PHA Seeks
Bred Heifers
For Saudi
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The Pennsylvania Hols
tein Association (PHA) has recen
tly announced its intent to supply a
shipment of registered and bred
Holstein heifers to Saudi Arabia.
According to the association,
headquartered in State College, the
price paid each for qualifying bred
heifers is to be $1,400, delivered to
the association’s farm in Middel
town. The farm is located off of RL
441.
To make an offer, contact the
association at (814) 234-0364, or
write to: Pennsylvania Holstein
Associatin, 839 Benner Pike, State
College. PA 16801.
Specifically, the association is
seeking heifers that will be aged 19
to 28 months old as of Dec. 1,
1993, which means they were bom
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between August 1,1991 and May
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Also, they must weight a mini
mum of 1,000 pounds or 1,100
pounds, as of Nov. IS, depending
on age and length of pregnancy.
They must also be M of good flesh
and correct conformation,”
according to the news release.
By Dec. 1, the heifers should be
from four- to seven-months pre
gnant, which means they were suc
cessfully bred between May 1 and
August 1.
Other minimum standards
include that the heifer’s sire must
have minimum PDs of +l,OOO
pounds milk, and +35 pounds fat;
die service she for the heifer’s cur
rent pregnancy must have mini
mum PDs of +BOO pounds milk
and+3S pounds fat; and the dam of
the heifer must have recorded at
least a first 305-day lactation pro
duction of 17,000 pounds, 3.7-per
cent fat, milk, or have recorded a
second or later 305-day lactation
production of 19,000 pounds milk
with 3.7 percent fat.
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Fall Cheese
SYRACUSE, N.Y. The
American Dairy Association and
Dairy Council Inc. (ADADC) has
announced that dairy producers
enjoyed a net payback of mote
than 4.S million dollars as a result
of last fall's Cheese Snack Shoppe
promotion.
Looking to repeat that success,
the 1993 cheese promotion takes
on a new twist and some new*
partners.
This year’s fill! promotion is
called “Cheese Sandwich
Shoppe” and features tie-in con
sumer offers with Continental
Baking Company (makers of
Eastern Milk Supports
SYRACUSE, N.Y. “Self Help", an ini
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mechanism to sell surplus dairy products
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Industry Council.
Enticing, colorful point-of
purchase materials including ban
ners, mobiles and free recipe leaf
lets will be used by supermarkets
to create out-of-case displays and
attract consumers'attention to the
dairy and deli cases. In-store cou
pons will also give consumers the
opportunity to save $1 on the
purchase of REAL cheese and any
two varieties of Wonder Bread.
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Sandwich Shoppe” promotion,
dairy promoters throughout
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ADADC’s marketing region are
participating in a contest to prom
ote real cheese.
As part of the contest, they will
submit news articles to local pap
ers featuring recipes using real
cheese, record public service
announcements suggesting con
sumers use real cheese, and will
conduct cheese samplings in local
supermarkets.
This year’s promotion will be
supported by a 3.5 million dollar
national television and radio cam
paign which will run for three
weeks.
Self-Help
abroad, is the way for the dairy industry to go.
That was the message coming out of East
ern Milk Producers Cooperative's annual
business meetings in Syracuse Sept. 28-29,
where farmer delegates representing some
3,200 farm families affirmed the self-help
initiative.
The unanimous vote came after delegate*
resoundingly defeated as unworkable a resol
ution favoring the concept of two-tier pricing,
where farmers would be guaranteed a price
for a certain amount of production and a much
lower price for anything over that
"It’s significant to have representatives
from all across the Northeast to not only vote •
not to support two-tier pricing, but to take the
step to unanimously support the efforts of
National Milk Producers Federation in fight
ing for ‘self-help’ in Congress,” Eastern Pres
ident Lewis Gardner said.
‘The times require new solutions,” was the
way National Milk CEO Jim Barr summed up
the plight of the dairy industry in a presenta
tion to delegates the day before they acted on
resolutions.
The trend in Washington toward cutting
farm subsidies and assessing fanners for their
own programs has become clear. Barr said. If
farmers don’t take steps to help themselves
now, they may fare even worse come the 1995
farm bill, he argued.
That’s why National Milk, a trade organi
zation representing two-thirds of the milk
produced in the U.S., is pushing for a way for
farmers to have a say in their future—specifi
cally. a dairy board that would intervene when
government dairy surpluses hit the S-to-7 bil
lion pound range. The board would sell pro
ducts abroad at world competitive prices,
reducing surplus spending and bolstering the
farmers’ raw milk price.
The mechanism to clear the U.S. market of
excessive surpluses would be farmer-run
through a dairy board and farmer-supported
through, a 10-cent per hundredweight
assessment
Bill Perry, a co-op official from Ohio, gave
Eastern’s delegates what he described as a
“dose of reality.’’
The majority of people in Congress and the
majority of consumers do not really care
about farmers and about farm policy, said Per
ry, director of member and governmental
affairs for Milk Marketing Inc. What they
care about is food safety, food for the poor and
the environment, he said.
Farmers will get nowhere, he said, if they
don’t make their issues relevant to the con
cerns of Congress and the Clinton Admi
nistration, or to the concerns of uibaii
oriented consumers and the growing number
of people at or below the poverty level.
“Issues that are important to us, we have to
frame in such a way that are relevant to
others,” Perry said.
“Self Help” is an example of doing just
that, he said, because it would keep prices
down for the Women and Infant Children
(WIQ food giveaways and at the same time
keepfarmgate milk prices from plummeting.
“As a veteran of battles in Congress,”
National Milk’s Barr noted, “I don’t think die
old production control approach will work...
"The times require new soludons v Self-help
is that solution. Self-help is the way of the
future.”