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We Offer All Types of Farm and Agribusiness Insurance Diane Church - Ray Keene - Roger Slusher 2488 Maple Ave., Quarryvllle, PA 17566 (717) 786-1711 (800) 882-1415 AGRI 1 ANALYSIS*, HI 340 Did you or your neighbors have a collapsed roof this winter? ★ Full Line Parts Dept. ★ Sell, Service & Install * Rt 272 South, Willow Stroot, PA 17584 Ph: 717-484-3321 or Toll Froo 100-732-0053 Sion Houm: Mon.-Sat. 7:10 AM to IM Pl’ , 4-2 Cooperators Chosen (Continued from Pago A2l) old son Jonathan are members of the Trinity United Church of Christ. The Yoders were both active 4-H and FFA members. They continue their agriculture and community interests and lead ership through theßcdfoid DHIA. Claysburg Community Farm Show, Agway, Select Sires and the Mansion Cove Dairy Show, where Mark serves as a director. T» NnMMtMI MvWui ■tank Virginia dairy producers Craig and Karen Boyd were named sec ond runner-up winners. They are sole owners of their dairy opera tion, with a SS-head registered Holstein milking herd arid com, alfalfa and grass hay in the 220 Young Farmers Set Awards ATGLEN (Chester Co.) The Octorara Young Farmers 1994 awards dinner will be held on Monday, April 11, at 6:45 p.tn. in the West Fallowfield Christian School. The speaker will be Rep. Robert Walker. Walker will address the NAFTA trade agreement and how it impacts agriculture to present from the national perspective. A family-style turkey dinner has been reserved at a cost of $9 for adults and $6 for children under 10. Please plan to be a part of this evening by calling Neal King, sec retary, at (610) 593-7211 or the Octorara High School Ag Ed department at (610) 593-8259. Please call before Monday, April 4. Press your toes on the pedal and you go forward. Put your heel down and you back up. Simple. This four-wheel drive compact tractor is powered by a Kubota liquid-cooled diesel engine. Mid and rear PTO plus hydraulic three point hiti great implement selectioi to perform many chores. So if you’re looking for a hard worker, look no further than Kubota's worker 87100 HSD Tractor. We Ship Parte nt i iiiitiMNi I Pennmarva Young Octorara Dinner KuboKi 87100 HYST. 4 W/D Diesel, Std. 3 Pt. CE FIGHTER Nothing works harder than iur 87100 HSD tractor. From iome use to commercial ap lications, this t 6 HP tractor is lust right for all kinds of jobs. The 87100 HSD comes with a lydrostatic transmission that means there are no gears to shift. &&a> | TRACTORS«. EQUIPMENT [ Serving Central PA Sine* 1921 £3? PILOTSI KELLER BROS. * mmm Sr?S» tm*** acres they crop. Rolling herd average on DHIA is 19,094 pounds milk, 6SS fat and 632 protein. One goal of the Boyds is genetics merchandis ing through bull con tracts and embryo sales. The couple has two daughters, S-year-old Kelsie and 3-year-old Catleigh. Active in their local church and com munity. they are mem bers of the Holstein Assocatioin and Virgi nia Tech’s Dairy Sci ence Alumni. Karen coaches the Loudoun County 4-H dairy judg ing team. Third runners-up Melvin and Barbara Marks own and operate their 54-head registered Holstein herd at Airvil le. Average production is 18,129 pounds milk, 690 fat and 603 protein. Rotational grazing plays a large role in their acreage use, with the farm’s 80 acres cropped in alfalfa and improved pasture. Melvin and Barbara have three daughters, Erin, 10, Nicole, 8, and Trisha, 6. Both are Sun day School teachers at Chanceford Presbyte rian Church and the family is active in 4-H and FFA. The Marks’ agriculture involvement includes York Coutny DHIA and Holstein Club, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, National Forage and Grassland Council, Sire Power and Atlantic Breeders Cooperative. MONDAY FRIDAY 7:30-5:00 mmm mmm, n tun IMIfIMWII The Rices and the Yoders will attend both the National Institute of Cooperation and National Milk Producers Federation meeting on behalf of Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers. The Boyds and the Marks will also attend the NICE conference. Judges for the Maryland and Virginia contest were Brill Jones, vice president of Ag Finance, Central Fidelity Bank, Patricia Stroup, dairy producer and trea surer of Eastern Milk Producer’s young cooperators, and Paul Stull, retired vo-ag teacher and vo-tech school principal. Middle Atlantic Division Dairymen, Inc. Terry Stump, York, was named the Young Dairymen division winner for the Middle Atlantic Division, Dairymen Inc. Terry has farmed with the Joseph Stump family at their Stump Acres Farm since graduat ing from high school in 1984. In 1993, a three-way partnership was formed between Terry, his father and a partner who had been active in the operation for 27 years. The operation includes an 84-head registered Holstein herd. 80-head Angus beef herd, ISOO acres own ed and rented, and a raw milk jug ging store on the farm. Herd responsibilities handled by Terry include breeding, feed ing, keeping the computerized records and evening milkings. Terry is a member and director on the York County board of the Pennsylania Farm Bureau and a Sunday School teacher. He will represent the Middle Atlantic Division at the Dairymen, Inc. Young Dairymen contest, to be held during die cooperative’s annual meeting in December in Louisville, Kentucky. Judges of the contest were members of the division’s young dairymen com mittee. Winners from the three coop eratives were announced during a combined awards luncheon, fol lowing two days of interviews and cooperative education seminars. Luncheon speaker was Don Berg, vice president of Land O’Lakes dairy coopera tive, who told particip ants and guests that suc cessful producers must deal in reality and look for opportunity. Dairy reality, he said, is that the marketplace is increasingly domi nated by “big players” and the “Wal-Mart phe nomenon” of the cheap est possible price. Retailers do not want constant price violatilty or heavy investment in inventory. “We need to get rid of the habit of blaming others rather than ourselves,” Berg told the dairy participants. “Create the future.” To meet that chal lenge, he believes pro ducers must commit to maintaining a dairy industry that will be a vital part of a regional economy, create lifes tyles for themselves that meet their social and financial needs and sup port producers who use progressive technology and measure them selves against the rest of the world.
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