A3O-LancMter Farming, Saturday, April 10, 1999
KAREN BUTLER organization after this month,
Maryland Correspondent according to George Walgrove,
Hagerstown, Md - Maryland general manager of the
and Virginia Milk Producers coop association,
is going to be a very different stronger, an
Timmy and Tammie French, Woodstock, Va. were
selected third runners-up. Their two sons are Tyler 1 1/2,
and Tabb six weeks.
Cyndi Messick were forth runners-up. Their
children are, from left, Stephanie 10, Eric 8, and Amanda 9.
ond runner-up. He and his wife, Donna, have three children,
from left, Allyson, 9, Collins, 5, and Brittany, 7.
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organization better able to cope
with the future,” Walgrove
predicted recently at the 79th
annual meeting of the coop held
here at the Ramada Inn.
Walgrove referred specifically
to the consolidation of Maryland
and Virginia with Carolina
Virginia Milk Producers
Association, an alliance that
becomes effective this April.
Ninety-seven percent of the
voting membership of Maryland
and Virginia and 95 percent of
Carolina Virginia members voted
to approve the proposed
consolidation last month.
The merger creates a coop that
will effectively be positioned to
take a more active role in
securing Class 1 milk sales,
according to Walgrove, an issue
that takes on increased
significance with the anticipated
elimination of support prices at
the end of this year.
The coop consolidation is also
a step toward expanding the Class
1 milk base in the future,.
Walgrove, said, and will enable
the organization to supply
customers with a more substantial
supply of milk.
“We will not jeopardize the
Class 1 customers that we have in
the area,” he assured producers,
“The milk that will go south will
go there in lieu of powder. We
will continue to show our
customers that we have strength.”
The new coop will keep the
name Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Cooperative
Association, Inc. It will be
headquartered in Richmond,
Virginia, with a regional office in
Charlotte, North Carolina, and
will market milk for over 1560
producers in 10 eastern states.
Robert Shore will take over as
general manager this month with
the retirement of George
Walgrove after 15 years with
Maryland and Virginia. Shore has
been assistant manager for the
past eighteen months. Before
coming to Maryland and Virginia,
he was general manager of
Carolina Virginia for thirteen
years.
Shore shared policy updates
with the group, and talked on
Federal order reform, Class 1
pricing, and the new BFP.
“I’m afraid we’re not going to
like what we see in these areas,"
he said. Still, he told the group,
he is excited and optimistic about
the future.
“Our future in general is good.
It’s going to be about change We
face the future with the right
attitude and the right resources to
be successful in the future,” said
Shore.
During the afternoon program
Young Cooperator awards were
presented and eight dairy
operations were honored for
shipping milk to the coop for 50
years.
The Outstanding Young
Cooperator for 1999 is Teresa
Pomraning of York County,
Pennsylvania. Teresa and her
husband Myron operate My-T
Farm in Delta. They milk a mixed
herd of 55 Holsteins, Jerseys,
Ayrshires, and Guernseys, and
raise about 50 replacement
heifers. Teresa also runs a home
based income tax business and
works at a local farm machinery
dealership. The Pomranings have
four daughters; Stephanie,
Kimberly, Suzann, and Jessica.
The Pomranings started farming
20 years ago, and have been
milking for 19 years.
“I am very honored to be
Tim and Carol Motley, Chatham, Va, were named first
runners-up in Maryland and Virginia’s outstanding young
cooperator contest. Shown with them are their three child
ren, from left, Adam 17, Melissa 13, and Julie 6.
The Pomranlng sisters are from left, Suzann 11, Jessica,
17 (York Co. dairy princess), Stephanie 15, and Kimberly,
13.
selected as Maryland and
Virginia’s Outstanding Young
Cooperator,” said Teresa,” I am
eager to represent Maryland and
Virginia both locally and
nationally, and hope that I can be
an inspiration to other young
producers.”
Tim and Carol Motley from
Chatham, Va. were named first
runners-up and will attend the
National Milk Producers
Federation Young Cooperator
Conference and annual meeting in
Nashville, Tenn. in November.
Stephan Lethbridge from
Union Bridge, Md. was selected
second runner-up and will attend
the National Institute on
Cooperative Education in
Snowbird, Utah in July.
Timmy and Tammie French
from Woodstock, Va. and Ronnie
and Cyndi Messick from
Midland, Va. were named third
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and fourth runners-up,
respectively, and will attend the
Pennsylvania Council of
Cooperatives Young Cooperator
Leadership Conference in
Carlisle, Pa. in July.
Inducted into the “50 Year
Club” were; Cardette Farm
Partnership, The Carder Family,
Culpeper, Virginia; Glebe Farm,
Culpeper, Virginia; the Earhart
family, Nokesville, Virginia;
Gloria and Donald Toms,
Frederick, Maryland; Enfield
Farm, the Enfield family,
Knoxville, Maryland; Orchard
Crest, Inc., the Edwin Potts, Sr.
and Edwin Potts, Jr. families,
Purcellville, Virginia; Harvue
Farms, John O. Hardesty and Son,
Berryville, Virginia; and Lyle C.
Tabb and Sons, Inc., Vinemont
Ayrshires, Keameysville, West
Virginia.