VOL. 31 No. 48
New PHA Barn In Time For 1,000 Head Export
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
MIDDLETOWN - Mix 300-plus
yards of concrete, 260
60 by 220 feet of metal roofing, tons
of stone, several truckloads of
Dean Hood Looks For
Innovation At PSU
BY EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
Editors Note: Dr. Lamartrine
Hood, Dean of Penn State
University, came back to Penn
sylvania after 18 years on the
faculty at Cornell University in
New York state. Dr. Hood is fond of
saying that Penn State farmed him
out to get more experience and
then decided to bring him back to
the majors.
Since returning to State College
earlier this year, Dr. Hood has
spent much of his time traveling
over Pennsylvania to get
acquainted with farmers and
extension personnel. His friendly,
open manner has already en
deared him to many in the state
farming and agribusiness com
munity. Here is a personal in
terview regarding some of the
Important issues related to Penn
State Extension ant', fanners in
Pennsylvania.
Q. To help our readers get
acqii&inted with you, will you tell
us something of your- past ex
periences?
A. I am a Pennsylvania boy. I
was bom in Johnstown but grew up
on a dairy farm in Bucks County. I
have two degrees from Penn State
-Bachelor and PhD. The Bachelor
degree is in dairy science. The
Phd. is in food science with the
Master’s tucked in between also in
dairy science. The last 18 years I
L and J Holsteins earned the prestigious best three females title at the recent Eastern
National Holstein Show. Ida Jane, left, and Leroy Plance stand with their homebred trio
shown by Bob Lord, Denny Patrick and Or. David Reese. For complete coverage of the
show see A-22.
Five Sections
lumber and posts and what do you
have?
At the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association’s farm near Mid
dletown, members now have the
groundwork for an even bigger
Dr. Lamartrine Hood
have been in New York on the
faculty of Cornell University, first
in the department of food science
and more recently in ad
ministration.
I would claim legitimately to be
a farm boy. I would be farming
today if I had had my druthers. My
heart is clearly in agriculture. In
fact, just parenthetically, although
we had not livedjm a farm or
actually farmed during our
marriage (my wife is also a farm
girl), we’ve always lived out in the
rural environment close to far
mers. When we moved back to
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 4,1986
chunk of the international export
market, plus another valuable
property asset.
Now under roof, with feeding
troughs and pen floors being
poured this week, is the latest
addition to the PHA’s export,
quarantine and sales facility. The
new 60-feet wide by 220-feet metal
pole structure is nearing final
completion, just in time to handle
the Association’s largest-ever
shipment of cattle.
That order, according to PHA
executive secretary Bill Nichol,
will move nearly 1,000 head of
registered, pedigreed Holstein
young stock through the new
facility, onto cargo planes at the
Northeast Milk
Dumping Rates
Mixed Reviews
BY MARTHA A. GEHRINGER
ALBANY, N.Y. In an attempt
to secure a better price for their
milk, dairymen in four nor
theastern states began dumping
milk for the second time in a month
Wednesday.
“We hope to get farming back on
parity, or a milk price of $23 per
hundredweight,” said a milk strike
organizer in New York this week.
While the farmers have yet to
acheive this goal, they have been
able to focus media attention on
the plight of the farmer in the
northeast, observers explained.
The original milk strike, or milk
withholding, began on Labor Day
weekend in sections of New York,
according to an industry
spokesman there. This strike did
not affect milk supplies in the
region, spokesmen for milk co-ops
in the region reported. They an
ticipate a similar result with the
current milk strike.
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nearby Harrisburg International
Airport, and ultimately into the
herds of Brazilian buyers who have
combed the states’ registered
Holstein farms for selections.
The Brazilian business registers
yet another high point for the
PHA’s 12-year exporting success
story. During that time, not only
cattle, but swine, sheep, and goats
have been assembled and
processed through the Middletown
Building crews are putting in long days readying the
Holstein Association’s latest addition, in time to handle PHA's
largest export shipment in the farm's history, destined for
Brazil.
Dairy Shrine Inducts
Doty Remsberg At Expo
BY SHARON SCHUSTER
Maryland Correspondent
JEFFERSON, Md. - “He lived,
ate, slept and dreamed cows,” said
Helen Remsburg of her late
husband Doty Remsburg. The
Maryland dairyman and founder
of Remsburg Sale Service was
inducted posthumously into the
National Dairy Shrine in Madison,
Wise as a “Pioneer” on Thursday,
Oct. 2.
Noted as a man who made
“major contributions to the dairy
industry,” as determined by the
National Committee, A. Doty
Remsburg was “very dedicated”
and “loved cows and loved his
work,” explained Helen. She said
that her husband conducted
livestock sales “until the last day
when he was stricken.” It was
determined that Remsburg had
suffered a heart attack on the
same day that he sold 100 cows
“straight through” and com
plained only of being tired and not
feeling well at the end of the day.
“He just wouldn’t give up,” Helen
recalled
The Remsburgs farmed in
partnership with brother, ‘Brick’
on the home farm called Rem
crest. Doty Remsburg was born at
Remcrest and acquired his love for
cows and the dairying way of life
while surrounded by the fertile
acreage located in Jefferson. His
first 4-H calf, “Li'y Pons,” was the
start of an illustrious career in the
dairy industry.
$8.50 per Year
farm’s catch chutes for buyers as
close as Canada and as distant as
China.
But primarily it is Holstein cattle
which have filled the pens and
feeding areas, and run through
chutes for health testing and
loading, on their way to customers
in 45 countries around the world.
After the Association’s 1975
purchase of the 125-acre farm on
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After attending the University of
Maryland for two years, Rem
sburg assisted sale manager
Howard Barker. As his respon
sibilities grew, he graduated to
conduct his first sale on March 19,
See You
At KILE
As soon as you’re finished
reading this week’s Lancaster
Farming, why not load the
family in the car and head for
Harrisburg’s Farm Show
Complex, where the Keystone
International Livestock
Exposition is currently
celebrating its 30th an
niversary as the state’s
premier livestock event.
This year’s herd of im
maculately fitted livestock
totals 3,116, including 499 beef
cattle, 1,457 sheep, 706 sine
and 454 horses. The show
began on Thursday afternoon
with an open market lamb
show and ends on Monday
with a Simmental breeding
cattle show at noon.
A schedule of events ap
peared on page D 2 of last
week’s paper, and next week’s
edition, will include com
prehensive KILE cove*"'