Leprino,
WAVERLY, N.Y. A Wav
erly, N.Y., mozzarella cheese
plant, owned by Eastern Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative and operated
by Leprino Foods, is in the final
Western
FOREST HILL, Md. The
Maryland Cooperative Extension
Service and Maryland Sea Grant
have announced the upcoming
program, Western Maryland
Aquaculture Workshop on Satur
day. November 12, at the Western
Maryland Research and Education
Center (WMREC).
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Eastern Milk Celebrate Cheese Plant Expansion
stages of a more than $5 million ver, Colo., is the country’s leading Eastern Milk Dairy Coopera
expansion, Eastern and Leprino manufacturer of mozzarella, supp- tive, headquartered in Syracuse,
officials recently announced in a lying pizza restaurants such as Piz- N. Y., has member-farmers in nine
news release. za Hut, Domino’s, and Little states and last year marketed 1.95
Leprino, headquartered in Den- Ceasars. billion pounds of milk, or nearly
Md. Aquaculture Workshop Set
This full-day workshop will in- production, crawfish farming, re- talk w m discuss these systems,
•reduce production systems and circulation systems, water re- followed by a tour of a nearby re
management techniques that are source evaluation, and more. circulation facility,
appropriate to the hillier terrain of Industry exhibitors wifi also For registration information,
western Maryland, western Penn- discuss their products and services call: Anne Wakeford at Harford
sylvania. West Virginia, and parts with potential producers. County Cooperative Extension
of Virginia. Because of the widespread in- (410) 638-3255 or Steve Bogash
Topics will include cage culture terest; in recirculation systems for #t WMREC (301) 432-4492 Re
and production, marketing, trout the production of frnfish, the last gistration forms and program
scheduled will also be available
from Maryland Cooperative Ex
tension offices throughout the
area.
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182 million gallons.
The expansion increases daily
plant capacity to 2,280.000 pounds
of milk, accoridng to Cy Came,
vice president for Leprino. He said
that compares to year-ago daily
capacity of 1,900,000 pounds of
milk.
"This represents a 20-percent
increase which will take the plant’s
annual milk volume from 640 mil
lion pounds up to 720 million
pounds over the next two years.”
Lewis Gardner, president of the
board of directors for Eastern Milk
Producers Cooperative, said that
the expansion project comes on the
heels of a renewed 20-year con
tract between Leprino and the co
op.
problems.
fast In fact, the first
application of Pit-Boss
typically reduces the sludge
blanket on a holding pit by
4” - 6”, the second by
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solids
What’s more, digesting the
lop crust on your pits or
lagoons destroys egg-laying
habitat for flies With Pit-
Boss, you can count on less
odor, easier pump-out. and
fewer flies
Enhances the fertilizer
value of waste by
reducing nitrogen loss.
Up to 90% of the nitrogen in
untreated slurry is lost as
ammonia What's left at
pump-3lit generally contains
about 25 Lb of N, 19LbofP,
and 20 LB of K per 1000 Lb
of waste
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application
1. Sam with an empty pit
whenever possible.
or completely full, thepH* ■
must be adjusted toJS.S
before applying Pit-Boas;
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4. Do not agitate the pit or
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Hours; M-F 7:00-5:00;
Sat 7:30-11:30
According to Gard
ner, “It helps to provide
stability for the 300
employees associated
with the cheese plant,
for our milk haulers who
deliver up to 6S tankers
of milk each day to the
plant, for more than
1,300 dairy farms and
their 70,000 cows who
produce 186.000 gal
lons of milk each day for
the plant.”
Michael Donovan,
general manager of the
co-op, said that Leprino
and Eastern have been
working together at the
.plant for more than IS
years, and that in 1993
they renegotiated their
original agreement and
extended the contract to
2013.
Eastern agreed to
recruit additional milk
supplies for the plant in
anticipation of the
expansion planned by
Leprino, and Leprino
agreed to help fund
increased incentives for
farmers. In the past year,
almost 300 farmers
joined the 3,200-mem
ber cooperative.
Calling themselves
partners in progress,
Eastern and Leprino
officials held a picnic
and special plant tours
for member New York
and Pennsylvania farm
families on Sept IS.
Nearly every area of
the plant was upgraded.
There are eight new
SO,OOO-pound cheese
vats; new pasteurization
equipment capable of
pasteurizing 144,000
pounds of milk per hour;
a 50-percent increase in
brining ("salt solution)
capacity; expansion of
plant electrical service
and distribution; a new
reverse osmosis system
for concentrating whey,
along with new whey
pasteurizer; modifica
tions to the whey eva
porator and spray dryer,
additional refrigeration
equipment; silos to
handle additional vol
umes of condensed
whey, cow water, and
boiler condensate; and a
new layout for box
making equipment and
additional dicers in the
processing area.