A24-Lancaster Firming; Saturday, July 1,1989
Wolff Urges MAMMA To Join Promotional Partnership
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Secretary of Agriculture Boyd
E. Wolff said recently he hopes
the Middle Adantic Milk Market
ing Agency (MAMMA) will
eventually become part of the
cooperative agreement between
Pennsylvania’s dairy promotion
groups.
“Three of the four major dairy
promotion groups have formed a
partnership to better promote the
sale of dairy products,” said
Wolff, “and that partnership is
aimed at trimming the duplication
of effort to spend farmers’ promo
tional dollars wisely.”
“It is still our hope that all four
groups can team up to promote
prosperity for the milk producers
in the commonwealth.”
Pennsylvania
Pork Producers
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industry could do more of. “Every
time you turn on the radio, you
hear about beef,” he stated.
Huber currently works as the
manager of a 200-sow farrow-to
feeder pig operation and 300-head
finishing unit for White Oak Mills.
He’s been managing a unit for the
company since before he gra
duated from Garden Spot High
School a few years ago. Before
that he gained experience working
in an Amish farmer’s 400-pig
farrow-to-finish operation.
“I got interested in pigs when I'
was in 4-H,” Huber recalled.
“When I was a kid, my brother and
I had big ideas that we wanted to
go into farming. But my dad
wasn’t too thrilled, he has a truck
ing business.”
Both Huber and his brother fol- *
lowed their dream, following dif
ferent animal preferences though;
his brother is a dairy farmer. A
third brother, still in high school,
hopes to join Huber in working
with hogs.
Both a 4-H’er and FFA’er, Hub
er won several awards with his
swine. He always exhibited the
maximum number of market pigs
allowed at each show, and at one
point raised about 120 market hogs
with his brother. He received pro
ficiency awards in swine produc
tion from FFA and showed the
grand champion hog at a Lancaster
County 4-H roundup. Other FFA
honors that Huber achieved
include Star Greenhand, Star
Chapter Farmer, Red Rose Degree,
and Keystone Farmer Degree. In
addition, he served the Grassland
FFA chapter as vice president.
Currently the unit Huber man
ages in on an Amish farm, but he
doesn’t view the lack of electricity
as a hindrance to his job. “People
ask me how I do it without electric
ity,” he said. “But I’m used to it.
I’d worked for an Amish farmer
before, and I use lanterns and prop
ane for the heater and fan.”
The hogs are kept in a renovated
chicken house that has heavy cur
tains over the windows. The cur
tains roll up during hot weather to
allow for cross ventilation.
Huber, who is paid a flat salary
with bonuses based on production,
has a weaning rate of 8 to B'/j and
increasing, and a pigs per litter
number of 10.
Being a Lancaster County
native, Huber is concerned about
psuedo rabies, and he hopes to
learn more about national control
measures while at the Institute. He
also is looking forward to working
with the Pennsylvania Pork Pro
ducers Council iifpromoting the
industry.
The cooperative agreement
signed June 16 becomes effective
July 1, 1989. The American Dairy
Association and Dairy Council,
Inc. (ADA/DC) a New York not
for-profit corporation with an
office in Syracuse, New York; the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program (PDPP) with an office in
Harrisburg; and The Federal
Ordered Advertising and Promo
tion Agency/Mid East United
Dairy Industry Association (FO
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ship. Under the pact, the three par
ticipating groups agree to divide
promotional assessment monies
and where possible, jointly deve
lop advertising and promotional
programs and share resources.
• In a letter to MAMMA Chair
man Bob McSparran, Wolff said,
“The dairy product promotion
organizations in Pennsylvania
must continue meaningful discus
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