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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 17,1968
Milk Commission Accepts
(OonJtamied from Page 1) hired workers on farms during
milk. Using 1957-59 as a base of 1967 was 3,000 less than during
100, prices paid by farmers in- 1966. Included in this decline
creased 3 points from Decern- was 1,000 hired workers and 2,-
ber 1966 to December 1967 This 000 family workers. While lab
compares with a 2 p o i n t de- orers declined, their, wage rate
crease in the prices received by climbed. During that same peri
farmers. This trend has been ex- od, average farm wage rates in
erting its influence on farm in- creased $1 75 per week, 30 per
come for a number of years Ef- day and 07 per hour in Penn
ficiencies have helped to offset sylvania.
this tr e nd, but are less pro- . The farming operation re .
nounced today and cannot con- skllled laborers today. If
tinue to make up the marked farmers are te
difference m prices paid by farmers and indus .
tamers for goods and services their laborers, they must
and i-ie prices they receive for recelve the incentive from the
their products. price of the product produced.
Aris e in the replacement ..j the farm cost sit .
lalue of dairy cattle and dairy uatlon continues to show drastlc
heifers has constantly been oc- incre ases. There are higher mm
curnng The value of milk cows imum more Sl f pplemen .
increased $5 00 per head from t bene flts and a red uced sup .
December 1966 to December j of quabfied fa rm laborers
1967 and increased $56.00 per y of machinery increase
head fiom the December 1961- from to at 3 to 4 per .
6o average to the December 1967 cent ' axes m £ re ase about 7 per
pnce. This tends to discourage cent per year Interest rates and
dairy herd building. insurance premiums continue to
“Another factor affecting milk climb. As land values increase,
production is the availability of the cost of renting also increas
labor and the rise in farm wage es. In summary, farmers are
rates The average number of facing over-all cost inc.eases.
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We hope these factors and con
ditions will be taken into consid
eration when writing the' order
for this area.
“Furthermore, we are request
ing that those products with the
semblance of milk being sold in
the fluid form be classified as a
Class I product with thp ingredi
ents being accounted and paid
for according to that classifica
tion. This provision would cor
rect the present condition of
dairymen subsidizing the sale of
these products.”
William Deisley, of Moore
Dairy, Inc. and President of the
Milk Dealers’ Association Of
Lancaster, spoke for local milk
dealers. In commenting on Or
ders issued by the Commission
affecting the marketing and
prices for milk in our area, Deis
ley said these Orders, “have
produced only increases in the
prices required to be paid to
farmers by milk dealers in the
area and have resulted In no in
crease whatsoever in spread In
fact, dealers suffered a decrease
in spread—.”
The conclusion of his prepar
ed statement reads:
“In view of the market statis
tics which show the inadequacy
of dealers’ returns under the
present Order, and the substan
tial cost increases in all depart
ments of the milk dealers’ oper
ations, we request that the Com
mission increase dealers’ spread
by a sufficient amount to pro
duce a reasonable return, as re
quired by the Milk Control Law
We have recommended certain
quantity discounts, which will
change marketing patterns and
reduce dealers' revenue. The
Commission Order should give
due weight to these discounts on
the basis of a reasonable projec
tion of their effect on milk sales
in the market.”
Dr Paul Hand, spoke on be
half of the Inter-State Milk Pro
ducers’ Cooperative. He said,
“Dairy farmers have been
caught in a rising cost situation
during the past three years ser
iously threatening the supply of
milk within the Commonwealth.
It is the position of Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative
that the present Class I price
levels must not be reduced and
the accounting system changed
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to increase returns to dairymen of quarts delivered on the §a
to reflect this condition.” tire route. Consequently, an av-
Speakmg on behalf of the Lan- erage c ° st 1 P er st °P ia a mor «
caster City-County Food Service meaningful measure of the cost
Association. Mrs. Mary Eby, Ms
President, said, “Unfortunately, the avarage cost . Per umt. TKis
members of the commission,-we princl P le recogmzes that tune
are caught in the squeeze of two lac f ost “ d tha “ he re f ir '
regulations. On one hand the Na- ed f ° r dehve 7 to retail cnstora '
tional School Lunch Program f rs d ° es n mcreasa P™* o *’,
makes it mandatory that we tlonately Wlth Slze of dehvery ’
serve V 2 pint'whole milk with The economist listed the ob
every Type A platter and on the jectives of discount pricing as:
other hand we are now faced j More equitab i e pricing to
with the possibility of a price in- home . del customers; 2,
crease to which we have no al- May result in more
ternative. lower cost systems of retail and
William Butz, Professor of Ag- wholesale distribution; 3, Per
ncultural Economics, Penn mit dealers whose businesses are
.State, testified on the principle based primarily on home-deiiv
underlying quantity discount ery sales to compete more ef
pncing. “The economic basis,” fectively with stores for iarge
he said, “for discount pricing is volume customers, 4, Increase
that the total costs of operating per capita consumption of nulk
a route are more directly relat- products; and 5, Present a bet
ed to the number of customers ter public image of the fluid
served than to the total number milk industry.
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