QUARRYVILLE - Twenty-rune
Southern Lancaster County area
dairymen were honored for having
high producing herds this past
year at the 20th annual district
meeting for Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative members on Feb. 14
•m Atlantic Breeders for
having high producing dairy herds are, from the left, John
Harnish, Ken Putt, Thomas Lapp, Leroy Weaver, Joseph
Hess, Robert Gochenaur Jr. and Levi H. Click.
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Leaman; Glenn E. Burkholder,
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Nickle, Lester J. Wiker, J. Robert
Kindig, Walter C. Pownall, Parke
Ranck, Leory S. Weaver, Roy and
Ruth Book, C. Nevm Hershey,
Robert Gochenaur Jr., Edgefield
Farms, Ken Rutt; J. Ray Ranck;
J. Clayton Charles.
Also, Bart Dell Farm, Levi K.
Click, Melvin M. Groff, John M.
Harmsh, John U. Glick, Thomas
Lapp, King Farm, Ferncrest
Farm, Earl Hershey; Harry
Ranck Jr., J. Wade Groff, Singing
Maple Farm, Dale Stoner and Joe
Hess; Harry Troop, Don Ranck,
Joseph L. Fisher and Paul W.
Zimmerman.
Awards were presented by Dave
Zimmerman, Atlantic’s Field
Supervisor. All of the honored
herds were at least 10 percent
above the state average for milk or
butterfat production last year,
while at least two-thirds of the
cows in the herds are progeny of
Atlantic sires.
District director James Kreider
told the members that despite the
challenges on semen exports due to
the economic instability of the
dairymen
Dairymen cited with certificates of merit from Atlantic
Breeders include, from the left, George Nickle, James
Kreider, Ronald Leaman, Harry Ranck, Glenn Burkholder,
Parke Ranck Jr. and John Harvey Groff.
world, more breeding units were Allen Bair stressed that the
sold in the member area in 1983 Cooperative will continue to em
than in 1982. phasize quality technician and
Following a slide presentation on direct-herd service. He also
Atlantic’s 1984 Sire Programs, pointed to the genetic superiority
including the genetic base change, of the sires now offered by
new sire proofs and Linear-Mate, Atlantic.
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