Young Cooperator winning couple* for Atlantic Dairy Cooperative are, from left,
John and Julie Mayer, winners; Joe and Beth Laughlin, runners-up; Thomas and Shir
ley Krali, third; Richard and Betsy Morris, fourth, and Victor and Carolyn Yoder, fifth.
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Pennmarva Young Cooperators
Land O’Lakes Vice Presi
dent Don Berg related to Pen
nmarva Dairy Federation
young cooperators his “be
attitudes”: Be realistic, be
pro-active, be a solver, be an
opportunist, be positive, be
informed, be profitable, be
well, and be healthy.
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from Virginia Tech in 1981. Eli
zabeth is a 1978 Middletown High
School graduate and earned her
human nutrition degree in 1982
from Virginia Tech. They have
three children.
The Morris family is active in
church and ag activities. Elizabeth
is a 4-H leader and Richard serves
as advisor to the campus agricul
ture fraternity. He is a director and
past president of the Delaware
Holstein Association and serves
on Atlantic Dairy’s hauling
committee.
Victor and Carolyn Yoder. Bel
leville. were named fourth
runners-up. Shawnee-Vu Farm,
owned by his parents, includes the
103-head milking herd averaging
19,000 milk and 700 fat, and 200
acres of alfalfa nd com. Victor is
responsible for herd management
and daily scheduling for their farm
employee.
Both are graduates of Kishaco
quillas High School. Victor in
1983 and Carolyn in 1987. He
earned his agricultural economics
and rural sociology degree from
Penn State in 1988 and Carolyn
earned her licensed practical nurs
ing degree in 1989 from Mifflin-
Juniata Vo-Tech. She is employed
part time in a physicians office.
The couple has one child.
The Yoders are active leader in
their church, and members of the
Holstein Association. Victor
serves as vice-president of the loc
al Sire Power committee.
Judges for the contest were
Donna Duncan, representing the
Pennsylvania Council of Coopera
tives. Noel Davis, an agricultural
insurance broker, and Gary Hen
nip, Northeast Division sales and
service director for Sire Power.
Atlantic’s young cooperator
couple and first runners-up will
represent ADC at the December
National Milk Producers Federa
tion meeting in Dallas. Texas,
while the second, third and fourth
runnerup couples will attend the
National Institute of Coocprative
Education conference, to be held
in Washington, D.C. in mid-July.
All five winning couples will
serve on ADC’s young cooperator
consultant committee.
Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers
Williamsburg dairy farmers
David and Terelle Rice were
named outstanding young cooper
ators by Maryland Virginia Milk
producers. They arc sole operators
of their 54-head registered Hol
steins and 58 acres cropped to
alfalfa, com and pasture. Rolling
herd average is 20,465 milk, 758
fat and 658 protein. They custom
hire field work and have a goal of
using more intensive grazing on
their acrage.
The couple has two children,
Anthony 3, and Yolanda Sue,
6-months and the family is acdve
with the Martinsburg Mennonite
Church. They arc members of the
Pennsylvania Holstein Associa
tion, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau,
Blair-Bedford Crop Management
Association, Pennsylvania Asso
ciation of Sustainable Agriculture
and the Ridge and Valley
Network.
Mark and Lois Yoder, Imlcr,
were chosen first runnerup win
ners. The Yoders operate Mid-Vel
Farms with his parents. Herd aver
age on their S5-registered Holstein
milking string is 22,563 milk, 785
fat and 712 protein. Com, alfalfa
and grass hay are the primary
crops planted to the farm’s 203