Officials Say Pennsylvania DHIA Set For The
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Ohio to try to find ways to work
cooperatively to improve services
and share resources. He said the
directors had spent time in many
meetings over the state in the past
year to try to help local units decide
if they wanted to merge or remain
independent.
“It’s been a busy year, and the
board had a lot of challenges,”
Omer said. “I think the board met
those challenges. One of the most
obvious changes in the system was
our efforts to respond quickly to
members. The introduction of new
reports and the introduction of the
laser printer came from the input
from farmers on what they like or
don’t like.
“I ask you to go back to your
counties and give a positive report
about the state association,” Omer
said. “We learn from the problems
of the past and focus on the future.”
In the treasurer’s report. Norm
Hershey said that in spite of every
thing, the association managed to
come out with a pretty good year.
He repotted total revenues of just
over $5 million, total assets of
nearly $2 million and excess of
revenue over expenses of $50,000.
Dick Barth, general manager,
said that because state DHIA’s no
longer have their protected territo
ries, the way OHIA operates will
change more than from anything
else that has occurred in its history.
“Some people like to say this will
not make much change operation
ally, but I disagree with that view. I
think there will be tremendous
change.”
Barth called the change in direc
tion “paradigm shifts.” He said
these changes started to occur on
the state level at the annual meeting
last year in Hershey when Lancas
ter County said they wanted to
have the opportunity to be more in
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local level.
“What Lancaster said and did
was part of the motivation to
change at the national level and
opening the system up,” Barth said.
“It was a model change within the
way we do things here in Pennsyl
vania because the environment in
DHIA and in the dairy industry is
in an environment of change.
“Every day something changes.
Our programs change on a daily
basis. When a dairy farmer says
something has changed on his farm
and he needs something different
from DHIA, we change what we
are doing to accommodate those
needs. The paradigm shift that has
occurred is one that has gone from
a relatively static environment as
far as member services and prog
rams go, to one that has continual
change. That change doesn’t hap
pen without cost and education
expense or loss of personnel to the
system because they don’t want to
deal with these changes. That
doesn’t make it bad, in my view.
For you it makes better service.”
Barth said that out of these
changes, new Integrated Manage
ment Systems for the Dairy Indus
try (INFINITY) programs had
been developed. These programs
first introduced nationally at the
National Convention in Reno are
designed to market Pennsylvania’s
services across state lines to other
associations, and other individual
dairymen in other states.
“That’s what the new role of a
DHIA service provider is,” Barth
said. INFINITY is a repackaging
of our services with a brand name
that is not specific to geography. It
doesn’t convey that this is just for
Pennsylvania. It conveys that this
is an Organization operating across
lines for many people’s benefit
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go in the future: more service,
more choice, more flexibility,
more variety.”
“In spite of the difficulties of the
past year, your volunteer leaders
on the board of directors and your
staff have worked hard to make this
organization better. The morale is
high. The staff regards the change
in the national by-laws as an oppor
tunity, not a porfolem.
“I think this organization is pre
pared to compete, and I think we
will do a good job of it. I hope your
morale is high. I think it should be.
We learned some valuable lessons
last year that will serve us into the
future.
“You folks are great. I love
working for you; I love this organi
zation. I love you. If we can all
commit to work together, every
thing will be fantastic in Pennsyl
vania DHIA. I wish you well in the
next year. I certainly hope this
organization is as successful as we
all want it to be,” Barth concluded.
George Cudoc, chairman of the
DRCP committee, said with the
new direction of DHIA the organi
zation is now not limited by bound
aries, but it must have direction. He
said the committee has three main
goals: Pcnnsylvnaia processing
and records systems you use must
be state of the art; they must be cost
effective that all dairy farmers can
afford and they must be in com
pliance with quality certification.
‘The important task for the
DRCP advisory committee is to
lend direction to the state board on
what dairy farmers need, to pro
vide accurate, useful information
on the farm,” Cudoc said. ‘The
committee is a vehicle by which
dairy farmers in Pennsylvania can
express ideas, wants, and needs
and have a way to present this to
the state board. The committee will
receive all suggestions as to needed
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programs and changes in current
programs for Pennsylvania DHIA.
Accomplishment during the fust
year that came from the committee
were listed to include: the new cow
page and the new herd summary.
Additional management informa
tion has been included in the
reports and the laser format makes
them easier to read.
SNF testing was started. Dairy
Comp 303 is now in use in 35 diffe
rent circuits that have the laptop
computers, and services were
unbundled to give dairy farmers a
freedom of choice on reports.
“We hope to instill in people the
confidence to allow this committee
and the board the time to react to
requests,” Cudoc said.
In a moving tribute to the late
Clyde S. Robinson, who served 30
years with local, state, and national
DHIA boards. Vice President Bill
Jackson announced the formation
of the Leadership Award in Robin
son’s name to be presented at the
association’s annual meetings. The
recipient will be selected by the
board of directors and must be a
DHIA dairy producer that has pro
vided unselfish leadership for the
dairy industry and promoted the
welfare of the association and its
members. Clyde’s wife, Marie
Robinson, and other members of
his family were present to receive
the honor.
In the herd management awards,
the following dairy farmers were
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