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Raney and Reinfords win Pacesetter Awards

KEN RANEY and his wife Beth are pictured after he received the Pacesetters Award from the Center for Dairy Excellence. The Center offers scholarships to young people within the dairy industry and this year the scholarship applicants were asked to name the one person whom they most wanted to emulate. “Almost half of those kids said 'Ken Raney,'" noted Lolly Lesher, past president of the Center, as she presented Raney with the Pacesetters Award for innovation and leadership last Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Pennsylvania Dairy Summit in Lancaster. Under Raney's guidance, the Pennsylvania Holstein Association has grown to be the largest state Holstein association in the nation. Furthermore, the Junior Holstein Convention, which was held last weekend in Gettysburg, attracts over 400 Junior members each year to compete in multiple contests including Dairy Bowl and Public Speaking. Seventeen national Dairy Bowl championships were earned by Pennsylvania teams. Raney's impact on Pennsylvania's dairy youth and the business of the Association's members was well documented and appreciated by the crowd of over 500 at the Pennsylvania Dairy Summit awards luncheon.

CHADD REINFORD and his wife, Dara, and son, Aftan, representing Reinford Farms, Inc., are pictured at right. The Reinford Family was honored with the Pacesetters Award from the Center for Dairy Excellence for their innovationa and leadership. The Reinfords are members of Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative, where they shipped 10 million pounds of milk last year, consistently receiving milk quality awards. They are certified in the Dairy Animal Care and Quality Assurance program and are a forward-thinking family with two generations actively involved in the business. They built their facility with future growth in mind and included a digester with a gas "scrubber." The digester provides heat and energy for the milking operation and the home as well as energy to run the grain dryer and calf waste milk pasteurizer in addition to 100 homes in the local community. The 1000 pounds of butter used to create the Farm Show butter sculpture this year were turned into power as the Reinfords added the butter to the digester feedstocks of cattle manure and food industry waste.
Photo by Sherry Bunting

 

 

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