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Bull Stud President Gives Thoughts On Future Of Dairy Industry
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
TYRONE (Blair Co.) - For
the new president of Genex/CRI, a
positive attitude, cooperation be
tween cooperatives, and personnel
management skills are items of
importance when he thinks about
involvement in the future of the
dairy industry.
David Hileman, along with his
wife Janet, own Hilecrest Farm
near Warriors Mark m Blair
County. They farm 650 acres and
milk 450 Registered Holsteins in
June Dairy Month: Salute
To The Dairy Industry
June is Dairy Month and with this issue we salute the dairy farmers
and the agribusiness enterprises that make this industry such a large part
of our economy. You will find many farm family interviews with spe
cial emphasis on how they view the future of dairying. Our readers sent
in more than 300 dairy recipes to help promote the industry, and the first
of these receipes are published in this issue with more to come in each of
the following issues in June.
The first lesson of the first module of a dairy management course
taught by Lancaster County’s well-known Penn State Extension dairy
specialist, Glenn Shirk is in this issue too. These lessons will be pub
lished on a continuing weekly basis and eventually archived on the
Internet in Lancaster Farming Online for everyone to access as needed.
Begining this issue we also have listed the Internet addresses of some
dairy farms across the nation. And the messages from our advertisers
help show the exciting times that are ahead for all who adapt to the
changes the future will bring. Of course, we have our regular columns,
markets, and news from other segments of agriculture as well.
We, the staff, hope you enjoy receiving this issue of Lancaster Farm
ing as much as we have enjoyed sending it you.
Index To Dairy Stories
Bull Stud President A 1
Mid-Atlantic Mergers A 1
Chesapeake Milk A 1
Peach-Vale Farm A2O
Famous Creamery A 22
Waddells Build Future A 23
At Peach Vale Farm near Bellville in Mifflin County, the fourth generation of the
Peachey family continue the tradition of dairy farming. In the photo from left are, John*
ny B. and son and daughter-in-law Robert and Lisa, and their three children Taylor,
Zach, and Chelsle. See their story on page A2O. Photo by Gall Strock, Mifflin County
eorraapondant
Five Sections
a double six herringbone milking
parlor that is 20 years old but has
been updated to include a now-m
-progress conversion to automatic
identification, completely com
puterized system. This will bring
the operation up to utilize all the
latest technology that can be in
corporated into this parlor without
going out and building it new.
The cows average 23,000 lbs
m a treestall setting with a labor
iorce of six full time people. “I’m
m a position where I don’t milk
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Wfester Jersey Farm A2B
Members Approve Merger.. A 29
Lancaster Dairy Pageant A 33
Dream Came True A 34
Shirleys Enjoy Grazing A3B
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6, 1998
Janet and David Hileman of Tyrone In Blair County farm 650 acres and milk 450
registered Holsteins. David was recently named president of Genex/CRI. Photo by
Everett Newawangor, managing adltor.
Mid-Atlantic Dairy Promotion Mergers Set
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
GETTYSBURG (Adams
Co.) No more MAMMA.
The Townson, Maryland-based
Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing
Association (MAMMA) has effec-
$29.50 Per Year
lively merged with two other dairy
consumption-promotion agencies,
according to a news release made
this week by MAMMA.
The idea has been kicked around
for years, but only since last year
was merger work formalized
between the three groups that oper
ate in the same region, according
to MAMMA.
According to the news release,
the merger was accomplished by
the boards of directors of the three
milk promotion groups, which
receive portions of dairy farmer
milk promotion checkoff funds
according to request and approval
to operate their programs.
The farmer-funded milk promo-
Chesapeake Milk To
Provide Green Money
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
„ KUTZTOWN (Berks
Co.) A new brand of milk is
about to appear this month on
some grocers’ shelves in the Che
sapeake Bay watershed.
Chesapeake Milk.
No joke.
According to the non-profit,
environmental conservation
focused organization Dairy Net
work Partnership (DNP), branded
milk cartons were being manufac
tured this week for packaging by
Sunnydale Farms a New York
600 Per Copy
tion program collects 15 cents per
hundredpounds of milk sold by a
farmer. Of that, the farmer has the
right to direct a percentage to spe
cific programs, while the rest is to
be used nationally.
Any group with a qualifying
program can apply for the funds.
MAMMA is a marketing/
promotion agency that has concen
trated its promotional efforts, and
thus its draw on the farmer
provided funds, in the federal
Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing
Order, also known as the Federal
Order 4 area. That includes south
eastern and south central Pennsyl-
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dairy processor that also has suc
cessfully worked cooperatively to
market organic milk with Natural
by Nature, also involved in the
Chesapeake Milk program.
The origin of the milk itself is
not as much a detail of concern in
the marketing program as is the
result of the sale of the milk at
retail a nickle per half-gallon
sold is to be deposited in an
“Environmental Quality Initia
tive” account with the money to be
used next year to provide a prd-
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