Berks County Dairyman Re-elected As RCMA Director
BATAVIA, NY Donald B.
Duncan of Robesonia, was re
elected director of the Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency
(RCMA) for 1990.
On the Board of Directors,
Duncan represents dairy farmers
in RCMA Region 16, which
includes the counties of North
ampton, Lehigh, Bucks, Berks,
Montgomery, Delaware and Ches
ter, and also southern New Jersey.
Duncan has been a dairy farmer
for 35 years. He and Ids wife,
Anne, and a son, Donald Jr., oper
ate a 130-acre farm with a herd of
110 registered Holstein cows.
They also raise some beef cattle.
He currently serves on the
RCMA Executive Committee and
its Marketing Committee. In addi
tion to his activities with RCMA,
Duncan is the chairman of the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program and a director of the
NEBA Division of Sire Power.
He said he is active in RCMA
because he believes farmers must
work together to assure the future
of the dairy industry. Producers
need an organization like RCMA
to help stabilize milk prices so
they can make sound business
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operations.
Elected delegate for Region 16
was Elam Hoover of Reading. He
has a herd of 85 cows on his
450-acre farm. He also raises 300
hogs. He is active in the Walnu
town Mennonite Church.
The delegates decide on impor
tant membership issues during
RCMA’s annual meeting in
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) — The Lancaster Conserva
tion District has reopened the
signup period for landowners who
wish to apply for cost-sharing
funds to put Best Management
Practices in their farm conserva
tion plans during the 1990 and ear
ly 1991 construction season.
According to Amos Funk, well
known Lancaster conservationist,
$600,000 in additional funds are
available for Chesapeake Bay
clean-up and these funds will be
lost if they are not used. The dis
trict will accept new sign-ups by
landowners who wish to apply for
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December.
Fred Wainwright Jr. of Borden
town, NJ., was elected alternate
delegate. He and three sons have a
herd of 180 cows with 180
replacement animals on their
200-acre farm, which was named
a Dairy of Distinction. Two sons
also do custom combining and
raise 400 acres of beans and com.
He is a member of Farm Bureau,
Chesapeake Bay Funding Available
cost sharing funds to put best man
agement practices on county
farms. Applications must be com
pleted by September 1, 1990.
According to Robert Gregory,
district conservationist, this prog
nun is a joint effort of several
agencies: The Conservation Dis
trict has cost-sharing funds avail
able through the Chesapeake Bay
Program, the Soil Conservation
Service is responsible for the tech
nical planning and design, and the
Agricultural Extension Service
handles part of the educational
program.
These Best Management Prac-
the Burlington County Board of
Agriculture and the Holstein
Association.
The election was held at the
Berks County 4-H Center in Lees
port. The election was confirmed
by the RCMA Board of Directors
at their March meeting in Albany,
N.Y.
RCMA is a dairy-farmer orga
nization working to assure a fair
bees may include one or as many
as 14 B.M.P.’s that are approved
by the Conservation District
Board of Directors. Those
approved B.M.P.’s include: Per
manent Vegetative Cover, Terrace
System, Grazing Land Protection
System, Cropland Protection Sys
tem, Stream Protection System,
Soil Analysis & Manure Analysis,
Permanent Vegetative Cover on
Critical Areas, Animal Waste
Management System, Diversion
System, Waterway System, Con
servation Tillage System, Fertiliz
er Management, Stripcropping &
Contour Farming System, Sedi-
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price for milk. It does this by col
lecting from milk processors an
over-order price, or premium, on
milk sold for fluid consumption.
That premium is then disbursed
among RCMA members.
Over the past two years, RCMA
has distributed nearly $7O million
to dairy farmers. There are 22,000
RCMA members in the 11 states
of the Northeast. '
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The cost-share with landowners
varies from 50% to 80% of cost
depending on the conservation
practice is needed.
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this program are asked to contact
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