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Guernsey Association Elects New Officers And Board Members
COLUMBUS, OH The
American Guernsey Association
(AGA) board of directors elected
officers at their annual meeting on
May 28 in Blaine, Washington.
President Ralph Turley of Man
sfield, Ohio; First Vice President
Phil Tennis of Hayward, Minneso
ta and Second Vice President
Myron Erdman from Chenoa, Illi
nois, will serve as the executive
committee of the nine-man board.
A five-year AGA board of
directors member, Turley will
guide the organization during the
next business year. He is the cur
rent chairman of the youth/
promotion/Joumal committee and
serves on the finance, shows/
peoplc/field staff committees. As a
dedicated dairyman, Turley has
served as president fot; both the
Ohio Guernsey Breeders’ Associa
tion (GBA) and the Ohio Purebred
Dairy Cattle Association. He has
been the official judge at state and
national dairy shows as well as the
Royal Easier Show in Sydney,
Australia.
Turley also spends time in the
showring exhibiting top Guern
seys like Racmelton Fashion
Kandy-Twin, winner of the 1987
Ohio State Fair Guernsey Futurity.
He has also helped to develop one
of today’s lop sires, Racmelton
Deacons Fashion, who ranks 21st
on the active Al-list. When not
milking the 23 registered Guern
seys or processing milk for the bot
tling plant at Racmelton Farm
dairy, Turley assists with the
establishment of health programs
in Ohio. He is also a supporter of
many AGA-sponsorcd programs
such as Journal contract advertis
ing, the Guernsey equity program
and the AGA’s TPE program. His
wife Martha is the current Ohio
GBA executive-secretary.
Tennis will continue to serve as
the first vice president for the
board of directors. He operates the
600-acre Alchrist Farm in partner
ship with his wife, Edie and son,
Wesley. They produce com, soy
beans, alfalfa and manage 50
Guernsey cows. They actively
support AGA programs by partici
pating in Dairybelt Guernsey
Sires, the Guernsey equity prog
ram, AGA’s TPE program and are
Guernsey Breeders’ Journal con
tract advertisers.
As a board member Tennis
serves on the youth/promotion/
Journal and finance committees
and is chairman of the genetic
advancement committee. He has
served on the Minnesota GBA and
South Central GBA boards and has
managed Minnesota’s state Guern
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Minnesota’s American Soil Con
servation Service Chairman.
Tennis partiepated in the 1979
Salt II talks with former President
Carter. He also is involved in com
munity activities serving as presi
dent of the Hayward Lutheran
Church, a member of the Austin
Junior College Advisory Board
and the Albert Lea Board of
Education.
An active board member and
past AGA president Myron Erd
man fills the spot of second vice
president. As a board member he
serves on the committee of herd
rcgistration/cattle health, finance
and genetic advancement. Erdman
is a past president and director of
the Illinois GBA and Illinois
Purebred Dairy CalUe Association
(PDCA). He is also a member of
the Dairy Shrine.
Erdman, along with his wife
Neta and son Mark operate
Myown Farm which consists of
farming approximately 600 acres
and 91 milking Guernseys. The
Guernseys had a year-end average
of 15.009 M 4.6% 692 F ME in
1987. The herd has been on official
test since 1954. Erdman has bred,
sold and purchased many national
class production leaders and Gold
Star dams.
Joe “Scottie” Payne of Vale,
Oregon, and Lee Riggs of Evans
ville, Indiana, were elected to the
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will each serve a four-year term on
the board representing District
Seven and District Three,
respectively.
In 1960, Payne purchased the
cattle and farmland of Vale View
Farm from his father and began
managing the operation. Since
then, he has received the Oregon
Dairyman’s Association (ODA)
Distinguished Service Award and
has been a member of ODA for the
past 25 years, serving as director
and vice president.
Since his election to the Dairy
man’s Creamery Association eight
years ago, Payne has been instru
mental in the board’s decision to
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servation practices are important
in developing an adequate conser
vation plan. Several of these prac
tices will be discussed in detail at
Penn State’s Agronomy Field Day,
June 22 at the Rock Springs Agri
cultural Research Center.
The field day, which will
include exhibits and tours, will
begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue
until 4 p.m.
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on highly erodible land under the
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He was also a founding member of
Western Guernsey Sires, a young
sire proving group sponsored by
AGA.
Riggs, along with his wife Carol
and their three sons began operat
ing Green Ridge Farm, upon the
retirement of his parents in 1972.
His parents purchased the family
homestead in 1941 and four years
later began developing the present
day registered Guernsey herd.
Green Ridge Farm participates
in two young sire-proving prog
rams and in Journal contract adver
tising. Riggs has served on the
Food Security Act (Farm Bill) ot
1985. The plans are developed
using selected agronomic, struc
tural and nonstructural measures.
Conservation planners help far
mers formulate a plan to meet the
specific farm situation by provid
ing several conservation altcma
tives. Planners take into considera
tion soil conditions, crop needs,
economics and other factors when
making recommendations.
During Agronomy Field Day, a
specific site will be used to explain
the actual planning process. Soil
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mittee since its inception. The herd
is also enrolled in the TPE
program.
The other four spots of the nine
member board are filled by David
Bolin, director-at-large from
Clarksville, Iowa; George W.
Fowler Sr., District 6, of Saluda,
South Carolina; Robert Holcomb,
District 1, from Greene, New
York, and Weldon A. Peterson Sr.,
District 4, of Malone, Wisconsin.
The American Guernsey Asso
ciation is a national organization
for the registration and promotion
of Guernsey cattle and is head
quartered in Columbus, Ohio.
Be Discussed
and other land considerations will
be evaluated in preparing a list of
conservation measures that could
be used in that field. Participants
will also have the opportunity to
ask questions about suitable prac
tices for specific farms.
The Rock Springs Agricultural
Research Center is located on
Route 45, nine miles southwest of
State College. Lunch will be avail
able at the field day. For more
information contact Penn State
agronomist Lynn Hoffman at
(814) 692-7955.
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