Dairy Stakeholders Conference Set
MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Dairy
Stakeholders 2003 Conference
will take place Wednesday and
Thursday, December 10-11. This
year’s event will take place at the
Holiday Inn in Grantville.
The theme for the conference
is “Setting the Pace; Coming To
gether to Grow Our Industry.”
The program is full of exciting
and valuable presentations from
many different representatives of
the dairy industry. Professor
David Kohl, Virginia Tech, and
Mary Ledman, Keho Ledman
Associates, are keynote speakers.
Following a luncheon at 11:30
a.m. on Wednesday, the confer
ence will kick off with a segment
on “The State of Our Industry.”
Monsanto’s Fowler Branstetter
and Chuck Cruickshank of Land
O’Lakes will join Kohl in addres
sing reasons behind the declining
dairy industry infrastructure in
other parts of the country and
why we need to maintain a viable
infrastructure in the Northeast.
George Wolff of PennAg In-
‘Breeding For A Top Dairy Herd’ Field Day Set
LEOLA (Lancaster Co.) A
genetics and reproduction field
day is scheduled for Wednesday,
Nov. 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at Mar-R Farms, the Marvin R.
Stoltzfus herd, at 392 E. Eby Rd.,
Leola.
The program has been planned
by Penn State Extension in Lan
caster County and the Capital
Region Dairy Team. All produc
ers are welcome.
Topics will include Choosing
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dustries Association, Chris Galen
from National Milk Producers,
and Gary Smith of the Chester
County Economic Task Force
will outline ways to get involved
in the political process to shape
and guide laws and regulations
governing the industry in the sec
ond segment entitled “Advocat
ing Our Cause.”
Governor Ed Rendell has been
invited to speak at the Wednes
day evening banquet about agri
culture and the dairy industry as
“The Backbone of Pennsylva
nia.” The Pennsylvania Dairy
men’s Association awards will
also be presented at the banquet.
Day two of the conference be
gins with the Pennsylvania Dairy
Stakeholders Annual Meeting.
Stakeholders President Gary
Heckman will present the organi
zation’s “2003 Progress, 2004
Plan.” Pacesetter Awards will be
presented at this meeting, and
Dean Robert Steele of Penn
State’s College of Ag Sciences
will speak.
“One Size Does Not Fit All” is
Bulls for Your Dairy Herd,
Crossbreeding-The Wave of the
Future?, Systematic AI Pro
grams, The Reproductive Tract-
Physiology of the Cow, and Type
and Profitability.
Speakers will include Dr. Ste
phen Foulke of Agricultural Vet
erinary Associates; and Jeff
Myers, Dr. Chad Dechow, and
Beth Grove, all of Penn State.
A free barbeque lunch prepar
ed by the Glick family will be
provided by program sponsors.
Please register by Friday, Nov.
14. For more information and
why pay?
..for hauling grain to the mill?
..for storage at the mill?
...for shrinkage at the mill?
...for hauling the grain back to your
farm as feed?
the topic of Thursday morning’s
discussion. Ledman will be joined
by Brad Hilty, of Penn State’s
Dairy Alliance, and a panel of
Pennsylvania producers with
varying herd sizes to share best
management practices that lead
to profitability on all sizes of
farms.
Pennsylvania Secretary of Ag
riculture Dennis Wolff will wrap
up the conference, encouraging
all members of the dairy industry
with “Pennsylvania Wants and
Needs You!”
Cost to attend the conference
is $9O. Producers registering in
groups of three or more and pay
ing with the same check receive a
discounted rate of $75 each.
Sleeping rooms are blocked at a
special conference rate at the
Holiday Inn in GrantviUe for
conference attendees until Nov.
25. Conference registration dead
line is Nov. 28. For more inform
ation or to register, please contact
Michelle Jaymes-Parks at (717)
948-6609 or michelle@padairy
stake.org.
registration, call the Lancaster
County Extension Office at (717)
394-6851. There is no charge for
this workshop.
Program sponsors include ABS
Global, Alta Genetics, Genex,
Inc., Select Sire Power, Pfizer
Animal Health, and Monsanto
Dairy Business.
To find the farm from Lancas
ter, take Rt. 23 east through
Leola to Bareville. Turn right on
Hess Road (at Turkey Hill).
Travel to stop sign, make left
onto E. Eby Rd. First farm on the
right is Mar-R Farms.
Lancaster Farming; Saturday, November 8; 2003-A27
Junior Holstein Contest
Forms Available
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) Pennsylvania Junior Hol
stein Association contest entry forms are now available. Many
different contests are available for junior members this year. The
contests include:
• Junior Progressive Breeder Awards
• Breeder of Excellent Award
• 30,000 Pound Production Award
• Total Performance Award
• Achievement Scholarship Award
• 150,000 Pound Lifetime Production Award
• 200,000 Pound Lifetime Production Award
• Public Speaking Contest
• “PAL” Adult Leader Award
• Folding Display Contest
• Milk, Fat and Protein Production Contest
• Junior All-Pennsylvanian Contest
• Dairy Bowl Contest
• Banner Contest
• Extemporaneous Public Speaking Contest
For interested juniors who have not received entry forms by
mad, forms for most of the contests can be found and printed off
the Pennsylvania Holstein Association website at HYPERLINK
http://www.paholsteins.com www.paholsteins.com.
Most contest deadlines are Jan. 1, 2004. The Junior All-Penn
sylvania Contest deadline was Nov. 1, and the Milk, Fat and
Protein Contest deadline is Dec. 1.
For contest entry forms or additional information on Pennsyl
vania Junior Holstein activities please contact Pennsylvania
Holstein Association, 839 Benner Pike, State College PA 16801;
phone (814) 234-0364; fax (814) 234-1698; or e-mail contact@pa
holsteins.com.
Fluid Milk Tops $lB/CWT
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board (PMMB) an
nounced the prices to be paid to
Pennsylvania dairy farmers for
October Class I milk (beverage)
as an average of $18.32 per hun
dredweight (CWT) in the west
ern areas of the Commonwealth;
and "an average of $lB.Bl per
CWT in the central and eastern
areas of the Commonwealth.
These prices include the over
order premium of $1.65 per
CWT.
Farmers, whose milk produc
tion is pooled under a federal
order, will receive a market-wide
blend price based upon the value
of all classes of milk. However,
the blend price received will vary
as the component composition of
a farmer’s milk differs from the
established benchmarks of 3.5
percent butterfat, 2.99 percent
protein, and 5.69 percent other
solids.