A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4, 2000
Wayne County Farmer Sees Volunteering
As Crucial Part Of His Dairy Operation Horse Farms
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many organizations, including
the Pennsylvania Holstein Asso
ciation, Wayne County Exten
sion Board, Wayne County Fair
Board, Wayne County Ag Pres
ervation Board, and as a 4-H
leader. He currently serves as
local chairman for the Wayne
County DHIA.
“One of the things I work
hard at as the local chairman is
to always have a full delegation
from Wayne County attend the
DHIA district meetings,” said
Dix. “I usually get on the phone
and call other farmers to make
sure they’ll be there.”
Getting full representation
from all the counties to attend
local district meetings is some
thing that the DHIA struggles to
do. Wayne County always has
three farmers at the meetings to
participate in the voting proce
dure.
Honored as a 1989 Master
Farmer, Dix not only volunteers
ADADC
Kicks Off
SYRACUSE,
NY-With millennium
hype reaching maxi
mum density, Ameri
can Dairy Association
and Dairy Council,
Inc., (ADADC) took
the opportunity to
remind consumers of
one fact that remains
true in any century
the importance of milk
in a growing child’s
diet
“Nutrition for the
Next Millennium” is
the newest in a series
of colorful school posters
ADADChas produced
for school cafeterias. It
features a family look
ing to the moonlight
sky and noticing how
much the Big Dipper
constellation looks
like a carton of milk.
More than 11,000 post
ers were distributed to
schools, K-12, through
out the marketing
area.
School posters are
just one of the ways
ADADC works with
school food service
directors to improve
milk’s image as well as
it’s quality and vari
ety. This fall, the
largest school districts
in ADADC’s market
ing area-including
New York City, Long
Island, Yonkers, New
ark, Jersey City,
Syracuse City,
Rochester, Buffalo,
and Greece-received
special “got milk?”
menu marketing kits,
consisting of a “got
milk?” menu board
with erasable mark
ers, “Cold Milk Served
Here” inflatable cow,
milk temperature
charts, and a “got
to serve on the boards of these
agriculture organizations, he
also encourages other farmers to
get involved.
He served as a past director of
both the state and county Hol
stein Association before step
ping down to let younger
farmers take over the leadership
role. He also passed down his
duties as a 4-H leader to both his
son Charles and daughter-in
law Kathryn.
Dix is very active in his
church, the Pleasant Mountain
United Methodist Church. He
serves as chairman for the ad
ministration committee and has
been certified as a lay speaker
for the United Methodist
Church.
Dix greatly appreciates the
many people who were involved
in nominating him for the Clyde
Robison Award, from his county
agent Edward Pruss who nomi
nated him to the state DHIA
Board of Directors who honored
him at last week’s meeting.
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Dix has been a member of
Pennsylvania DHIA for many
years. He uses it as a manage
ment tool to monitor his herd’s
production and make manage
ment decisions.
“It’s an excellent tool to see
how profitable individual cows
are,” said Dix. “Farmers who
don’t use DHIA are just guess-
ing.”
Dix handles overall herd
management on Ellday Farms,
while his wife takes care of feed
ing the calves and managing calf
care.
According to Dix, farming is
something that you have to
enjoy doing, especially with the
current depressed milk price.
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ing, he also enjoys getting in
volved and taking advantage of
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