VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Ijmater Faming Staff
GRANTVILLE (Dauphin
Co.) Dairy lea Cooperative Inc.
and Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative Association Inc. held
two educational meetings this
week on milk marketing for mem
bers within the Federal Order No.
2 region.
Hie meetings were part of four
held jointly by the cooperatives on
issues which affect milk market
ing. On Wednesday one was held
at the Holiday Inn, in Grantville,
and on Thursday one was held at
the Guthrie Inn and Conference
Center in Sayre.
Two other meetings are sche
duled for members in the New
York area. On March 22, a meeting
is scheduled to be helde at the Best
Western Inn in Cobleskill, N.Y.
On March 23, a meeting is to be
held at the Ramada Inn, in Water
town, N.Y.
At each meeting several presen
tations were made. Joe Mathis,
assistant general manager of East
ern, and Cliff Caiman, vice presi
dent of exonomics and policy
analysis for Dairylca, provided
their views on policy toward feder
al regulation and, management
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Dairy Farmers Are Businessmen
within the F.O. N 0.2 milkshed,
which draws from a number of
farms in Pennsylvania.
Also different between the New
York and this week’s Pennsylvani
a meeting are the speakers from the
respective land grant universities
whose extension services provide
industry support
For the upcoming New York
meetings. Dr. Andy Novakovic, of
Cornell University spoke. At the
Pennsylvania meetings, the Penn
Slate University speaker was Dr.
Robert Yonkers, agricultural
economist
Carman and Mathis addressed
issues which were outlined in the
newsletter published for the
cooperative F.O. N 0.2 area,
Newsline.
In his talk, Yonkers said that
there isn’t a large difference
between the dairy production sta
tistics for Pennsylvania and New
York, and both areas are affected
by similar trends.
According to Yonkers, that
trend is toward fewer yet larger
farms with fewer head of cattle and
a higher average production per
cow.
He said that during the past
decade, New York and Pennsylva
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nia lost 30 percent of the dairy
forms. However, that has not made
any significant affect on the
amount of milk produced each
year.
According to Yonkers, the
amount continues to rise, with
Pennsylvania having made som
significant gains over New York
during the past decade, to compare
favorably.
The continued trend for the
industry is most likely for con
tinued fewer forms, Yonkers said.
However, he said that pockets of
dairy farms will probably emerge
as the support industry and the
dairy formers continue to receive
pressure and become even more
interdependent
However, Yonkers said the area
should stay strong for dairy
because of its praximiy to markets
and because of the numbers of pro
cessors int he area (another
market).
And while Yonkers predicted
that clusters of dairy farms will
emerge, he also said he sees some
area where dairy farms will
disapear.
He said it is important for dairy-
men to realize what likely is the
local future trend before sinking a
lot of money into improving a farm
for dairy production. He laid that
proximity to rapport aervioes is
almost as important as land price
when it comes time to decide what “Does (investment in the farm)
farm design has the roost value in increase the value of that Gum 10
an ana, especially for resale. years from now?" Yonkers said.
Yonken said that before making He said (hat unless the answer is
large expansion at any particular “yes “ farmer* should be canful
farm, producers must be honest about expanding. He said that
with the outlook of how fast any while this doesn’t mean that far
farm improvements would pay off, men s houldn’t expand their opera -
and what kind of affect the con- tions. they should look at the
struction would have on trends in their immediate ana to
resalability. decide whether they can profitably
He said that to invest heavily on expandin their existing ana, or if
improving a farm for dairy produc- they may want to relocated to a
tion in an area where there is no farm located in an area with a
support services or costs for regu- strong support service framework.
Johnson Keeps ADADC Presidency
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Ray
mond Johnson was re-elected as
president of the American Dairy
Association and Dairy Council,
Inc. (ADADC) after the 33nd
Annual Meeting held on Feb. 16 at
the Sheraton Inn in Syracuse, New
York.
Johnson, a dairy farmer from
Schaghlicoke, N.Y., starts his
eleventh year as president of
ADADC’s board. In partnership
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distances traveled, etc., it to
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with his son Edward, Johnson
operates a 530-acre farm with
Holstein cattle.
The ADADC Annual Meeting
is held each February. Dairy pro
ducers representing New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
meet in order to elect officers and
review the advertising and promo
tion programs implemented by
ADADC during 1992.
This year the presentation was
done in a sports broadcast style.
Also elected were: vice presi
dent, K. Allen Roszel of Mon
trose; second vice president, Paul
Kirsch of Varysburg, N.Y.; trea
surer, Robert Harrison of Ska
ncatelcs, N.Y.; and secretary,
David Hardie of Lansing, N.Y.
The American Dairy Associa
tion and Dairy Council, Inc. is a
dairy promotion organization
which represents dairy producers
from New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
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