D 4 Lancaster Farming Saturday, March 29,1986
Lee Kraszewski has been named
the coordinator of the New York
Beef Cattlemen’s Association
Direct Marketing Program for
feeder cattle in New York State.
This state-wide direct marketing
program has received a one-year
grant of $30,000 from the State
Department of Agriculture and
Markets for development and
implementation.
The naming of Kraszewski as
coordinator by the New York Beef
Cattlemen’s Association direct
marketing committee sets this
marketing program in action.
Kraszewski is currently working to
explain the program to beef
producers, farm organizations,
and agricultural agencies that
support beef production in the
state.
Kraszewski said that while the
concept of a state-wide direct
marketing program for the sale of
feeder calves this fall will be new,
the direct marketing program has
been very successful in the state on
a smaller scale for the past two
years in the “north country”.
There the Northern New York Beef
Cooperative (now part of the
Northern Division of the Beef
Cattlemen’s Association) has
operated a direct marketing
program of preconditioned feeder
cattle.
Under the New York Beef
Cattlemen’s Association Direct
Marketing Program beef
producers across the state will be
invited in late summer to nominate
their feeder calves and to commit
themselves to the program by
following preconditioning
guidelines, by accepting the
decisions of the on-farm grader,
and by bringing their calves to a
central point on a specified date for
their sale, which will have been
made by the coordinator.
Kraszeski said the Direct
Marketing Program is expected to
give cattlemen a better price by
enabbng buyers to bid com
oetitively on uniform lots of
preconditioned feeders. “These
lots will have the numbers needed
to encourage volume buying and
competitive bidding,” Kraszewski
said, noting most cow/calf
operations lack adequate numbers
to direct market their calves on an
individual basis.
The Direct Marketing Program
will also encourage better
management practices since
quality standards for calves to be
sold in the program will be strictly
enforced.
Kraszewski said the Direct
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Cattlemen's Association Feeder
Calf Sale program. Spring Feeder
Calf Sales are April 19 at Angelica
and May 10 at Chatham, and the
Fall Feeder Calf Sales are 0ct.25
at Angelica, Nov. 1 at Chatham
and Nov. 15 at Caledonia.
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Kraszewski emphasized. “We
anticipate the Direct Marketing
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he said
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