A4O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7, 1992
Dairymen Inc. Honors Lo
JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
Four family dairy farms with a
half-century each of continuous
cooperative membership have
been honored by the Middle
Atlantic Division Diarymen, Inc.
Saluted for their SO years of
membership were the Gary Braun
ing family. Finksburg, Maryland,
Skip and Stephen Pieper, Pieper
Brothers. White Hall, Maryland,
Robert and Nola Ramsburg.
Walkersville, Maryland and Char
les E. Richardson, Fawn Grove.
The 50-year members were rec
ognized by the dairy cooperatie at
its annual division meeting awards
program, held at the Ramada inn.
Dairymen division is headquar
tered in Sykesville, Maryland,
Honored for a quarter-century of continuous membership In Dairymen were, from
left, front, Kenneth and Priscilla Spielman, Helen Hawker, Evelyn Hawker, and rear,
Terry Martin, Robert Hawker and Douglas Hawker. •
Middle Atlantic Division of Dairymen, Inc., honored producers with fifty-year conti
nuous membership. Members honred for their half-century with the cooperative
Included from right, Charles and Ruth Richardson, Gary and Horace S. Brauning Sr.,
and four generations of the Ramsburg family, Including Cookie and Robert, James,
Michael holding Christopher, and Bruce Ramsburg.
with corporate offices in Louisvil
le, Kentucky.
Quarter-century member
awards were presented to 11
member-producer families. Hon
ored for 25-years of continuous
membership were Marjory and
Fay Barrow, Bel Air, Maryland;
Campbell Farm, Bert and Ruth
Campbell, Glen Rock; R. Franklin
and Mariann Dulin, Chestertown,
Maryland; Larry and Donald Lee
Hawbaker, Mercersburg.
Also, Robert and Douglas
Hawker, Middletown, Maryland;
Joseph F. Long and Sons, Marvin,
Daniel and James Long, Green
castle; Lee and Dean Myers,
Greencastle; Peace Valley'Farms,
Terry and Jane Martin, Chambcrs
burg; Phil-Jon Farml, John, Phyl
lis. J. David and Kathryn Long,
Greencastle; Kenneth and Mary
Spielman, Union Bridge, Mary
land, and David and Esther Yoder,
Grantsville, Maryland.
Quality Production Winners
Dairymen’s highest milk
quality production honor, the
Excellence Award, was presented
to four member families.
Excellence Award recipients
for 1991 production were Roy and
Susie Kinsinger, Myersdale. Wal
bert Farm, Ltd., Albert and Tracey
Hurline, Baldwin, Maryland,
Katherine and Talmadge Wilson,
Jr., ML Airy, Maryland, and John
and Sarah Yoder, Meyersdale.
Members achieving the Excel
lence level meet continuing and
stringent quality production stan
dards. Excellence winners qualify
for Dairymen’s Honor Roll qual
ity list every month and score 99
or 100 'points on all farm
inspections.
Honor Roll requirements
include a monthly Standard Plate
Count less than 5,000 and Somatic
Cell Count less than 500,000, no
antibiotics or suspensions, excel
lent or good sediment level, freeze
point of .530 or better and milk
shipped the entire month.
Gold Award winners meet Hon
or Roll standards monthly through
the year and score 92 points or
higher on all farm inspections.
Winners of the Gold Award
were Armacost Farms,- Inc., Cle
tus and Austin Armacost, Upper
co, Maryland; Harold and Sharon
Carbaugh; Clear Spring, Mary
land; J.U., Betty and William
Coshum, Taneytown, Maryland;
Mark and Donna Garber, Waynes
boro; Clement and Donna Halde-
-Time Members, Milk Quality Winners
Gold quality award winners Included from left, Mary Ann and Charles Seraydlan,
Clement and Donna Haldeman, Kenneth and Virginia Swartz, Bud and Arlene Hoff
and Harold and Sharon Carbaugh.
Dairymen Silver quality award winners Included from left, front, Jayme Webster,
Grace Weant, Harold and Kevin Martin, and rear. Dave Shirley, Bill Webster. Chris
Elliott and Bob Walker.
Milk quality committee chairman Myron Wllhide pre
sented Dairymen’s highest quality recognition, the Excel
lence Award to the Walberth Farm, operated by Albert and
Tracey Hurllne, who accepted the plaque. Only four
member-producers received the coveted Excellence
honor.
man, Greencastle; Malcolm and
Arlene Hoff, Uniontown,
Maryland.
Abo Abner and Fannie King,
Paradise; Donna and William
Messix HI, Queen Ann, Maryland;
Steven Ruby, Hampstead, Mary
land; Helen and Carl Seiler, West
minster, Maryland; Charles and
Marry Ann Seraydian, Taney
town, Maryland; GlenviUe Shade,
Inwood, West Virginia; Kenneth
and Virginia Swartz, Shippens
vurg and Effie Wotting, Amboy,
West Virginia.
Silver Award winners qualify
for the Honor Roll 11 of the 12
months, have a Standard Plate
Count of less than 50,000 in the
non-qualifying month, and score
92 points or higher on all farm
inspections.
Winners of Sliver Award certi
ficates were Sterling A. Alban,
Manchester, Maryland; Antrim-
Way Farm, Robert and Keith
Grove, Grccncastle; Edward and
Bette Beard, Westminister, Mary
land: Bethel Hill Dairy, Kevin and
Harold Martin, Oxford; Christian
and Delores Elliott, McConnells
burg; William Horner and Dana
Owings, Union Bridge, Maryland;
Millard and Nancy Kefauver,
Keedysville, Maryland.
Also, Levi and Lydia Kinsin
ger, Meyersdale; Edward and Joan
Lipscomb, Eglon, West Virginia;
Meadow Lake Farm, Ruth and C.
Dewitt Tharpe, Bel Air, Mary
land; W. Wiley and J. Walter Rut
ledge, Jarrettsville, Maryland;
Henry and Patricia Shirley, West
minister; Douglas and Rose
Smith, Street, Maryland; Amos
and Levi Stoltzfus, Farm 2, Lititz;
Carl and Grace Weant, Taney
town, Maryland; William and Jay
me Webster, Greencastle; Joseph
and Nancy Yoder, Salisbury; and
David and Sarah Zook, Lititz.