r" VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) Members of Atlantic Dairy Cooperative’s District 12 met Thursday at the Quarryville Fairgrounds for its annual banquet and meeting. Despite a severe winter storm and an electricity shortage which had caused many offices to close early or close altogether, about 200 members of the cooperative showed up for the event. The purpose of the banquet and meeting was to review the past year’s business, elect new officers and delegates, and to present awards. Because of the weather, sche duled speaker Robert Dever, gen eral manager, was unable to attend. Jim Barnett, director of ADC member relations, who lives in nearby Strasburg, spoke instead. According to Barnett, there have been a lot of changes in the buyers of milk in recent years. He used the Cooperative’s District 12 presents a 25-year-membership award to brothers Lloyd and Leßoy Welk, of Welk Acres. Akers, while presenting the award, is also a recipient of a quality premium award for District 12. ADC District 12 Meets example of ADC’s former subsidi ary Penn Dairies, which was sold less than five years ago to Greens, Which sold it to Crowley’s, then to Kemp’s, which sold it to its current owner, Wessan. Wessan is a Dutch conglomerate. He said his point is that the cooperative now sells its milk to a European-owned business. Another buyer is Johanna Farms, which is owned by Labatt’s, a maker of beverages. Labatt’s also owns the professional baseball team, the Tronoto Blue Jays. What it all means, according to Barnett, is that in order for a cooperative td stay competitive, it must be a strong and dependable source of milk, he said. Barnett also talked about the dairy promotion checkoff which was re-authorized by dairymen this past fall. He said that not only is that helping to keep the milk demand up, a new processor promotion fund, based on a 20-cent per hundredweight processed checkoff, is to start-up in February and those monies are to be used to promote fluid milk sales. As milk production increases, there is a continuous need to expand markets for it, Barnett said. In other news, two awards were presented in honor of 2S-years of cooperative membership. Receiving an award were Lloyd and Leßoy Welk, of Welk Acres, in Quarryville. The two have a partnership and currently farm 375 acres and milk 90 registered Holsteins. When they started with the cooperative they milked 30 cows. Hope Valley Farm, also of Quar ryville, was honored for 25 years with ADC. Kenneth DeLong, in partnership with his brothers Gerry and Jim, received the award on behalf of the farm. He said that combined they milk 104 grade Holsteins and farm 500 acres. When his father Clair first started with ADC, the family milked 44 Holsteins. Also honored was Curtis Akers, director of District 12. Akers received a quality premium award for going 12 months in a row and earning quality premiums on the milk. There are two levels of quality premiums offered; a 10-cent per hundredweight, and a 20-cent per hundredweight additional payment. The premiums are based on test ing of the milk and the outstanding quality determined from those tests. In other business, the Quarryvil le Local elected Lloyd Welk as its president, and P. Robert Wenger as its vice president. Herb Graybill was elected secretary-treasurer, and also to serve as a delegate. Other delegates elected include Lancaatar Farming, 'Saturday, January 22, 19M-A29 From the left, Curtis Akers, director of Atlantic Dairy Cooperative’s District 12, presents a 25-year-membership award to Kenneth OeLong. R. Charles Groff, Randy Clark, Phil Rutt, James Krantz, and Lloyd Sensenig. Altnerates include Timothy Metzler, Robert Kreider, Ed Ham ish, Dave DeLong, Willie Frey, and James Kreider. Elected to the hauling commit tee for three-year terms were Robert Groff, Vernon Umblc, and Charles Rohrer. Beef Board Elects Committee Member HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Ralph McGregor, a dairy pro ducer from York County and one of Pennsylvania’s two representa tives on the 111-member national Beef Board, was recently elected to the national operating committee. The 20-member operating com mittee acts on behalf of the Beef Board and state beef councils in allocating funds for programs con ducted on behalf of the $1 per head beef checkoff program. Members of the Strasburg/ Paradise Local elected Dale Her shey as its president, and Alan Rohrer as vice president. J. Ray Rank was elected secretary/ treasurer. Delegates elected were Park Ranck Jr., John Coleman, and Nevin Hershey. Alternate dele gates were Tom Lapp, Ben Clark and Marlin Beiler. “We’re extremely fortunate that our state is represented on this not able committee,” said David Ivan, executive director of the Pennsyl vania Beef Council. “This repre sents only the second time that a producer from Pennsylvania has been selected to serve on the oper ating committee.” Paul Espy, a cattle feeder from Tyrone, also previously served on the operating committee. As a member of the operating committee, McGregor will have a vote in final appropriation of the Beef Board’s more than $45 mil lion annual budget to specific demand-building programs, such as advertising, retail promotions, and research activities. The mem bers of the committee represent all geographical regions of the coun try and volunteer their lime on behalf of the industry. ACM CHE Full Line Of Spray Materials For Corn, Soybeans and Alfalfa NOTICE Our Grower Information Meetings Will Be Held... 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