VOL. 31 No. 34
The Phils lost, but the Middle
Atlantic Milk Marketing
Association with Andy Stoltzfus on
the mound threw a pitch for milk
that was deinitely a winner for
milk promotion.
This all took place last Sunday at
Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
When the Philadelphia Phillies
played the Montreal Expos in pre
game entertainment for the
gathering baseball fans. Two
show-type dairy cows from
Caernarvon Farm at Morgantown
took the infield around second base
for a pull by pull account of where •
milk comes from. The Phillies
Holstein Assn. Especially Strong In Export
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
Note: The Pennsylvania
Holstein Association with 5,500
members has established itself as
one of the top state dairy breed
organizations in the nation. Cattle
have been exported to 45 foreign
countries through this breed
association. In addition, the state
junior program with 1,800 mem
bers will feature a first ever when
nearly $2,000 of premium awards
will be made available at the
Liberty Jersey Sires
GINGER MYERS
Adams County Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE - Are you a
Jersey breeder in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York or other
surrounding states 7 Are your cows
registered or sire identified and
your herd on official test 7 If so,
then Liberty Jersey Sires wants
you for a member.
Liberty Jersey Sires (LJS) is an
organized cooperative of owners of
Jersey cattle in these states whose
primary objective is to adequately
sample and prove young Jersey
sires. It is not the intent of the
organization to replace any AI
industry efforts in young sire
sampling, but rather to sup
plement the existing programs so
as to provide more superior bulls
for the continued genetic ad
vancement of the Jersey breed.
US grew out of interest ex
pressed at an informal meeting of
Deadline Change
For July 5 Issue
Because of the holiday
the Lancaster Farming
office will be closed on
Friday, July 4.
Public sale ad
vertising deadline will
be Monday, June 30 at 5
p.m.
Sec. B classified ad
deadline will be
Tuesday, July 1 at 5
p.m.
Sec. C classified ad
deadline will be Wed
nesday, July 2 at 9 a.m.
Four Sections
Andy Throws A Pitch For Milk
Fanatic and the Pennsylvania
Dairy Princess got into the show
when some media types and some
Phillies managers ran into an
utterly outrageous contest to see
who had farm backgrounds. Well,
not really. The contest was to see
who could get the most milk out of
the cows. But the farm background
in the players showed up, too.
The cows Caernarvan Merit
Favorite VG 88 and Bashore
Rotate Jody VG 86 only tried to
step into the bucket about one time
each. And since they were both
working on 22,000 pound milk
records, that seemed fair to both
junior show to be held in con
junction with the Pennsylvania All-
American and the Eastern
National show this fall. William
Nichol, executive secretary, is
working on his 27th year with the
association and has become in
(jgrpationally-known for his con
tacts with foreign buyers.
In a visit to the state office in
State College this week we talked
with Nichol, Kenneth Ramey,
Director of Membership and
Jeffrey Harding, Director of Sales.
Jersey breeders held last April in
conjunction with the Pennsylvania
Jersey Cattle Club annual
meeting. American Jersey Cattle
Club southeastern field
representative, Can Wolfe, was on
hand at that meeting to explain the
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Have you hugged a calf lately? Donald Packard, Jr., and
Glenn Singleton did last Saturday night at the Buck Tractor
Pull dairy promotion event. See story and more photos on
Page A-28.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 21,1986
Andy Stoltzfus
All three men contribute to the
day-by-day working of the Holstein
Association. And we have com
bined their answers to our
questions in this interview.
Q. Can you give us a little of the
history of the association as you
remember if’
A. Our office was in the second
floor of a building on Beaver
Avenue. We had three rooms as
our headquarters. That worked
quite well until 1963 when the
association purchased the tract of
land where the office is now
located. We now have three acres.
And originally from 1963 to 1973 the
office was in a model home. But at
that tune we built the new office
building that now gives us a very
pleasant facility for our
headquarters.
Q. Can you compare earlier
membership numbers in relation
to how it is now 7
teams. But when tune was called,
the winning team had milked
nearly twice as much milk.
After milk pitchers were
presented to the winning team, the
Phillies Fanatic kissed the Dairy
Princess (and knocked off her
crown). The cows returned to their
sidewalk tree outside the stadium.
And Stoltzfus and Beth Heald State
Dairy Princess moved to a box
seat to await the start of the game.
Prior to the game, Phillies third
baseman, Mike Schmidt was
recognized for his contribution to
the Mid-Atlantic dairy industry
Currently he appears in television,
And Youth Programs
William Nichol
A. Well in the beginning we had
about 3,600 members and, we had
approximately the same number
of clubs as we have now. We have
50 clubs and one of the first things
that was necessary to establish the
association was to organize these
local holstem clubs. Our respon
sibility through the ’sos and '6os
was to keep the clubs active. The
membership has grown to a
present number of 5,500. That
gives us second place in the nation
to Wisconsin. We have almost as
many registrations as Wisconsin
Wheat Growers To Vote
on Production Controls
BY JACK HUBLEY
After a number of false starts,
USDA’s wheat poll is scheduled to
get underway next Wednesday.
The nation’s wheat farmers will be
receiving ballots soon after county
offices of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service mail them on June 25. The
ballots must be postmarked for
return by July 7.
Mandated by the Food Security
Act of 1985, the poll is an attempt to
determine whether or not farmers
favor mandatory production
controls as a method of increasing
the price of wheat.
Alarie Fleming, program
specialist at the Harrisburg ASCS
office, stresses that the poll is not
binding. Regardless of the poll’s
outcome, USDA has the option to
conduct a nationwide referendum
$8.50 per Year
radio, and billboard advertising
for MAMMA’S “Milk Has Less
Than 4% Fat” campaign. A full
page ad featuring Schmidt also
appears in “Phillies Today” the
official scorecard magazine.
After the National Anthem was
played and the starting lineups
were announced, they called for
Andy to throw out the first ball,
which he did. A definite overhand
strike that chased ignorance about
where milk comes from. For
thousands of city folks in the
stands and millions of Americans
watching TV, yes it was a strike,
definitely, for sure.
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even though they have quite a few
more cows. We are happj with our
position though we would like to
see more cows registered
Q. Can you describe a bit of the
difference in service to the num
bers now in comparison to 25 years
ago.?
A. Well we’ve especially in
creased our activity m the sales
field. In the early 70s we made a
decision to build the organization
and become a more effective force
in both domestic and export sales.
We increased our staff to ac
comodate this. So we’ve been
especially active in the export
business and have been in
strumental in exporting cattle to 45
different foreign nations.
Q. Would you elaborate a little
more on what you do for your
members in sales 9 How do you
bring the buyer and the seller
together 9
A. The export sales success has
been due largely to the support of
our local sales representatives who
are appointed or elected by our
local holstein clubs. When we have
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on wheat production controls. The
administration, however, has
repeatedly voiced its opposition to
such controls.
Under the present Acreage
Conservation Reserve program,
producers could voluntarily sign
up to limit wheat production to 75
percent of their base acreage to
qualify for benefits. This year,
11,268 Pennsylvania farms
growing wheat and feed grains
enrolled during the March 6 to
April 26 signup period.
Under present controls, the
wheat target price is set at $4.38
per bushel for 1986-87. The loan
rate of $2.40 could conceivably be
reduced by five percent, to $2.28,
by the USDA secretary for the
coming year.
If enacted, production controls,
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