A42Lancaater Farming, Saturday, April 7,1990
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
“Another good year of progress
and growth for your association.”
Officials of Maryland and Vir
ginia Milk Producers Cooperative
Association have used that phrase
so often in the last few years it
must be permanently lodged in the
computer files of die typesetters
who prepare the organization’s
annual report
President Russell Wachter, a
Keymar, MD., farmer, used it
once again while describing 1989
operations to members attending
last week’s annual meeting of the
dairy cooperative in Hagerstown,
Md. He cited profitable perfor
mances by the cooperative’s
equipment fluid milk and manu
facturing divisions as key ele
ments in a year that saw record
milk sales and equity payments to
members.
Wachter and Bob Vaughn, the
cooperative’s general manager,
outlined these and other accom
plishments in characteristically
low-key fashion to about 400
Maryland and Virginia producers
attending the brief business ses
sion at the half-day annual
meeting.
In fact, the highlight of the rou-
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tine session was an appearance by
Cynthia Kereluk, the attractive
host of a nationally syndicated
exercise show who has been hired
by the Middle Atlantic Milk
Marketing Association to promote
milk locally.
And in the only note even
remotely controversial, sounded
by Vaughn in response to a ques
tion from the floor, the general
manager reiterated Maryland and
Virginia’s official opposition to
the use of bovine somatotropin.
He said the opposition, which
dates from a member resolution
approved in 1987, is based on eco
nomic rather than health consider
ations. The cooperative, he said,
would have no problem with the
experimental hormone product if
it can be proven that its use will
not reduce milk sales.
“As far as BST is concerned,
we’ll have to go with what the
consumer says,” Vaughn added.
In 1989, the cooperative sold
1.926 billion pounds of milk, up 5
million pounds from the 1988 tot
al, according to association fig
ures. Dollar sales of raw milk, pro
cessed goods and other items tot
aled a record $348.5 million, an
11-percent increase. Included in
this total was a 5.5-percent
increase in Equipment Division
ft
Virginia Milk Co-op
sales, to a record $4.75 million.
During the year, the coopera
tive completed the sale of its for
mer office property in Arlington,
VA., realizing a $6.6 million gain,
Vaughn noted. This amount was
distributed to members as cash
payments in October. The
cooperative also allocated its net
margin for the year - $7.5 million
-- to the members’ equity account.
The bulk of this will be paid out
during 1990. Moreover, profits
from processing operations
amounting to 22 cents a hundred
weight once again were distri
buted as a “13th milk check.”
Vaughn, detailing the coopera
tive’s financial performance, said
various key indicators remain “at
comfortable levels.” The coopera
tive reduced its long-term debt
from $2.7 million to $1.5 million
during the year.
The membership roster at the
end of the year totalled 1,325
active producers, a decline of 48
from the 1988 year-end total.
Roughly one-third of these are
located in Pennsylvania, accord
ing to Jim Reeder, the organiza
tion’s director of member and
public relations. The rest live in
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia.
Reeder, in brief remarks at the
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meeting, said the cooperative con
tinues to improve its production of
quality milk. In December 1988,
he said, the average somatic cell
count for Maryland and Virginia
members was more than 500,000.
In January 1990, it was about
300,000. A total of $447,000 in
quality premiums were distributed
in 1989.
Also addressing the meeting
were: Thomas Neale Jr., the man
ager of the cooperative’s Mam
Maid Division in Newport News,
VA.; George Walgrove Jr., mana
ger of the Manufacturing Division
in Laurel, MD.; and the Outstand
ing Young Cooperator couple for
1989, Grant and Cheryl Gayman
of Waynesboro, MD.
In other business, the member
ship rejected a proposal to limit
directors to three three-year terms.
The proposal, which would have
required a change in Maryland
and Virginia’s bylaws and thus
required a two-thirds majority.
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originally was advanced at last
year’s annual meeting. It garnered
just 245 of the 503 ballots cast
either by mail or at this year’s
meeting itself, according to unof
ficial results announced there.
Nine members were either
elected or re-elected as directors.
They are: Richard Arrington of
Ml Airy, MD., William Blaylock
of Baskerville, VA., Steven Gray
beal of Peach Bottom, John Hard
esty of Berryville, VA., Douglas
McCulloh of Mercersburg,
Richard Mosemann of Warfords
burg, Wilbert Paul of Mt. Savage,
MD., W.W. Sanford Jr., of
Orange, VA., and James Weddle
of Hagerstown, MD.
The cooperative honored retir
ing directors John Shank of
Hagerstown and Donald Wilcom
of Ijamsville, MD., and 50-year
members Clovertop Farm of Key
mar, MD., and J.W. and L.L. Day
of Midland, VA.
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