the equally lop
sided rejection of quotas showed
1,935 votes against and 145 in favor.
A two-thirds vote in favor would
have been needed in either state
for the quotas to pass.
Calls for 15-cent deduction
rallied support for the American
Guernsey Cattle Club’s action to
explore the merits of gene
migration, narrowly pased by a
tight 16 to 14 margin during the
annual business meeting.
Pennsylvania members have
less than a month before the
national convention convenes in
Columbus, Ohio, the heme of the
new AGCC headquarters.
Executive Secretary of the AGCC
Bernard Heisner was on hand to
highlight the club’s activities
during 1982 a transitional year.
Heisner explained that some of
last year’s goals were to process
450 registrations a week and to
maintain 50 pages of advertising
per Guernsey Journal issue.
“We’re meeting those goals
regularly,” said Heisner, who will
step down from the AGCC position
on May 1,1983.
Heisner admitted that 1982 was a
difficult year, due to the transition
of moving the club from Peter
borough, N.H. to Ohio.
‘ ‘But we were able to get through
it and move without borrowing a
dime,” he reported. Additionally,
the AGCC registered a plus in cash
flow within the first two months of
1983.
The AGCC secretary called for
increased breed involvement and
reminded the Pennsylvania
membership of the importance of
protein testing.
“If you’re not now on protein test
or paying attention to it, you are
soon going to be. Wisconsin
breeders on end product pricing
Some changes come to ‘Paradise’
PARADISE Paradise
Township supervisors in Lancaster
County have issued a reminder
that farming activities are now
prohibited on land within the
rights-of-way of township roads.
The ordinance prohibits plowing,
cultivating or harrowing or
depositing fields stones or other
debris within the rights-of-way.
$7.50 per year
are getting $.75 to $l.OO more per
hundredweight,” he explained.
Heisner offered the group a
sneak preview of the line-up in the
national heifer sale, which
generates revenues that support
youth activities.
Several PGBA juniors were
honored for their achievements in
production as well as in the show
ring.
Bedford County youth Brent
Snider 15, was lauded for his
performance in the Pa. Junior
Dairy Show and in the 1983 Farm
Show. Snider’s entry Sniders
Butchs Holly was named grand
champion at both shows.
Kevin Schlegal of Boyertown
received the Outstanding Boy
award. The 15-year-old sophomore
at Oley Valley High is the Son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schlegal.
Kevin is a member of the Eastern
Berks 4-H Dairy Club.
Berks County claimed both
outstanding individuals, this year.
Fifteen-year-old Sherri Zollers,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Zollers, is also a member of Easter
Berks 4-H dairy Club. This year’s
Outstanding Girl is a sophomore at
Brandywine High School.
The following junior members
were honored for milk and fat
production: 2 -year-old milk,
Wendy Kriebel, Benton, 18,467
pounds of milk, 764 of fat; 2-year
old fat, Racquelle Fava, Scenery
Hill, 17,382 pounds of milk, 768 of
fat; 3-year-old milk and fat, Scott
Kriebel, Benton, 17,672 of milk, 773
of fat; 4-year-old, Renee Anne
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And, excessive deposits of mud.
dirt, silt, manure or other debris
can not be left on the roads.
Violation can carry a fine or
imprisonment.
Paradise also now has a 24-hour
hotline number for the reporting of
any acts of senseless violence. It’s
1-800-367-1010.
Interest was higher in the
Lancaster County referendum this
year due to the surplus of Penn
sylvania tobacco. Approximately
200 more growers voted this year
than did three years ago and the
percentage of “yes” votes was
higher.
Local growers also had a stake in
the Maryland voting due to the
increased interest in growing
smoking tobacco leaf in Lancaster
County. All of the smoking tobacco
leaf has been sold this year; while
quite a few farmers are still
holding one or even two years of
Pennsylvania tobacco in their
sheds.
The turndown of the quotas in
both Pennsylvania and Maryland
means that Lancaster County
growers are free to grow the
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