AM-LancMtor Farming, Saturday, October 23,1993
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Several Penn State Uni
versity Department of Dairy and
Animal Science students recently
received monetary awards in rec
ognition of their efforts.
Penn State’s Department of
Dairy and Animal Science has
chosen three scholars to receive
the John O. Almquist Graduate
Student. Research award, which is
a $3,000 endowment to support
research in pursuit of a graduate
degree.
At the same time, two students
received scholarships of $l,OOO
each from the American Feed
Industry Association in recogni
tion of their outstanding achieve
ment, scholarship, citizenship,
leadership, character, and activity.
Lammer, studying with the Penn State University Depart*
ment of Dairy and Animal Sciences are the recipients of
scholarships from the American Feed Industry
Association.
Dairylea Holds Meeting, Selects Executive Committee
SYRACUSE. N.Y. The
board of directors of Dairylea
Cooperative Inc., based in Syra
cuse, N.Y., recently re-elected its
executive committee for another
year during a recent reorganiza
lional meeting held at the coopera
tive’s annual meeting in Liver
pool. N.Y.
The delegate body also ratified a
redistricting plan which changes
district boundaries to make them
closer to equal in membership
strength.
Dairylea is a Syracuse,
N.Y.-based dairy cooperative with
more than 2,300 member farms
throughout the Northeast It mark
ets a total of 3.1 billion pounds of
milk annually and participates and
is invested in a milk marketing net
work stretching from Maine to
Maryland and Ohio.
More than 730 farmer members
and industry guests attended the
two-day annual convention, which
included a management presenta
tion by Dairylea Chief Executive
Office Rick Smith, and an annual
address by Clyde Rutherford, the
cooperative’s president.
Re-elected to the executive
committee were Clyde Rutherford,
of Olego, N.Y., president; Warren
Beardsley, of Fairport, N.Y., at
first vice president; Raymond Die
bold, of Altoona, second vice pres
ident; James Madigan, of Towan
da, as treasurer; and Raymond
Johnson, of Schaghticokc, N.Y., as
assistant treasurer.
In other clectorial action, Dou
glas Young, of Union Springs,
N.Y., Hugh Humphreys; of New
Penn State Dairy Scholars Receive Awards
The Almquist award recipients
were Valerie Fishell, Douglas
Hongerholt, and George Valzias,
all three of whom are candidates
for doctorate degrees. Harry Roth,
of Atlantic Breeders Cooperative,
which sponsors the award, pre
sented them during a recent cere
mony in State College.
Department head Stanley Curtis
said, “We are grateful for Atlantic
Breeders* generosity and vision in
support of graduate study and
research in animal science.”
Fishell is researching the effect
of dietary vitamin E on pork com
position and quality; Hongerholt’s
is pursuing the effects of grain
feeding frequency on rumen fer
mentation and lactational response
of dairy cows rotationally grazed
Hartford, N.Y., and Edgar King, of
Schuylerville, N.Y., were three
new members seated on the board
of directors. Beardsley and August
Knispel, of Pitts town, NJ., were
both re-elected to the board.
During his presentation to the
delegates and guests. Smith said
that the cooperative has continued
to pay a competitive price to dairy
fanner members with milk sales
increasing by $3B million, or 12.5
percent over 1992 sales.
According to Smith, total milk
marketed this year increased by
11.3 percent, going from 2.2 bil
lion pounds in 1992 to 2.5 billion
pounds this past year.
At the same time, member and
affiliate member milk production
increased IS percent.
According to the cooperative, it
experienced an increase in mem
ber farms, with 627 dairy farmers
joining within the last 18 months.
The co-op’s growth compares to
a farm decrease of 5.6 percent in
the New York-New Jersey Milk
Marketing Order, and a 2.8 percent
decrease in farms within the
Northeast milkshed.
“Our organization had another
strong year,” Smith said, “ending
in a profit of $1,217,000. This
marks the fifth successive year of
annualized profits in excess of $1
million."
Smith also said that the co-op
reports a $2.3 million increase in
tax-paid retained earnings; a debt
to-equity improvement to 81 cents
on the dollar from last year’s $l.lO
debt for $1 equity; and member
equity, as a percentage of total
!flWi v juate _ jnt
Research Awards Committee, stands wRh recipients Doug Hongerholt and Valerie
Flshell, Harry Roth representing sponsor Atlantic Breeders Cooperative, and John
Almquist, for whom the award is named. Not shown is award recipient George Vatzias
on pasture; while Vatzias is inves
tigating the effect of genetic selec
tion- for high ovulation rate on
insulin-like growth factor-I
(IGF-1) and IGF-binding protein
concentrations in ovation follicu
lar fluid of gilts.
All three are to present their
findings in the department’s Collo
guium series during the semester
their thesis is completed.
John Almquist, for whom the
awards were named, was present
during the ceremony. He served on
the Penn State faculty for almost
40 years and retired in 1983.
He had joined the research
faculty in 1944, six years before
his creation of the Dairy Breeding
Research Center. In 1981 Alm
assets improved 22.9 percent over
last year.
Rutherford, in his president’s
address, talked about the changes
at Dairylea in the past IS years,
which covers his service as the co
op’s president.
"Our membership understands
that, to achieve our gods, we may
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do things a little differently
Dairymen, Inc.
... . ir 75 continuous years of membership with the Dairymen Middle
Atlantic Division and its predecessor Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers were,
from left, Ben and Dorothy Markline and grandson B.J. Waltimyer, David Patrick, and
Wilfred and Annie Hoff.
quist was the recipient of the Wolf
Prize in Agriculture, comparable
to winning the Nobel Prize, for his
work in artificial insemination for
livestock improvement, apeprding
to a department news release.
The recipients of the American
Feed Industry Association scholar
ships were Brain Lammers and
Kanthasamy Kamnanandaa.
Lammers, who is pursuing a
masters degree in animal science,
entered the department’s graduate
program last fall, after completing
undergraduate work in dairy sci
ence at Ohio State University.
Kanthasamy recently passed his
comprehensive doctorate exami
nation and is to spend the next year
working on his thesis in ruminant
different from the past and diffe
rent from other cooperatives. The
continued support and encourage
ment of our members has enable
the cooperative to travel down
both unfamiliar and innovative
roads, which ultimately have led to
greener pastures,” he said.
He also said that there is a need
far nation*! unity among dairy far-
Honors Quality Producers
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nutrition. He completed his under
graduate degree in Srilanka before
receiving a master’s degree in
agronomy from Penn State.
He was also first among 11
entrants in a graduate student pap
er presentation contest during this
summer’s Eastern Forage
Improvement Conference, spon
sored by the Northeastern Branch
of the American Society of Agro
nomy. His presentation was on
botanical fractions of rice straw
colonized by white-rot fungi: the
effect of fiber digestion and fer
mentation characteristics in vitro.
The study was co-authored by
Gabriclla Varga, Steven Fales, and
Daniel Royse.
mers regarding federal dairy
policy.
“We all share the common goal
of wanting to improve the financial
situation of the dairy farming com
munity. However, too much time
is wasted arguing about which
road to take, rather than concen
trating on arriving at our destina
tion,’* Rutherford said.