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Wolff, N.Y. Dairy Farmers Honored at Convention
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:33pm.
Chris Torres
Staff Writer
More than 500 people attended Holstein Association USA’s annual convention in Sacramento, Calif. this week with Dennis Wolff and a pair of farmers from New York State walking away with two of the association’s most prestigious honors.
Wolff, Pennsylvania’s secretary of agriculture, was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Leadership Award.
He was selected after receiving numerous letters of recommendations from supporters and for his past work as a farmer in Columbia County.
“He is a past registered Holstein breeder and he just has, through his service, always tended to keep dairymen at the top of his mind,” said Lindsay Worden, communications manager for Holstein Association USA.
USDA Considers Making Dairy Imports Pay for Promotion
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:30pm.Steve Taylor
Correspondent
WASHINGTON — On its face it looks like a slam-dunk: imports of dairy products should be paying for promotion just the way milk produced in the United States is subject to a mandatory assessment to build markets.
A rule under consideration by USDA would compel importers to pay seven and a half cents per hundredweight of milk equivalent on all dairy products entering the country, with the money collected turned over to the entities that run marketing programs funded with the 15 cents per hundredweight levied against farmers on all domestic milk production.
The rule, predictably, is being pushed by the organizations that already are the recipients of the 15-cent checkoff, including the United Dairy Industry Association and Dairy Marketing Inc., many of whose officials have filed pleas to USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to quickly impose the assessment on imported dairy products.
Not so fast, say a mix of foreign governments, cheese importers, U.S.
Weatherman Calls for Damp Summer
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:28pm.
Charlene M. Shupp
Espenshade
Special Sections Editor
MANHEIM, Pa. — Drought will not be a problem this year, according to Joe Calhoun, speaking at Tuesday’s “Farming for Success” crop tour here at the Penn State Landisville Research Farm.
The WGAL meteorologist predicted a damp summer.
Deadly Beetle Discovered for First Time in N.Y.
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:24pm.
Krishna Ramanujan
Cornell Chronicle
The deadly invasive emerald ash borer —a beetle that destroys ash trees — has been discovered for the first time in New York state by Cornell researchers.
“The threat is extreme,” said E. Richard Hoebeke, a senior extension associate in entomology at Cornell.




