SOUTHAMPTON - Nineteen
Young Cooperator contestants
representing Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative Program
June 18-20 at the Sheraton Inn,
Gettysburg.
During the program, the con
testants will vie for the 1986 Out
standing Young Cooperator title. A
panel of three judges will select
five outstanding contestants, who
will be named to Inter-State’s
Young Cooperator Consultant
Committee.
Those participating in the
program are; District 1, Nevin and
Audrey Mast, Oley; District 2,
Paul and Sharon Bryan, Trenton,
N.J.; District 3, Carl Kreider,
Quarryville; District 4, Howard
Overholt, Pocomoke, Md.; District
5, Glenn and Carole Jo Binkley,
Columbia.
District 6, Desmond and
Deborah Kayea, New Holland;
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Young Cooperators to Compete in Gettysburg
District 7, Dale Kennedy, Mid
dletown; District 8, Stanley and
Cathy Guest, Pottstown; District
10, Michael and Beverley Philipp;
District 11, Kenneth and Marilyn
Umble, Atglen.
District 12, Dale and Martha
Hershey, Paradise; District 13,
John and Cindy Keith, Entriken;
District 14, Lamar and Beth
Bomberger, Watsontown; District
16, Michael and Loretta
Berkheimer, Mechanicsburg.
District 20, Glen and Cathy Over,
Williamsburg; District 21, Robert
and Cathy Cromer, Mc-
Connellsburg; District 24, Robert
and Charlotte, Clowney, Get
tysburg; District 25, William and
Susan Schnebly, Clear Spring,
Md.; and District 26, Vernon and
Luanne Horst, Chambersburg.
Sponsored by the members of the
Pennmarva Dairymen’s
Federation, the Young Cooperator
contest is a culmination of a year’s
activities for the participants.
Each contestant has had the op
portunity to attend board of
directors meetings, the annual
delegate meeting and educational
seminars.
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Maryland Loses Fewer Cows
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dairy farmers will give up fewer
cows and less milk than the
national average in the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
“Whole Herd Dairy Buyout
Program,” a nationwide effort to
reduce costly dairy surpluses.
That may be one indicator of
Maryland dairy farmers’
dependence upon milk production
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Than U.S. Average
agricultural economists for the
University of Maryland.
In 1985, Maryland dairy farmers
marketed 1.7 billion pounds of
milk. Based on the number of
contracts accepted from the
state’s producers by the federal
government, that figure should fall
by 7.43 percent, or 124 million
pounds for 1986, says Dr. John W.
Wysong, agricultural economics
specialist for the university’s
Cooperative Extension Service.
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and part of 1987 a national
reduction from 1985’s production
figures of 8.7 percent, or 12.3 billion
pounds of milk, Wysong says.
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program will remove ap
proximately one million cows from
production.
Of the nation’s five major dairy
states, only California and Min
nesota farmers signed contracts
with the federal government to
reduce milk production by more
than the national target average.
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major producing states of
Wisconsin, New York, Penn
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production more than the national
aveage because they are less
dependent upon milk production
for their livelihoods,” Wysong
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“Farmers there are a bit more
diversified,” he adds.
Under the terms of USDA’s
buyout program, farmers may
submit bids to the federal
government to sell cows from their
herds and remove them per
manently from milk production.
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reduce dairy surpluses, but it
wants to reduce the cost to the
taxpayer for those surpluses.
The federal government
currently spends more than $2
billion every year to buy surplus
dairy products from the nation’s
dairy farmers.
USDA estimates the buyout
program will cost $1.9 billion a
year, one-third of which dairy
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