A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 20, 1988
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Tunnel out if you have to,
Cornell Cooperative Extension
To Host Statewide Livestock
ITHACA, N.Y. A statewide sympo
sium to help livestock producers in New
York State became more competitive in
raising beef, swine and sheep will be held
at the Syracuse Sheraton Inn on February
24 and 25.
The New York Livestock Symposium
will focus on business management,
according to symposium chairman, Danny
G. Fox, a professor of animal science and a
beef specialist in the College of Agricul
ture and Life Sciences at Cornell Universi
ty. The sponsor is Cornell Cooperative
Extension.
A highlight of the program will be a pre
sentation by Donald Butcher, commission
er of the New York State Department of
Agriculture and Markets, who will discuss
the state’s programs to support New
York’s livestock industry on Febraury 25.
The symposium will begin at 10 a.m. on
the 24th with talks by Cornell specialists
on extension programs to boost the sheep,
swine, beef cattle and meat industries.
Also featured will be a talk on “Prescrip
tions for Carcasses to Meet the Consum
er’s Demand.”
The afternoon program will cover man
agement programs for beef, swine and
sheep industries. Topics include;
• Controlling production costs to
achieve profitable beef cow-calf
operations.
• Characteristics of fcedlot enterprises
in New York State with potential for eco
nomic success.
• Bull test, pasture management sys
tems, computer software and tele
marketing of feeder cattle to help beef pro
ducers maximize profitability.
• New York State’s swine industry
today and tomorrow.
• Impact of new technology on future
swine enterprises.
• What’s ahead for the small, medium or
large swine enterprises.
• The National Sheep Improvement
Program, a new sheep production records
system.
• Creating demand for lamb.
• New efficient lamb production
systems.
The Feb. 25 morning session will fea
ture presentations on livestock price cycles
and risk, futures and options, and how to
establish and manage a hedge against risk.
These talks will be followed by a panel dis
cussion on risk management.
Scheduled out-of-state speakers include
Donald Orr, vice president of United Feeds
Co. in Decatur, Ind.; Robert Van Stavem, a
meats extension specialist with Ohio State
University; James Bruce, a lamb and wool
marketing specialist for the American
Sheep Producers Council in Denver,
Colo.; Michael Omdorff, a commodity
broker with the Pennsylvania Fanners
Marketing Association; and Ronald Man
ley, a marketing specialist also with the
Pennsylvania Farmers Marketing
Association.
For information about registration, con
tact David Weaver, regional Cooperative
Extension specialist, 21 Grove St., East
Aurora, N. Y. 14052, or local county exten
sion offices. Weaver can be reached at
(716) 652-5453.
Babies And Sundaes
Top Dairy
Babies will be big in local dairy promo
tions this year, according to Promotions
Director Lolly Long of the Pennsylvania
Dairy Promotion Program. She reports that
nine local committees will kick off June
Dairy Month activities by honoring the
first babies bom in their counties.
The nine were among 41 local dairy
promotion groups to receive $30,504.25 in
PDPP grants and matching funds for the
January-June period. Long said.
Outright grants of $6,847 were made for
the first time this year for promotion sup
plies. Grants were limited to $2OO per
committee. Matching funds of $23,657.25
were made on a 50-50 basis.
Giant ice cream sundaes ran a close sec
ond in promotion popularity, Long noted.
Seven counties plan to make them, with
Armstrong couijty getting a head start in
April.
The grass roots committees prove that
the fabled Madison Avenue ad agencies
have no lock on creativity. A giant banana
split will catch public attention for the
Columbia-Luzerne committee, frozen
yogurt will be the mall treats of Blair coun
ty promoters and a 100 foot cheese sub will
headline a dairy promotion in Erie county.
Potter county will sponsor a “milk spot
ter” promotion this coming spring, and
Adams county a “dairy shopper stopper.”
For the health conscious, a nutrition
program is set in Jefferson county and a
“Health Fair” in Clearfield county.
The athletically inclined will match
their skills in a 10 kilometer “dairy dash”
in Tioga county, 8K race in Juniata county,
triathalong in McKean county and a “Real
Pull( (tug of war) in Beaver-Lawrence
counties.
In Juniata county, the dairy promotion
committee wouldn’t settle for just a June
baby promotion. In January, it also wel-
make a change if you must,
Promotions
corned the first baby of the new year.
Two county promotion committees will
use matching funds to purchase and outfit
dairy stands. Chester county dairy promo
tion committee received $2,000 towards
its “Mobile Dairy Bam” and the Lebanon
county group $1,283.01 for its “ice cream
and milk shake wagon bam and trailer.”
Here are the 41 committees, their prom
otions for the first half of 1988, and total
sums received from Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program:
Adams County Dairy Promotion- radio
advertising, first June baby, essay contest.
Country Times, Dairy Shopper Stopper
and mall promotions. $744.50.
Armstrong County Dairy Princess-
Giant sundae, cheese samples, milk and
cookies break. $2OO.
Beaver-Lawrence Dairy Promotion-
School promotions, farm/non farm meet
ing, Real Pull (tug of war), dairy baskets,
giant sundae store promotion. $725.
Bedford County Dairy Promotion
store promotion/giant sundae. $2OO.
Berks County Dairy Promotion- Store
promotions. $2OO.
Blair County Dairy Promotion- Color
ing contest, radio advertising, ice cream
party at school, first baby in June (four
hospitals), 100-foot cheese sandwich, fro
zen yogurt at malls. $917.50.
Butler County Dairy Promotion- Radio
advertising, mall promotions, $3OO.
Centre County Dairy Promotion-
Radio advertising, recipe brochure, first
baby in June, mall promotion, school vis
its, radio trivia, newspaper advertising
$1,387.80.
Chester County Dairy Promotion- Cap
ital investment for mobile dairy bam.
$2,000.
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