Md. & Ya. Milk Cooperative Honors Members, Plans Future
DAVELEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HAGERSTOWN, Md. The
Maryland and Virginia Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative hosted its
82nd annual meeting here
Wednesday.
Jack Hardesty, president, and
Allen O’Hara, general manager,
presented awards to outstanding
Outstanding Maryland and Virginia Young Cooperator
Reid Smith, left, with runners-up Amy Coltrane, and Gor
don and Sheila Lee with baby.
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members and spoke on the future
course of the cooperative. Their
theme was “Moving Forward
Through Commitment.”
After last year’s failed merger
proposal with Land O’ Lakes
East and two Southcentral milk
cooperatives, Maryland and Vir
ginia leaders are considering
other options to remain compet
itive in a changing marketplace.
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Hardesty reported that a new
Southern Marketing Agency, Inc.
is being formed that would link
Maryland and Virginia with sev
eral other cooperatives to the
south, including Arkansas Dairy
Cooperative, Dairy Farmers of
America, Lonestar Milk Produc
ers, and Southeast Milk, Inc.
The goal of such an alliance
would be to increase Maryland
and Virginia’s share of Class 1
(fluid) milk sales, allow more effi
cient market balancing, and in
crease over-order premiums for
members.
“The new Southern Marketing
Agency will provide increased
market stability and market ac
cess for our member milk in the
Federal Order 5 and Federal
Order 7 (southern) areas,” Hard
esty said.
Maryland and Virginia is also
talking with Dairy Farmers of
America, Dairylea Cooperative,
and Land O’ Lakes, Inc. about
possible joint marketing efforts in
the Northeast, according to
Hardesty.
Hardesty said that each of the
member cooperatives in such an
alliance would have “balanced
control” and be allowed to main
tain their own identity.
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Maryland and Virginia Quality Producer award recipi*
ents, from left, Daniel and Florence Sommers, Rustburg,
Virginia; and Sharon Nickie, Nottingham.
Seven families three from Waynesboro, Pa.
Maryland, two from Pennsylva- • Edward L. Boyd & Sons,
nia, one each from Virginia and I nc -> Rippon, W.Va.
West Virginia were recognized * Chester and Norma Meyers,
for 50 years of membership in the Greencastle, Pa.
~ , . .... . . „ • Edward and Kay OHara,
Maryland and Virginia Mdk Pro- Frederick Md
ducers Cooperative: . Dennis and Theresa Shafer,
• Ronald and Pat Leonard Jefferson, Md.
Family,Midland,Va. _ _ .....
• Roy B. and Susan Biesecker, (Turn to Page A 34)
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