’A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 26, 1987
EPHRATA She did it again.
Sunny Craft Lucinda Tony owned
by Kimberly Stauffer, Ephrata,
was the grand champion Holstein
and went on to the supreme
championship of the Ephrata Fair
dairy show for the second year in a
row. Milking 100 pounds per day,
Lucinda also had best udder in the
Holstein show and was part of the
best three females and the best pro
duce of dam.
William Lesher, judge and
Berks County breeder, liked
everything about this three year
old and made her grand champin of
both the open and junior Holstein
shows. Reserve grand champion of
the open show was Meadow Cliff
Mars Rita, an upstanding aged cow
for David D. Zimmerman, Rein
holds'. Reserve grand champion of
the junior show was the junior two
year old for Sharon Zimmerman of
Meadow Cliff Farms.
In the Ayrshire breed John
Gehart, Reinholds, had the grand
champion of the open show and the
junior show with Cocalico Amy.
Reserve grand champion in the
open show was Cocalico Sand’s
Helga for Dale Gehart. Reserve in
the junior show was the junior
champion intermediate calf for
Heather Becker of Narvon.
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The middleweight white barrow shown by Randy
Groff, son of Robert and Hester Groff of Ephrata,
walked away with Grand Champion Hog of the Ephrata
Fair Tuesday night. The hog was selected for its long,
heavy structure, easy strides, and lean musclature.
Laura Folker, daughter of Tony and Edith Folker of
New Holland, showed a middleweight red hog that was
proclaimed Reserve Champion Hog of the show.
Supreme Dairy Champ Repeats At Ephrata
Three other breeds had only one
entry each. Jeffrey Balmer had the
champion Guernsey. Larry Gehart
had the champion Jersey. And
John Gehart had the champion
Brown Swiss.
Sharon Zimmerman
with reserve grand champ
ion of the junior show Mea
dow Cliff Vic Renee.
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the reserve grand champ
ion of the open show. The
cow: Meadow Cliff Mars
Rita.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Dairylea
Cooperative’s milkshed-wide
resolutions committee met recen
tly here to draft policy recommen
dations for the coming year. The
resolutions will be acted upon by
cooperative delegates on Oct. 14
during Dairylea’s annual meeting
at Liverpool, NY, according to
president Clyde E. Rutherford.
The policy-drafting committee
included one representative from
each of Dairylea’s 13 districts as
follows:
District
1. Ronald Closky, Cambridge
Springs; 2. Hiram Bcckcnnk,
Clymcr, NY; 3. Ray Chamberlain,
Wyoming, NY; 4. David Mollcn
hauer, Newark, NY; 5. Royal
Champluvicr, Wyalusing; 6.
Robert F. Pardoe, Milton; 7.
Kathryn E. Miller, Bangor; 8.
Edwin Mead, Montrose; 9. John
Walrath, East Springfield, NY; 10.
Daryl M. Bishop, Pennellville,
NY; 11. Richard Hoskins, Sr.,
Lyons Falls, NY; 12. Wayne
Senecal, Whitehall, NY; 13.
Arlene King, Athens, NY.
One resolution calls for seeking
total reciprocity among the stales
in the testing of milk and inspec
tion of farms.
A second urges both federal and
state government enforcement of
sanitary and composition stan
dards to assure consumers of qual
ity milk and dairy products.
A third seeks aggressive state
The supreme champion at the Ephrata Fair dairy
show Is Sunny Craft Lucinda Tony shown here with
owner Kimberly Stauffer.
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shown by John Gehart, Reinholds (right), and Heather
Becker, Narvon.
Dairylea Farmers Draft
Policy Recommendations
action and full reciprocity in
licensing milk dealers among
states. It is designed to gain New
York Slate milk processors and
distributors the right to compete in
other states which now impede
equality of competition.
Another resolution urges con
tinued support of the recently
created Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agency to make
RCMA a successful program for
gaining belter farm milk prices,
consistent with the effort of other
dairy farmers.
The committee proposals call
for continuing support of two
Dairylea Fall Production Incentive
Programs designed tapvcn out the
farm milk supply during the year.
One, in which more than 1,300
Dairylea member farms already
participate, says a bonus for total
extra milk produced in the short
supply months of September,
October, and November as com
pared with the previous year. The
second is a new Counter-Seasonal
Production Program offering a
bonus for total pounds produced in
the three fall months over the total
pounds produced in April, May
and June of the same year.
Support for efforts to consoli
date the assorted federal milk*
markets into one comprehensive
federal other area in the northeast
is sought in another resolution for
“this common market and com
mon production area.”
Additional policy proposals
support preservation of key agri
cultural laws, encourage nutrition
al efforts in schools and promotion
of both brand and non-brand dairy
product consumption, maintaining
environmental qualities of agricul
tural land, and restoring integrity
to the dairy price support program.
The two-day meeting, which
starts Tuesday, October 13, will
commemorate the eightieth
anniversary of the area’s oldest
dairy cooperative. The Dairy
men’s League was founded in
1907 in Orange County, NY,
becoming the incorporated Dairy
men’s League Cooperative Asso
ciation in 1919 and abbrev lating its
name to Dairylca Cooperative in
1969.
Dairylca currently has 3,000
members in NY, PA, NJ and part
of New England, plus 13 other
dairy cooperatives affiliated for
services. Net sales of the co-op for
its 1986-87 fiscal year were $343
million.