Ag Horizons
Conference
July 25
GRANTVILLE (Dauphin Co.)
Program topic for the upcom
ing Ag Horizons 2000 Confer
ence is “The Retail Face of
Farming.”
The conference, scheduled
July 25 at the Holiday Inn
Harrisburg-Hershey in Grant
ville, will focus on a diversity of
marketing options, including e
commerce, entertainment farm
ing, niche marketing, and direct
marketing.
Ag Horizons is designed spe
cifically for educators in agricul
ture. Graduate credit at Penn
State can be earned with the con
ference.
After a continental breakfast
and registration, the program be
gins at 8:30 a.m. with an intro
duction to the retail face of agri
culture by Lou Moore, Penn
State professor of ag economics.
Terry Kile, Weidenhammer Sys
tems Corporation, will review e
commerce.
The subject of entertainment
farming will be discussed by
Janet Finney, Jack Finney Corp.,
and Stephen Quigley, Merry
mead Farm, Inc.
Niche marketing will be ex
plored by Roy L. Brubaker, Tus
carora Organic Growers. Direct
marketing will be the subject of a
talk by Romaine Erb, Brooklawn
Farm Market.
After lunch, a 1 p.m., a panel
discussion will be held. A regis
tration fee of $l5 will be collected
at the conference.
For more information, contact
Penn State at (814) 863-0644.
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World Dairy Expo. Gable is re
spected in and out of the show
ring for her ethics, grace, and
humbleness.
The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity graduate annually hosts
the college’s dairy judging team
and was awarded the Penn State
Dairy Judging Service Award in
1996. She has also hosted the
Pennsylvania Holstein Junior
Judging School and opens the
farm to area schools for Dairy
Day.
In 1994, the Snider herd pro
vided an outstanding class for
the Hoard’s Dairyman judging
contest. Gable also provides
housing for cattle owned by 4-H
youth and retired neighbors. In
1998, Snider Homestead Farm
was the site of the World Guern
sey Conference tour. This year
she hosted the National Guern
sey Convention Tour.
International Dairyman
Promotes Brown Swiss Breed
As a boy, the International
Person of the Year spent his
summers tending his family’s
Brown Swiss herd in the moun
tains of Switzerland. As an adult,
Heinrich Meli became an influ
ential diplomat for Brown Swiss
breeders around the world.
After earning a masters degree
in agricultural science from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Tech
nology in Zurich, Meli worked at
the herdbook office of the Brown
Swiss Cattle Breeders Federation
in Zug. While there, he intro
duced the computerized contem
porary comparison progeny-test
ing program, which set the basis
for modem selection possibilities.
In 1964, he became the Secre
tary of Agriculture and Public
Economics for the Canton of
Graubunden. He promoted the
little-used practice of artificial
insemination and built the Can
ton of Graubunden’s herd into a
leader of dairy cattle breeding
throughout Europe.
In 1971, Meli became the gen
eral manager of the Agricultural
College Plantahof, Landquart,
where he also managed two
training farms until his retire
ment in 1999. There he bred an
outstanding 90-cow herd of
Brown Swiss cattle that breeders
from around the world travel see.
Meli is also credited with being
the first promoter of U.S. Brown
Swiss genetics in Europe and
turned the national herd into a
showcase for these genetics.
Meli went on to influence the
breed and the industry in 1976
when breeders unanimously
elected him president of the
World Brown Swiss Federation.
In 1992, he became president of
the commission of the Swiss Cat
tle Breeders Federation, a group
representing all of the breeding
federations and numbering more
than 40,000 farmers and 1.6 mil
lion head of cattle in Switzer
land. He served as secretary/
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treasurer for the annual meeting
of the European Association for
Animal Production in 1975 and
organized the third and fifth an
nual world Brown Swiss confer
ences in 1986 and 1997. He
promoted international semen
exchange, initiated the interna
tional progeny testing of several
Brown Swiss bulls and helped in
troduce INTERBULL to many
European countries,
industry Winner Uses His Pen
World Dairy Expo’s 2000 In
dustry Person of the Year has
impacted agriculture through his
writing, his teaching, and his
presentations on his realistic vi
sions for the future of the indus
try. Miles “Mac” McCarry is a
familiar name to many in the
dairy industry due to the many
hats he’s worn during his career.
His long resume includes Di
rector of Public Relations for the
Holstein Associations, Sales
Manager for Curtiss Breeding
Service, National Dairy Shrine
secretary, and author of more
than 100 articles for several dairy
publications. As an agricultural
agent in Massachusetts in the
late 19405, McCarry developed
an Artificial Insemination Coop
erative along with other livestock
marketing programs. He also
launched the first on-farm-tape
recorded radio programs and
was recognized for outstanding
contributions to the New Eng
land Green Pastures Contest.
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At the Holstein Association, he
developed such programs as “Fit
for the Farm Fit for the Mar
ket” and “Making the Certificate
of Registry Mean More” through
advertising and promotional
campaigns. He attended many
national shows and events, han
dling public relations duties and
speaking at state and county
Holstein meetings across the
country.
In 1963, McCarry moved to
Curtiss Breeding Service where
he designed the “Complete Cow
Program” and traveled exten
sively speaking at numerous
events in the U.S., Puerto Rico
and Canada. He served as the of
ficial for judging contests at Wa
terloo, and Columbus and Chica
go and ran the intercollegiate
and 4-H judging contests at
World Dairy Expo.
The National Dairy Shrine
had some of its most shining mo
ments under McCarry’s leader
ship. Membership thrived and
the Shrine’s permanent home in
Fort Atkinson, Wis. became a re
ality. After retiring to Florida, he
continues to work on a historical
video project for Dairy Shrine
conducting more than 100 oral
interviews. McCarry has earned
seven Dairy Shrine membership
awards. He also became the first
to win the Dairy Shrine’s 4-E
award. To date, only four people
have earned this award which
stands for extra, energy, effort
and enthusiasm.
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