VOL. 30 No. 14
PYFA names Outstanding Young Farmers
BY JACK HUBU£Y
SOMERSET - The naming of
this year’s outstanding Young
Farmers highlighted the Pa.
Young Farmers Association’s
winter convention held at the
Ramada Inn, Somerset, on
Wednesday and Thursday.
To qualify for the Outstanding
Young Farmer under 30, Out
standing Young Farmer over 30, or
Outstanding Community Service
Awards at the state level, ap
plicants must first receive one of
these honors on the regional level.
Regional winners in the “under
30“ competition were as follows;
• Region II; David and Judy
Gerhart, Solanco Young Farmers
Chapter, Lancaster Co.
• Region III; Lee and Kath>
Spangler, Union Co,
• Region IV: John Bigham,
Gettysburg Chapter, Adams Co.
. • Region V; Douglas and Debra
Hillegass, Berlin Brothersvalley
Chapter, Somerset Co.
• Region VII: David and Phoebe
Hitler, Kutztown Chapter, Berks
Co
Regional winners “over 30”
were:
• Region II: Dale and Fay Herr,
Solanco Chapter, Lancaster Co.
• Region III: Kenneth and Edna
Builder’s Conference features 3 farms
BYJANEBRESEE
Staff Correspondent
TOWANDA - Approximately 70
builders, building supply
representatives and agricultural
engineers attended the fourth
annual Pa. Farm Builders’ Con
ference and Tour on Jan. 30, and
31, at the Elks Club in Towanda,
Bradford County.
Sponsored by the Penn State
Extension’s Department of
Engineering, the purpose of the
event was to acquaint farm
Though most of us aren’t too happy about having to drive jn the stuff, it's hard to find
fault with a fresh blanket of snow that manages to turn a lackluster winter landscape
into a scene from Currier & Ives >
Four Sections
Kathy and Lee Spangler of Union County received the
fljpA’s jgifrtandlng Young Farmer Award in the under-30
category.
Smith, Middleburg Chapter.
Snyder Co.
• Region IV: Ken and Becky
Shoenberg, Shippensburg Chapter,
builders with up-to-date in
formation through an all-day tour
of two dairy farms, a large veal
operation and Masonite Cor
poration, a manufacturer of
hardboard products. Also on the
program was a full slate of con
ference speakers.
Formula I
The tour group bus first stopped
near New Albany at Formula I
Inc., said to be the largest veal
operation in Pennsylvania. The
operation began in the early 60’s
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9,1985
Franklin Co.
• Region V - James and Bonnie
Ringler, Berlin Brothersvalley
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when Walter Newton, a farmer
dealing in poultry and feeder
lambs, got involved in marketing
veal calves. He organized his own
veal operation, buying Holstein
calves from the stockyard and
paying farmers to grow them. He
furnished the feed which perfected
and patented as Formula I Feeds,
Inc. Presently he sells feed into 13
states through a distributor
system, and contracts out veal
calves to about 30 veal growers in
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Recipients of the Pa. Young Farmers Outstanding Young
Farmer over 30, were A. Date and Fav Herr of Lancaster
County. PpP'H
With 95% sign-up
Over-order pricing can
save Northeast dairies
BY WENDY WEHR
HARRISBURG Independent
and co-op dairymen unite' Bv
joining in a common marketing
agencj vou can institute over
order pricing in the Northeast -
and ensure that >ou and vour
neighbor receive higher, tairei
prices forvoiinmtk
That’s the message being
delivered b> the advocates of an
ambitious plan to achieve over
order pricing in the Northeast via
the Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agenc>, Inc (RCMAI
Arthur Little, RCMA executive
director, outlined the organization
and its goals to members of the
farm press and representatives ot
Pa Farmers Union and the State
Grange m Harrisburg on ['hui
sdav
0\ ei -order pricing obtaining a
price tor milk producers which is
tiighei than the niinuniuni Class 1
prices established undei the
federal marketing orders has
been successful m some ;!5 aieas
throughout the countrv. with a
range ot over-order prices from U
tents to $1 tti per hundredweight
being paid to farmers At the
Thin sdav meeting, Little called toi
ovei -order pricing m Federal
Ordeis 1, 2 and 4, and he claimed
that HI’MA is the logical
organization to ai i omplish the
pi icing scheme
Dining the eailv I'.Ml's, lU'M\
then an organization ol Noi
tlieast co-ops Miccesstullv
established ovei-oidei prices in
New Kngland and Western New
Yoik, collecting neai l> s‘22 million
ovei a IH-month penod with
paMiienls to produceis laiigmg
$7.50 per year
tiom 3 cents to 85 cents per hun
dredweight
Since that time, explained Little,
the legality of RCMA was tested in
court, and the U.S Supreme Court
upheld over-order pricing and
ga\e the common marketing
agenc> a formal legal basis.
Furthermore, he said, RCMA has
now been restructured to allow
individual producers to become
members and be tullj represented
in the marketing agencv
We are assuring nonco-op
members thev will have equal
representation in RCMA," said
Little as he displa>ed an
organizational chart showing
independents organized bv
regions Directors trorn the
regions and co-ops will meet to
determine what over-order pricing
according to an economic for
mula should be established each
month.
Rut the cati h is that tor RCMA to
actuev e over-order pricing and
eqmtv tor handlers and producers,
virtiiall> all danv tanners must
join RCM \
Total farmer participation
\t least 95 pei cent of the dan v
tanners must be members ot
RCMA either on an individual
membeiship basis oi thumgh then
inoperative before the progiam is
put into effect, said Little To
accomplish 95 pel cent sign-up, an
estimated 10,000 nonco-op mem
ber's as well as all danv
coopeiatues must sign member
maiketingagreements "
Some majoi co-ops, including
Dan v lea, 1 ehigh Valiev and
\FDCO, alieadv belong to RCMA,
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