Antrim-Spring Farms Wins
Banners at Holstein Show
CHAMBERSBURG
Rodney, Roger and Harold
Crider of Antrim-Spring Farms,
Chambersburg, PA, won top
prizes at the 1999 Franklin
County Holstein Open Show
held Thursday, August 20,1999.
The top honors for the Criders
were the Premier Breeder and
Premier Exhibitor banners.
Other top honors were: Ist
place, 5-year-old, Ist place - aged
cow, Ist place - 100,000 lb. milk
class, Ist place - Daughter, Dam
and Ist place - Produce of Dam.
Grand Champion of both the
Junior and Open Show was
The Franklin County Fair Holstein banner winners are
pictured as follows, from left: front row, Andy and Alyssa
Crider, Lucy Crider; back row, Harold and Leona Crider,
Katy and Roger Crider, Rodney, Rhoda and Grace Crider,
and Judge Michael lager of Fulton, Md.
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consecutive years that Franklin
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DFA Says Federal Order Reform
Vote Not A True Reflection
Of Dairy Farmers’ Support
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Ac
cording to Dairy Farmers of
America (DFA), die only reason
the USDA was able to announce
successful passage of the referen
dum on Federal Milk Market Or
der Reform was that dairy farmers
had little choice but to vote “yes.”
“The alternative was even
worse,” said DFA board chair
man, Herman Brubaker. “In no
way should this affirmative vote
be considered support for the new
Federal order proposed by Secre
tary of Agriculture Dan GUckman.
"This was a vote under duress.
This vote was dairy formers’ de
sire to keep the Federal order sys
tem intact as we work for die en
actment of more former-friendly
legislation.”
DFA President and Chief Exe
cutive Officer Gary Hanman con
curs with Brubaker that dairy
fanners really had no option but to
vote “yes” on the referendum to
ratify the amended orders. “We
worked hard to improve Class I
differentials and Class 111 and IV
price levels in both the House and
the Senate,” said Hanman. “Un
fortunately, Congress* inability to
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act prior to recess, and Secretary
Glickman’s deadline, requiring
our vote be cast by August 6, put
dairy formers in a real predica
ment,” said Hanman “Even
though we do not support the
prices proposed by the Secretary,
We had to vote in fovor of Federal
orders.”
Hanman added a “no” voite
would have meant several Federal
orders would be terminated,
eliminating the need for Congres
sonal action on H.R. 1402 or other
improvements that may come up
for consideration once Congress
reassembles after Labor Day.
Without Federal orders to enforce
them the need for Class I and
Class 111 and IV prices is irrele
vant.
Brubaker said DFA is encour
aged by the support of S 3 senators
who voted to end a filibuster that
had delayed legislation favorable
to dairy. “Every senator who vot
ed on the procedural matter of clo
ture knew the vote was really
about Option 1-A, Dairy Com
pacts and extension of price sup
ports,” said Brubaker. “However,
we think that the Senate vote in fa-
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vor of cloture serves as a favorable
expression of support and a
‘marker* for consideration of
Compacts, Option 1-A, Class in
formal rulemaking hearing and
price support extension in the Ag
Apporpriations Conference which
will take place in September."
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ue to urge passage of HA. 1402,
introduced by Congressman Roy
Blunt (R-MO), and passed by the
House Agriculture Committee
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Option 1-A, preserves the USDA
decision to reduce milk marketing
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