DHIA directors meeting aims for program improvement BY LAURA ENGLAND STATE COLLEGE In its continuing effort to improve program services, the state Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) held its first Directors Annual Meeting Thursday and Friday at the Penn State Sheraton, State College. The meeting was organized in an attempt to increase statewide program uniformity. To do this, “it is important to have local director imput,’’ according to DHIA president J. Robert Kindig. Keynote speaker Donald Ace, Professor Emeritus of Dairy Science at Penn State, who ad dressed the topic “What are You Doing Here?” told the DHIA directors, “We’re here to talk about opportunity and the direc tion of the DHIA. We’re here to discuss meeting dairymen’s needs and to look ahead.” Ace asked the directors if uniformity was evident in the In the old days, farmers dealt with bad weather, tight money, and poor production. ) @voiing’s Roaring Spring Pa 16673 ' w Livestock Nutritional Services hiring and firing process, salaries and directors meetings. “Do you have regular monthly meetings or are you meeting only during a crisis time?” he asked. In posing questions to the directors, Ace summed up both highlights and problems of the state DHIA and stressed the need SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. - Dr. Paul E. Hand, the General Manager of Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative, today called the bankruptcy of Abbotts Dairies, “A serious but manageable situation for Inter- State." Abbotts Dairies, a long time customer of Inter-State and the last remaining dairy processing plant in Philadelphia, filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on Friday, Aug. 10, leaving Inter-State with an These days . . . it’s even tougher. Today, we have genetic improve ments that produce animals with the potential to be more productive and efficient. At the same time it places a greater demand on the farmer to have up-to-date information about the nutritional requirements that these more efficient animals need. Whatever you market dairy, swine, beef, sheep even if the weather is good and the market high, poor feed management can ruin your chances for a decent profit. We can show you as we have been showing farmers for over 80 years how to obtain the information and the products you need to balance your homegrown feedstuffs for maximum growth and production. This year during the Empire Farm Days, stop by and talk to us. After all, we invented feed management over 80 years ago. to continually meet national DHIA standards. He said he would like to see the future task of “welding the state DHIA into one program in stead of 57 programs in one state.” In a slide presentation, DHIA coordinator Philip Dukas said that DH3 not only stands for Dairy Herd Improvement but also for Abbotts is ‘manageable’ approximate $2.5 million un collected receivable. Abbotts purchased about 10 percent of the more than 2.4 billion pounds of milk produced annually by Inter- State’s 3200 member farmers. Hand continued with the fact that while the milk that went to Abbotts will have to be moved to other dealers, “profitable and economically feasible customers exist for all the milk Abbotts had previously received”. Robert B. McSparran, Inter- Penna. Ag Progress Days See Us At The Dairy and Livestock Tent Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18,1984—A37 dedication, history and innovation. “We’re going to go for the entire market for organizational growth,” Dukas said in describing the program’s scope of innovation. Also addressing the directors was farm management specialist John Brockett. Brocket! told the group that learning how to use State’s President and himself a dairy farmer located in Peach Bottom, Pa, reaffirmed Hand’s comments. McSparran, com menting on Inter-State’s financial situation said, “Inter-State always has been and will continue to be a strong financial organization.” Also, according to McSparran, the Abbotts bankruptcy will not affect the monthly milk checks received by (me Inter-State members. McSparran said, “that there will be no reduction of base, excess or DHIA records should be a priority. He said DHIA has been misused as a management tool. In addition to the speakers, the DHIA directors toured the DHI Center and forage testing labs. Group discussions were also held as well as a banquet concluding Thursday’s program. blend prices to any Inter-State member as a result of Abbotts’ failure to pay Interstate.” Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative represents more than 3,200 dairy farmer families in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The 67-year-old cooperative marketed more than 2.51 billion pounds of milk in 1963. Information accompanying a photo on page 829 concerning Baltimore County’s first 4-H sale was in error. Exhibiting his champion market lamb was Dennis Kenndal, accompanied by buyers Steve and Joan Dance of Dance Auctioneers, Towson. We apologize for the mistake. 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