Vol. 47 No. 48
Co-op Leaders Discuss Ways
To Help Milk Producers Cope
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
GEORGETOWN (Lancaster
Co.) Dairy farmers know that
low milk prices and high feed
costs add up to tough times.
Those are the conditions they
face.
Especially in times like these,
milk cooperative leaders try to
assure farmers they are doing all
they can to secure the best mar
kets and member benefits. One
way to offer better security to
dairy farmers is by working to
gether with other co-ops, accord
ing to Dairy Farmers of America
(DFA) and Dairylea leaders
speaking to about 70 dairy pro-
Farm Aid Brings Music, Message
BRIAN SNYDER
Centre Co. Correspondent
BURGETTSTOWN (Wash
ington Co.) When the Farm
Aid extravaganza rolls into town,
it brings with it much more than
just some of the best music in
America.
While the musical fare did not
disappoint last Saturday’s sold
out crowd of more than 23,000
fans who showed up at the Post-
Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown
(near Pittsburgh) for the eight
hour feast of stars, the “real
show” was mostly behind the
scenes.
For a 24-hour period before the
concert, the 15th edition of Farm
Aid, and a host of local sponsors,
presented numerous opportuni
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at last weak’* Solanco Fair. Grand champion lamb at the
Soianco Fair sold for $4.30 a pound to the Llobold family.
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ducers and family members at a
meeting here late last week.
“We need to keep our eye on
the ball and what we can do to
gether,” said Jerrel Heatwole,
DFA director from Greenwood,
Del.
DFA, an international milk
producers cooperative, and New
York-based Dairylea have
worked together as Dairy Mar
keting Services (DMS) since the
fall of 1999. DMS also includes
several smaller cooperatives, in
cluding Mount Joy Farmer’s Co
op, based in Lancaster County.
Part of the meeting was spent
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ties for members of the public
and the press to be nourished on
information and encouragement
aimed at bolstering family farms
all over Pennsylvania and the
rest of the country.
Beginning at the Regional His
tory Center in downtown Pitts
burgh on Friday night, support
ers of the Farm Aid message
sponsored a program entitled
“Challenges and Choices: The
Future of Our Food and Farms,”
featuring the words and reflec
tions of nationally known speak
ers as well as three Pennsylvania
farmers.
Local co-sponsors of the event
who intended to underscore the
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Turn to page B 2 to read “A Night To Remember.” The story chronicles the state dairy
princess pageant, Sept. 21, where these three contestants were selected to represent
Pennsylvania's dairy industry. From left are Second Alternate Ashley Lynn Chapman,
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Raechel Kilgore, and First Alternate Rachel Ebert.
Photo by Lou Ann Good, food and family features editor
Three States Converge At Small Farm Expo
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
GILBERT (Monroe Co.)
People seeking inspiration and
support for managing small
farms had a chance to gather
with like-minded rural enthusi
asts at the Northeast Small Farm
an 3 Rural Living Expo at the
West End Fairgrounds here last
weekend.
All-American Names Youth Supreme Champion
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) AlfcAmerican Dairy Show named Brothers Three
Wiaper, a Brown Swiss Junior’ 2-year-old (S: Bettavue Emory Prelude ET, D: Top
Acree Jetway Wisp), exhibited by Jacob Hushon, Airville, youth supreme champion
Thursday evening at the All-American. This was the first time the show hosted a
youth supreme champion. From lieft, Mark Mclver and Paul Miller, presenting the
check; Ashley Chapman, state alternate dairy princees; Raohel Ebert, attomate
dairy princess; Hushon; Raechel Kilgore, state dairy princess; and Sam Hayes Jr.,
state secretary of agriculture. Shoremar S Alicia, the Holstein grand champion, was
named supreme champion of the open show. See storiee next issue.
Photo by Dmvm L**mvr
Saturday, September 28,2002
It was the second annual expo
coordinated by the agricultural
college extension programs from
universities in New Jersey, New
York, and Pennsylvania Cor
nell, Rutgers, and Penn State, re
spectively.
“You have three states coming
together, forgetting boundaries,”
Russell Gunton, regional director
with the Pennsylvania Depart
$36.00 Per Year
ment of Agriculture (PDA), said
of the two-day expo. Gunton
joined ag representatives from
New Jersey and New York for
the official event kickoff on Sat
urday.
Soil health, livestock produc
tion, raising flowers for profit,
horse handling, and launching
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