Vol. 42 No. 22 '
New-Direction *s Cameo Cow Wins Grand At Spring Show
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) An aged cow owned by
New Direction Holsteins in Mid
dletown was named senior and
grand champion of the 44th Pen
nsylvania Holstein State Spring
Show March 28 at the State Farm
Show Complex in Harrisburg.
Judge for the show was Callum
McKinven, of Melbourne,
Quebec.
Owned and teed by Dr. Alan
McCauley, who owns Ncw-
Direction Holsteins along with
wife Sandy and son Tom McCau
ley, Ncw-Dircction Jet Cameo has
been showing well for them for
several years at different sanc
tioned events.
The best bred and owned animal
of the open division show, bom
May 6,1989, the Bridon Astro Jet
dahghter had been entered in the
125,000-pound milk production
class, but was moved to the aged
cow class where she edged out the
1997 state Farm Show Supreme
Champion Cow Walnut Hill Logic
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Dairy Conference Looks At Past, Future
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
PHILADELPHIA - The North
east Dairy Conference held down
town in the big city commenced
with some reminiscing and a look
forward to the challenges in the
future of the dairy industry.
Ivo V. Oto, Jr., the former presi
dent of Atlantic Dairy Coopera- *
tive, and now a director of Land O*
Lakes (the merger of the two
cooperatives became effective
Tuesday) opened the program with
a look back.
“About 80 years ago and three
blocks from where I am now stand
ing, a group of dairy farmers met to
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, on the right, talks with the owners of Catalpa Farm In Mid
dletown, the site of his public announcement about dairy pricing. From the left Is Ray
and Dale Kennedy and their mother, Mrs. Kennedy.
Five Sections
From the left, with the open division champions of the
44th Pa. Holstein Association Spring Show are state Alter
native Dairy Princess Lisa Fitch; reserve grand champion
co-owners Paul Near and Dianne Clock; Heather Morrell
jpo stands with her father Robert Morrell who holds the
discuss the milk marketing situa
tion of their time.” Oto said. ’They
concluded that production of milk,
in and of itself, would not guaran
tee them a livelihood. Milk market
ing and higher prices meant that the
farmer had to travel past the farm
Water, Rocks, Bottles Pose Berks Conservation Farm Challenges
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
WOMELSDORF (Berks Co.)
What are some of the problems
that concern a conservation
farmer?
A list could include handling
excessive water on the
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 5, 1997
gate and follow the milk to market
Those fanners formed Inter-State
Milk Producers* Association, that
later joined Lehigh Valley Dairies
to become the Atlantic Dairy
Cooperative.
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farm... limestone rocks in the
fields that can wreak havoc on
equipment... cans and bottles
thrown haphazardly in a waterway
that could be chopped up and eaten
by cows along with the forage....
Those are some of the chal
lenges faced by dairyman Roland
halter of the reserve grand champion; Tom McCauley at the
halter of the grand champion and best bred and owned of
the open division; show Judge Callum McKlnven; Sandy
McCauley and Alan McCauley; state Dairy Princess Angela
Weiiey; and Mylin Good. -
Daylight-Saving Starts Sunday
It’s daylight-saving time again. Officially, at 2 o’clock
Sunday morning, April 6, the change Is made. To be sure
you are on time, set your clock one hour ahead Saturday
night before you go to bed. Farmers with livestock, espe
cially dairymen, will want to make special adjustments to
not disrupt feeding and milking schedules.
Feeg in Womelsdorf. On Wednes
day this week, Feeg. who will be
honored Monday night as Berks
County Conservation Farmer of
the Year, spoke to Laneatur
Farming about the challenges he
and other farmers face in the ’9os.
‘Tm not really worthy of this
honor,” Feeg indicated. “There
are lot of other people involved
Sen. Specter Calls For
Milk Production Price
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania’s U.S. Sen.
Arlen Specter on Tuesday
announced that he is urging U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Dan
Glickman to establish a minimum
milk price to farmers that provides
to the cost of production.
The announcement was made at
the Catalpa Dairy Farm owned by
Ray and Dale Kennedy, in lower
Dauphin County near the border
with Lancaster County, during a
last-minute public news confer
ence organized by Specter’s staff.
Though not talking in specifics,
Specter told the group gathered in
the cow bam (because of strong
winds and cold temperatures) that
he has requested that Secretary
$27.50 Per Year
I’m not a fellow who wants public
ity. I just did what needed to be
done.”
Before speaking about the bene
fits of conservation, Feeg pointed
out that others need to be recog
nized for putting extensive conser
vation renovations in place on the
farm.
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Glickman use his emergency
authority to raise the basic price of
milk to farmers.
The milk pricing problem has
been ongoing.
While cow feed prices skyrock
eted last year, driving up prices to
dairy farmers and driving down
cull cow prices (flooding the beef
market), the price of milk had been
up to near record levels also,
though the increase in milk price
lagged by weeks compared to feed
prices paid by farmers.
Then, last fall, milk prices
plummeted almost
$4 primarily because the price
of cheese at the National Cheese
Exchange in Green Bay, Wiscon
sin, dropped significandy.
The price of cheese at the NCE
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