DlO-Lancaster Farming Saturday December 15,1984
225 food processors meet
HERSHEY - Their mutual
involvement in agribusiness - the
number one industry in Penn
sylvania - brought approximately
225 food processors from five
states together at the Hershey
Lodge and Convention Center last
month. These delegates from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware
were participants in the second
Joint Pennsylvama/Mid Atlantic
Food Processors Convention'
recently hosted by the Penn
sylvania Food Processors
Association.
A highlight of the two-day
convention was an address given
by Governor Dick Thornburgh.
The governor said he sees
agribusiness as a most important
industry in need of an improved
economic climate. He also noted
the major market potential in
exports (the theme of the con
vention was “Competing in the
World Market”).
Other prominent speakers in
cluded August Schumacher from
TUNKHANNOCK - William
“Bill” Schaefer, an A.I. pioneer
and cooperative statesman, died
Nov. 9, at the age of 76. Bill’s
career spanned more than 30 years
in the A.I. industry. His home was
in Tunkhannock.
Bom on July 13, 1908, he was
reared on a farm in York County.
He was a DHIA supervisor from
1927 to 1938. The next five years he
was herdsman for a large
registered Ayrshire and Jersey
herd, prior to embarking on his
A.I. career.
Bill’s career in A. 1., and the
farmer cooperative field began in
1943 when he was employed as
the World Bank; Carl Smith,
Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of Gerber
Products; Robert Watkins, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for the U.S.
Department of Commerce;
Derwent Renshaw from the
European Economic Community;
and Claire Rickard, International
Trade Administration.
A local food processor that was
represented at this industry
convention was Hanover Brands,
Inc., Hanover. The company’s
delegate, Gary Knisely, Executive
Assistant to Hanover Brands
President Alan Warehime, is a
member of the Pennsylvania Food
Processors Association Board of
Directors. Warehime is a past
president of the organization,
which now boasts about 22 com
pany members, and was
previously chairman of its Board
of Directors as well.
During Governor Thornburgh’s
visit, Knisely presented him with
Hanover Brands’ gift pack of four
deli style jarred vegetable salads.
Bill Schaefer dies
Manager of Southeastern Penn
sylvania Artificial Breeding
Cooperative (now Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative). A year
later, he was selected as General
Manager of Northeastern Penn
sylvania Artificial Breeding
Cooperative, which consolidated
into NEBA in 1963, and then af
filiated with Sire Power in 1969.
Bill was instrumental in forming
the National Association of Animal
Breeders, of which tie later
became Vice President. He retired
from NEBA in 1974, but continued
to be active in the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives (PAFC). Bill was
Agri-Scholarship Program
ST LOUIS, Mo. Ralston
Purina announced it will award 20,
one-year, $2,000 scholarships and
80 $250 grants in the 1985 Field 'n
Farm Agri-Scholarship com
petition.
Punna's Field 'n Farm Agn-
Scholarships are awarded yearly
to high school seniors who
demonstrate sincere interest in
agncultuit Last year, Purina
gave $40,000 in awards. This year,
the awards have been expanded to
$60,000.
"T'hc future of the agriculture
iustry is critical to the continued
growth of our society," said
Ralston product manager M.R.
Pansien. “Responsible young
people like last year’s scholarship
winners will play a vital role in
ilwt growth.'
Scholarship applications will be
available beginning January 7,
1985, at Purina dealerships across
the country. The contest will be
selected to write a history on
farmer cooperative development
and the scope of services available
to Pennsylvania farmers. Because
of Bill’s interest in, and en
thusiasm for farmer cooperatives
and their representatives, he was
known as one of Pennsylvania’s
best informed and most dedicated
cooperative statesmen.
Purina expands
judged on the basis of the students'
academic records, guidance
counselor recommendations and a
500-woi d essay competition.
“Last year’s essay dealt with the
question of why agriculture is
so important to the future of
America," Pansien said. “This
year we’re going to try something
a little different Along with our
Simmental trait leaders cited
DE FOREST, Wise. - American
Breeders Service bulls have run
away with Genetic Trait Leader
awards, according to a report
recently released by the American
Simmental Association.
Trait Leaders are bulls whose
progeny rank in the breed’s top two
percent for one or more of six
traits on which Simmental bulls
are evaluated-Calving Ease,
Weaning Weight, Yearling Weight,
Carcass Value, Daughter’s First
Calf Calving Ease, and Daughter’s
First Calf Weaning Weight.
A total of 2,570 Simmental bulls
were evaluated and included in the
1985 National Sire Selector ac
cording to the Association’s
Executive Vice President, Earl
Peterson. Records on 677,075
calves from 66,293 herds were
involved in the program.
ABS bulls dominated most of the
categories and of 49 bulls listed as
expanded prize money, we’rt
going to update the essay subject,
too, so that it will deal with some ot
the problems that concern
agriculture students today.”
The scholarships and grants will
be awarded April 1, 1985. In
terested seniors should contact
their high school guidance coun
selors for further details.
trait leaders for Weaning Weight,
13 or 27% belong to ABS. Six of the
14 bulls listed as Yearling Weight
Leaders (43%) are also at ABS.
In Maternal Trait rankings, ABS
has five of the 12 bulls listed as
genetic leaders for weaning weight
of their daughters’ first calves.
Three of the breed’s bulls earned
the Trait Leader status in four
categories. Two of three are ABS’
Sir Arnold GBO9 and C & B
Western. Sir Arnold demonstrates
the very rare ability to sire both
calving ease and rapid growth
while C & B Western dominates the
growth and carcass categories.
ABS has been recognized for
many years as the leader in ar
tificial insemination of beef cattle
and has supplied Simmental
semen to cattlemen all across the
U.S. since 1968. The firm also
exported semen from bulls of this
breed to ten foreign countries this
year.