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V 01.46 No. 7
Dairymen Awards Banquet Honors
Leaders In Dairy Industry
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
GRANTVILLE (Dauphin
Co.) Three awards honored
members of agriculture for their
dedication, leadership, and pro
motion of the dairy industry at
the Pennsylvania Dairymen’s
Association annual awards ban
quet. The event on Wednesday
evening was conducted in con
junction with the Pennsylvania
Dairy Stakeholders’ Conference
here at the Holiday Inn.
More than 250 people at
tended the evening banquet.
Brubaker Farms, Inbuilt Joy, and Land O’Lakes Inc., Carlisle, were honored with the
first Pacesetter awards at the annual meeting Thursday morning of the Pennsylvania
Dairy Stakeholders. From left, award presenter Ralph Heffner, chair of the award com
mittee; Dale Hershey and Larry Dotterer, accepting on behalf of Land O’Lakes; Luke
Brubaker, Brubaker Farms; and Joel Rotz, Stakeholders board president.
Photo by Andy Andrew*
Capitol Region Dairy Extension Team. Back from left, Glenn Shirk, Lancaster County
dairy agent; Dan McFarland, multicounty agricultural engineer; Roland Freund, mul
ticounty farm management agent; Duane Duncan, Cumberland County extension direc
tor; and Vinton Smith, multicounty dairy agent. Front from left, Philip Wagner, Franklin
County dairy agent; Galen Kopp, Lebanon County dairy agent; Tim Beck, regional dairy
program coordinator; and Tim Fritz, multicounty farm management agent. Not pictured:
Dr. Arlen Mills, multicounty agent, veterinary science; Brad Hilty, dairy alliance informa
tion management; and Rich Stup, dairy alliance human resource management.
Four Sections
Following dinner, Pennsylva
nia Dairy Princess Melinda
Wolfe delivered a speech in
spired by her father and his
dreams of owning his own dairy
farm.
Additionally, members of the
state 4-H judging team were
given a lifetime membership to
National Dairy Shrine during
the evening.
Donald Koontz, Fredonia,
Elsie Wolff, Quarryville, and
Philip Wagner, Franklin
County, were selected for skills
at their jobs and tireless dedica
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 16, 2000
tion to the dairy industry, ac
cording to David Smith,
executive secretary, Pennsylva
nia Dairymen’s Association.
Donald A. Koontz, Fredonia,
was honored with the Charles E.
Cowan Award. A graduate of
Delaware Valley College with a
degree in dairy husbandry,
Koontz spent several years as a
herd manager for Walbe Farms
before purchasing his current
farm in Mercer County.
A 4-H dairy club leader,
Koontz is a nationally approved
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Elsie Wolff, Quarryville, right, received the Pennsylvania
Distinguished Dairy Women Award from Dixie Burris, as
sociate board member, Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Associa
tion. Photo by Michelle Ranck
Stakeholder Breakfast
Focuses On
Dairy Success Stories
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
GRANTVILLE (Dauphin
Co.) One day, David
Zimmerman and wife Joyce re
alized what they had simply
wasn’t adequate.
The stanchion pipeline built
in 1968, which seemed easy and
adequate for the dairy more
than three decades ago, started
to look rather old.
A son who worked as an auto
mechanic and a daughter who
worked at a nursery wanted to
come back and help on the farm.
David said that two families
couldn’t be supported on 80
cows. With help from a consult
ant and financial assistance
from a Pennsylvania Dairy
Penn State Begins Capitol
Region Dairy Program
Tim Beck
York Extension
Agent
Penn State
Regional Dairy
Program Coordinator
Dairy producers in the capitol
region will notice some changes
in the organization of extension
staff responsibilities for dairy
programs.
During the past year, exten
sion staff members have been
actively meeting to assess dairy
program needs, identify re
sources, plan upcoming regional
events, and share ideas and in
formation to stay up to date on
important dairy industry issues.
Our first successful regional
events were two employee-
$32.00 Per Year
Stakeholder program, the herd
continues to expand to about
600-650 cows, enough “for the
next generation,” Zimmerman
said.
David farms with wife Joyce
and five children, Dale, 23;
Sharon, 30; James, 27; Joann,
21; and Kathy, 13, on
Meadowview Farm near Rein
holds.
David spoke Thursday morn
ing about the Stakeholder’s pro
gram, the Business Planning
Assistance Program (BPAP), at
the 2000 Pennsylvania Dairy
Stakeholder’s Conference
Breakfast at the Grantville Holi
day Inn.
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training programs this past
spring. The March feeder’s and
milker’s schools were warmly
received and positively evalu
ated by participants. Spurred on
by the interest and enthusiasm
of participants, we planned 13
computer training sessions to
improve information manage
ment skills, five employee train
ing schools (two for feeders, one
for milkers, and two for transi
tion cow managers), and a re
gional Dairy Works seminar for
dairy farm managers.
Most exciting of all are the
new people joining our team!
Vinton Smith joined our team
to serve as multicounty dairy
management agent in Cumber
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