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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.
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