Commitment
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sure from environmental purists
and that through education, coor
dination and cooperation, using
no-dll voluntarily can help prevent
unecessary and burdensome
regulation.
Of the three breakout groups
offered to conference participants,
Fawcett continued discussing the
changes in chemicals used for pes
ticides, and some of the labeling
problems currently being encoun
tered with the federal registration
of chemicals.
Many new chemicals are being
put out on the market that are to be
used in low amounts, that break
down quickly, are less water solu
able, adhere better to soils, and are
less toxic to animal life, Fawcett
said.
According to Fawcett and
others, the use of herbicides, pre
and/or post-emergence is neces-
To No-Till
sary to successful no-tilling, but
with the right practices, the quali
ties of no-till soils, the reduced
levels of chemicals, and good
management, there is actually less
use of chemicals with no-dll than
traditional farming.
Afternoon speaker John Halde
man, the owner of College Comer
Implement Co., in West College
Comer, Ind., talked about equip
ment used in no-dll practices,
especially the use of coulters and
deep till devices.
Haldeman said he sells equip
ment to many people who no-dll
and he has experience with the
practical aspects of the effects of
equipment
For example, he said that his
preference for a 13-wave, 1-inch
blade coulter in planting because it
doesn’t pack the sidewalls, and
hurries the seed under a layer of
soil, instead of leaving it exposed
in a narrowly-cut furrow.
With other thin blade wave
designs, he said that the walls can
become packed and actually
expose seed to air if the soil dries
out substantially after planting.
General recommendations were
to consider what functions an oper
ator expects to do and then to get
Eastern Milk, MMI Pursue Unification
SYRACUSE, N.Y.
The boards of Eastern
Milk Producers Coopera
tive, Syracuse, NY, and
Milk Marketing Inc.
(MMI), Strongsville,
Ohio, have agreed to pur
sue unification talks.
Together the two
dairy cooperatives would
represent nearly 9,000
family farms in 11 Mid-
the equipment that is designed to
do that job.
For distributing ground cover at
harvest, he said that there are some
modifications that all should be
using on combines that can help
prevent spot buildup of residue, or
the creation of windrows, which
can cause damp, wet cold areas
west and Northeast
statesiJointly they would
market nearly 7 billion
pounds of milk annually.
Eastern Milk Presi
dent Lewis Gardner and
MMI President Herman
Brubaker said in a joint
statement that the two
cooperatives were “finan
cially sound, philosophi
cally aligned, and the time
Saturday, December 17,1994-A23
Lancaster Farming,
and at the same time not really be
helping to build the organic level
of the field.
The conference is a joint venture
between the cooperative extension
system of Delaware, Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgi
nia and West Virginia, and the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
is right for these kinds of
discussions.”
“We are looking to
the future welfare of our
dairy farm families and
we think that together,
we may be able to better
meet the future needs of
our members and the
marketplace,” they said.
A series of recent com
binations among dairy
cooperatives across the
United States point to the
realization that dairy
farmers cannot afford to
compete against each
other for markets, they
said.
Gardner noted: “We
as dairy fanners must
evaluate our strengths
and resources in order to
position ourselves to be
as competitive as possi
ble in the dramatically
changing marketplace.”
Both presidents said
there would be no addi
tional information about
the talks at this time.
Eastern Milk Produc
ers Cooperative operates
in the northeastern U.S.
and has 3,200 member
farm families in the fol
lowing states; Pennsyl
vania, New York, Ver
mont, Maryland, Dela
ware and Massachusetts.
In fiscal year 1994 East
ern marketed nearly 2
billion pounds of milk
and generated more than
S27S million in milk
sales and other revenues.
Milk Marketing Inc. is
the nation’s 7th largest
dairy cooperative and the
73rd largest U.S. food
company manufacturing
cheese. MMI is owned by
5,700 daily farm families
in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl
vania, Kentucky, Mary
land, Michigan, New
York and West Virginia.
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