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Maryland To Host National
4-H Youth Tech Conference
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
Maryland’s reputation in com
puter technology has resulted in
the first-ever National 4-H Tech
Conference scheduled July 8-12
on the University of Maryland
campus at College Park.
Teams of three to five youth
with their adult leaders from all
50 states are expected to attend
the July event. Computer labo
ratories in the university’s na
Northeast Order Uniform
Price For April 2000
BOSTON, MA Erik F.
Rasmussen, Market Adminis
trator for the Northeast Market
ing Area, has announced that
the statistical uniform price for
April 2000 is $12.46 per hun
dredweight or $1.07 per gallon
for milk delivered to plants lo
cated in Suffolk County, MA
(Boston).
The statistical uniform price
is the benchmark minimum pro
ducer blend price paid to dairy
farmers, prior to allowable de
ductions, for milk containing 3.5
percent butterfat, 2.99 percent
protein, and 5.69 percent other
solids. The price received by an
individual dairy farmer will
vary as the component composi
tion of a farm’s milk differs from
the established benchmarks.
Rasmussen also
stated that the pro
ducer price differen
tial (PPD) for April is
$3.05 per hun
dredweight for milk
delivered to plants lo
cated in Suffolk
County, MA. The PPD
represents each pro
ducer’s share of the
value generated by the
marketwide pool on a
hundredweight basis.
The PPD, which is
added to the payment
producers receive for
their milk’s compo
nents, is adjusted for
the location of the re
ceiving plant. The sta
tistical uniform price
and PPD decrease by
scheduled amounts
the more distant the
plant is from Suffolk
County, MA. The
April PPD is $2.95 in
New York NY, and
$2.85 in Philadelphia,
PA.
The Class prices for
milk pooled in April
are as follows: Class I,
$14.18 (Suffolk
County, MA); Class 11,
$12.10; Class 111,
$9.41; and Class IV,
$11.38. Had the
Northeast Order been
in effect in 1999, com
parable class prices for
April 1999 would have
been: Class I $16.00,
Class II $12.05, Class
111 $11.64, and Class
IV price $11.26. The
component values for
April are protein,
$1.7399 per pound;
butterfat, $1.1352 per
pound; other solids,
$0.0408 per pound;
and nonfat solids,
$0.8537 per pound.
tionally’ known AT & T Teach
ing Theatre, several campus lec
ture halls, and the Animal
Sciences-Agricultural Engineer
ing complex will be utilized for
hands-on advanced training.
Participants will be housed in a
campus dormitory.
A 12-member planning com
mittee/design team-half of
whom are older teen-age mem
bers of state 4-H youth technol-
Milk receipts from producers
totaled 2.091 billion pounds.
Class I utilization, milk pro
cessed as beverage milk, was
39.0 percent of producer milk
receipts. The average Class I
utilization, for the three prede
cessor orders that were com
bined to form the Northeast
Order, was 40.2 percent in April
1999.
The manufacture of Class II
products such as cream, ice
cream, yogurt, and cottage
cheese utilized 17.4 percent of
producer milk. Milk used to
manufacture Class 111 products
such as cheese (American and
Italian) and evaporated con
densed products utilized 30.2
percent of total milk receipts.
Class IV usage (butter, nonfat
and whole milk powder) equaled
13.4 percent of the total.
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ogy leadership teams-met
recently at the Maryland 4-H
Center in College Park to iron
out final arrangements.
Participating youth team
members from Maryland are
Alicia Rausch of Laurel, Kristen
Fitzpatrick of LaPiata, and
Shelley M. Armour of Joppa
towne, Armour is a general agri
culture sophomore at the
University of Maryland.
Other youth planning team
members hail from Kansas, Vir
ginia, and California. That list
includes Andrew Bell of Lincoln,
Kan.; Beverly Beasley of Stuart,
Va.; Anna Calasanti-Laws of
Blacksburg, Va.; and Steven
Worker of Santa Maria, Calif.
They will be assisted by sev
eral adult 4-H professional
workers and volunteers, includ
ing Richard A. Byrne, Marie
Fredette, and Kendra B. Wells
of the Maryland Cooperative
Extension 4-H youth develop
ment state office in College
Park.
Other adult advisers are
Kevin Wentzel of San Jose,
Calif.; Peter Laws of
Blacksburg, Va.; and Trudy
Dunham of St. Paul, Minn.
Wentzel is a volunteer leader
with the California 4-H Tech
nology Corps.; Laws is a state
extension 4-H youth specialist at
Virginia Tech,; and Dunham is
the University of Minnesota
coordinator for CYFERNet, a
national web-based computer
network for land-grant universi
ties, extension educators, and
the USDA’s Cooperative State
Research, Education and Exten
sion Service (CSREES).
Also serving as consultants
are Virginia Gobeli, national 4-
H program leader, and Thomas
G. Tate, a national progi
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Top Dairy Herds By Breed
The following are the top pro
ducing dairy herds in Maryland
for April 2000. The herds are or
ganized by breed, and the pro
duction is based on energy
corrected milk.
County Ass’n; Herd Name; #
Cows In Herd; and ECM for top
producing Ayrshire herds.
Howard: David & James Pa
trick, 55 cows, 69.4 pounds;
Frederick: Homestead Farm, 21
cows, 68.9 pounds; Frederick:
Vales-Pride Farm, 38 cows, 66.4
pounds; Carroll: R-Lynn Farm,
14 cows, 65.7 pounds; Balti
more: William Warns Farm, 11
cows, 62.1 pounds; Carroll:
Whispering Ayr, 46 cows, 41.7
pounds.
In the Brown Swiss division,
top herds are: Harford: Green-
Castle Swiss, 15 cows, 77.4
pounds; Frederick: K. Scott &
leader in information technol
ogy. Both work for the USDA
CSREES headquarters office in
Washington, D.C.
The Federal Health Care
Finance Administration, based
in Baltimore, is a cooperating
agency. It is interested in the
concept of computer-literate
youth helping senior citizens
and disabled persons get
“online.”
Organizers hope that the Na
tional 4-H Technology Confer
ence will be a catalyst enabling
states to share, obtain and create
information while building net
works for sharing of new ideas.
Registration information for
the conference is available
online at http://ca4h.org/4hntc.
The e-mail address is 4hntc@4-
h.org.
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Judy Hood, 32 cows, 72.4
pounds; Frederick: Vales-Pride
Farm, 11 cows, 72.1 pounds;
Frederick: Fir-Thome-B, 53
cows, 71.5 pounds; Garrett:
Jason Brenneman, 17 cows, 66.4
pounds; Carroll: Ryan Bell, 13
cows, 64.1 pounds; Frederick:
Shafdon Swiss, 13 cows; 62.7
pounds; Frederick: Harold Long
Brown Swiss, 17 cows, 60.3
pounds; Frederick: Dwayne &
Miriam Bell, 62 cows, 54.3
pounds.
For Guernsey, top herds in
cluded: Frederick: Walnut
Ridge Farm, If cows, 73.4
pounds; Kent: Keith Dixon, 27
cows, 68.5 pounds; Queen’
Anne’s: William B. Messix 111,
18 cows, 63.4 pounds; Frederick;
Anovadale Guernseys, 38 cows,
56.3 pounds; Kent: Dogwood
Lane Farm, 78 cows, 52.9
pounds; Frederick: Three
Brooks Farm, 76 cows, 44.3
pounds.
High producing herds in the
Jersey breed are: Frederick:
Glenn Beard, 13 cows, 80.0
pounds; Garrett: Paul & Naomi
Petersheim, 29 cows, 65.3
pounds; Carroll: Mayer’s Stoney
Point, 18 cows, 57.7 pounds;
Carroll: Tomorrow’s Promise
Inc., 58 cows, 57.3 pounds;
Washington: Willow Spring
Farm, 58 cows, 56.4 pounds;
Kent: P. Thomas Mason, 45
cows, 55.8 pounds; Garrett:
Karen & Carlton Orendorf, 45
cows, 54.2 pounds; Frederick;
Jersey Spring Farm, 112 cows,
54.0 pounds; Carroll: Charles
De Groft, 51 cows, 51.9 pounds;
Howard: Richard A: -Pue, 20
cows, 51.5 pounds. '
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