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vol. 41 NO. 2
Otto Succeeds McSparran
As Atlantic Dairy’s President
EVERETT NBWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) More than 600 dairy far
mers crowded into the Lancaster
Showroom in the Host Resort
Thursday evening for the annual
meeting banquet for the 3,800
member Atlantic Dairy Coopera
tive. Earlier in the day Robert
McSpanan, Atlantic's president
Farm Bureau Holds Annual Meeting
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
One day Sen. Roger Madigan (R-
Towanda) realized something that
would change his life forever.
Working on his family farm, he
came to the conclusion that the
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Tha Lancaster 4-H taam placad first in the nation in shssp Judging. From left. Dala
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for the last IS yean, announced
that he had reached the age of man
datory retirement in the coopera
tive’s by-laws and this meeting
would mark his last official duty.
The Peach Bottom dairyman had
been a director for 29 years.
During his report to the member
ship McSparran reviewed the
many milestones Atlantic has
achieved. He praised the coopers
decisions being made “off of my
farm had more impact on the bot
tom line than the decisions we
were making in the farm operation.
“It was clear to me," said
Madigan, “as a farmer, I needed a
voice in thehalls of Harrisburg and
Washington."
So he decided to become
, involved in a lifetime of public ser
vice and to provide die voice for
fanners in government
Madigan has served in the state
Senate since 1984 after being
elected to four terms in fee state
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphiif
Co.) - Nutrient management
regulatory efforts are ongoing and
nearing completion, though mem
bers of the State Conservation
Commission’s Nutrient Manage-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18, 1995
five’s long-standing tradition of
keeping the welfare of the mem
bership as its primary goal.
“From the time our founding
fathers had the foresight to band
together, the cooperative has
evolved from a bargaining co-op
into a vital marketing force,” he
said. “These milestones are the
result of the leadership of the
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House, where he also served on the
Agriculture Committee.
For his efforts through the years,
Madigan was honored with the
1995 Distinguished Service To
Agriculture Award at the Pennsyl
vania Farm Bureau (PFB) 45th
Annual Member Recognition Ban
quet on Tuesday night at the Her
shey Lodge and Convention
Center.
More than 600 PFB members
and other statewide supporters
were on hand at the banquet to
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tfutnent Management Advisory Board
Wrangles Over Public Services
meat Advisory Board seemed to
get bogged down Wednesday over
concern about fee profit-incentive
for private industry to offer plan
ning services.
The Nutrient Management
Advisory Board was created as a
result of the state’s Nutrient Man-
Ivo Otto Jr., toft, wnnamadto succeed Robert MeSpar
mn as the now prasioinronOlantlc Dairy at the annual
moating In Lancaster this weak.
agement Act, which gave the
board two years to come up with
regulations to carry out the Act
Despite changes in administra
tion and government and the sub
sequent delays in establishing a set
of regulations, the board (com
prised of representatives from
agricultural interests, community
interests, and environmental inter
ests) has kept close to deadlines
and has recommended to the com
mission a set of regulations to car
ry out the administration of the
Act.
Spencer Honored At Penn
State Dairymen’s Club Banquet
JUDY PATTON
Union Co. Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE
(Centre Co.)
At the Penn State
Dairymen’s Club
annual meeting
November 10,
treasurer Dale
Olver noted that
the endowment
fund for suppoiting the Penn State
judging teams had reached a
balance of more than $25,000, a
long-awaited milepost. At that
level the fund will provide more
than $1,700 a year toward the
team’s expenses.
Spencer
Olver, who is also the coach of
the Penn State dairy judging
teams, said they had a very suc
cessful fall season. The Eastern
States team Josh Harvatine,
Four Section?
Those proposed regulations are
in the final stages of approval, cur
rently with the Attorney General’s
office.
That office has some concerns,
mostly about a term in the regula
tions and its definition. It relates to
the possible granting of an exten
sion to implement a nutrient man
agement plan.
The regulations state that, given
planned changes on the farm
requiring “substantial” expense,
that putting a plan into place can be
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Donald Harwood, Dean Kohler
and Melissa Morrow placed
first overall, with Harvaline as the
high individual and Harwood and
Kohler in the top ten. They were
the top team in two breeds and
second in two others.
The same team was second
overall at the Pennsylvania All-
American, placing in the top five
for every breed with Harwood and
Kohler placing in the top six indi
viduals overall. In the National
Intercollegiate Judging Contest in
Madison, the team was ninth out
of 26 teams and was in the top ten
for three breeds. Harwood earned
All-American honors placing in
the top 25 individuals overall.
At Louisville, the team of
George Bard, Marsha Chess, Bar
ry Hauck and Charles Houp
placed fourth overall, being first in
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