VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
MT. JOY (Lancaster Co.)
Despite an estimated four-percent
drop in milk production last year,
the Mt. Joy Farmers Cooperative
Association managed to make a
little more money.
About 280 members of Mt. Joy
cooperative held their annual ban
quet and meeting this week to
review the past year’s business and
elect officers.
The small cooperative is a mem
ber of Atlantic Processing Inc.
(API), a business that coordinates
milk sales for four smaller
cooperatives in the Federal Order 4
milk pool. The other cooperatives
include Dairylea, Cumberland
Valley Milk Producers and Allan- AT. Wf nH If
tic Dairy Cooperative. Altogether, LidJCl IT C/C?fC
production is around a billion and a . . „ .
half pounds of milk. HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Royce C. Seifert, general mana- The Pennsylvania Young
ger for API, told the group that* Farmers Association (PYFA) is
overall profits were up last year but honored in a resolution approved
that was because of an increase in hy the state Senate Agriculture
milk price. Financially, he said, the
cooperative is stable, but some according to Sen. Edward Hel
problems need to be addressed, frick, committee chairman.
“Based on contracts, our biggest Helfrick said Senate Resolution
problem is supplying enough milk would designate the week of
and shipping to an increasingly 5 through Feb. 9, as Pennsyl
distant location,” he said. vania Young Farmers Week. The
According to Seifert, the PYFA is a statewide, nonprofit
cooperative had to buy milk last
year and some milk is actually
being sold to Federal Order 2
handlers. ‘These are problems, but
we will work them out,” he said.
Seifert said that cooperatives,
such as Mt. Joy, are losing produc
tion for a variety of reasons and
that shortages are occuring. Finan-
cially, if the milk can be produced.
the sellers are better off.
This past year, he said API sold
$14,684,550 worth of milk -at
$14.29 a hundredweight and paid
members $14,129,984 at $13.75 a
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10th,
AT 9:00 A.M.
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sticks (Push Ups), Signed Boston Grueby Tile, Or
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Prints Of Georgetown, Md And More.. 1,000 Base
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Our Next Furniture & Antique Sale
Will Be February 24, 1990
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Sales Manager, Auctioneers,
Real Estate Broker
Galena, MD 21435 Phona: 301-648-5501
Mt. Joy Cooperative Sees More Money, Less Milk
hundredweight.
In other business, David Landis,
Kenneth Balmer and J. Kenneth
Miller were elected to three-year
terms on the cooperative’s board
of directors.
Members also approved a
referedum to seek group life insur-
ance options for members through
the cooperative.
The cooperatives top 10 produc
ers were presented plaques. In
order, the top producers were Ken
Zurin with 5,296,945 pounds of
milk; John Landis, 4,972,008;
Risser Bros., 2,984,990; Harold
Brubaker, 2,613,484; J. Rich
Groff, 2,113,414; Joe Wivell,
2,029,527; Bob Greider,
1,965,795; Harold Drager and
Sons, 1,936,463; Meadow View
K, 1,806,896; and Em-Tran Inc.,
1,734,389.
Also recognized were new pro
ducers Richard G. Wenger, Nathan
G. Stoltzfus, Lester B. Weaver,
Merle King, Jay Hilsher, Millstone
Acres-Melvin Kreider, Joe Zim
merman, Grandview Farm-J.M.
Nissley and Gerald Baker, Elvin B.
and Dorcas Reiff, Galen N. Ben
ner, Philip e. and Lisa M. Risser,
and J. Mark and Paul D. Miller.
Mt. Joy manager Paul Hosteller
said that several high-producing
members were leaving the
cooperative and it would be diffi
cult to replace the production.
Is Young Farmers Week
organization formed to educate
and encourage people interested in
improving their farming skills.
Helfrick said the PYFA is
active in his senatorial district,
which is home to several of the
association’s officers. President
elect Henry M. Sanders resides in
Millmont Treasurer Terry Wor
mer lives in Middleburg. Public
Relations Officer Christopher
Harvey lives in Beaver Springs,
and the Region 111 Vice President,
OPEN HOUSE
February 8, 9 & 10
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Call your local office today to set up an appoint
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Our local sales representatives will give
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Door prizes will be given out daily
Free weather during the open house and refresh
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,1990-A55
neth Miller were elected to three-year terms on the board of
for Mt. Joy Farmers Cooperative Association.
Harry Zerby, is a resident of
Beavertown.
“These young farmers have the
jdeas and the energy to keep Penn
sylvania’s farms among the best in
the nation,” said Helfrick. “They
are the people who are bringing
the latest technology and market
ing skills to the farms and making
them bigger successes than ever
before.”
The resolution now goes before
the full Senate.