Dairy Farmers Can Help Selves By Exploring SYRACUSE, N.Y. Dairy farmers can boost milk sales, reduce the government surplus of dairy products, and hold steady the price they get for their raw product by pushing for new exports’, dairy officials said at Eastern Milk Producers Coopera tive’s annual meeting recently. Eastern President Lewis Gard ner, who operates a farm with his wife and sons in Galelon, Pa. said farmers could do more to help themselves by working together to explore export opportunities. That’s why, he said, Eastern and other co-ops are trying to organize another food airlift to Russia this winter. Unlike last winter, when North east farmers donated 10 tons of dairy products to schools and orphanages in Moscow, Gardner said this time the goal is twofold: • To donate a significantly lar ger amount of products 100 to 200 tons of food. • To send negotiators with the humanitarian aid who would dis cuss export sales with officials of the former Soviet bloc countries. A keynote speaker at the annual meeting Bob Gray, executive director of the Washington-based Council of Northeast Farmer Cooperatives said the former Soviet Union not only needs to import dairy products with the collapse of its own communist-run farms, but also is able to take advantage of U.S. export credits and loan guarantees to pay for food. Both Gardner and Gray called on the U.S. government to elimi nate bureaucratic hurdles that make it difficult for fanners to participate in a government assisted export program. “You can’t join the program without export experience,” Gard ner said, “but you can’t get expon experience” without the help of the government program. Honors Unadilla Farmer Noel Davis of Unadilla, N.Y. received Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative’s Dedicated Service Award at the co-op’s annual ban quet in Syracuse, N.Y. recently. Davis, who is retiring after serving nine years on Eastern’s board of directors, was cited for “years of hard, dependable work on behalf of Eastern fanners and the co-op.” Eastern President Lewis Gardner presented the award. During his tenure on the board, Davis has served in various posi tions, including secretary and assistant secretary-treasurer, and as chairman of several committees. Profits For Cash Bonuses Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative paid out $868,524 in profits to dairy farmers in the form of cash bonuses before ending the fiscal year with net proceeds of $128,524, co-op officials announced at Eastern’s annual meeting. That payout, while not the largest, continues a practice started by the board of directors in 1987 to return profits monthly to member farmers in the form of extra cash premiums, rather than retaining profits in the co-op. As a result. President Lewis Gardner noted. Eastern returned more than $4.7 million in profits to farmers. 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Eastern, as the marketing arm for mem bers, passed the majority of those sales dollars to farmers through twice-a-month milk checks. Honors Top Farmers, Field Rep, Journalist A Pennsylvania dairy farmer who made Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative’s top 10 list for the past four years is Eastern’s 1992 Quality Farmer of the Year. That means Bruce Bartley Jr. of Cogan Station, Pa. produces “the best quality milk” in the entire co op, which includes more than 3,000 farms in a nine-state area, Eastern Membership Manager Tony Schlesier said. The top quality fanner says that he doesn’t develop work habits with the idea of winning awards, but that worrying about cleanli ness every day apparently makes a difference. The Bartleys raise com and alfalfa on 100 acres to feed their 40 milking cows and 20 heifers. Top 10 Farmers Nine other farms from New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont join the Bartley dairy on this year’s list of top 10 quality pro ducers. 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