A36-Lancast«r Farming, Saturday, Novambar 16,1985
v Inter-State plans annual meeting
SOUTHAMPTON - “Shaping
the Future” is the theme of Inter-
State Milk Producers’
Cooperative’s 68th annual meeting
to be held Nov. 21 and 22 at the Host
Farm Resort Hotel, Lancaster.
The two-day event gets un
derway Thursday morning at 9:45
a.m. with a meeting of Inter-
State’s officers and delegates.
During this session, the
cooperative’s 500 delegates,
alternates and guests will hear
reports from officers and staff
members of Interstate and its
wholly owned subsidiaries, Holly
Milk Cooperative and QC Inc.
During the afternoon session.
Secretary and General manager
Paul E. Hand wil present his
report to the delegate body. A
presentation by Joseph Westwater,
chief executive officer, of the
Thornburgh to open PFA meeting
HERSHEY Governor Richard
Thornburgh will be present to
welcome the nearly 400 farmers to
the 35th Annual Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association (PFA) taking place
Nov. 18-19-20 at the Hershey Lodge
and Convention Center, Hershey.
Governor Thornburgh will greet
the convention participants during
the Opening Luncheon at noon,
Nov. 18.
A total of 172 Voting Delegates
from PFA’s 54 county farmers’
associations will set policies on
farm issues and elect leaders for
the coming year. Delegates will
deliberate on 117 recom
mendations forwarded by PFA’s
State Policy Development Com
mittee. Elections will take place
for the office of PFA Vice
President and for eight of PFA’s
16-member Board of Directors.
PFA’s Annual Report will be
presented to several hundred farm
leaders, including Voting
Delegates, by PFA President
Keith Eckel of Clarks Summit,
Lackawanna County. Also during
the Annual Meeting, PFA will
present its Distinguished Service
to Agriculture Award.
AFBF says textile duties
would hurt farmers
PARK RIDGE, IL. - If the
United States approves strict
textile import legislation,
American farmers would suffer
major repercussions, warned the
American Farm Bureau
Federation. Robert Delano, AFBF
president has urged the U.S.
Senate not to pass restrictive
legislation. Instead the farm
leader wants President Reagan to
resolve the problem through
stronger import limits under the
Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA).
In 1984 the top five textile ex
porters to the U.S. bought more
than $lO billion worth of American
farm products. If the Senate ap
proves a bill similar to the
measure already passed by the
House of Representatives, many
textile exporting nations would
face 30 percent or more reductions
in what they could ship to the U.S.
We recognize that textile im
National Dairy Promotion and
Research Board, and a question
and answer period will follow.
Highlighting the annual banquet
Thursday night will be guest
speaker the Honorable E. (Kika)
de la Garza, chairman of the U.S.
House Agriculture Committee. A
member of the House Ag Com
mittee since 1964, de la Garza, D-
Tezas, was elected chairman in
January 1981.
Toastmaster for the banquet will
be Enos B. Heisey, manager,
Public Agriculture Relations,
Agwat Inc. Entertainment will be
provided by the nine-member
musical group “Celebration.”
Friday morning’s session will
begin at 7 a.m. with the Young
Cooperators Breakfast program
and an address by guest speaker
P»t Williams. panerai manager nf
PFA’s Market Outlook Con
ference will take place during the
Annual Meeting. Marketing ex
perts will discuss the outlooks for
dairy, livestock, fruits and
vegetables, grain and poultry
commodities and farm credit.
Marketing seminars will also be
conducted on irradiation food
processing, cooperative owned and
operated processing plants,
futures marketing and PROFITS -
PFA’s new market research and
development program. In
formation conferences on the
impact of federal tax reform on
agriculture and a dairy herd health
and nutrition program are also
scheduled.
Special conferences for 'farm
women attending the Annual
Meeting will focus on “Women in
Current Events,” “How Healthy
Are We Agriculturalists?”, and
“The Sandwich Generation”.
PFA’s marketing cooperative,
PACMA, will also conduct its
annual meeting during the three
day event.
PFA will also honor five young
farm couples who have demon
strated outstanding agricultural
skills and leadership capabilities
ports have grown rapidly in recent
years despite the substantial
import protection the industry has
received to date," said Delano.
“We support the use of remedies
available under existing statues to
respond to domestic problems
caused by imports.” The farm
leader wants the Reagan Ad
ministration to negotiate the
textile problem under the MFA
rules.
The Multi-Fiber Arrangement is
an agreement in which U.S. and 40
other countries negotiate the rules
for textile and apparel trade.
Preliminary consultations are
beginning this fall on an extension
of MFA.
Lehigh Valley reports production increase
LANSDALE - Lehigh Valley
Farmers, Lansdale-based dairy
cooperative, has collected a record
635 million pounds of milk from its
members during the first eight
months of the year, up 7% from a
year ago.
All the milk, valued at $B2
million, was shipped to Atlantic
Processing, Inc., the dairy
federation of which Lehigh Valley
Farmers is the largest member,
accounting for two third’s of APl’s
annual milk receipts.
The production and sales in
the Philadelphia 76ers basketball
team. During the program,
president Robert B. McSparran
will present both the 1965 Out
standing Young Cooperator Award
and the 1965 Agricultural Com
municator Award.
The general session follows at 9
a.m. and will include action cm the
annual meeting resolutions, which
will be presented before the entire
delegate body.
A separate ladies program will
run concurrently with the delegate
sessions. On Thursday, a choice of
either a shopping trip to Reading
or a tour of Longwood Gardens will
he available. Friday’s program
will feature a presentation by
Joseph Westwater, National Dairy
Board CEO, and promotional skits
by the state dairy princesses.
before reaching age 30.
PFA will present the five with
Outstanding Young Farm Couple
awards Tuesday.
The Outstanding Young Farm
Couples are:
Robert and Cynthia Bachman of
Washington Boro, Lancaster
County, market 4,200 head of hogs,
175 to 200 head of beef cattle and 42
acres of tobacco on a 200-acre
farm. The Bachmans are active in
Agriculture in The Classroom
projects.
Dave and Cheryl Reinecker of
York Springs, Adams County,
market 1,000 head of hogs, 120 head
of beef cattle, and raise com and
soybeans on a 345-acre farm with
Dave’s father. Dave is a member
of the Adams County Farmers’
Association Board of Directors and
is a charter member of the Penn-
Mar Cooperative of pork
producers.
Mark and Martha Miller of
Boswell, Somerset County, operate
a 460-acre dairy farm, milking 85
head of registered and grade
Holsteins for a 19,100 lbs.
production average. Mark chairs
Somerset County Farmers’
Association’s Farm Management
Services committee.
David and Ellen Moser of Milton,
Northumberland County, market
400 head of hogs and 25-50 head of
beef cattle on a 400-acre farm.
They also rate 320 acres of com
and 35 acres of hay. David is the
new county president of the
Northumberland County Farmers’
Association.
Jeff and Roberta McConnell of
Volant, Lawrence County, operate
a 400-acre dairy and hog farrowing
farm. They milk 70 head of
registered Holsteins for a 18,200
lbs. production average and wean
a yearly average of 20 pigs per sow
from 25 sows. The McConnells
have served on PFA’s Young
Farmer and Rancher Committee
and the American Farm Bureau
Young Farmer and Rancher
Advisory Committee.
PFA will select one of these five
young farm couples to compete for
national honors at American Farm
Bureau’s annual meeting, Jan. 12-
16 in Atlanta, GA.
creases are being announced in a
series of 10 district dinner
meetings held throughout the LVF
milkshed by President Alpheus L.
Ruth and General Manager
William Stout.
“We’re having another banner
year,” Mr. Ruth said. “Even
though we have fewer members
because of sell-outs and farm
consolidations, our pounds per day
per producer are up an average of
11%. And it’s especially gratifying
that our bonuses and premiums
Order 4 announced Oct . milk price
plied Order 4 pool handlers during
the month, five fewer than last
October. Class I producer milk
totaled 257 million pounds and
accounted for 48.33 percent of total
producer milk receipts in October.
The October 1984 Class I
utilization was 53.78 percent. The
volume of Class I producer milk
was virtually unchanged from a
year ago. The volume of Class II
milk was up 53.8 million pounds or
24.4 percent from a year earlier.
Base milk accounted for 88.49
percent of totaled October
producer milk deliveries, down
significantly from 94.98 percent
last October. The average but
terfat test of producer milk was
3.70 percent in October, up slightly
from a year ago.
Order 4 pool handlers reported
Class I in-area milk sales of 214.6
million pounds during October, an
increase of 0.6 percent from a year
earlier, after adjustment to
eliminate variation due to
calendar composition.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced an October 1965 base
milk price of 512.62 per hun
dredweight and an excess milk
price of $11.19. The weighted
average October price was $12.55
and the butterfat differential for
the month was 16.3 cents. The base
milk price was up seven cents from
September but was $1.39 below last
October. The weighted average
price was up six cents from Sep
tember and was $1.49 below last
October.
Shine said that the October
volume of producer milk pooled
under the order, 531.8 million
pounds, was up nearly 53.8 million
pounds or 11.3 percent from last
October. The average daily
delivery per producer of 2,561
pounds in October was up 261
pounds or 11.3 percent from a year
earlier.
A total of 6,698 producers sup-
Union Gty dairies excel
ERIE Two Union City dairies
produced the top milk and fat
records in Erie County for the 1985
DHIA testing year ending Sept. 30.
Curtis Haven Farms had the
high fat record of 774 pounds on 48
cows. Topping the county’s milk
production records was Frank
Pollock Jr. with an average of
20,723 pounds milk on 28 cows.
Other leaders in fat production
were; Pollock, 752 pounds; Paul
and Matt Senita, Wattsburg, 741
pounds; David Brumagin, Union
City, 707 pounds; and Henry and
Cyndy Cass, Wattsburg, 704
pounds.
In milk production, ten Erie
Blair County DHIA
HOLLIDAYSBURG - Thomas
W. Kelly topped the Blair County
DHIA for the 1985 testing year with
a herd production record of 21,348
pounds milk and 759 pounds fat.
From his herd of 70 cows Kelly
also had some outstanding in
dividuals that produced record
pounds of milk, - butterfat and
protein.
Three Blair County herds had
milk production records over
20,000 pounds for the DHIA year
ending Sept. 30. In addition to Kelly
were Clover Will Farms, with a
20,840 pound herd average, and
Fidelity Holsteins, with a 20,618
pound production record.
Farms with fat records over 700
pounds included; Kelly, Clover
Will Farms, Fidelity Holsteins,
Fred Bechtel, Blackcrest Farms,
are up 33%. We paid out more than
$630 thousand so far this year to
dairymen who earn these bonuses
by producing milk of superior
quality.”
The officials reviewed the long
term guaranteed contract with
Atlantic Processing, Inc. and the
growing equity that LVF members
have in API. This amount is
currently $9.5 million.
General Manager Stout reported
on activities of Growth Com
mittees, which have been
organized to attract new members
in Erie DfflA
County herds exceeded 19,000
pound records, including: Curtis
Haven Farms, 19,483 pounds; Paul
and Matt Senita, 19,414 pounds;
David Brumagin, 19,359 pounds;
Henry and Cyndy Cass, 19,268
pounds; Calvin Henry, Wattsburg, .
19,129 pounds; Ralph Gilkinson, ,
Wattsburg, 19,163 pounds; Woods *
Dairy, Edinboro, 19,127 pounds;,!
Robert G. Henry, Union City,'}
19,316 pounds; How Rich Farms,,
Albion, 19,632 pounds. }
The Erie County DHIA finished ‘
its 58th year on Sept. 30 with an ,
average of 6,374 cows. The county *
herd average stood at 15,410 J
pounds milk and 556 of fat.
Kelly leads
Dale W. Hoover, Marcove Farm,
Charles and Mike Hoover and
Richard R. Fox and Sons.
Robert Kensinger had the
greatest butterfat production
increase for the year. The fat
average on his 55-cow herd jumped
112 pounds.
The five low somatic cell count
herds were: Clover Will Farms,
Charles and Mike Hoover, Dale W.
Hoover, Jayray Farms, and Over
Lane Farms.
County-wide the Blair County
DHIA herds increased milk
production per cow by 560 pounds
and fat production by 7 pounds.
The 6,533 cows on test in the county
produced an average of 16,509
pounds milk and 604 of fat in 1985,
according to the 57th annual DHIA
summary.
to the cooperative. He pointed out
that, despite the national milk
surplus, Lehigh wants more milk
locally to meet APl’s growing
needs. This includes supplying the
Beatrice Foods cheese plant,
adjacent to APl’s Allentown
headquarters.
Other subjects reviewed at the
meeting were contract hauling of
milk and advertising and
promotion programs.
Elections of district officers
were held at each meeting.