Vol. 41 No. 38
Kristina and Mark Walk, Quarryvllie, show Welk-Shade
Sterling Kizzy, the homebred junior three year-old that was
named grand champion of the Lancaster County Holstein
Show.
Kizzy Tops Lancaster Show
EVERETT NEWSWANGERS
Managing Editor
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) With quality deep in the
classes. Judge Lloyd Pease called
the Lancaster County Holstein
show a tremendous group of cows
for a county show.
Winning grand champion hon
ors was Welk-Shade Sterling Kiz
zy, the very dairy junior three year
old that was the first place for Mark
and Kristina Welk, Quanyville.
Central Maryland District Championship Show Report
LORETTA J. WRIGHT
Special Report
WEST FRIENDSHIP. Md.
The Central Maryland District
Championship Holstein Show wss
held last week at the Howard
County Fairgrounds.
Delaware Valley graduate Scott
Cooper officiated the show. Coop
er is involved in the family opera
tion, Appealing Holsteins, Delta,
Pa. The associate judge for the
evening was Maryland University
senior Marie Speaks. Speaks is an
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In This Issue
The annual special section of the Dairy of Distinction farm
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the winners to meet at Ag Progress Days, and messages from
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Five Sections
For Welk-Shade
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-tfomebrcd for several generations,
the champion was milking over
100 lbs. with second calf after fin
ishing a two-year lactation with
over 20,000 m. She was also best
udder in class.
Welk-Shade was also named
premier breeder and had eight first
place wins.
The reserve grand champion
was Woodbine-ND BS Farm
shown by New-Directkm Hols
teins, Elizabethtown, and toed by
ag business major and a manage
ment intern with Southern States
Cooperative.
Eighty-eight head of outstand
ing Holsteins were presented to
judges Cooper and Speaks. Cooper
thanked the Central Maryland
breeders for their good show man
ners and praised them for the tre
mendous quality of the show.
C Maplebrough Revelat Kandy
continued her winning ways and
was named senior and grand cham-
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July i 7, 1996
Market In Best Position
For Farmers To Price Commodities
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Fanning Staff
WHITE HORSE (Lancaster
Co.) “Milk prices are going up
but not high enough to cover
costs,” said Joe Paris, director of
dairy field operations for the
National Farmers Organization
(NFO).
At Papa Farm, Maze
Provides Another
Way To Graze
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
BETHEL (Berks Co.) Even
with ideal pasture growth, some
aspects of animal control can be
rough on producers. There are
Alan McCauley and George
Knight The reserve champion
with great dairyness and the best
udder in class was first place in the
senior three year-old class.
New Direction Holsteins were
also named premier exhibitor and
had nine first place wins.
Both the junior champion and
the reserve junior champion were
shown by New-Direction
Holsteins.
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pion of the open show. Being
praised as a tremendous cow, the
winning S-year-old had a superior
udder, showing great height and
width of rear udder. Kandy is own
ed by Butch Harrison and Mike
With the champions at the open show are, from left, Christina Harper, Maryland
dairy princess; Sarah Bedgar, north central dairy princess; Erin Feuillet, south central
dairy princess; Kevin Ehrhardt with the reserve grand champion; Mike lager and
Butch Harrison with the grand champion; Jessica Fritz, Carroll County dairy princess;
and Scott Cooper, Judge.
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NFO held three meetings in the
Lancaster area this week to offer a
solution to gain higher milk prices.
“Now is the time for dairy far
mers to unite and get into a position
to put a price on their commodity,”
Paris said. “The market right now
is in the best position farmers have
had in years to get this done.
some challenges such as keep
ing watering areas from turning
into mudholes and picking the
right kind of grasses for crowded
areas and animal laneways that
must be faced.
But producers can learn to avoid
the pitfalls by listening to the
experience of veteran grazers,
including Brian Mohn, who also
makes use of a special “grazing
maze.”
Mohn spoke to about 30 produc
ers and agri-industry representa
tives at the Penn State-sponsored
Berks County Grazing Walk Tues
day evening.
Mohn, with wife Karen and
children Beverly, Carolyn, and
Judy, manages the 350-acre (240
tillable) Gilles Richard Papa Farm
near Bethel. Papa Farm is home to
about 119 head of commercial
Angus. 45 hogs per year, and
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lager.
The second prize 5-year-old,
Ehrhardt Astro Jet Jody-Et, was
given the nod for reserve senior
and reserve grand champion of the
open show. Judge Cooper admired
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“If farmers don’t set the price on
commodities, it will be priced by
big companies, chain stores, and
large cheese buyers. The conso
lidation of many dairy companies
has resulted in a limited number of
buyers, which means even less
adavantage for farmers to negoti
ate a fair price.
“If the production of food is in
the hands of a few, it isn’t good for
the country, the economy, or the
consumer,” he said.
NFO stresses the need for all
dairy cooperatives and farmers to
cooperate for collective
bargaining.
“Coops do not need to be fight
ing each other. While there are
many good cooperatives, most are
regional and their sphere of influ
ence in marketing can only be
negotiated in the region they are in.
NFO is national. We need to
change prices nationally; other
wise, buyers will always find a
lower-price pocket to find their
supply.” Paris said.
Rodger Schlottach, director of
NFO, said that NFO was formed in
the I9SOs as a protest group to
influence Washington, but when it
became evident that help for far
mers was not coming from
Washington, the group changed
tactics. During the 1960 s and
19705, NFO started moving toward
becoming bargaining agents for
commodities.
Schlottack emphasized that
NFO owns no trucks, plants, pro
cessing or manufacturing plants.
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her open dairy frame. Jody was ex
hibited by Kevin Ehrhart of Bald
win, Md.
Two 4-H exhibitors walked
away with the junior champion
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