Pennmarva Names
BY JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
BETHESDA, Md. Three
outstanding young farmers will
represent their respective milk
cooperatives for the next year,
after being named top winners at
the Pennmarva Young Cooperator
Convention, June 17 to 19, at the
Bethesda Hyatt Regency.
Announcement of their selec
tions from more than 30 con
testants in the Young Cooperator
program followed three days of
interviews, educational sessions
and meeting with Congressional
representatives during a visit to
Capitol Hill.
Young Cooperator winners for
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative are
Wayne and Sandra Stafford,
Elkton. Named Outstanding Young
Dairymen, from Middle Atlantic
Division, Dairymen Inc. was
Jeffrey Myers, Westminster.
Selected as Young Cooperators for
Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association were
Stephen and Lisa Mellott, Mer
cersburg, Pa.
Stephen and Lisa Mellott were chosen Young Cooperator
winners from Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers
Association Inc. during the Pennmarva Young Cooperator
Convention held last week in Bethesda, Maryland.
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winners Wayne and Sandra
Stafford are in a family part
nership with 85 head of milking
Holsteins and 450 acres of
cropland. Rolling herd production
is presently at 18,400 milk and 646
fat. Wayne is active in programs of
the Farm Bureau and Young
Farmers and has filled various
state and local positions in both.
Sandy is secretary for the Cecil
County Farm Bureau. The couple
has two children.
First runners-up were Ray and
Nancy Reitz, Washington Boro,
Pa. They maintain a herd of 55
registered Holsteins on a 101-acre
farm leased from his father, and
currently have a herd average of
19,658 milk and 723 fat. Ray has
been an officer in the cooperative
local, and has written curriculum
material for the Ag-In-The-
Classroom program. Ray and
Nancy, and their three children,
are deeply involved in activities at
their church and are members of
numerous ag organizations.
Three additional runners-up
Three Top Young Cooperators
Named Atlantic Dairy Cooperative’s Young Cooperator
from left are, runners-up Raymond and Nancy Reitz,
Thomas and Debra Galbreath ''d Jeff id K'
couples will serve with the Staf- I
fords and Reitzs on Atlantic’s
Young Cooperator advisory group.
They are Herbert and Teresa
Graybill, New Providence, Pa.,
Thortias and Debra Galebreath,
Peach Bottom, Pa., and Jeffrey
and Wandy Lu King, Gardners, Pa.
Jeffrey Myers will represent the
Middle Atlantic Division of
Dairymen Inc. at corporate Young
Dairymen competition during
December in Nashville. He is in
partnership with his parents on
Del-Myr Farm near Westminster,
milking 60 registered Holsteins
with a herd average of 20,680 milk
and 748 fat. A graduate of
University of Maryland and
Michigan University, Myers was
dairy extension agent in Baltimore
County for two years. He works
with the 4-H dairy judging
programs, judges cattle shows,
and is a director for the Carroll
County Holstein club and DHIA,
Inc.’s. Young Dairymen winner, and will represent the
division at corporate competition during December. Runners
up are Alan and Kendra Myers.
and North Carolina-Virginia Select have one daughter.
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Runners-up Alan and Kendra
Myers, Chambersburg, Pa., farm
as partners with his family. Their
190 head of registered Holsteins
have a rolling herd average of over
19,000 pounds of milk. Alan is an
active leader of the Franklin
County Holstein Club. The Myers
are serving as a 1987 leader couple
for the Pennsylvania Association
of Farmer Cooperatives. They
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Producers’ winners Stephen and
Lisa Mellott are partners in the
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The dairy herd includes 120
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with a rolling herd average of
21,173 pounds of milk, and 515
acres of crops. Stephen and Lisa
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