DlG—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9,1983
Stauffer assists Mosers merchandise cattle
The Mosers of Pennsylvania’s
Lalisa Holsteins were in the
process of moving their farm from
New Berlinville to Bally. Yet to
talk with these pleasant people on
a chilly day in October, you’d have
thought nothing else was on their
mind except a good visit around
the table.
Outside, cement was being
poured for the foundation of a new
silo, while Linda and LaVerne
Moser, seated inside the com
fortable 1700 dated stone far
mhouse, smiled and chatted about
what the Holstein Association had
been doing for them.
Cattle merchandising headed the
list of what the Association had
provided to them at a time when it
was needed the most. “Our farm is
strictly a family operation. We
have only our two youngsters,
Sandra and Mark, to help us out,”
Linda Moser said. “We found our
herd of registered Holsteins was
getting too large for us all to work
and milk. We wanted to sell some
of our animals,” she said.
LaVeme Moser relates the next
part of the story. “We put in a call
to Clarence Stauffer, our Holstein
Association consultant, who had
given us some breeding advice
when we were mating the herd.
“We knew about his selling
experience and we knew his track
record was good,” said Moser.
The Mosers waited for Stauffer
to find buyers for the more than 30
Holsteins they wanted to sell out of
the 125 registered cow herd. They
didn’t have to wait long.
“Stauffer was fast. Within two
weeks he had the animals sold.
Actually, Clarence brought two
sets of buyers, one party pur
chased all 30 animals,” said Mrs.
Moser.
“Sure, we had potential buyers
looking at the animals before we
called Stauffer, but they were all
within easy driving time from the
farm. Clarence brought us buyers
well outside this driving range,”
she said.
LaVeme Moser said he liked
Md. ag graders have busy year
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Maryland
agricultural producers and
processors are going the “quality
route” if figures from the
Maryland Department of
Agriculture’s Grading Services
Section are any indication.
Chief of the section, Thomas O.
Meredith, says services provided
by the trained full and part-time
employees of the section showed
substantial increases in many
categories of fruits, vegetables and
eggs in 1982.
“Indications so far in 1963,” says
Meredith, “are that our workload
will increase again as more
producers and packers sign up for
grading”.
Grading is a voluntary service
provided processors who contract
and pay for it. The standards used
by „ Maryland graders are the
nationally standardized USDA
graders or company specifications
giving consumers assurance of
quality and uniformity in product.
“We expect production to be up
on peaches and apples, if the
weather cooperates and frosts
don’t cut the crop as they have in
the past two seasons,” Meredith
said.
A third large, new, egg
production and packing operation
on the Upper Eastern Shore is
expected to go into operation in
early April, thus increasing the
egg grading workload, he noted.
A staff of approximately SO
graders are used by MDA with
most of them cross-trained so that
they can grade different items
such as vegetables and grain,
insuring a more efficient use of
personnel in view of the seasonal
nature of agriculture.
Association marketing network to find buyers for their cows.
having Stauffer handle the details
of the sale. “What pleased us most
was we didn’t have to answer the
phone to screen buyers, which
meant we saved our time for other
chores!” he said.
So appreciative were the Mosers
with the Association services, they
placed an advertisement in the
Pennsylvania Holstein News
thanking Stauffer for coordinating
the transactions. Wisely, they also
reminded News readers they were
still in the Holstein business,
having 20 bred heifers to add to the
remaining older cows in the herd.
Broaden Economic Base
Linda and LaVeme Moser have
taken other safeguards to protect
their dairy investment. They are
looking to improve functional type
through the Association’s herd
classification program.
The Mosers have joined a local
sire syndicate to help broaden
their potential revenue base. The
couple have used the Association’s
Holstein Sire Development Service
to sample some of the syndicate’s
bulls.
Embryo Transfer Work
LaVeme Moser feels if you own
good animals, important things
will happen to you. A case in point
A look at the 1982 services
provided by the Grading Services
Section of MDA reveals the size of
the program:
Grain some 5.3 million bushels
of com, 3.1 million bushels of
soybeans and almost 300,000
bushels of wheat were graded at
elevators.
Fruits 32,000 quarts of
strawberries, 560,000 cartons of
fresh apples, 96,000 cartons of
fresh peaches and 1,480 cartons of
nectarines were handled.
In addition, processors con
tracted for the grading of six
million pounds of apples and one
half million pounds of peaches.
Vegetables grading was
nerformed for 30.8 million pounds
of pickling cucumbers, 61,000
pounds of fresh cucumbers, 460,000
cartons of fresh tomatoes and 18.8
million pounds of processing
tomatoes.
Poplaski to attend D.C. talks
NEWARK, N.Y. - Chester E.
Poplaski, of Newark, will
represent the New York Beef
Cattlemen’s Association at the
Washington D.C. meeting of the
National Cattlemen’s Association
Wednesday to Saturday.
Poplaski who has a Polled
Hereford herd at Poplaski Farms,
Oneida R 2, has been a member of
the New York Beef Cattlemen’s
Association for six years and is
vice chairman of the Western
Division of the state association.
He is employed at Newhart, Inc.
The Washington meeting will
involve delegates from Region I of
the national organization. The
is their Lalisa Emperor Elevation
Alice cow which has five embryo
transfer calves. This was their
first ET experience and Alice has
bred back well for them. “We will
do it again when we get the op
portunity,” Moser said.
Somehow, Mrs. Moser finds time
to use her skills as an artist. In her
own studio, she teaches art and
produces work for sale.
Active in the county Holstein
club, LaVerne is serving as its
president. The children are in
volving their teen years with ac
tivities of the local 4-H clubs while
learning how to exhibit animals at
cattle shows.
Use of Computer Is Promising
Not long ago, the Mosers in
stalled a “baby computer” to
systematize the farm’s herd
feeding programs. La Verne feels
computerized feeding has helped
them to raise milk production in
the herd.
Linda Moser claims the credit
for doing all the legwork in
gathering information on com
puters before the family sat down
to decide on the equipment. “At
this point, we plan to put our ac
counting records on computer for
easier access to them,” she said.
Eggs ail tola, 21.5 nullum
dozen eggs were graded with some
10.7 million dozen of them serviced
for consumer labels for direct sale
as packed on standard USDA
grade designations. In addition,
some 5.6 million pounds of frozen
eggs were graded.
Poultry over 328 million
pounds of fresh chickens were
graded of which over 213 million
pounds were graded for consumer
labels. Some 29.4 million pounds of
fresh turkeys were graded with
some 14.5 million pounds for
consumer labels.
Meredith is also responsible for
administering the Maryland Egg
Law and reports that in 1982 egg
law inspectors checked 8,592 lots of
eggs as presented for sale and
shipment by dealers. Of these, only
7.4 percent or 635 lots, failed to
meet state standards having such
defects as fut, cracks, blood clots
and mold.
region includes the states of New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan.
Highlights of the session will
include discussions of how to get
additional packing facilities in the
area, how 'to improve dairy-beef
relationships for greater
legislative and consumer impact,
and meetings with Senators and
Congressmen from the Region I
states.
Poplaski will present a report of
the Washington session to the New
York Beef Cattlemen’s Association
Council at its next meeting.
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