A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 7, 2002
National Junior Hereford
Association Elects New Leadership
2002-2003 National Junior Hereford Association board of directors includes, front
row, left to right, Sheliie Moore, Kan., president; Ike Redden, Ind., vice-president; Jenni
fer Oglesby, Ga., secretary; Lauren Echols, Texas, assistant secretary; Josh Miller,
Okla., treasurer; and Shane Werk, Minn., director. Back row, left to right, is directors
Emilie Miller, Womelsdorf, Pa.; Andy Mrnak, N.D.; Cameron Price, Ala.; Kyle Perez, N.M.;
John Andras, Mont.; and Kristi Bishop, Kan.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Mem
bers of the National Junior Here
ford Association (NJHA) assem
bled in Kansas City, Mo., Oct.
25-27 to celebrate “The Places
You’ll Go” during the 2002
PRIDE Convention.
PRIDE, the “Program for
Reaching Individuals De
termined to Excel” featured the
Angus Foundation To Sponsor NCBA
Young Cattlemen’s Conference Participant
ST. JOSEPH, MO. The
Angus Foundation will sponsor
one Angus breeder to participate
in the National Cattlemen’s Beef
Association (NCBA) 2003 Young
Cattlemen’s Conference (YCC),
which is an industry-wide pro
gram that develops young leaders
for the beef business.
“We’re excited to extend this
opportunity to one of our Angus
breeders,” says Abbie Nelson,
Wilton, Calif., chairman of the
Angus Foundation board of di
rectors.
The purpose of the YCC pro
gram is to develop leadership
qualities in young cattlemen and
expose them to all aspects of the
beef industry. The tour, which
begins in Denver and proceeds
across the country to Washing
ton, D.C., helps young leaders
understand all areas of the beef
business, ranging from industry
structure to issues management
and from production research to
marketing. The program is
limited to a small number of pro
ducers each year and all partici
pants must be nominated by one
of NCBA’s affdiate organiza
tions.
“We hope our participation in
this program will encourage
Angus breeders to become more
active in not only their state cat
tlemen’s organization and the
NCBA, but also their local and
state Angus associations,” says
Nelson.
The Angus representative for
the program will be chosen by an
appointed committee and selec
tions will be made by an applica
tion process. All applicants must
NJHA annual meeting and elec
tion of officers. Other weekend
highlights included leadership
seminars, junior contests and an
awards banquet recognizing out
standing juniors and state organi
zations.
During the event, the NJHA
conducted their annual business
meeting and director elections.
be between 25 and 45 years of
age, an active member of the
NCBA and an active member in
good standing of the American
Angus Association. Expenses, in
cluding travel to and from the
event and registration costs for
the program, will be covered by
the Angus Foundation.
Insurance Seminar Dec. 11
YORK (York Co.) All grow
ers (fruit, vegetable, and field
crop) are welcome to attend a
free crop insurance seminar on
Dec. 11, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., at the
York extension office.
AGR insures the revenue for
your entire farm rather than indi
vidual crops by guaranteeing a
percentage of average gross farm
revenue (AGR-Lite product is
subject to limitations), including
a small amount of livestock reve
nue. A crop insurance specialist
from Rain and Hail Insurance
Bird Control Workshop Dec. 10
WELLSBORO (Tioga Co.)
Speakers for the Bradford/
Potter/Tioga Bird Control Work
shop Dec. 10 are Jason Sucko,
USDA Wildlife services and J.
Craig Williams, Penn State Co
operative Extension.
Birds can be a disease carrier
and a feed spoilage problem on
many dairy farms. Jason Sucko
and J. Craig Williams will cover
bird control techniques, trapping
and baiting options, and effective
methods and their costs.
The five newly-elected directors
will serve three-year terms and
include: Emilie Miller, Womels
dorf, Pa.; Andy Mrnak, Bowman,
N.D.; Cameron Price, Opelika,
Ala.; Kyle Perez, Nara Visa,
N.M.; and Kristi Bishop, Base
hor, Kan. Shellie Moore, Modoc,
Kan., will lead the organization
as the 2002-2003 president.
Applications are available
from the American Angus Asso
ciation and must be submitted by
January 1,2003.
For more information, contact
James Fisher, director of activi
ties and junior activities for the
Association, at (816) 383-5100 or
jfisher@angus.org.
Company will conduct the semi
nar.
Also, Rita McMullen, agent
with Stine, Davis, and Peck In
surance will be available to an
swer your questions on the local
level.
This is a timely meeting. Sales
deadline for AGR is Jan. 31,
2003.
There is no cost to attend.
However, if you plan to attend
the seminar, call the Penn State
Cooperative Extension office at
(717) 840-7408 by Dec. 10.
Two workshop locations are 10
a.m.-ll:30 a.m., meet in Potter
County, Ulysses at Rick VanEt-
ten Farm, and 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.,
meet in Bradford County, Troy,
Ron Kline Dairy Farm.
Call the Tioga County exten-
sion office to register for this
workshop at (570) 724-9120.
Both workshops will be held out-
side dress accordingly.
The National Association of Farm Broadcasters at
their annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo. honored Ed
Slusarczyk, Ag Radio Network farm broadcaster, by
entering his name and a permanent plaque into the
Farm Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs,
Kansas.
He launched the Ag Radio Network in 1976. He
started with 11 stations and built it to 55 in two
months. The network has now grown to 136 stations
with reports heard all over New York, New England,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
PMMB Lowers
Over-Order Premium
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) Dairy farmers face further
milk price declines because of a
decision by the Pennsylvania
Milk Marketing Board (PMMB)
to lower the price they receive for
milk, the Pennsylvania Farm Bu
reau (PFB) predicted recently.
The PMMB has announced
that they will lower the over
order premium, from $1.65 to
$1.25 per hundred pounds of
milk, over a six-month period be
ginning Jan. 1,2003.
The over-order premium is
paid to dairy producers for Class
1 (fluid) milk that produced, pro
cessed, and sold in Pennsylvania.
“We’re surprised and disap
pointed with the Board’s deci
sion,” said Joel Rotz, PFB’s dairy
specialist.
House, Senate Pass Water
Resources Planning Act
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The House joined the Sen
ate recently to send the biparti
san Water Resources Planning
Act to Gov. Mark Schweiker’s
desk, ending a more than 20-year
effort to adopt water resources
legislation in Pennsylvania.
“For three decades, Pennsylva
nia has relied on a water plan
that provided little or no help in
battling drought conditions,” said
Schweiker. “By their overwhelm
ing bi-partisan approval, mem
bers of the General Assembly
have joined this Administration
to ensure that Pennsylvania will
no longer sit back and wait for
the next drought to occur.”
Votes in the House, 140 to 56,
and the Senate, 43 to 6, showed
strong support from not only
both parties, but from all parts of
Pennsylvania. A broad coalition
of watershed, conservation dis
trict, local government, farm and
business groups supported the
legislation, marking the first time
groups like these worked together
on a water resources bill.
“This legislation will allow the
commonwealth to measure how
much water we’re using and
where water resources are in
jeopardy. Those are tools we
must have in order to protect one
of our most important natural re
sources,” said Schweiker.
“The PMMB’s decision comes
at a difficult time for our dairy
producers because milk prices
haven’t been this low this long
since 1979. Farmers are also
struggling with the effects of a
summer drought, which means
higher production costs this win
ter,” Rotz said. “We may need to
have the Milk Marketing Board
revisit the issue in the future.”
Rotz said, “Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau believes the decrease is
unwarranted and sends the
wrong signal to our dairy produc
ers, whose exasperation level is
already high. Even the State’s
Association of Milk Dealers sup
ported the continuation of
$1.65.”
“Passage of this Act is a real
milestone in Pennsylvania’s envi
ronmental history and shows we
listened to what people told us in
the 15 Water Forums we held all
over the state last year,” said
DEP Secretary David E. Hess.
“This is a major victory for those
of us who really care about water
resources.”
The Act requires DEP to devel
op a new State Water Plan over
the next five years working with
both regional and statewide
water resources advisory commit
tees whose membership includes
environmental, local government,
technical and water user inter
ests.
The plan will help answer
three basic questions: How much
water do we have, how is the
water being used, and where will
the demand for water outstrip
the supply.
The Act, contained in House
Bill 2302, specifically preserves
the existing authority of DEP
and local governments to regu
late water resources and protects
DEP’s ability to control water
pollution under the Clean
Streams Law.
For more information on the
bipartisan Water Resources Plan
ning Act, visit www.dep.sta
te.pa.us (directLlNK “water re
sources”).