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Reorganization of Dairy Herd Improvement Association in New York

Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ABSTRACT

Organization

The present New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative, Inc. was organized in 1949 as an affiliation of county dairy herd improvement cooperatives. This approach to organization, in retrospect, was the only choice at the time, because of the independence of the existing county organizations and their reluctance to give up home rule; that is, to delegate authority to the state organization and to support a state organization financially. In fact, it took more than five years to get all of the county cooperatives to affiliate.

The New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative, in a way, has been on the defensive to prove to the counties that it could provide worthwhile services, provide leadership, and coordinate the total program at the state level.

Need for change. Changes in dairy farming are occurring at a rate difficult for many dairymen to understand and accept:

1. Rapid decline in number of commercial dairy farms.