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.
The purpose of DHI is to help
farmers maximize profits through
analyzing dairy records that come
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Northeast DHIA Merger Approved
from a reliable, dependable source.
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
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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.
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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.
Gardner joined Eastern three
years ago after leaving the now
defunct NEDCO, and has been
active in Eastern’s Galeton Local
almost from the start. He has been
president of the Galeton Local for
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