A3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 28,1984
BY TRISH WILLIAMS
MT. JOY - Members and guests
of the Mt. Joy Farmers Co
operative Association gathered at
Hostetler’s Dining Service for
their annual meeting and election
of directors.
Elected to serve a three-year
term on the board of directors
were: J. Ivan Hansen, J. Kenneth
Miller and Joe C. Wivell. Hansen
farms 250 acres and has a herd of
35 cows plus 60 heifers and steers.
Miller is active in the Holstein
Association, and milks a herd of 70
cows. Wivell farms 300 acres, milk
105 cows and was named Out
standing Young Farmer for
Pennsylvania in 1981.
Paul Hostetler, general
manager of Mt. Joy, recognized
the “Big 13.” There were 13
producers who shipped over 1
million pounds of milk in 1983.
Topping the list was Kenneth Zurin
with 3,455,687 pounds of milk. Irvin
Engle was second high producer
with 2,497,222 pounds of milk.
Risser Brothers shipped 2,491,455
pounds of milk and ranked third.
Hostetler also introduced eight
producers who joined Mt. Joy this
year and reported there are four
more dairymen considering
membership.
Six members were named Honor
Roll award recipients. To be on the
Honor Roll all the milk shipped by
Paul Hostetter, Mt. Joy general manager, stands proudly
between two decorative milk cans given to him by the co-op's
milk truck drivers. The can on the left depicts modern milk
transport, a tractor-trailer, the can on the right depicts milk
transport of yesteryear, a horse drawn carriage.
Joy Co-op honors top producers
Mt.
the producer during the year must
meet stringent standards of
quality and sanitation. Recipients
were, Richard Alwine, Jay
Nissley, Albert Fry, Lamar Wit
mer, Clair Miller and the Risser
Brothers.
“Fiscal year 1983 was a quiet
year for the co-operative,”
reported Ray Bucks, Mt Joy
auditor
The most significant figure in the
auditor’s report was a drop in the
operating profit from $40,216 in
1982 to $10,714 in 1983. Bucks said
the drop in the operating profit was
the result of a decision to return
the earnings to producer-members
rather than retain the capitol. It
was intended to mitigate the loss of
income resulting from the $1
assessment dairymen were forced
to pay for every hundredweight of
milk they shipped. Bucks said the
co-op is paying over $60,000 a
month to the USDA for the
assessment.
Mt. Joy has a contract with
Atlantic Processing Incorporated
that guarantees API will purchase
100 percent of the co-op’s milk. Mt.
Joy also has equity in API. API
had a very good financial year last
year, which subsequently profited
Mt. Joy.
Bucks said a 12 percent increase
in pounds of milk shipped help to
cover increases in expenses due to
inflation.
Roy Alger, president of Mt Joy,
represents the co-op on the API
Six Mt. Joy producers were awarded plaques for honor roll production. Recipients of
the award are, from the left, Clair Miller, Don Risser representing Risser Brothers,
Richard Alwine, Jay Nissley and Lamar Witmer. Missing from the picture is Albert Fry.
.nei. jrs serving the Mt. Joy in the next year are, from the left,
Kenneth Miller, Joe Wivell, Henry Garber, J. Ivan Hansen, Robert Brandt, Roy Alger,
and Don Risser.
board. Alger reported API had
sales of 1285 million in 1983, but
said profits this year are not ex
pected to be as high as they were
last year because of the purchase
of a bottling plant in Baltimore.
The plant was bought from a
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