A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 31,1987
Mount Joy Cooperative Posts Successful Year
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MOUNT JOY The Mount Joy
Fanners Cooperative Association
recently posted a prosperous fiscal
year.
In presenting the cooperative’s
financial statement, Marlin
Benedict highlighted several
factors contributing to the group’s
success. In its fiscal year ending
Oct. 31, the co-op recorded a net
savings of $266,976, the accountant
from Simon Lever and Company
explained.
Benedict noted the co-op
marketed over 90 million pounds of
milk, an increase of 5.6 percent
over 1985.
Operating expenses increased by
2.24 percent for the dairy group.
However, this increase was offset
in full by other income gains,
Benedict stated. While total
operating costs increased, the cost
per hundredweight of milk
decreased from 63 cents in 1985 to
61 cents in 1986 due to the increased
amount of milk marketed.
The total income from milk sales
did not increase proportionally due
to the decreased average price per
hundredweight. In 1985 the price
per hundredweight stood at $13.27.
In 1986 the price dropped to $12.73,
Benedict said.
He announced a new 10-year
agreement, beginning in March,
with Atlantic Processing Inc. to
market the co-op’s milk. Mount
Joy projects a savings of $lB,OOO
for next year due to three new
truck leases which are sub
stantially less than the old leases.
“We continue to enjoy a good
financial base on which to
operate,” co-op president Roy
Alger stud. “We’ve been invited to
join the new Atlantic cooperative,”
he continued. “However, the board
didn’t feel it was the right time.”
Alger welcomed the input from
the general membership on a
possible merger. He added his
feeling that the cooperative can
still continue functioning in
dependently as it has in the past.
The board of directors decided to
Grain Marketing
Worksheet
Available
A farm program
worksheet for Eastern
Shore grain growers
developed by Carl
German, University of
Delaware extension
crops marketing
specialist, is now
available from county
extension offices.
The worksheet will
help grain farmers
determine their gross
income from par
ticipation in the feed
grain program and the
paid land diversion.
A table with specific
figures for all local
grain crops is also in
cluded. Signup for these
farm programs ends
March 30.
To obtain this
worksheet, contact your
local extension office at
Newark (451-2506),
Dover (697-4000) or
Georgetown (856-7303).
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his thanks to retiring board member Ivan Hanson for his
service to the cooperative.
support and join the Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency,
Alger said.
Ivan Hanson, retiring board
member, was recognized for his
contributions to the cooperative.
Paul Hostetler, general
manager, honored the highest 10
producers in the cooperative
CARLISLE - A seminar for
attorneys, growers, fanners, farm
managers and farm employees
and other professionals active in
agricultural production will be
held at The Dickinson School of
Law on March 30 and 31 ; 1987.
The two-day seminar,
Agricultural Labor Management
Developments 1987, offers in
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that apply to farm labor and farm
management as well as personnel
or human resource management
guidelines for growers, farmers,
supervisors and managers.
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Kenneth Zurin shipped 4.5 million
pounds of milk to top the list.
Rounding out the top ten were:
Randy Stoltzfus, 2.9 million
pounds; Risser Brother, 2.7
million; Robert Greider, 2.1
million pounds; and Joe Wivell, 1.9
million pounds.
Also, Harold Drager and Sons,
1.8 million pounds; Elmer Myers,
Class sessions will focus on the
Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986, “right-to-know”
legislation and pesticides, labor
management relations, im
migration reform, employer
responsibilities, role of state
government in farm labor, ef
fective personnel management
practices, and dispute resolution
techniques. Congressman William
F. Goodling will deliver the
keynote address.
The seminar is sponsored by The
Dickinson School of Law in
cooperation with Adams County
Newly elected directors for the Mount Joy Farmers
Cooperative include David LAndis (left), Joseph Wivell and
Kenneth Miller.
1.69 million pounds; Floyd and
Barry Kreider, 1.68 million
pounds; Richard Groff, 1.65
million pounds; and Paul and
Elvin Kreider, 1.6 million pounds.
The following members were
cited for meeting the honor roll
standards: Abraham Shelly Jr.,
Amos Conley, Ira Heistand,
Lavem Rutt, Harvey Weiler,
Albert Fry. Robert Shelly, Ken
Fruit Growers’ Association, the Pennsylvania Farmers’
Agricultural Law Committee of the Association and Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Farmworker Opportunities.
Alternative Dispute Resolution For registration information call
Committee of the Pennsylvania the Advanced Legal Education
Bar Association, Friends of Farm Office of Continuing Legal
Workers, Inc., Pennsylvania Education at Dickinson at (717)
Cooperative Extension Service, 243-5529.
Milk Production Continues Drop
pounds in December, up 30 pounds
from November but down fin
pounds from the previous
December.
Grain and other concentrates fid
to milk cows in Pennsylvania dt
January 1, 1987 averaged 15,5
pounds per cow per day, the same
as last year. The value of grain and
other concentrates fed to milk
cows on Jan. 1 averaged $7.35 per
hundredweight, down 50 cents
from the previous year.
HARRISBURG
production in Pennsylvania during
December 1906 totaled 840 million
pounds, or 3 percent below last
December’s production according
to the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Statistics Service.
The number of milk cows in the
Commonwealth during December
averaged 730,000 head 5,000 less
than November and 17,000 less
than the previous December. Milk
production per cow averaged 1,150
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