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VOL 31 No. SO
Dairy Board Names Officers, Recipe Winners
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG WEST - After a
day-long review of last year’s
programs and bids for funding of
milk promotion proposals for the
coming year, the advisory board of
the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program put off until later this
month the decision on what
programs will be funded and which
agency will handle public
relations.
But they did elect a new
president. And they did announce
the winners of the state wide milk
recipe contest at the annual budget
planning meeting here Thursday
at the Sheraton. James Harteis,
Ebensburg, was elected president
m place of Donald Duncan of
Robesonia. Harteis is a dairy
farmer with a milk jugging
operation.
Thad Woodward, Canton, was re-
Lebanon Manure Program Aims To Spread Nutrient ‘ Wealth ’
In an effort to distribute Lebanon County's livestock manure more evenly, the county’s
conservation district is offering to sprea<| purchased manure free of charge.
The district’s new truck-mounted spreader may also be traveling to neighboring
counties, says district manager Doug Goodlander.
Dairylea Offers 15 Cent Premium
BY MARTHA SHELDON
Special To Lancaster Fanning
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Dairylea.
farmers can look forward to more
money in their pockets.
Milk checks to be mailed next
month for this month’s milk will
carry a Dairylea Pay Price of 15
cent per hundredweight more than
he blend price set by .the market
•dnunistrator.
Dairylea Cooperative officials
innounced the good news to
ielegates representing its 3,000
members at the cooperative’s
Uinual meeting in Syracuse on
Tuesday and Wednesday. Officials
*id the 15 cent increase will very
ftely apply to November’s milk as
»ell, and possibly to other months’
milk in the future.
In addition to the over-order pay
Wee, Dairylea Chief Executive
Four Sections
elected vice chairman. Duncan
along with Richard Shellenberger,
Manheim, and Beverly Minor,
Washington, were elected to serve
on the executive committee along
with the president and the vice
president.
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Richard E. Grubb
announced the winners of the State
Dairy Recipe Contest prior to the
evening banquet. The four gour
met cooks that were named grand
prize winners and their recipes are
as follows: Frosty Milk Punch, a
zesty blend of milk and fruit juices
took first prize in the Ap
petizer/Beverage category for
Judy W. McQueen, Oil City. Fiesta
Corn Chowder Ole features a
topping of sour cream and chopped
chiles on the top Side Dish award
for Miranda D’Santis, Pittsburgh.
Shrimp and Scallops Au Gratin
was the grand-prize entry that
Officer Bob Hall and co-op
President Clyde E. Rutherford told
delegates that the 3 cent per
hundredweight paid by members
as an operating offset ended with
September’s milk, giving mem
bers an 18 cent price improvement
in October.
The cooperative’s net sales in
creased by $2 million, from $358
Imillion in fiscal 1985 to $3BO million
in 1986.
The announcement of the price
premium means Dairylea farmers
won’t have to wait ror the Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency to
become a reality before receiving
over-order prices.
Leaders of the cooperative said
the organization’s decision to pay
the higher price, however, will in
no way affect its drive to enlist 95
percent of the dairy producers in
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 18,1986
combines the best of pasta and
seafoods for winner Kristi Morris,
Philadelphia. Angel Cream, a
The new chairman and the new directors of the Penn
sylvania Dairy Promotion Program (L to R): James Turner,
Pittsburgh, new director; Albert Hack, Berwick, new director;
James Harteis, Ebensburg, new board chairman and David
Bird, Catawissa, new director.
the 11 Northeast states to band
together to obtain over-order
prices on a regional basis.
Current enrollment in RCMA
stands at 70 percent of producers in
New York, New Jersey, New
England and Northeastern Penn
sylvania, and 90 percent in the
Middle Atlantic Cooperative
Marketing Agency, giving an
percent commitment in the Nor
theast.
Although he is an optimist by
nature, Rutherford said there is no
guarantee the other 10 percent
needed to reach the 95 percent
will get on board. “Those who want
to divide us have generally suc
ceeded in dividing us.”
In his report to the members,
Rutherford said, “RCMA will
either be in the business of setting
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dessert that’s sweet and creamy,
won the grand prize for Lynn D.
Burger of Gilbert.
BY JACK HUBLEY
LEBANON Time is money, so
the saying goes. So is manure.
Although you probably won’t find
yourself stuffing any of it down in
your jeans.
At Lebanon County’s Manure
Management Field Day on
Thursday, manure management
specialist Mitch Woodward drove
that point home by putting the
pencil to the fertilizer value of a
ton of manure. Using 10 pounds of
nitrogen ($2.30), three pounds of
phosphorus (72 cents) and five
pounds of potassium (60 cents) as
average nutrient amounts in a ton
of dairy or beef manure, Wood
ward said those nutrients would be
worth about $3.60 a ton. At 20 tons
per acre, that comes to $72.40 per
Northeast Egg Producers
To Meet In Atlantic City
Now is the tune to plan to get
your finger pricked, see all the
latest innovations in poultry
equipment and hear some very
well-known industry leaders speak
on timely subjects. You-ve
probably guessed that the in
novations in poultry equipment
and the discussion of interesting
industry topics will take place at
the Northeast United Egg
Producers trade show scheduled
for November 9 and 10 in Atlantic
City. But the pricked finger 9 Well,
that’s one of the features of the big
trade show too Cholesterol
screening will be one of the new
features of the show this \e.-n
You’ll be able to ha\e join sell
checked while you are at the show
In addition, the line-up of
speakers should entice anyone
interested in the poultry business
to take a day and make the trip to
the sea resort. Donald Shiflet, Sr.
Vice President, Farm Credit banks
of Baltimore will present a lenders
perspective of the Northeast
poultry sector of the egg economy.
$8.50 per Year
The grand-prize winners were
offered the choice of $5OO cash or a
deluxe side-by-side
refngerator/freezer. All chose the
money.
Semi-finalists were awarded
Sunbeam - electric ice cream
makers. They are:
Appetizer/Beverage-Dawn Bu
sh, St Marys; Mrs. W. R. Goshert,
Akron; Marlene Myers, Sunbury;
and Glenna Rohrbach, Henryville.
Side Dish-Doris Hagan, Houtz
dale; Diane Miller, Hollsopple,
Amy Leana Myers and Marlene
Myers, both of Sunbury.
Entree-Noreen Celleran,
Wilkes-Barree; Anita Felix,
Perkasis; John S. Pringle, Pitt
sburgh; and Alice Whitaker,
Reading.
Desserts-Carol Gillespie,
Chambersburg; Chalmer Kline,
Altoona; Angela L Sieghtz,
Lancaster; and Lois P Stowasser,
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acre*he said.
After priming the crowd with
those figures, Woodward produced
even more startling data based on
an analysis of the dairy manure
produced by the dairy cows on the
Abram Hoover farm, the family
that hosted the field day. A ton of
manure contained a hefty 20
pounds of nitrogen, 10 pounds of
phosphorus and 23 pounds of
potassium, for a total per-acre
value of $228.50.
Despite manure’s value on
paper, though, farmers don’t
commonly have to worry about
midnight raids by manure pit
burglars.
The problem is one of
distribution, said Lebanon County
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William W Fox, Jr , President of
Balls & Company, Inc will discuss
insuhance decisions facing
poultrymen Dr Suzanne S.
Hams, Deputy Ass't Secretary of
Food & Consumer Services, USDA
will present food consumption
trends and the government ap
proach to cholesterol education.
And George Walter of the Speakers
Guild, Inc, will give an in
spirational discussion gf service to
others
The Lancaster Count) Poultry
Association has scheduled a bus to
take interested persons to the show
on both Sunday and Monday To
join this tour, you may contact
Hobeit K. Zimmerman, Secretary,
KI) 2, Box 2108, Gehman School
Hoad. Reinholds, PA 17569 Bruce
R Limpert, Wenger Feeds and
show chairman reports this second
annual trade show looks to be
bigger and bettei than the 1985
show " Additional information can
be obtained by calling Limpert at
Wenger Feeds, in Kheems Phone
1717)367-1195