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Mifflin Co. Correspondent gulshed Service Award. Bradford
ALLENSVILLE (Mifflin became a member when the
Co.) — At their annual dinner MCHC first formed in 1957 and
meeting, members and Mends of served as a State Director from
the Mifflin County Holstein Club 1960-1980. He also served 6 years
(MCHC) gathered to present on the Youth Committee and has
awards, elect directors, and to shown cattle for 26 years,
comments, observations, arid Darvin Yoder presented the
advice from speaker Ron Buflin- Junior Membership Report. Junior
ton of Dublin, OH. member Andy Reed placed in the
The club honored Bill Bradford top third in the state at Penn
Those receiving awards at the Mifflin County Holstein Club’s annual meeting
Include: (L-R} Mike Kline, Russell Kline, Bill Bradford. John Byler, and Matt Kline.
Mike Kline received a Distinguished Junior Member Award, Russell Kline had the
highest classified herd In Mifflin County, Bill Bradford received the Distinguished
Service Award, John Byler had the highest herd average in Mifflin County, and Matt
Kline was recognized for his Junior All PA fall calf. He also received a Distinguished
Junior Member Award.
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Club Holds Annual Meeting
State’s Junior Judging School.
Yoder distributed the award
money for dairy show placings at
the Mifflin County Youth Fair.
Junior Production Awards for
Milk and Protein went to Chad
Renninger while Lee Leinaweaver
earned the Junior Production
Award for butterfat.
A special award honored Matt
Kline of McVeytown for his
Junior All PA fall calf. Matt also
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The Mifflin County Holstein Club annual dinner meeting
featured speaker Ron Buffington (second from right), a
farm consultant from Dublin, OH. From the left, Bill Nichol,
Executive Director for the Pennsylvania Holstein Associa
tion, John Rheam, Master of Ceremonies, Buffington, and
Ed Click, President of the Mifflin County Holstein Club.
joined his brother Mike Kline in
earning the Distinguished Junior
Member Award. Earned through a
point system, this year’s award
resulted in a tie.
Stale Director Ron Maidens
presented the BAA Award to Rus
sell Kline of McVeylown for hav
ing the highest classified herd m
Mifflin County. For the DHIA
Award, John and Saloma Bylcr
has the highest herd average.
Bill Nichol, Executive Director
of the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, mentioned state
activities. “The biggest part of our
activities is international market
ing.” A cow from Mifflin County
was one of six destined for Japan
the same day as the banquet. Since
1970, the Holstein Association
has shipped cows to SO countries.
Nichol stated that the Holstein
first came to the United States in
1895 and was bred for milk pro
duction and rate of gain. Because
of this emphasis on milk produc
tion, the global demand for Hols
teins from the United States has
increased. “We look for 5,000
head to be shipped to Kuwait this
summer or fall and another ship
ment to Egypt.”
Nichol mentioned that the 340
youth attending the Slate Junior
Convention helped to sell 20 tons
of cheese with proceeds going
back to the local clubs. Rochester,
NY, will host the 1993 National
Holstein Convention while the
1995 Convention will be held in
Pittsburgh. Nichol encouraged
members to consider a purchase at
the ballroom sale during the
National Convention on February
27. The topic of diversification to
increase income will highlight the
convention.
Elected as MCHC Directors,
Paul J. Zook, Glenn Peachey, and
Keith Spicher join President
Edwin F. Click, Vice President
David R. Spicher, Secretary/
Treasurer Rod Kauffman, Jeffrey
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 22, IM2-A35
A. Ranck, Michael Ammon, Estel
Maidens, and G. Sheldon Peachey
on the Board.
Ron Buffington, a farm consul
tant, addressed the group on mat
ters concerning advertising, sales
manship, and financing, he was
keynote speaker at the 1986
National Holstein Convention in
Connecticut and has spoken at
five National Junior Holstein
Conventions.
‘The frustrating part the longer
I work with farmers is that the
American farmer is the only
businessman that buys most of his
supplies retail, produces a pro
duct, and sells it wholesale. And 1
say to the American farmers, we
gotta do something different in
buying products,” Buffington
states.
Buffington reminded that the
purpose of a businessperson
should be to expand income and
shrink costs with the motive to be
debt free. He asked farmers to take
a hard look at better ways to mark
et their product, citing the success
ful ad campaign of the Florida Cit
rus Growers.
“There’s a whole lot of things in
salesmanship that you can do. One
of the things 1 like toward the idea
of helping us on the price of milk
is selling cheese. 1 compliment the
Pennsylvania Holstein Associa
tion for selling a lot of cheese this
winter. It lakes 10 pounds of milk
to make a pound of cheese. And
when you give somebody 5
pounds of cheese at Christmas
time, that takes 50 pounds of milk
out of the marketplace. And 1
know that most industries that got
out of trouble got out of trouble by
good, hard smart selling.”
Buffington went on, “You need
area effective advertising. If 1
were in charge of the American
Dairy Association advertising. I’d
hire the firm that does the Florida
Citrus Commission to do our
advertising. You gotta have some-
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