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VOL. 33 No. 21
Pennsylvania Jersey cattle breeders have taken a lead
role in establishing a protein pricing program which earns
them a bonus based on end product yield for cheese
production.
Dairymen Who Pioneered
Protein Pricing See Results
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
CHAMBERSBURG A
handful of southcentral Pennsylva
nia Jersey breeders are on the cut
_ ting edge of a local trend toward
alternate methods of pricing milk,
while enhancing cash flow for
their efforts.
Success for dairymen pioneer-
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Spring Holstein Show
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG The cow
that caught the judges’ attention as
she first entered the ring, went on
to be the grand champion of the
Pennsylvania Spring Holstein
Show here last Saturday Lockway
Holly Scxation, the Occanview
Scxation daughter out ol the home
bred Home cow did it all for C.
Richard and Gcorgianna Locke,
Merccrsburg.
In crowning the champion,
judge Robert Fitzsimmons said he
saw his champion as she entered
the ring and watched for some
thing better throughout the remain
der of the show; but he could not
find anything better. Thus the l)rst
place four-year-old with best
udder in class became the senior
and grand champion of the open
show.
Following closely in front of a
sparsely populated ringside crowd
that included few spectators other
than exhibitors, was Emar Loretta
Lynn, owned and shown by Mark
Campbell and Howard Hammond,
Campbell Run Farms, Ford City.
The first place five-year-old with
best udder is sired by Shardalc
Arlmda Chict Jcmini. The dam is
Emar Marvex Li/c.
The junior champion was Sima
lot Cristina, the first place mtermi-
Six Sections
MatlWr
R-O-T-E-I-N.
Three years ago, members of the
Cumberland Valley Jersey Breed
ers watched ‘ with envy the
$l.OO/cwt. premium being paid fc“
high protein mSk in areas of
western Pennsylvania milks*. ■
Destination fdr that prc^' n '
premium milk was four r ,| e
plants, manufacturing prif anly
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.... , .*mng heifer for Simalot
dolsteins arid Pinehurst Farms.
Reserve junior .champion was
loyal Haven Boutique, the first
RiiSlfrrtPl?/!! 8 0f u t J e Sta i e !? pring Holstein Show here with friends, (L to R) Judgeßobert
Richard Locke with grand champion, Lockway Holly Sexation, State Dairy Princess Beckv Sonnen Han/aJ
l^ney^P^H^stein^ssm ion Emar Lore,,a Lynn > s,a,e "hamate oliiry Princess Jennifer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1988
Legislative Impact Theme
Of National Farm Credit Meeting
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
WV. Implementation of the
Agricultural Credit Act of 1987
was the focal point last week at the
annual meeting of the Farm Credit
Banks of Baltimore in While Sul
phur Springs, West Virginia. Over
three hundred directors, stockhol
ders and management personnel of
PAFC: Educating Farmers on Cooperatives
BY LISA RISSER
LIONVILLE Cooperation
between people is a tradition that
runs deep in our farming commun
ities. Farmers have cooperated
with one another to harvest crops,
build bams, bring electricity and
telephone power into rural areas,
and more. Today, there arc nearly
9,000 agricultural cooperatives
conducting an estimated $69.2 bil
lion worth of business.
Cooperatives also are an integ
ral part of the non-agricultural con
sumer’s life, with one in four
Americans belonging to a coopera
tive. But most Americans, even
mose <vming w ho have the
mOSt QtreCt i inp Ip rn^^via
lives, don't know exactly how a
cooperative works.
The Pennsylvania Association
of Farming Cooperatives is out to
change this. They’re actively edu
cating youth and young farming
place senior yearling heifer for
Lynn and Bonnie Miller.
A well-known veteran campaig
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the Baltimore Banks and affiliated
Associations reviewed the opera
tional impact of the Act, which is
expected to bring sweeping
changes to the Farm Credit System
over the next several years.
Several speakers and panel dis
cussion sessions addressed the
impact of the legislation which
couples on the basic principles of
cooperatives through workshops
and seminars.
Last week the southeast region
of PAFC invited young couples
active in farming to meet with offi
cials of various area cooperatives
for a day of learning. The couples
RCMA Near Agreement With Hershey
BURLINGTON. VT. Mem
bers of the Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agency (RCMA)
Executive Committee meeting
here this week announced that “a
meeting of the minds” has been
reached with Hershey Chocolate
Co. that shome result in an agree
ment with the giam milk dealer
sometime next week.
“We had a very productive ses
sion last Wednesday at Hershcy.
We know that Hershcy, an organi
zation with a tradition as a fine
market for milk, recognizes the
situation facing farmers and the
importance of RCMA premiums to
the future of Northeastern Dairy
farming. Lawyers from RCMA
and Hershcy will meet next week
to iron out the details of an agree-
$8.50 Per Year
some speakers called “the most
significant and beneficial piece of
Farm Credit legislation since the
19305.” When fully implemented,
the act will provide financial
strength and stability to the Farm
Credit System, help protect eligi
ble stock, permit local associations
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were sponsored by individual
cooperatives such as Agway,
Atlantic Breeders Service, Atlan
tic Dairy, Eastern Milk Producers,
Farm Credit, and Sire Power.
“A cooperative is a type of cor
poration,” defined Hal Doran, pro
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ment,” said William Zuber,
RCMA president.
RCMA has 22,000 members in
11 Northeastern states. The orga
nization was founded so that dairy
farmers could have a say in estab
lishing* fair pHce for their milk. In
just five months RCMA has put
nearly $10,000,000 into the hands
of hard-pressed dairy farmers, who
have seen the* prices they receive
for milk slashed in recent years.
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