Pennsylvania Auctioneers’ HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The 1994 convention of the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Asso ciation (PA A) was held at the Har risburg Marriott The convention was billed as providing “something for every one - fellowship, education, food, new ideas, meeting friends and competitors, and plenty of fun.” Mission accomplished! The forty-sixth state convention got under way with a seminar ti tled “Shut Up and Listen... Back to the Basics,” by veteran auction eer Larry Reed, CAI, of Dußois. This presentation was designed to assist newcomers to the auction profession as well as seasoned professionals. LVNB Holds (Continued from Pago A 26) people who sell grain will do better than in past years. Yonkers has an upbeat look at dairying. He said the dairy industry is growing, and you should not believe all the negative press and had news you read. “Just because someone else’s cost is over $16.00 per hundred doens’t say your costs are that high,” Yonkers said. “If you are doing well, there is nothing wrong with that. A lot of people in the dairy industry are making a good living.” The loss in cow numbers is coming mostly from the small herds that go out of business. Productivity is increasing, and Yonkers thinks that if dairymen in the East improve their management, we can have the same pro duction averages that they have in some of the western states. “Our costs are not that much different than in other dairy slates,” Yonkers said. “We don’t make as much milk per farm because ol their large herds. We have a higher invest ment per cow, but much of this higher invest ment comes from machinery investment because we still grow much of our feed. Our cash costs are not out of line, but on some Yonkers said the dairy industry has lost us political power most noticeably in the last election where now only about 70 of the 435 U.S. representatives have dairy farmers in their districts. And many others have only a few dairy farmers. It’s hard to get a majority on dairy issues. And another change is the public pcrcep uon of the dairv industry that is driving public policy and legislation. BST is the current debate, but artificial insemination had the same nasty debate in the 1950’5. But that debate was only in the farm press. People in New York and Philadelphia didn’t read about it. That debate was with people who know and understood agriculture. Now the dairy indus try is debated by people who know nothing about ag practices. Yonkers believes the future of the dairy industry lies in marketing rather than govern ment programs. “Marketing is where you should spend more time,” he said. 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