Ma. and Va. Milk Producers
COLUMBIA, Md. Recognizing
four decades of harmonious
business relationship, Safeway
Stores selected Maryland &
Virginia Milk Producers
Cooperative Association for its
“Circle of Excellence Award” for
1984.
This new award is to be given
annually to a supplier who exhibits
outstanding performance in
meeting the quality requirements
and delivery schedules required by
Safeway Stores.
Presentation of the award took
place at Columbia, Md., and was
made by J.L. Aim, vice president
of the Safeway Dairy Division.
Receiving the award were James
Da' .. (k :) ana jc.._ (i ;),;ive
Assoc, representatives, received the “Circle of Excellence Award" from J.L. Aim,
Safeway dairy division vice-president.
receive supplier award
E. Click, general manager, and
David Weitzer, board represen
tative, of Maryland & Virginia
Cooperative. Aim cited the 1350
member cooperative for the
complete service rendered to
Safeway in the Mid-Atlantic area
over many years.
Click responded by recalling
conditions which existed in 1941,
when Safeway entered the market.
He mentioned the entry of
paperboard cartons, the advent of
bulk tank production on the farms
and pull-dates on consumer
packages. He said that Safeway
plpvorf 3 nart in all of
these innovations. He also recalled
that back in 1941, the 1350
Maryland & Virginia producers
averaged 70j>allons per day and
today the same number average
350 gallons per day.
Concluding his remarks, Click
paid tribute to the several former
Safeway dairy plant managers
who played such a large part in the
rapid growth of Safeway milk sales
in the area. He extended the
cooperative’s deep appreciation
for the recognition of the past and
pledged superior service in the
future.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 29,1984-A23
Syracuse Univ. to serve
“REAL” dairy products
SYRACUSE - One of the biggest
complaints made by college
students today refers to dining hall
food. Dining hall meals supposedly
can’t compare to home cooking.
Officials at Syracuse University,
however, are determined to
change this line of thinking,
they’ve become the first university
in the nation to sign an American
Dairy Association (ADA) “REAL”
Seal table service agreement.
The “REAL” Seal is a registered
certification symbol, used by the
dairy, retail supermarket and
foodservice industries to help
consumers distinguish real diary
foods from imitations.
According to Bruce Krupke,
Dairy Marketing Specialist for the
American Dairy Association and
Dairy Council, “By signing a
“REAL” Seal agreement,
Syracuse University will be able to
promote the fact that their dining
services use only real dairy
products in food preparation, as
opposed to imitation substitutes.
This reflects Syracuse’s concern
for providing better tasting and
ASCS Committees
Elected in York Co.
Committee persons were elected
to the County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee in York County
recently.
Farmers elected to committees
were:
Community 1: E. Wayne
Beshore, Eugene W. Ort, Robert
Traver, Ronald Sponsler, Herbert
W. Myers.
Community 2: Paul A. Myers,
Fred S. Kimmell, Norman H.
Shelly, Jr., Guy M. Hoffman, John
Thornton.
Community 3; Richard Dear
dorff, Laveme Bentz, Ray E.
Orner, Gary Altland, Ralph
McGregor.
Community 4; Doll L. Zirkle,
Russel Rentzel, Eugene B. Taylor,
Blaine E. Knepper, Dale Clymer.
Community 5: Charles Sunday,
Robert Smyser, Walter S. Laird,
Albert N. Garber, C. Fred
McGhee.
Community 6; Donald M.
Eyster, Carlton L. Jacobs, Phillip
D. Laughman, George L. Ruth,
Rodney C. Eisenhart.
Community 7: Ellsworth E.
Lehman, Jr., Marlyn E. Miller,
Jacob L. Smyser, Radford Keeney,
Preston E. Chronister.
Community 8: Gerald E. Buser,
David S. Evans, Clayton Tyson,
Richard Stauffer, Elwood E.
Chronister.
Community 9: Emory E. Beck,
Dennis McWilliams, N. Emmert
Sweitzer, Clarence Godfrey, John
W. Hunt.
Community 10: Henry E. Tyson,
Desota Burchett, Ellis I. Growl,
Farm Program Payments
When farmers sign up for the
1985 Acreage Reduction
Programs, they may request 50
percent of their projected
deficiency payment and 50 percent
of their land diversion payments
for wheat. They may also request
advance payment of 50 percent of
the projected deficiency payments
for com, grain sorghum, oats and
barley.
Deficiency payments are made
to farm program participants
when average market prices fall
below the established target price
for the crop. Land diversion
payments compensate farmers for
taking land out of production in
addition to the acreage reduction
requirement.
mroe nutritious meals to its
students.”
In its role as the first university
in the nation to sign the “REAL”
Seal agreement, Syracuse will be
an example for other colleges to
follow suit. Syracuse University
feeds its studetns through six
dining halls and twelve snack bars,
serving 7,500 students per meal.
Through the course of a year,
students consume 38,500 pounds of
American cheese, 23,000 gallons of
milk, and 13,500 pounds of cream
cheese.
The main purpose for the
“REAL” Seal program is to in
crease the consumer’s ability to
correctly identify genuine dairy
foods versus their imitation
counterparts. Over 1,000 dairy
processors and retail food chains
have been certified to display the
“REAL” Seal in the four years
since the program began. The Seal
is especially useful in foodservice
institutions, such as Syracuse
University, where diners have no
way of knowing what has been
used in meal preparation.
Glenn P. Warner, James G
Keister.
Community 11: L. Earl Gross,
David R. Wilson, S. David Stewart,
John M. Brown, Charles E.
Richardson.
Community 12: W. Dean
Manifold, John W. Marsteller, Sr.,
Harold R. Miller, Jr., Roy G.
Jackson, Jr., J. Daniel Wolf.
Community 13: John S. Thomp
son, Vemon L. Sieling, Aaron A.
Amspacher, Luther S. Arendt, J.
Wayne Rehmeyer.
Community 14: Donald E.
Meckley, Roy D. Gladfelter, Clark
A. Thomas, Donald E. Sprenkle,
Preston 0. Gantz.
Community 15; Lester E.
Luckenbaugh, Carl A. Anderson,
111, Larry L. Brenneman, Sterling
L. Myers, Larry W. Sterner.
Community 16: Wilson E. Nace,
Norman L. Bollinger, Charles P.
Bowman, Jr., Clair Geeting, J.
Clair Frock.
Committee officers also elected
were Harry Wolf, chairperson;
Richard Deardorff, vice chair
person; Geary Huntsberger,
regular member; W. Dean
Manifold, first alternate; and E.
Wayne Beshore, second alternate.
ASCS county and community
committees are in charge of local
administration of national farm
programs such as ACP, Feed
Gram and Wheat, Wool, and
Certification programs. Last year,
more than 1200 farmers—about 25
percent of all farmers in the
county—took part in one or more
of the programs.
Projected deficiency payment
rates are 47 cents per bushel for
corn, 46 cents per bushel for gram
sorghum, 44 cents for barley, and
$l.OB for wheat. The advance
payments will be half of these
rates.
Land diversion payments have
been established at $2.70 per
bushel for wheat.
The acreage reduction and land
diversion programs are ad
ministered by the Agriculture
Stabilization and Conservation
Service as directed by Congress.
The programs are planned to
maintain a reasonable but not
excessive supply of wheat and feed
grains.