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le heifers loaded in the crates and the plane awaits
takeoff.
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Harrisburg International Airport
this week. This group, 90 bred
heifers, flew from the airport
crated like eggs, bound for Jordan.
Almost half of the airborne
heifers were donations from
farmers participating in the
buyout program; this is one of the
first organized exportations of
such animals. However, plans for
this shipment were in the works
prior to the Dairy Termination
Plan.
Over two years ago Jordan
contacted Heifer Project In
ternational for a shipment of 200
Holstein heifers. The first phase
was completed in the fall of 1985,
with the balance being filled
earlier this week.
HPI, a non-profit organization,
relies on heifer donations from
farmers to fill these requests.
Projects are not initiated by HPI,
rather they respond to appeals
from grassroots farm groups.
The recent planeload received
an unexfiected boost from the
DTP. “Many farmers have spent
years developing improved cattle
and rather than have them
slaughtered, they chose to donate
them,” explained John Dieterly,
director of HPl’s Mid-Atlantic
Regional Office in Maryland.
A local program participant, J.
Clayton Charles, Lancaster, ex
plains, “Rather than see the
animal slaughtered, I prefer to
have them exported where they
can do some good for someone
else.” Relating the adage, “Give
someone a fish and you help him
for a meal. Teach him to fish and
you help him for a lifetime,”
Charles noted he will probably
donate again next year prior to the
dispersal of his herd.
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The Clare Oberholtzer and
Albert Breneman Farms, previous
donors from the county, were
donating to this trip also. Both
families agreed they felt it was an
opportunity to help someone else.
Oberholtzer compared this
program to FFA’s heifer chain
which was responsible for
providing him with a heifer during
his FFA years. HPI, like the FFA
program, requires new heifer
owners to give the first born
female to someone else in need of
an animal.
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RD #l, Box 76A
Honesdale, PA 18431
PH 717-253-1612
NAZARETH BUILDING TRI-COUNTY
SYSTEMS, INC. AGRI-SYSTEMS
3367 Gun Club Rd RD#l,Boxss
Nazareth, PA 18064 Swedesboro, NJ 08085
PH 215-837-7700 PH 609-467 3174
Heifers Fly From
Lancaster County farms were
scheduled to send 13 heifers on this
flight, joining approximately 20
heifers from the remainder of
Pennsylvania.
Prior to exporting the animals,
they had to be centralized and
checked over. For this trip they
were congregated at the Penn
sylvania Holstein Association’s
Netting was secured to strengthen the sides of the one use
only crates.
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CO. CO., INC.
RD 1, Box 126 1841 Jerry's Road
Loysville, PA 17047 S'reet, MD21154
PH 717-789-4193 PH 301 - 692 ' 5350
barn outside of Middletown.
This facility was chosen for its
central location for the seven
states sending animals, and, “it
has one of the finest quarantine
and export preparation facilities
anywhere,” Dieterly noted. The
Holstein Association has been very
supportive of our efforts, he added.
Bill Nichol, executive secretary
of the association, spoke at Sun
day’s dedication for the animals.
He offered praise for HPI and
noted that this organization
assisted in opening the export
market to Turkey by helping to
establish its dairy industry
through these projects.
At the PHA barn the animals
were sorted, weighed and in
spected by Dr. Rossow, a federal
veterinarian. Before any animal
can be exported, certain health
requirements and mountains of
red tape must be cleared, Dieterly
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