VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LEBANON (Lebanon
Co.) The Lebanon County
Dairy Princess Pageant Commit
tee held its annual dairy princess
pageant recently at the Lebanon
County Career and Technology
Center (formerly the Lebanon
Area Vo-Tech) in Lebanon,
crowning Alisha Myers the 1996
princess.
Jayne Sebright, a program
director for the Middle Atlantic
Milk Marketing Association
(MAMMA) and who with her hus
band has an Adams County dairy
farm, welcomed the audience and
interviewed contestants.
Alisha, 17, is the daughter of
Gordon and Cherie Myers, of
Lebanon. She works at the
120-acre Dennis Kauffman dairy
farm with a 45 Holstein cow herd,
and she works part time at Tractor
Supply Company in Lebanon.
A student at Cedar Crest High
School, she is vice president of her
4-H dairy club, treasurer of Cedar
Crest FFA and secretary for the
county FFA. She is also involved
with Junior Holstein Club activi
ties, and is a member of the county
dairy bowl and dairy cattle judging
teams.
In other activities, she is a mem
ber of her church youth group, is a
pianist at church, a student athletic
trainer, a member of students for
Christ, and a volunteer in the
nursery at Fairland Brethren in
Christ Church.
She owns two Holstein heifers
and her hobbies include showing
Holsteins, volleyball and field
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Cattle producers can learn
about the latest developments in
grazing, ultrasound technology,
safety and other aspects of the
livestock industry at the Cattle
men’s Field Day, Saturday, July
20, at the Low Hill Farm in Wash
ington County.
The event is sponsored jointly
by the Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s
Association and the Pennsylvania
Simmental Association in co
operation with the Department of
Dairy and Animal Science in Penn
State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences and the Washington
County Cattlemen’s Association.
‘The program will examine a
variety of different practices used
by cattle producers and will fea
ture information on some new
ALBANY. N.Y. Dairy far
mers who supplied regulated milk
dealers (handlers) under the New
York-New Jersey marketing
orders during May 1996 will be
paid by handlers cm the basis of a
uniform price of $13.90 per hun
dredweight (29.9 cents per quart);
the price for the corresponding
month last year was $12.30 per
hundredweight.
Market Administrator Ronald
C. Pearce also stated that thc price
was $13.48 in April 1996. The
uniform price is a marketwide
weighted average of the value of
farm milk used for fluid and man
ufactured dairy products.
A total of 11,110 dairy farmers
supplied handlers regulated under
the New Yoik-New Jersey mark
eting orders with 1,054,357,655
pounds of milk during May 1996.
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Lebanon Crowns Dairy Princess
hockey, and helping at her friends’
farms.
Two Lebanon County dairy
maids and a county lil’ miss dairy
princess were also crowned during
the event.
Valerie Jean Bomgardner, 13,
daughter of Leßoy and Evelyn
Bomgardner, of Annville, and
Amanda Martin, 14, daughter of
Eugene and Kathy Martin, Leba
non, were crowned dairy maids,
while Melissa Bashore. 8, daught
er of Ricki and Roberta Bashore.
Lebanon, was made lil’ miss dairy
princess.
Valerie Jean Bomgardner’s
parents farm 110 acres of crops
and raise beef cattle and dairy heif
ers. A middle school student, Val
erie is a member of the South
Mountain 4-H Club, and is in the
school chorus and band.
Amanda Martin owns two cows,
four heifers and a bull at her
parents’ 160-acre dairy farm with a
90-Holstein milking herd.
Amanda has been involved in
the county 4-H dairy club, a mem-'
ber of the county dairy bowl and
dairy cattle judging teams, a mem
ber of the Junior Holstein Club, the
Youth Action Club, and she attend
Lebanon Valley Bible Church.
Her other activities include
band, track and field hockey.
Melissa Bashorc, owns a Brown
Swiss heifer at her parents’
120-acre dairy farm with a 90-cow
herd where Melissa helps milk
twice a day and Teed calves. Her
parents also rent 300 additional
acres for cropping.
Melissa is a student at Jones
town Elementary School, is a
Field Day Features Livestock Technology
technologies,” said Dr. Lowell
Wilson, professor of animal sci
ence at Penn State.
Wilson is to discuss the advant
ages and disadvantages of differ
ent methods of storing and feeding
round bale silage and hay.
“Round balers and handling
equipment designed for round
baled silage and covering large
hay packages have increased effi
ciency and quality of forages pro
vided to beef as well as dairy cat
tle,” he said.
“Some of the new techniques
and equipment for making and
covering round bales have poten
tial to reduce costs and improve
performance, which are primary
considerations for the cattle indus
try.”
Tom Calvert, grazing specialist
N.J.,
N.Y. Milk $13.90
This was a decrease of 1.6 percent
(about 17 million pounds) from
last year. The gross value to dairy
farmers for milk deliveries was
$148,178,836.83. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy farmers but not premiums,
deducations authorized by the far
mer, or assessments.
Regulated handlers used
412,719,470 pounds of milk for
Class I, 39.1 percent of the total.
This milk is used for fluid milk
products such as homogenized,
flavored, low test, and skim milks.
For May 1996, handlers paid
$15.12 per hundredweight (32.5
cents per quart) for Class I milk
compared with $14.31 a year ago.
Handlers used 167,931,517
pounds of milk for Class II pro
ducts, 15.9 percent of the total.
Class II products include fluid
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1996 Lebanon County Dairy Princess Alisha Myers sits wearing her tiara and hold
ing a bouquet of flowers flanked by the rest of the county dairy royalty court. From the
left is Dairy Maid Valerie Jean Bomgardner, Lil’ Miss Dairy Princess Melissa Bashore,
and Dairy Maid Amanda Martin.
member of Little Swatara Church
of the Brethren Sunday School, the
Junior Holstein Club, and Norleb
co 4-H Dairy Club.
Ip addition to her heifer, she also
has two pet rabbits, and two dogs.
The state dairy princess prog
ram is run by the Pennsylvania
Dairy Princess and Promotion Ser
vices Inc., an organization sup
ported by allocations from dairy
farmer promotion assessments.
It has created a set of guidelines
and qualifications for those seek
ing to promote the consumption
and sale of milk and dairy products
with the Natural Resources Con
servation Service in Somerset
County, is to discuss the advant
ages and disadvantages of differ
ent fencing types. There are many
alternatives to fencing for short
duration and other types of graz
ing, and Calvert will explain costs
and specific requirements for
them.
Some new uses for the ultra
sound or sonogram procedures in
determining short-term pregnan
cies and in sexing of fetuses early
in cattle gestation are to be dis
cussed by Dr. Joe Young, Alle
gheny General Hospital and own
er of Low Hill Farm, and Dr. Todd
Van Dyke of Jackson Center.
They have researched and devel
oped ultrasonic techniques to ex
pand the usefulness of ultrasound
cream, eggnog, ricotta and cottage
cheeses, ice cream, and yogurt
Handlers paid $13.00 per hun
dredweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture Class
111 products including butter,
cheese (other than ricotta and cot
tage cheeses), and whole milk
powder totaled
pounds (40. S percent of the total).
Handlers paid $13.65 per hun
dredweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture non
fat dry njilk (Class 111-A) totaled
47,053,493 pounds (4.5 percent of
the total). Handlers paid $11.78
per hundredweight for this milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For May 1996, there was a
price differential of 8.4 cents for
each one-tenth of one percent that
the milk tested above or below the
ffiibasfer WtoM
to consumers and to create a better
understanding between rural and
urban people.
Those selected to promote dairy
products as dairy royalty maintain
a record and scrapbook of their
promotional activities.
Generally, activities include
school programs, radio promo
tions, farm meetings, store promo
tions, non-farm promotions, news
paper articles promoting dairy pro
ducts and other special events.
Many times dairy princesses are
used to distribute awards during
dairy shows and attend dairy group
technology in livestock produc
tion.
Also featured will be special
demonstrations of tractor rollover
protection structures (ROPS) and
other farm safely tools and tech
niques, conducted by Penn State’s
Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering. “Safety is
an extremely important considera
tion in all types of farm opera
tions,” Wilson said.
Special guest speakers repre
senting the National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association, the newly con
solidated national beef organiza
tion, and the American Simmental
Association also will be on hand.
Low Hill Farms is a purebred
Simmental herd. Walking tours of
the farm will be conducted in the
morning and the afternoon on
Saturday, July 20.
The field day also will feature
Sire Power
Classifies Sires
TUNKHANNOCK (Wyoming
Co.) The Holstein sires at Sire
Power were recently evaluated by
Paul Miller, Holstein Association
official classifier. Several active
sires were raised in score.
Several sires were scored Ex
cellent including 9H1488 Rockalli
VANQUISH-ET *TL at EX-93.
VANQUISH is a Cleitus son that
was bred at Hubert and Mitchell
Johnton’s in Ml Vernon, Wash
ington. Of the GOLD sire-in-wait
mg classified, five went Excellent
Included in that group is 9H1834
3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk lecieVed from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
York City.
meetings to discuss their activities
to those supporting the program.
During the Lebanon event, the
county’s 1995 dairy royalty dis
cussed their past year’s accom
plishments and what it meant to
them to serve as a representative of
the industry in which they are
involved.
The 1995 promotion court
included Kristi Schoffstall, 1995
Lebanon County dairy princess;
Stephanie Buck, alternate prin
cess; Andrea (Andy) Bashore,
dairy maid; and Faith Heagy, and
Elizabeth Smith, both Hi’ misses.
the annual Junior Simmenial Steer
and Heifer Shows, sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Simmental As
sociation. Ernie Moore of Fair
mount, West Va. will officiate.
Commercial exhibitors also will
be on hand to show and demon
strate the latest services and
equipment available to cattle pro
ducers.
Low Hill Farm is located south
east of Washington, approximate
ly seven miles south of Interstate
70 on Rt. 43 South. Take Exit ISA
on 1-70.
For more information about the
field day, or to make arrangements
for special tour groups, contact the
Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Asso
ciation at (814) 692-4208 or Ponn
State’s Department of Dairy and
Animal Science at (814)
863-365;; (814) 863-6042 FAX.
DAPPER, a 4-year-Old Inspiration
son. His first score is EX-91.
At over 13 years of age,
9H1360 LEADER was raised to
VG-87, 9H1729 PATRON was
raised in score to VG-87. The top
TPI Leadman sons, 9H1705 HER
OD and 9H1708 JUDGE are now
VG-86 and GP-81.
Other sires that were raised in
score include: 9H1551 Hosking-
Brunn Ciei ASPEN now VG-87;
9H1579 Ecstasy Blackstar INDY
ET, VG-86; 9H1582 Pine-Tree
Mark IMPULSE-ET, VG-87;
9H1690 Shey-Land B Star BAR
NEY *TL, G-79; 9H1693 Masai
Red WARRIOR-RED-ET, G-76;
9H1698 Beshore Leadman
PLUNK-ET, GP-82 and 9H1768
Hill-A-Way Astar GRANITE.
VG-88.