A3O-LmcMter Fanning, Saturday, March 1, 1997
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CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) The Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau (PFB) Dairy Committee
reiterated is support to create one
Federal Milk Marketing Order in
the Northeast United States,
according to an announcement
recently by Harold Curtis, com
mittee chairman.
“A single order would put
Northeast dairymen in a better
position to secure premium prices
based on utilization in the region,”
the Warren County dairyman said.
The proposed single marketing
order would replace the three pre
sently operating in the Federal
Milk Marketing Order system in
the Northeast.
“We realize that the marketp
lace for dairy products is national,
but at the same time we believe
that a single marketing order
would place our dairymen in a
stronger bargaining position,”
Curtis staled. ‘The dairy industry
needs a long term solution to
arrive at an accurate means to set
Frederick County
Plans Walk-About
FREDERICK. Md. The
next Frederick County walk-about
is to be held from 10 a.m.-noon,
March 12, with Jeff and Judy Eng
land serving as host
The Englands own Eng-Land
Acres and milk 14S cows, in addi
This year’s major
project has been the
renovation of the bank
bam into a springer and
maternity area, J-bunks,
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added to help in animal
care and handling.
The purpose of a
walk-about is to allow
dairy producers a
chance to learn more
about dairy practices
that are being imple
mented on other farms
in the area. Most of the
time will be spent walk
ing around the facilities
and dicussing the com
ponents of the operation
and how they contribute
to the success of the
dairy business.
The informal atmo
sphere of these sessions
allows for producers to
pick up management
tips, equipment and
facility ideas, and pro
vide a way for farmers
to share success stories
with other farmers in the
community.
The Eng-Land Acres
is located at 5620
Detrick Road, near New
Market. Maryland.
From the 170 exit for
New Market, take Rt. 75
north to the first light at
Rt. 144. Travel east on
Rt. 144 less than a mile
to Detrick Road. Turn
left onto Detrick Road
and travel a half-mile to
the farm, located along
the left. Signs will be
posted.
For more information
call Stanley Fultz, dairy
science extension agent,
at (301) 694-1594. ext
Northeast Marketing Order Sought
dairy prices. Consolidating the
milk marketing orders and includ
ing the unregulated areas arc
necessary first steps.”
The basic formula price for
milk dropped from $15.37 per
hundredweight of milk to $11.34
between September and Decem
ber 1996. There has been some
price improvement but the Farm
Bureau dairy committee wants
further action by state and federal
authorities.
The Farm Bureau committee
earlier had petitioned the Pennsyl
vania Milk Marketing Board
(PMMB) to halt a proposed drop
April 30 in an 80-cent premium
price. Presently, and 80-cent pre
mium {vice per hundredweight
(11.6 gallons) of milk, set by the
PMMB, is paid to producers. The
premium price would be reduced
by 30 cents, which Farm Bureau
opposes. Curtis says that Farm
Bureau is presently reviewing the
fast-moving developments in the
marketplace and is open to all
don to raising all forages and
grains.
The replacement animals are
contracted out to be raised. Jeff
renovated the milking parlor last
year into a 15-stall herringbone
parlor with indexing rail.
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options, including an increase in the National Cheese Exchange,
the premium presently paid to Curtis said that this traded
producers. exchange has too much direct
Calling for closer oversight of influence on all milk prices. “In
Joe Kavanaugh, Bovine
“When they put the value of die
breed on less than one percent of
the animals, they threw water on
the fire of the breeding industry.
The registered breeder used to dic
tate to the commercial man what
bulls to use; not it’s the other way
around.”
Kavanaugh is especially critical
of what he feels may be pressure
within the breeding industry to
over-score young cattle during
classification.
“There can be a lot of pressure
on a classifier to make a two-year
old, high-index cow score a high
Very Good, because of the poten
tial for embryo sales. There should
be a rule that it takes a classifier
committee to make a VG-89 two
year-old, just like it takes a com
mittee to make score an EX-97
cow. If she’s that good, then the
committee scoring would just add
that much credibility to it,” he fig
ures.
“And no EX-97 cow that reach
es that level is going to do any
genetic-transmitting damage to
the breed, but ‘hot’ two-year-olds
scored VG-89 might,” he em
phatically adds.
But Joe Kavanaugh is far from
giving up on the breeding cattle
industry, and very much enjoys
wise caused him a few days or
pain. He once sliced deeply into
tissue below the thumb and down
toward his wrist. When he stopped
by the doctor’s office, he was told
that it would probably take eight
stitches to close. But there was a
problem the doctor had no
anesthesia in the office.
“I told her to go ahead any
way,” he relates with a laugh.
“When she got to six, I told her
that was enough. But I was back to
work the next day.”
With a waiting list of clients in
central Maryland and southcentral
Pennsylvania, Kavanaugh limits
his work mostly to that area,
though he does continue to serve
three herds in Virginia and some
in western Maryland. He has
taught his skills to eight trainers
ova: the years.
‘Tew people want to leant the
profession any more," he
acknowledges. “It’s work. A lot of
trimmers have dropped out”
“I’m glad I was around for the
‘big times’ in the registered cattle
business, when good bulls and
deep, family pedigrees were im
portant,” reflects Kavanaugh.
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the long run, this influence could
be minimized with a restructuring
of the federal milk marketing
order system.” Curtis said, “if it
includes a revision of the basic
formular price for milk.”
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his sideline business of helping
some of his clients prove young
sires. Kavanaugh is instrumental
in moving those young bulls out
into a variety of hods in the area,
to sire the offspring that will de
velop proofs on their transmitting
ability, and in monitoring those
daughters as they move into milk
ing strings.
When occasionally tempted to
look back with regrets about his
decision to sell his herd, or any
other decision of the past, Kava
naugh calls up from memory the
counsel of former Garrett County
dairymen and good friend Wcldell
Umble.
“It was always nice to ‘sit by his
campfire’ and seek his advice,” he
relates. “He said thfere woe two
things really important in life. One
was that the oily thing you leave
your children are memories, good
or bad. The other is to never look
back.”
Although he tries to steadfastly
not dwell on any disappointments
of the past, the irrepressible Kava
naugh has thought ahead to the fu
ture with his usual brand of hu
mor: “And I always say that when
I’m gone, I want them to put on
my gravestone: So many feet, so
little time."
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