Schadler Named Interim Regional Director For Penn State Extension
UNIVERSITY PARK?"(Cferitre)
Allctta (Letie) M. Schadler,
Lebanon County extension direc
tor has been named interim region
al director for the Southeast Reg
ion of Penn State Cooperative
Extension. She succeeds James J.
McKechan who retired from Penn
State last month.
Penn State Cooperative Exten
sion has offices in all 67 Pennsyl
vania counties. Administratively
the state is divided into four reg
ions. As interim southeast regional
director, Schadler will coordinate
College of Agriculture programs,
personnel and budget in 16 south
east counties.
She has been an extension home
economist in Lebanon County
since 1970 and has conducted
adult education programs in the
areas of nutrition, food preserva-
MONTOUR COUNTY DHIA
June 1988
No. % Days
Name Brd. Cows In Milk
Carl R Slater & Son 3
Mar-Ja Farm 3
Daryl + Nancy
Landis
PA Dept of Agri
Keith T Fletcher
Limestone Run
Farm B 3
Robert Waltimyer G 8
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Milk Fat
Lbs. Lbs.
35.8 88.1
156.6 89.3
77.0 85.7
119.2 86.6
58.0 89.4
B 3
B 3
B 3
56.8 85.5
43.2 85.4
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24,261 859
17,743 710
18,064 709
18,923 705
18,828 673
18,419 659
17,890 657
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717-626-2000
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She also served as county exten- Among her awards, she was
sion director, supervising the named Outstanding Woman of the
county staff and handling overall Year in the Food Industry by the
operation of extension education Pennsylvania Grocers Association
programs in Lebanon County, in 1983, and was honored by the
Schadler writes an award-winning National Association of Extension
weekly food column, appears reg- Home Economist with its Distin
ularly on radio and television, and guished Service Award that same
has authored a series of food and year.
nutrition newsletters. She has Schadler has a bachelor’s
worked with many 4-H leaders and" degree in home economics and is
volunteers. completing a master’s degree in
Program Helps Farmers
Judge Milk Price Changes
STATE COLLEGE (Centre)
More than 4,000 Pennsylvania
dairy farmers will face a proposed
change in the way their milk is
priced in the future. Those farmers
can evaluate the effects of the
proposal on their own operations
with the help of a Penn State
Cooperative Extension computer
program.
The proposal being considered
by the U.S. Department of Agri
culture would affect farmers in the
federal milk order 2 region, which
includes processing plants in New
York and New Jersey. About 4,000
dairy farms, representing 40 per
cent of Pennsylvania’s milk pro
duction, sell their milk in that
region.
The proposal would encourage
farmers to maintain a consistent
Lancaster Farming Saturday, August 20, 1988-Dl3
level of production throughout the
year or to increase production in
the fall, when demand is greatest,
according to Jack Kirkland, assis
tant professor of agricultural eco
nomics at Penn Slate. Many far
mers have the greatest production
in the spring, giving processors a
surplus of milk then and a tight
supply later in the year.
Under the porposal, each farmer
would have an established produc
tion level, based on the average
production from the months of
August through November of the
previous year. In the following
year, the farmer would be paid a
higher price for milk production up
to that base level, but any excess
milk would receive a lower price.
A similar base-excess plan is
already in place in Federal Order 4,
which includes Pennsylvania pro
cessing plants.
Farmers who manage their
herds and breeding programs to
end up with an even production
level throughout the year would
speech communication and tele
communication, both from Penn
State.
Before her Penn Slate appoint
ment she was director of home
economics for Metropolitan Edi
son Company in Reading. There
Schadler directed the activities of
eight home economists and deve
loped programs for presentation by
staff.
benefit, Kirkland says. Fanners
whose production increases in the
spring would not fare as well.
US DA is now conducting hear
ings on proposed changes in Fed
eral Order 2. If it decides to adopt
the porposal, farmers and their
cooperatives will have a chance to
vote on the new order, Kirkland
says.
He has prepared a program that
allows fanners to calculate what
their income would be if the pro
posal were accepted, and to esti
mate what it would be if they
changed their management
practices.
The program is available at-
Penn State Cooperative Extension
offices in the counties with farmers
selling in Order 2. Farmers have
the option of using a worksheet or
filling out a data sheet with pro
duction information and giving it
to the office to run through the
computer program. All informa
tion will remain confidential.