Mercer
CAROL SMITH
Mercer Co. Correspondent
MERCER (Mercer Co.) The
Mercer County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association (DHIA)
met recently at the county exten
sion center in Mercer for its annual
meeting.
The county association finished
its 74th year with 95 whole-year
herds, meaning that all herds were
operational, and on test, during the
entire course of the year.
During the meeting, several
awards were presented and an
election of committee members
was conducted. Dennis James,
president of the association and
David Bigelo, DHIA regional
manager presented the awards.
Edwin Olson, Stoneboro RD 2,
was the first place county winner
of the Herd Management Award.
He also received recognition for
placing second in the county for
rolling herd average in butterfat
production with a 796-pound
average.
Roland and Dennis James
received honors for having the
highest county herd average for
milk production, for the fifth con
secutive year.
The Jameses were also awarded
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Miller Equip. Co.
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Zimmerman Farm Service
Bloomsburg
W.F. Welilver
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Wynne’s Garage Inc.
Carlisle
Carlisle Farm Service
Chambersburg
Chambersburg Farm Service
Cochranville
Stoltzfus Farm Service
Cresson
Hines Equipment
Dover
George N. Gross Inc.
Easton
Fancy Furrow Farms Ag Equip.
Eighty Four
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Everett
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Gettysburg
Yingiing’s Implement Inc.
Greencastle
Meyers Implements Inc.
Honesdale
Marshall Machinery Inc.
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Thomas L Dunlap
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Stanleys Farm Service
Lebanon
Umbergers of Fontana
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B S & B Repair
Mill Hall
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Hetrick Farm Supply
New Tripoli
CJ. Wonsidler Bros.
Oakland Mills
Peoples Sales & Service
Quakertown
CJ. Wonsidler Bros.
Quarryville
A.L. Herr & Bros. Inc.
Somerset
Lincoln Supply & Equip. Co.
Holds DHIA
for having the highest county herd
production for protein, highest
milk fat at 920 pounds of milk fat,
and high county Holstein herd for
protein production.
James attributed his dairying
success to forage testing, balanced
feed rations, milking three times a
day, and to the help they received
from Dave Dowler, Mercer’s
extension dairy agent
Also receiving recognition was
Van De Jersey Farm, of Transfer,
for having the highest protein pro
duction among the county’s Jersey
herds.
Canon Dairy, of West Mid
dlesex, was recognized for having
the highest protein production of
the mixed breed herds in the
county.
The highest protein producing
Red and White herd in the county
is owned by Minor Sons, of Jack
son Center.
Among the Guernsey herds.
Ealy’s Highland Farm had the
highest protein producing herd.
Larry Adams was recognized
with an award for having the herd
with the lowest average somatic
cell count for the year. His SCC
averaged 79,000.
In other business, elected to
serve on the county DHIA com-
Accurate and precise in no-till
fields, too.
New Idea 9000 series
planters have gained a well
deserved reputation for
planting with incredibly ac
curate spacing at precisely
the right depth in min-till,
no-till or conventionally
tilled fields. Our short 18"
aerodynamically designed
seed drop and indepen
dently acting walking beam
gauge wheels see to it.
And our low-pressure,
air metering system and
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Meeting
mittee were Marie Canon, J. David
Philson, and Edward Olson.
Guest speaker for the meeting
was Dixie Burris, director of mem
ber development for Pa.DHIA.
Atlantic Dairy Supports $11.50 Basic
Formula Price For Orders 2 &4
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative is
requesting an emergency hearing
be held in Federal Orders 2 and 4
to set a floor for Class I fluid milk
prices to help prevent further
declines in dairy farmer income.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Edward Madigan,
Atlantic’s general manager Dr.
Paul E. Hand urged that USDA set
Class I prices on a basic formula
price “no less than $11.50 per
hundredweight.” The current bas
ic formula price, based on the
December Minnesota-Wisconsin
price of $12.10, is expected to
drop drastically this spring.
“Costs of production are
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MIDDLE ATLANTIC MILK MARKETING ASSOCIATION, INC.
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edge drop seed disc
singulates seeds —corn,
soybeans, cotton, sorghum,
milo, sweet com, popcorn,
sugar beets—to avoid
doubles or skips.
Best of all, our double
bar model provides plenty
of weight and room for
many combinations of our
numerous no-till coulters
and other attachments.
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She talked about the accomplish
ments in the process of re
organization, which is designed to
eliminate legal liability from local
boards and to improve and standar-
increasing, and the outlook is for
very rapidly declining milk prices
now through May,” he said. “In
order to maintain a reasonable
level of prices a floor must be set.”
Dairy farmers last spring exper
ienced the lowest milk prices in 13
years. Every effort must be made
to avoid a repeat of this situation.
Hand said, adding that the $11.50
floor price will not cause exces
sive prices in the Middle Atlantic
Region, but “will provide some
measure of confidence for dairy
farmers as they face the 1992 pro
duction season.”
Atlantic estimates that in 1992,
the proposal will floor Order 2 and
Order 4 Class I prices during the
months of April through August
dize the quality of services.
She said the local committee
was to be commended for their
committment to program, quality
for its members.
Other U.S. dairy cooperatives
have petitioned for an $11.50 floor
hearing for at least 20 other Feder
al Orders. A positive response by
the USD A to these petitions
would deliver much needed price
relief to thousands of milk produc
ers, Hand said.
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