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36 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 14, 1962
Milk Co-ops To Provide Markets
Bargaining Agency Official Says
Milk maiketing coopeiatnes
me bema torced to elect nulK
pioeessing plants in oidei to
anai antee alternate e maikets
tin then piodmtion iainieib
weie told Monday night
Clan Pmeo, leseaich econo
mist with the Metiopolitian
Milk Piodnceis I3ai gaming
Agency told milk piodnceis
in a meet ina; at Mount Joy
tliat'the Agencv is “yeiv clo-.e
to deciding wheie to put up a
plant
Pmeo said to meet the 90
milllion pounds ot milk the
agentv would need to ha\e
committed to make construc
tion oi pin chase ot a plant
piotitahle (opeiatnes aie be
ing asked to commit JO per
cent ot then pioduction to the
agency
Tom Tedesco field ffl.m foi
the agencx said the mtie is
needed to handle ‘ homelcs
milk’ in penods ol Hush -when
Diesent plants can not handle
mueised xolnme ot milk and
moie ot the sin plus has to go
into tne low \aluo bin pits
X U odiif ts
Tedesco said 20 milk plant -
m the New Yoi k intlkshcd
na\e closed snuo the lust or
Januai x tins xe.n and do
nioiL ate expected to dose
Ijeloie the end ol tlu xe
Pineo blamed the switch
iiom cans to hulk tanks and
the outdated Utilities with
the closing of plants.
He said theie aie onh fixe
modem efficient plants m the
nnlkshed and these are in
capable ot handling the excess
milk in tunes ot flush At such
times many othei. less effi
cient plants haxe facilities
which are called into senice
‘lf we haxe to puce milk
at the bieak-exen point for
the inefficient manufacturer
to turn it into butter and'
cheese instead of the higher
xalue utilisation products of
ice neam cottage cheese and
cieani we are depmmg our
'-ehes ol a reasonable retain ’
Piueo diew attention to
■what be called a fine line of
prunis; abcne which the deal
ei s would not take all the
pallet]
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milk every day He said while
the bargaining agency had as
its pinnaiy aim to get the
highest possible puce foi the
pioducer’s milk, it has to set
a pine wheie handleis will
accept all the milk that is
pioduced eyery day.
“A-. of July 1 ive aie under
a pi icing stinctnie ne\ei be
toie in cliect in the milk
slied ’ he pointed out. wheie
by puces in 'New York are
tied to the U S acernge inaiiu
factui mg milk puce with sea-
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sonal adjustments. If we had
been under the present struc
tuie last year, manufacturers
using Class 111 milk would
have been paying 17c per
bandied pounds more then
they did
If under the higher pi ice
structuie the handlers con
tinue to take all the pro
duction “we will know the
dealeis have been fooling us m
the past ’ he said but added,
“I don t think they Inn'' 5 ’
The pioposed opening of a
manufactunng plant wonld
gne the coopeiative a better
baigaming position. Pmeo be
lieves, b> removing enough
excess milk from the market =, i
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that handlers would- have to
compete for the available sup
ply.
The supply of milk will not
go downwaid ‘n the next lew
years, Pmeo believes, and lie
pointed to the number ol
young stock, at the highest
point m S yeais, and to high
er pioducmg cows.
If farmeis aie going to keep
pioducmg at an mcieased rate
he said the coopeiatues .ve
going-to have to supply same
alternate c maikets The mem
ber cooperatives in the bai
g.rmmg agency have been ask
ed to commit 30 per cent of
then pioduction as well as a
pi oportionate share of the
ik 10 0,000 tor the new plant
Man helm
665-2466
The Mount Joy Farmers
operative, co-sponsors ot tho
meeting, (with Interstate Milk
producers Co-operative) pro
bably would be asked to sup
ply less than 30 per cent to
the manufacturing plant be
cause of its record of highr
Class I utilization and near
ness to market, officials of tb»
coopeiatne believe.
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