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cow, New-Trend Valiant Happy,
was bom 10-27-84 and was sired
by SWD Valiant. Her dam was
Ploylac Bell Henrietta-ET.
The junior champion for both
the open and junior division was
Ro-Meyer Luna Inspiration, bred
and owned by Eric Horsh of St.
Thomas.
Others who made a strong
showing included Gor-Wood-D
Farm, owned by Gordon and Dor
othy Wood. The Woods recently
received notice of a January classi
fication on their herd and showed
60 Excellents, 85 Very Good and
20 Good Plus, with a total 49
homebred Excellents. They have a
BAA of 109.8 percent. They took
first place in the 100,000 pound
class with Gor-Wood-D Creek
harriet, bom 8-20-81 our of Creek
Bluff Elevation Lester and dam,
Gor-Wood Milu Beauty Huff-
Twin.
In the youth division, John Fos
ter 111, of Globe Run Farms,
Petersburg, took grand champion
female title with Globe Run Star
buck Beverly. A senior 2-year-old,
she had placed second in open
competition behind his parents’
entry, Globe Run V Tab Chrisma.
John 111 also showed the reserve
grand champion in the youth divi
sion with Globe-Run Sexy Dar
lene. She had placed third in the
open division.
Globe Run Farms had placed
third overall in both Premier
Breeder and Premier Exhibitor
competitions.
The competition level and parti
cipation were both strong, despite
economic tightness in the dairy
industry. There were 74 owners
represented in the show.
According to show judge, Jim
Patterson, Greenville, Ohio, the
show compared in degree of com
petition with top state shows
anywhere.
‘‘lt was a nice quality show with
a lot of nice cows, exceptionally
dairy-looking cows,” he said.
An employee of the Holstein
Association, Patterson was prohi-
Dairymen Seek
Price Relief
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
low price of milk is prompting
action across the region and in the
nation’s capital to improve dairy
farmers’ financial fortunes.
On Capitol Hill last week, a
group of senators led by Agricul
ture Committee Chairman Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt) introduced legisla
tion that would have provided for
a temporary increase in the mini
mum Class 1 milk price used in the
nationwide federal order system.
However, the legislation was
dropped from a spending bill
passed March 2? after the threat of
a veto by President George Bush.
In New York, cooperative and
independent dairymen are trying
to resurrect over-order pricing
using state regulatory authority.
And, in Virginia and western Pen
nsylvania, they are trying to get
new joint bargaining efforts off
the ground.
The national legislation would
have required the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture to establish
$13.09 as the minimum basic for
mula price for computing Qlass I
prices in all federal orders, thereby
supplanting the Minnesota-
biled from judging during those 12
years.
He has, however, been judging a
number of top shows at state level
and even internationally, during
the past three years. He had been
involved with judging for years
prior to working with the Holstein
Association.
“A lot of the people I know from
working for the Holstein Associa
tion,” Patterson said, and he
judged last years Pennsylvania All
American show. But the cows he
saw March 22 were new to him.
HOLSTEIN ASSN
SPRING SHOW
WINTER CALF; 1. Windy Knoll View 2.Welk
Shade Logic 3 Penn Gate
FALL CALF'I Windy Knoll View 2 OrenClay
poote 3.Penn Gate Farm
SUMMER VEARLING 1 Matthew Day
2 Michael Hart, George Moncci 3 Steven
Comman
SPRING YEARLING: 1 Al, Mary Sparling
2 Donald Eaton 3 Windy Knoll View
WINTER YEARLING HEIFER 1 Enc Horsh
2 Windy Knoll View 3 Windy Knoll View
FALL YEARLING HEIFER 1 Penn Gate
Farm 2 Penn Gate Farm 3 Shannon Doll
JR BEST 3 FEMALES- 1 Windy Knoll View
2 Penn Gate Holstems 3 Sunndybend
Holstems
JR CHAMPION: Enc Horih
RESERVE JR CHAMPION: Jason Burdette
DRY COW, 4-YHS-UNDER. 1 Jake 111. Sally
Tanls 2 Michael, Eugene Hart 3 Penn Gate
Farm
DRY COW, 5-YHS-OLDER; I.Justin McMur
ray 2 Penn Gate Holstems 3. Dianne Clock
UNFRESH JR 2-YR-OLD' I.Windy Knoll
View 2.A lan McCauley 3 Andrea Bednarski
SR 2-YR-OLD; I.Globe Run Farms 2.John
Foster 111 S.Patty McMurray
JR 3-YR-OLD: I.Windy Knoll View 2 Mike,
Cindy Weimer 3.Carrdale Holstems.
SR. 3-YR-OLD: I.Thomas Eckstme
don, Dorothy Wood 3.Cums, Ann Day
4-YR-OLD: I.Windy Knoll View 2.Guy, Sha
ron Hammond S.Penn Gate Farm
5-YR-OLO; 1 .Gordon, Dorothy Wood 2 Keith
Shaffer 3John, Alice Foster
100,000 LBS; I.Gordon, Dorothy Wood
2 Gordon, Dorothy Wood 3 Bridgette Beyer
AGED COW: 1 .Windy Knoll View 2 Pen Col
Farm 3 John Foster 111
SENIOR CHAMPION: Windy Knoll View
RESERVE SENIOR CHAMPION: Penn Col
Farm
GRAND CHAMPION: Windy Knoll View
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION: Penn Col
Farm
PREMIER BREEDER: I.Windy Knoll Vww
2 Gordon, Dorothy Wood 3. Globe Run Farms
PREMIER EXHIBITOR; 1 Gor-Wood-D
Acres 2.Windy Knoll View 3 Globe Run
BEST THREE FEMALES: I.Windy Knoll
VieW 2 Globe Run Farms S.Gordon, Dorothy
Wood
PRODUCE OF DAM: I.Windy Knoll View
2 Penn Gate Farm 3 John Foster 111
DAM AND DAUGHTER: I.Windy Knoll View
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
price as this base through the
remainder of 1991. Proceeds from
any increase generated by this
action would have been pooled
nationwide among all farmers reg
ulated by the federal order system,
according to Lisa Keller, spokes
person for the National Milk Pro
ducers Federation.
The defeat of Leahy’s measure
prompted strong language from
Jim Barr, National Milk’s chief
executive officer. He assailed cri
tics of the legislation, which
included the American Farm
Bureau Federation and some dairy
cooperatives, for making what
Barr said were distorted argu
ments about its impact.
“This was a tremendously dis
torted campaign against an impor
tant attempt to bring some finan
cial relief to the nation’s dairy far
mers, who are suffering through
the lowest milk prices since
1978,” Barr said in a statement.
The proposed action wduld
have had a considerable impact on
producer prices because the M-W
price has slumjled to just above
the $9.88 government support
price (for milk containing 3.5 per
cent butterfat). National Milk eco-
From the left, state Dairy Princess Kristin Metzker holds the trophies for >. >s
ter 111 who holds the halter of his Junior division senior champion, while Janelle Boyer
helps out by holding the halter of Foster’s reserve senior champion. Terry Hill, Leba
non County Daf Princess, holds the tr ies for reserve char lon.
The Burdettes with friends accept the banner for Premier Breeder of the Pennsylva*
nia Holstein State Spring Show.
Reserve Junior champion in the junior and open division from left, Justin Burdette
with Windy Knoll View JJB Crisey and Corey Meyers with junior champion in the
junior and open division Ro-Meyer Luna Inspiration. The boys are flanked by Hunting
don County Dairy Princess Amy Jo Hawn and state princess Kristin Metzker.
nomists project the action would
have netted farmers an extra $1.25
a hundredweight, Keller said.
National Milk officials say they
will continue to pursue price relief
measures at the national level.
However, their latest setback has
refocused attention on regional
efforts such as those in New York
and western Pennsylvania.
In New York, the Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency,
whose over-order pricing efforts
in the New York-New Jersey
Order broke down in the fall of
1989, is pursuing a different tack.
It has formed a separate legal enti*
ty the Regional Cooperative
Bargaining Agency to lobby -
the state to use existing authority
to impose higher prices. Gregg
McAllister, an RCMA spokes
man, said die result could be the
creation of a New York counter
part to the premiums currently
imposed by the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board, although in
broader fashion.
Specifically, RCMA would like
*
New York’s State Commissioner
of Agriculture and Markets
Richard McGuire to use the
authority in the Rogers-Alien Act
of 1937 to set minimum prices for
Class I, II and 111 milk above the
levels that now exist in Federal
Order 2. PMMB regulates only
Class I prices. McGuire has soli
cited proposals relating to this
request and is expected to
announce a hearing for it as well.
In western Pennsylvania and
eastern Ohio, efforts continue to
establish the Producers Equaliza
tion Agency as a bargaining entity
in Federal Order 36. John Siglow,
the general manager of the two
year-old organization, said pro
ducers and others are showing a
lot more interest in his group
today than they did when prices
were setting record highs a year
ago.
The over-order bargaining
agency, which has the backing of
Milk Marketing Inc., the largest
cooperative in the region, can
claim as members only about
3,100 of Order 36’s 5,000 produc
ers. Siglow said PEA will need
about 90 percent of the dairy far
mers in the market to negotiate for
premiums with handlers.
Virginia dairy leaders met
March 11 to discuss participation
in a new over-order bargaining
group, the Southeastern Dairy
Farmers Federation. Its organizers
hope to mobilize farmers in a
10-state region to allow the group
to bargain with handlers for higher
prices.
This regional scramble to
achieve higher prices through col
lective bargaining highlights the
effectiveness of the Middle Atlan
tic Cooperative Milk Marketing
Agency, according to local dairy
leaders. In operation since 1987,
this over-order premium agency
has given dairymen in parts of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela
ware, New Jersey, West Virginia
and Virginia anywhere from
2S-S0 cents a hundredweight more
a month than the minimums
defined by federal order pricing.