838—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 23,1984
Dairy cooperatives select 1984 ‘Young Cooperators’
BY LAURA ENGLAND
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Ap
proximately 40 young dairy
couples from Maryland, Penn
sylvania, Virginia and West
Virginia competed Wednesday and
Thursday to earn the right to
represent their milk cooperatives
as 1984 Young Cooperators.
Participating in the annual
Pennmarva Young Cooperator
Program, held at the Ramada
Convention Center, Hagerstown,
dairy couples representing
Dairyman Inc., Inter-State Milk
Producers and Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers com
peted for the Young Cooperator
(YC) titles. During the two-day
competition, the contestants at
tended cooperatvie meetings and
participated in individual in
terviews.
Selected to represent their in
dividual cooperatives as YC’s were
Bob and Ruthie Gruber,
Keameysville, W.Va., Dairyman
Inc.; Gordon and Carole Hoover,
Gap, Pa., Inter-State Milk
Producers; and James and Bonnie
Weddle, Hagerstown, Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers. John
and Kathy Renn, Frederick, who
are completing their second term
as Young Cooperators for Capitol
Milk Producers, were also
recognized at the awards luncheon
Thursday.
Others placing in their
respective contests were;
Dairyman Inc. - Skip and Susan
Roach, New Windsor, and Martin
Heaps, Fawn Grove, Pa.; Inter-
State Milk Producers - Earl and
Kim Mills, Sharpsburg, Kathy
Strock, Mechanicsburg, Pa., Mike
and Janet Mowrer, Spring City,
Pa., and Ed and Debbie Zug,
Peach Bottom, Pa.; Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers - William
and Jeanette Hunsberger,
Davidsville, Pa., and Steven and
Carolyn Linton, Martinsburg,
W.Va.
Although each cooperative
coordinates its own program, the
Young Cooperator program is
designed to recognize and develop
leadership among cooperative
members, usually under age 35.
Prior to the YC contest, the con
testants meet with their
cooperatives and receive a
briefing on the purpose and im
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portance of cooperatives.
Throughout the upcoming year,
the Young Cooperator winners will
attend state and national
meetings. Among these are the
National Milk Producers
Federation meeting, the American
Institute of Cooperatives meeting
and the Pennsylvania Association
of Farmers Cooperative meeting.
The winners for each
cooperative were selected by a
panel of three judges. The judges
were as follows:
Dairyman Inc. - Joy Meyers,
former dairy extension agent,
Rising Sun; Joe Hazlegrove Jr.,
former Young Dairymen, dairy
farmer in Farmville, Va.; and Dr.
Donald Hegwood, Dean of the
College of Agriculture, the
University of Maryland, College
Park.
Inter-State Milk Producers -
Jane Benner, former vice
president the National Young
Cooperators, Millerstown, Pa.;
David Lee, county agricultural
agent, Woodstown, N.J.; and John
R. Walker, assistant division
manager of Milk Marketing Inc.,
Washington, Pa.
Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers - Donald L. Ace,
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HARRISBURG Pennsylvania
strawberry growers began to
harvest their crop, and the
weather cooperated as the state
reported six days suitable for
fieldwork during the week ending
June 17, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service.
Activities included plowing; disk
ing; spraying; hay making; and
final plantings of corn, soybeans,
potatoes and tobacco.
Topsoil moisture was rated short
by 16 percent of farm reporters,
adequate by 79 percent and surplus
by five percent. Thirteen percent
of the northern reporters rated soil
moisture short, 81 percent rated it
adequate and six percent rated it
surplus. In the central region 28
percent considered the moisture
short, 67 percent felt it was ade
quate, and five percent gave a
rating of surplus. All farm
reporters in the southern region
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Selected to represent their respective cooperatives are this year’s Young Cooperator
couples, from left. James and Bonnie Weddle. Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers;
Gordon and Carole Hoover, Inter-State Milk Producers: and Bob and Ruthie Gruber,
Dairyman Inc.
James P. Townsend, former
Professor Emeritus of Penn State specialist on agriculture p resl dent of National Young
Dairy Extension, State College, economics, the University of cooperators, dairy farmer,
Pa.; Robert J. Belter, marketing Maryland, College Park; and Manqum, Va.
considered soil moisture adequate.
Good weather conditions pushed
corn planting to 95 percent com
plete, ahead of last year’s 90 per
cent and equal to the five-year
average of 95 percent. Northern
producers had 93 percent of their
corn planted, central producers
reported 96 percent planted and
the southern region had 95 percent
of the com crop planted.
Statewide soybean plantings
reached 76 percent, ahead of the 70
percent planted last year. The
northern region led with 83 percent
planted, and the central and
southern sections were close
together and 75 and 73 percent
soybeans planted, respectively.
Tobacco transplanting was 77
percent complete, far ahead of last
year’s plantings of 52 percent.
Commonwealth wheat producers
reported 77 percent of their crop in
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the headed stage with six percent
turning yellow. Last year, 76
percent was headed and ten per
cent turning yellow at this tune.
The northern region had 60 percent
of their wheat headed with none
turning yellow. In the central
region 92 percent was headed and
none turned, while the southern
section had 70 percent of the wheat
crop headed and 19 percent turning
yellow. A few southern wheat
growers are beginning to harvest
their crop on a limited scale and
are reporting some diseases such
as septoria, leaf stripe and rust.
Some southern region wheat fields
are lodged due to high winds and
heavy rams.
Statewide, barley was 39 percent
headed and 44 percent turning
yellow. At this time last year, 57
percent was headed and 37 percent
turning yellow. Northern growers
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reported 34 percent headed and 29
percent turning yellow. In the
central region 61 percent of the
barley crop was headed with 31
percent turning yellow. The
southern barley crop reached 14
percent headed and 74 percent
turning yellow. Some southern
producers have begun to harvest
their barley crop.
At the end of last week, ten
percent of the oat crop was headed,
slightly behind last year’s level of
12 percent and seven percent of the
crop turning yellow at the state
level. The northern and central
sections reported seven and four
percent headed respectively, while
the southern region reported 32
percent of the oat crop as headed
and 20 percent turning yellow.
First cutting of alfalfa was 60
percent complete, ahead of last
year’s curfings of 52 percent.
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