A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1987
Eastern Milk Co-op
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Donovan said that the dairy
diversion program, followed by
the more recent whole herd buy
out, forced a shift from surplus to
shortage in the Northeast in the
past two and a half years. In 1986
alone, the Northeast suffered a net
loss of 2,500 dairy farmers.
Eastern and other Northeast co
ops, Donovan said, are facing a
new challenge today a challenge
just the opposite of the one Eastern
faced several years ago when it
entered into a joint venture with
cheese-maker Leprino Foods and
opened the largest mozarella plant
in the Eastern United States. Dur
ing times of surplus, the plant
helped' balance milk supplies in
New York and Peftnsylvania,
annually absorbing 700 million
pounds of milk and producing 70
million pounds of cheese for the
pizza and restaurant industries.
Now, Donovan said, the co-op is
faced with the challenge of reduc
ing contractual commitments to
consumers. The co-op also at cer
tain times has bought outside sup
plies of milk to meet contracts,
which impacted directly on profi
tability, he said.
Forwood explained that East
ern, as a co-op, is essentially a
marketing arm for its members. It
guarantees that members will get
paid for the milk they produce, he
said.
Eastern recorded milk-related
sales of $298.6 million for fiscal
‘B7, which ended March 31, and
sales of 572.9 million for the first
quarter of the 1988 fiscal year
(April-Junc, 1987). Most of that
money was passed on to the far
mers to pay for the milk they pro
duced an amount of milk equiva
lent to more than 1.1 billion quarts
in fiscal ‘B7. Proceeds for the co
op amounted to $233,000 for fiscal
‘B7 and $24,000 for the first quar
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The 1986 fiscal year saw pro
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equivalent of 1.3 billion quarts of
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Sales continued at record levels
for Eastern’s Products Division,
which operates a chain of dairy
stores and a truck route delivery
system serving rural communities
in 11 states. The division, which
opened two new stores in fiscal
‘B7, posted sales of $7.5 million,
up from $7 million for the year
before.
At Eastern’s annual banquet
Tuesday evening Karl and Con
stance Haslauer, Munnsville,
N.Y., were named Eastern’s Qual
ity Farmer of the Year for 1987.
At the same time, the coopera
tive announced top quality farmers
for New England and for the Penn
sylvania and South region
Shelburne Farms of Shelburne,
VT, and Richard and Sheryl
Groover of Canton, respectively.
Eastern also named John G.
Maroney Sr. of Montgomery, NY,
as its Field Representative of the
Year for outstanding service to tarm
ers, and presented its annual
Agricultural Press Award to
Everett Newswanger, managing
editor of Lancaster Farming for
outstanding reporting.
The banquet attracted between
500 and 600 farmers, dairy indus
try officials, and various govern
ment and political figures. The
main speaker was Buckcy Jones,
four-time recipient of the Missis
sippi Master Farmer Award.
Cleanliness has become a hall
mark for the Haslaucrs, going back
to Karl’s father and his father’s
father.
“I’ve known this dairy since
1965,” Eastern’s Quality Assur
ance Manager Ken Slcntz noted.
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The Haslaucr dairy has a brand
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July), a herd of 62 milkers, and
some 20 head of young stock.
Karl’s parents, Ernest and
Genevieve, are retired Eastern
members who still help out on the
farm. Karl says his three daughters
(Laurel, 16;Lisa, 15;andJulie, 11)
are a big help, too, handling every
thing from unloading hay to feed
ing the cows and calves. The
Haslauers also have a 22-month
old son, Andrew.
“Eastern already had been pay
ing preiums for quality milk, so
this year we took the next logical
step and started a quality awards
program,” Slentz said. “The prog
ram honors members who produce
quality milk all year long.”
Eastern’s computer system
made it possible to track down all
the producers meeting the stan
dards for this new quality recogni
tion program. The result: Over 300
farms consistently met the stan
dards, and will be receiving Certi
ficates of Quality Achievement.
The computer also selected the
top 10 quality producers who will
receive special plaques. Out of the
top 10, the computer also tapped
the top quality producers for New
England, New York, and the Penn
sylvania and South region, and
from those three, the Haslauers
were chosen the 1987 Quality Farm
ers of the Year.
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include: JR and Linda Allen, Dun
dee, NY; John and Helen Brown,
Forksville; Kraham Bros.,
Cooperstown, NY; Mark Long
acre, Susquehanna; Arnold and
Sandra Rock, Worcester, NY;
Hugh Rutherford, Walton, NY;
and Richard and Joanne Tice,
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of professional dedication to the j n a separate event the next day,
agricultural community and the for the second year in a row. News
dairy industry in particular. wanger won the Photo Journalism
In accepting the award. News- Award presented by the Northeast
wanger expressed his desire to be p arm Communicators Associa
part of the solution to the farm tion. The work was judged best in
problem rather than to be part of it. c i ass j n the Northeast Farm Com
“lf this award,” Newswanger said, municator’s Annual Journalism
“indicates in a small measure some contest. The organization of farm
success in this heartfelt desire then writers, editors, radio commenta-
I gratefully and humbly accept it in tors and public relations persons
that light-quickly recognizing the an nounced the results of the con
need for wisdom from above to test at their annual meeting held in
live up to the standards set before conjunction with the Eastern Milk
me by this award.” Producers meeting.