On December 3, 1987, ll>e $3 member delegate body of New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative voted unanimously to unite the states of New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, and New York into the first regional Dairy Herd Improvement Association with a centralized management system in the US. The new organi zation becomes effective on April 1, 1988 and will be called the Cooperative Northeast Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Inc., working under the trade name of Northeast DHIA. ‘This will be a first in the nation, but I assure you it won’t be the last,” said Dick Scott, a dairy far mer from Maine, National DHIA Board member, and chairman of the Northeast DHIA Task Force. Current issues faced by dairy far mers offer many challenges, and to survive farms must get bigger and more efficient while controlling costs, Scott said. It is no different for DHI or other agricultural orga nizations, he added. 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Northeast DHIA will be that sour ce for the 7,000 member farms in New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, and New York. This mer ger provides a base of 500,000 cows to spread the overhead of DHI management and assure sup port of a state of the art milk analysis laboratory and the dairy records processing center. North east DHI members will receive quality records at a competitive price. The merger was approved at the 38lh Annual Meeting of New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative, held December 2-3 in Ithaca, NY. “Farmers will see a new name, but no immediate changes in service or direction,” said Nelvin Empet, General Mana ger of NY DHI. An important change will be in representation on the board of directors. Thirteen districts across the Northeast reg ion will now be represented by directors elected by the members of those districts. It was also shown at the annual meeting that NY DHI had a strong year financially, with a 3% margin kssMus X PURINA CHOWS [ i , J on over $ll million in total sales, adequate reserves to meet pro- “As a single organization we have The DHI Forage Analysis Laborat- jccted long term capital expenses, the potential and the resources to ory had a very successful year with and the 1988 budget holds no fee challenge the future more cffec an increase of almost 17% in for- increase for dairy production tively.” Northeast DHIA is well age sample volume. Updated records. equipped to provide management equipment and increased emphasis In an address to Northeast direc- records that will help Northeast on customer service helped in this tors in support of the merger, NY dairy farmers meet the challenges success. The cooperative has DHI President John Noble stated, ahead. Gardner Elected Director Of Eastern Milk Producers Dairy farmer Lewis Gardner of * and also a dele . Galelon, PA. has been elected to ..nTn a fomilv the board of directors of Eastern • Milk Producers Cooperative. farm m Bucks County PA. but He will serve out the unexpired af *' h,gh SCh °?}' h ® s P ent l? ur 4011 term of the late George Fuller of 3 *!, y ?f m ** Ma ?" C ? 0I ?L a * Cohocton NY and become din- a demolitions speciahst. In 1966 fr!l V.m. he got married and, drawing upon blc to run lor a tull three-year term .. .L w • u on the board in the fall of 1988. his experience m the Marines, he Delegates representing some established Eastern Blasting Corn -200 farmers in District 14. which pany , to , d ° expl ° SlveS W ° rk for straddles the western portions of c , ons K f u f on companies. He ran New York and Pennsylvania, met ■TT.Mi Je blasting company for 11 years • mv „„ rw m before saving enough money to in Olcan, NY on Occ* 10 to elect 3 I au/Iq njkcHnfti l a| faSlAtnn c ir*n a ci. • • ,u„ Lewis uaroner oi ijaieton fulfill a dream of having his own director. TTie board certified the has joined the Eastern Milk dairy f arm . and installed Gardner that same board 0 f directors. church council at St. Malthaeus Gardner and his wife. Lois. Lutheran Church in Germania PA He also served on the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Ser vice (ASCS) committee, and is a member of the Potter County Dairy Herd Improvement Association. He joins 14 other directors on Eastern’s board, representing some 3500 member-farmers in nine Northeast states. Headquar tered in Syracuse, NY, Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative has facilities in several states, includ ing six retail dairy stores. Rt.B2 Unionville, PA 18375 (215)347-2377 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19, 1987-Al9 bought their 100-acre farm 10 years ago. They milk 50 cows out of a herd of 75 Holsteins. They also rent another 1 SO acres, mostly for tilling. Alfalfa and com are their main crops. Sons Lewis 111, 14, Lee Thomas, 13, and Levi Earl, 11, all help on the farm. 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